Movies: Social cultural documentary

Schools in the Netherlands are challenging the traditional models of education and democracy, taking us to new possibilities of organising ourselves and our communities....

Featured here, are the journeys of a few girl children in the State of West Bengal, India, who have either lost their parents to unpropitious fate or are separated from them. These children hardly meet their parents, who are serving sentences in the ...

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The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the first Japanese Canadians to graduate from UBC, who suffered a breakdown deep in the BC Interior....

Marco Paolini interviews Mario Rigoni Stern about—among other things—his well-known experience as a soldier on the Eastern front during WWII, culminating in the infamous retreat of the Italian troops, the difficult reintegration into civilian life af...

Every year, thousands of German citizens travel to India, hoping to have a spiritual awakening of their own. In turn, they end up taking bits and pieces of Indian culture back home with them, creating a distorted version of Indian religion that’s p...

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In some of Cleveland, Ohio’s most dangerous neighborhoods, a unique subculture uses the powerful expression of Krump dance to combat trauma. Aaron, Paul and Conrad, along with their fellow Krumpers find mental, and emotional support via public and pr...

Curtain Up! follows elementary school kids in New York’s Chinatown as they prepare for a production and begin to discover themselves. Behind the scenes, they face families’ expectations and uncertainties post-graduation. Interestingly, it is through ...

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Porn has shaped the Internet as we know it. Video streaming, high speed broadband, online payment solutions, banner advertising, smartphone design, and even spam were all heavily influenced by an ever growing demand for adult content. This documentar...

Utquiagvik is the northernmost city in Alaska, located 555 km beyond the Arctic Circle. This meditative documentary follows its young Inuit inhabitants, who explore the desolate snowy landscape under the midnight sun and transform their home into a v...

The film retraces the origins, history, habits and traditions of the Roma people but also tells the direct experience of some of the people who belong to it....

Short documentary on the ordinary life of the Russians....

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the Italian resistance movement, his later self-exile, acclaimed literary work and its relationship with dialect....

"Morada" is an experimental documentary that shows a little about the city of Acari, located in Seridó Potiguar. It has the main participation of Eilson Amarildo, better known as Negão Azul, who unloads fruits, vegetables and groceries in the municip...

The National Truth Commission, installed in 2011 to investigate crimes committed during a military dictatorship, brought to the public a still very obscure chapter of our history: the existence of an indigenous detention center in the city of Resplen...

An unsentimental yet compassionate film about building a community to increase a sense of belonging despite living the worst times ever imagined....

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips....