Social Issues Movies

Eri as a child hides her pain with a determined smile. This leads to an unprecedented change, turning her into a doll. After landing a singing...

Love blooms quietly in the mountains, but when the world around them says no, will A Ren listen to his heart or his heritage?

Gu Bo is a beloved father and husband, but also a writer who struggles to be true to his sexual identity.

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes.

This documentary follows a community action group led by American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky in Rochester, New York. Together, they...

A short experimental documentary that interrogates how the modernization of parks and playgrounds in Long Branch (a neighbourhood in South Etobicoke...

In a conservative Armenian family a 16 years old Karine dreams to become a veterinarian, but her family, especially her father, who is a well-known...

A PSA about Hate Crime. Young Izaak finds out that his father has been yet another victim of Hate Crime, while also learning what to do in this...

This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective...

The patriarch of a religious Muslim family refuses to accept his intersex child, tearing his family apart.

In the 1980's, Pilar, an ordinary woman, married, about forty years, discovers that one of their three children are addicted to heroin. After an...

After 11 strangers unite to help a gay youth escape life-threatening violence in Uganda, the unexpected pandemic and conflicting opinions over his...

A pre-teen servant boy dies of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night in the kitchen. The household is suddenly plunged into...

Harris, a poor Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia, simply wants to return to his hometown to marry the love of his life. However, his leave is denied...

This short documentary depicts an Aboriginal Winnipeg teen’s struggle to stay in school and away from local gangs. Filmed over 2 years, the...

New York-set comedy about a group of immigrants who have become hostage to their life choices.

HOMELESS is a documentary that humanizes unhoused people and explores their backgrounds, dreams and struggles to find the way home. The film aims to...

After two children belonging to an Indian upper caste are lost in the desert, a lower caste woman spots them. However, she is torn between a mother's...

An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US...