Social Commentary Movies

A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed...

Young and Healthy as a Rose follows Stevan Nikolic, "Stiv", a petty criminal born in Belgrade, and his rise to power along with drugs, sex and with...

Rina can't look into the eyes of her son, Dean, who's under house arrest at her home. Tomorrow his trial begins, and Rina doesn't know if she can...

This is a short, privately produced animated film. While elucidating the mystery and fuzziness as well as merits and demerits of memory in idealizing...

The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated Victorian— conducts his top-secret...

Two Native Americans struggle to make the transition from their home reservation to the city life, but soon find a solution in an advertised remedy...

Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agenda", unveils his new work, Kymatica!. Kymatica...

KYRIE and SHAKA come from two different worlds. Kyrie insists that no one picks him up directly from his home in East Cleveland and Shaka, who is far...

Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus,...

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which...

A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.

Since the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, Metro Manila has been subjected to intermittent lockdowns with demeaning punishments. Despite the...

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...

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.

A conversation between reality and consciousness.

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

A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay...

Chile is the only country that has privatized its waters, in favor of large corporations, to the detriment of homes in rural and urban communities....

A meditation on violence and its recurrence in time. It shows circumstances that make vagrants unable to make their life better. They try to survive,...

The lives of vastly separate people collide in interweaving stories of liberty, identity, tolerance, responsibility and class.