Social Cultural Documentary Movies

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

Avelino Chillarón was 12 or 13 years old when he realized that his surnames and those of his cousins ​​didn't match, so he decided...

While on the surface Malmi Airport seems like just another airport, it is in fact, an incredibly important historical, cultural, and practical...

In Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca, México, there is a group of people who pay homage to living characters in the community through urban murals,...

Delving into the world of funk from the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Na Batida follows a participatory journey in which the filmmakers themselves...

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

Thinley and Nyima are Tibetans in exile in India. Barely able to make a living, they are now expecting a child. Is there still hope despite all these...

Forget the neon lights and cherry blossoms — this is Japan like you’ve never seen it. In this gripping short documentary, Omar Farooq...

A group of Spanish reporters go to Western Sahara to find a group of Spanish hostages taken by the Polisario Front, while shedding light on the...

The community of Woodberry Down in Hackney rallies to save a beloved local plane tree from development.

The Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County in Connecticut's documentary featuring family stores in Stamford, Connecticut from their peak years...

Absorbed, Unnatural, Dismal, Deface, SOK, Wisdom, Detestor ... Names linked to a very specific movement such as Death Metal and to a time and place...

This film follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the...