Society Movies

Hannah, Laure, Adrien, and Halima are students at the Regional Institute of Social Work in Paris. Four students among the fifty in the first year of...

In Bettina Büttner’s exquisitely lucid documentary Kinder (Kids), childhood dysfunction, loneliness, and pent-up emotion run wild at an...

In an increasingly oppressive modern age, the characters of this film are subject to the alienation and meanness that characterizes today’s...

A portrait of Jacques Ellul, a French theologian/sociologist & anarchist who first became well-known to American readers with the English...

"Bagong Buhay" is a short experimental film that dispels the common belief that packing up and moving to a new place will magically improve one's...

Filmmaker Sophie Dros enters into a dialogue with strong women in a powerfull document about being a woman in the Netherlands today. Inspired by...

In his show La formidable ascension sociale temporaire de G. Verstraeten (The Temporary Social Rise of G. Verstraeten), Guillermo Guiz, whose real...

It is like a miracle that has occurred five times a century since 1797. The Fête des Vignerons frees the character of the Vaudois from their...

Women are taught to be hyper vigilant in vulnerable situations. This societal idea turns mundane tasks like walking to a car into situations of...

At the beginning of the 1980s, a group of Germans ventured into a social experiment: in the remote hills of Umbria, they founded a self-sufficient...

A poor stonecutter seeks the lifestyles of those higher in the social hierarchy.

On a ferry travelling towards Lampedusa, we find a teenager on his first day of work as a gravedigger and a boy on his first mission as a diver. They...

A deeply human portrait of the chaotic reality of the US - Mexico border. Full of stunnig images and crafted like a classic...

A waste picker woman segregates coconut shells from the wet waste of a society daily to be used as firewood. One day, she finds the shells missing.