social drama

Akutoku

Wed, 19 Feb 1958

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi Shin, a well-known actor who also demonstrated his skill as a director in a bold social work, embodies a person with a complicated dilemma in a shadowy manner, and is a dramatic work that plays a part in the lead role.

Ardaas

Fri, 11 Mar 2016

A city teacher finds alcoholism and lack of faith among the locals in his new rural posting.

Arbat Motif

Sun, 02 Sep 1990

The action takes place during perestroika in one of the old Moscow houses on the Arbat, intended for demolition. The tenants have long been evicted, and only 80-year-old Vera Vasilievna does not want to leave, claiming that Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov have been in this house ...

La niña tatuada

Tue, 17 Sep 2024

Mimo Okon Idut Poezda

Mon, 21 Nov 1966

In a boarding school in a provincial Siberian town comes a literature teacher, a graduate of a teacher training college. The directness with which the heroine intrudes into the life of the school provokes active resistance from the principal and head teacher. As a result of a series of clashes, the young teacher must leave the boarding school, but her pupils protest, and the directorate is defeated.

Ardaas Karaan

Fri, 19 Jul 2019

During times of conflict, three elderly men try to instill values in their families.

The City Wakes Up Early

Mon, 17 Jun 1968

The work-relate conflict between father and son disrupts the order of previously peaceful family.

Zinky Boys Go Underground

Wed, 27 Apr 1994

Thriller providing a chilling insight into the damaged psyche of Russian soldiers returning home from Afghanistan. Andrei is the drug-crazed leader of the Zinky Boys, who make a living on the black market in the underground railway, where a serial killer is on the loose.

Sunday Morning in Victoria Park

Thu, 10 Jun 2010

A young woman struggles in foreign countries to improve her self esteem to her family and to the community.

Aufwachsen im Westjordanland - Gefangen im Zorn

Tue, 01 Oct 2024

Los bárbaros

Fri, 20 Jun 2025

In the year of the crisis, four young people attempt to make a home by squatting in an unfinished building – a paradoxical limbo amid the real-estate bubble, where they willingly remain on the fringes of it all.

Fog in February

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated filmmakers in Quebec and Canada, a leak leaked to the press reveals that the book contains anonymous allegations of pedophile acts committed by the filmmaker. The rumor spread like lightning, suddenly igniting the entirety of Quebec society. By finding today some of the main witnesses propelled overnight into the heart of an unparalleled media tornado, the documentary reconstructs with archive images and other previously unpublished images, the sequence of events which led to a rewriting of the story.

A Warm Place

Tue, 24 Feb 1981

Digital Tsunami: Big Tech, Big AI, Big Brother

Tue, 29 Apr 2025

We are engulfed in a digital tsunami—a toxic mix of artificial intelligence, state and corporate surveillance, and social media addiction controlled by powerful algorithms. Digital Tsunami shows how these are all elements of a digital ecosystem that is changing us as humans—just as the prophetic media guru Marshall McLuhan predicted 60 years ago. The unexpected consequences of this digital revolution have created an urgent need for strategies for survival.

El Viaje

Tue, 29 Aug 2023

Two-Syllable Name

Tue, 20 Jun 2023

60-year-old seamstress Cida needs to sign a document at her workplace, but can't read what it says. With the help of her granddaughter's teacher, she becomes interested in literacy and, at the same time, starts questioning things that happen at her job.

WALKA!

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

France: 2020s. Piotr, a young Polish immigrant stuck in a string of odd jobs, crosses paths with Stefano, a burly mover. Little did Piotr know, this encounter would soon draw him into the eerie world of nighttime fighting.

Capitalism: A Love Story

Sun, 06 Sep 2009

Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).

Reparation

Sun, 06 Mar 2022

Two semi-studious students living in 'Korea-Town' are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV, whilst each trying to come to terms with important subjects in their university projects [one Korean related: the Sewol ferry tragedy, and one British: the Grenfell tower incident], as well as their own life challenges in this claustrophobic tragicomedy of alienation, helping hands & secretive students. Is all really what it seems?

O Que Aconteceu com Catarina

Fri, 01 Jan 2021