Poverty Movies

Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofri Barbato. Although it would have been more...

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

The film revolves around Bayoumi Mustafa Saati, a simple man whom all people love for his safety and skill in his work. He succeeds in working in a...

These are the future leaders of their communities. Ever wonder what it’s like to walk a day in their shoes? How the world looks through their...

Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS...

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...

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.

The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on the day of her daughter’s wedding. Nghi and...

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, where he shoots his third film, a very...

The microcosmic world of a street market on the outskirts of Zagreb: traders, thieves, prostitutes, self-appointed security guards and other lost...

A film about the cross coalition of communities that stopped a planned network of freeways from being built in Seattle in the late 60s and early 70s....

A couple of children earn their living by playing music on the streets of Teheran. But a thief steals their accordion.

Coin is not about chasing wealth. It is about what happens when people are pushed so far down that they stop reaching altogether and only fight to...

Award-winning documentary maker Bryan Bruce investigates New Zealand's housing crisis and what might be done to solve it. Bruce consults with...

Jose lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what used to be one of Caracas' most affluent neighborhoods. After learning...

A community of people rejected by society live in an abandoned residence located in a "Medina": an old town in Tunisia. Al Bab, a local criminal...

A look at the rampant HIV epidemic rate in Swaziland.