Social Commentary Movies

A film written and directed by Jeremy Deller which explores the social history of the UK between 1985 and 1993 through the lens of acid house and rave...

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has brus...

Ted Evan’s hugely moving and highly creative work applies documentary aesthetics to speculative-fiction subject matter in order to chart the imagined...

Winner of the New York LOVES Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Filmed over the course of nine years, Zoned In traces the remarkable re...

The television footage of a wrestling match is employed here as a metaphor for Quebec society. Using voice-over narration, Falardeau presents a compel...

"The DVD is a live performance of me at the National Geographic Theater in Washington DC on February 13th, 2011, when I turned fifty. Ian MacKaye intr...

Rina can't look into the eyes of her son, Dean, who's under house arrest at her home. Tomorrow his trial begins, and Rina doesn't know if she can hand...

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back from...

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

Kuroda Island has been colonised by Thyyland for hundreds of years. In the last 30 years, many Kurodians have been granted Thyy citizenship but in rea...

Aas Paas is a 1957 movie directed by M. A. Rasheed

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and th...

Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities. Se...

Ralph Rackstraw, a poor seaman, is in love with the captain's daughter, Josephine. But how can he ask her to marry him when she is of a higher social...

Performed by Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House in 1987.

The very near future. The interface between mind and machine has been perfected. Nano sensors and transmitters find and attach to neurons, this is the...

This is a short, privately produced animated film. While elucidating the mystery and fuzziness as well as merits and demerits of memory in idealizing...

A documentary feature film which aims to expand the usually one-sided conversation between students and teachers. During its runtime, raw experiences...

Neera (Apte) is trapped into marrying an old widower Kakasaheb (Date). He is a progressive lawyer with a son and daughter of Neera's age. Neera refuse...