Poverty Movies

Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bringing psychoanalysis to Latino communities. It...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of...

Two unfortunate friends are desperately looking for a job to survive and eventually marry their loved ones.

A SILENT STORY - An aging refugee clown in Paris masks trauma with silent street performances. Beneath his painted smile lie resilience and...

Mahmoud, who suffers from a lot of financial difficulties, is now thinking of committing suicide

A feature length documentary that tells the story of nine young men and women constructing positive lives as they face the challenges of growing up...

Dario, a young lower-class, graduated from a management training academy is convinced to be prepared to achieve fortune. In search of a job, he gets...

A documentary filmed in late 2005 that brings the viewer close to the living conditions and unresolved problems for Palestinian refugees in the...

DREAMING NICARAGUA is a film about HOPE. It's about love for the dignity and courage of the human spirit that, even immersed in uttermost tragic...

A look at the rampant HIV epidemic rate in Swaziland.

It's Christmas time, but not everyone can afford it. Just when a pair of young parents are about to disappoint their little girl, a knight in bright...

A short documentary following Stanoje Ćebić, an unemployed Yugoslav metalworker and self-proclaimed Marxist, as he moves through Belgrade...

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.

Facing seizure of their own lands, two families found themselves farming together on the same field, hoping to get through just another rice-farming...

the story of a young boy who must go to the store by himself for the first time. Things get complicated when the 140 Dram his mother gave him for...

Documentary film about Archbishop Dom Hélder Câmara of Recife & Olinda in Brazil.

This film was shot in Cuba in 1994. The opportunity came when Russel Porter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, was invited to teach at the...