Films by topic Social/Human Interest
Displaying 11-20 of 69 films.
Cry SeaItaly Cry Sea portrays the conflict between European and local fishermen in the Senegalese waters, as they compete for portions of a depleting stock of fish.
Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys StoryNew Zealand/South Africa/Australia South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys opens his previously off-limits inner world to NZ writer-director Julian Shaw.
Do Not ResuscitateAustralia Do Not Resuscitate is a film about the truths people face when dealing with their own mortality. Steve, Mary and Judy want the right to choose how and when they die.
Every Good Marriage Begins With TearsUK A moving, tender and surprisingly funny account of two feisty and rebellious London Bangladeshi sisters who go "back home" against their will for arranged marriages.
The ExchangeBelgium Through music, six men from Palestinian territories and Israel provide children and people of their cities a refuge from the strife of their everyday life.
Fish & ShipsNew Zealand Fish and Ships investigates the fishing industry set in Island Bay with its rich marine history, and told from the POV of fishermen descended from the original pioneers.
FreeheldUSA Lieutenant Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer, fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree.
Ghosts of Abu GhraibUSA Ghosts of Abu Ghraib demands that the US examine its conscience as a nation as it explores the many troubling questions behind the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
The GodmachineNew Zealand/Germany An episodic documentary on the global bicycle messenger community and their dream of a future city without cars.
A Grandmother’s TribeNew Zealand A Grandmonther’s Tribe casts an unobstructed and compassionate lens onto the lives of two Kenyan grandmothers, who find themselves in the riptide of the AIDS…