Social Cultural Documentary Movies

In French Polynesia, transgender people evolve with apparent fluidity in all components of society. Their presence, observed as early as the 18th...

As Puerto Rico falls deeper and deeper into an unprecedented crisis this is Vietnam’s story, a community or barrio located on the coast of...

An ethnographic film that tells the story of the mask makers and dancers during the festival of the Virgen del Carmen in Paukartambo, Cuzco. The...

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process...

Dengbêjên Me is a empathetic documentary about the last living representatives of the Kurdish oral storytelling tradition—the...

They open, for them and around them, the path of self-management: that of bodies, territories, communities and struggles.

Wheels of Fate is a short documentary film about identity, belonging and acceptance. It reflects on Ryan Espadilla's experience immigrating to New...

Three generations of Saudi women reflect on their lives through the decades of dramatic regional cultural, political and religious changes. Ajyal...

On January 1, 1994, thousands of indigenous people occupied seven towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas under the slogan "Ya Basta!"...

The Model is an intimate look at a system built on discipline, image, and invisible pressure — where a single decision can change a life.

A short 1994 documentary that highlights the lives and experiences of a few LGBTQ+ residents of the Palouse. Filmed and narrated by Jeff Olson....

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

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

Spearhead of Parma culture, Isa Guastalla (1933-2023) talks about herself, before her sudden death, in a series of interviews that today reveal...

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various...

A young woman from Barcelona's La Mina neighborhood inquires into the past of the Roma people in this documentary about the persecution of the Roma...