Social Commentary Movies

As per tradition, young man shaves his head after death, but whose death is he mourning about?

Set in one bedroom over six decades, The Bedroom explores the exciting changes to sex and sexuality in Australia.

Musical directed by Anwar Kamal Pasha and Murtaza Gilani.

A journey of passion, a bitter night. Xiao Cheng ask for help to resolve a big trouble, the guy with whom he spend the afternoon is dead on his bed...

Set against the backdrop of WW II in Calcutta, "Meri Bahen" is the story of a schoolteacher and his young sister. The film followed his rise to fame...

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...

Working at a nightclub in Chengdu, a transgender Chinese woman receives an unexpected visit from her cousin informing her that the mother she has...

A dreamy boy in a distant country saves a fish beached on the shore. When he lets it loose in a pool of water, the fish turns into a beautiful...

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

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

Told via Seussian poem, the short film exhibits the bravery of a person who has faced the ultimate adversity...a tummy ache.

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

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...

This film, based on the play of the same name, portrays the harsh lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the co-op movement on...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and...

In El Salvador, Chelino tells about the indigenous massacre of 1932, of which he survived, while he teaches the melodies of traditional Salvadoran...

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

Bill O'Reilly, Jon Stewart, 2 podiums, 1 air-conditioned auditorium... In "O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium,"...

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

Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, loneliness, depression – these are things that...