Social Documentary Movies

A short film in the Canada Vignette series. A cinematic portrait of a blind auto mechanic.

Life in your early 20's is simple. Drive somewhere, skate, eat, drink, and cause general mayhem. The NCR Crew and friends take you on a journey...

Cosme and Monica live with their children and grandchildren in Bahia de Kino, a fishing town in the northern State of Sonora, Mexico. They used to...

Over the span of a year, filmmakers Marte(Norway) and Jéro (South Korea) exchange visual letters, documenting their everyday lives.

A documentary focused on the proliferation of bedbugs in Marseille.

The Lourenço mine, in northern Amapá, continues to attract people driven by the dream of gold, despite the extreme wear of bodies and...

Factory (Super)Women explores the narratives of factory women who paved the way towards Singapore's economic success. Inspired by his mother and...

The Westboro Baptist Church is notorious for pissing people off across the political spectrum. The most common way to become a member is to be born...

Heleno has a disease unknown to most of the population. In the course of their suffocating routine, situations arise that defy the usual in society....

Poets from all walks of life speak their truth through their poetry. A film about poetry by award-winning Gina Nemo, Poet, Writer, Filmmaker,...

Every year, thousands of German citizens travel to India, hoping to have a spiritual awakening of their own. In turn, they end up taking bits and...

In the 1970s, the first manifestations of gay, lesbian and transvestite rights in Spain took place. In 2005, Spain became the third country in the...

Mike Porcel is the lost member of the Cuban Nueva Trova musical movement. His lack of “revolutionary spirit” condemned him to the scorn...

Seven Damascenes, eight years apart, one collective trauma. This is the story of a city and the psychological scars its people bear from years of war.

Short documentary on female workers at school, made by a high school student.