Social Cultural Documentary Movies

One of the first works by María Cañas, an excessive metadiscursive exercise on the “pig character” of current information...

Through the unrelenting winter in the north of Japan, a small group of workers must brave unusual working conditions to bring to life a...

The First Year tells the inside story of Jamie Driscoll’s first 12 months as the new North of Tyne Mayor.

A documentary about the psychological costs of working in Alberta's oil sands and the mental health crisis that's been ignored for a decade.

Former London banker Alexander Pohl worked for years for one of the world's greenest banks. Idealistically driven he financed big wind and solar...

This film portrait of a new kind is a deep dive into the heart of the art scene of Los Angeles. From a ride on Sunset Boulevard in a convertible car...

For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have repeatedly criticized the left for playing “the race card” and “the woman...

The posthumous ceremony to honor Mexico's national anthem's authors.

A documentary film that can best be described as a portrait of an author about and featuring André Forcier. It is the story of an...

The history of the Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, an opera house located in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, whose construction, between 1884 and...

“Aguas Negras” is an experimental documentary about the Cuautitlán River. The film examines the passage of time and the pollution...

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely empty. Ordos is not so much a place but a symbol of...

An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the...

A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her.

After the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, widowed women struggled to receive aid due to their social status. Following the story of Mrs. Manjula along...

Paul Bedel will be 75 soon. He's and old bachelor, a peasant, a fisherman and a verger. He lives in a farm from another time with his two sisters,...

Pata Seca (1828), a man whose back bore the whip marks of his enslavers , whose eyes held the haunted memory of being forced to breed over 200 slave...