Poverty Movies

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of...

Mahmoud, who suffers from a lot of financial difficulties, is now thinking of committing suicide

Documentary following Serbian football coach Zoran Đorđević as he helps form South Sudan's first national football team.

A community of people rejected by society live in an abandoned residence located in a "Medina": an old town in Tunisia. Al Bab, a local criminal...

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of Tomorrow challenges conventional...

Award-winning documentary maker Bryan Bruce investigates New Zealand's housing crisis and what might be done to solve it. Bruce consults with...

The story of two homeless brothers and their ambitious dreams of becoming race car drivers. Amidst a harsh reality where they are invisible to...

The degenerate alcoholics, the men and women of the beaches, themselves speak openly about their lives and problems. Through their stories, a picture...

This experimental documentary circulates around interviews with four veterans who worked all their lives in analogue (=celluloid) film laboratories...

Documentary film about Archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara of Recife & Olinda in Brazil.

On a gang-controlled dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help of Mary Abernathy, a former fashion industry...

It's Christmas time, but not everyone can afford it. Just when a pair of young parents are about to disappoint their little girl, a knight in bright...

A young man over-comes extreme poverty, a dysfunctional home, peer ridicule, and death in his family to embark on an epic journey that takes him to...

She is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her flock in the heights of the Gya-Miru valley in Ladakh. At the age of 50, Tsering is the...

Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofri Barbato. Although it would have been more...

Lahore, Pakistan. During a whole day, we follow Agha, a little boy who, to survive, collects waste in the street without caring about the world which...

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