Social Commentary Movies

Drama by Henrik Ibsen (1882). Edited and instructed by Per Bronken. The action is set in a coastal town in southern Norway which is known for its...

This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of...

Brass Tacks was a current affairs programme shown on BBC2 between 1977 and 1988. On this episode called Punk Rock, broadcast on 3rd August 1977, it...

Unlike anything else you will see in this year or any other, 'The Decline of the West' is a groundbreaking social allegory that challenges its...

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

Neera (Apte) is trapped into marrying an old widower Kakasaheb (Date). He is a progressive lawyer with a son and daughter of Neera's age. Neera...

2 friends race each other in a Sears, for all the glory in the world.

Awaiting trial for murder, a father’s life falls apart as his connection to the man who attacked his family is revealed.

A documentary about the dockworkers in Gothenburg, and the future of the shipping industry in the city.

Set in a social housing estate in central Sydney, 57 Lawson preserves the disparate voices of the tenants at a time when these communities are...

A date gone awry, two people are not who they claim when secrets are revealed.

Normality is a human state of good intentions, empathy, caring and wanting to do the best for those we love and the world at large.

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back...

"The future you live in" is a short social commentary film created during my studies in the University of Plymouth in 2024. This is my view at the...

Another early Aleksandar Petrovic documentary, done for Dunav film in 1964. It is made as a kind of a road movie through socialist Yugoslavia,...

A documentary feature film which aims to expand the usually one-sided conversation between students and teachers. During its runtime, raw experiences...

A student of French, disillusioned with reality, goes to the beach in search of meaning.

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration,...

When an organization that hunts prejudice in art finds its next target, silence is no longer an option.