Movies: Social documentary

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Tjipto Setiyono, 85, is a rickshaw painter. Despite being past his prime, he lives alone in a 3-by-3 meter square boarding room, in which Tjipto’s brush strokes give birth to his paintings....

A documentary focused on the proliferation of bedbugs in Marseille....

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Every year, thousands of German citizens travel to India, hoping to have a spiritual awakening of their own. In turn, they end up taking bits and pieces of Indian culture back home with them, creating a distorted version of Indian religion that’s p...

A documentation of the year of high school of 1970 to 1971 for students and teachers alike at the St. Mark prep-school community, from the 'weird drama and film students', to the most infamous teachers of the year like Mr. Burns and Mr. Whatley, alon...

The stories of a group of Latina migrant mothers whose kids have been taken away by an unfair system in Italy....

A retired bricklayer wants his grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away, to stay with him. Will he convince the young man despite the lack of opportunities in the country?...

In the 1970s, the first manifestations of gay, lesbian and transvestite rights in Spain took place. In 2005, Spain became the third country in the world to approve same-sex marriage, and today our legislation is one of the more progressive. However, ...

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Lawyers, an ex-police investigator and a former judge denounce Japan's criminal justice system as defendants in a high-profile 2003 election-rigging case in Kagoshima explain how detectives tried to extract false confessions on trumped-up charges of ...

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A documentary on the events of the Gama strike. A contractor operating in Ireland was paying its Turkish employees exploitative wages far below trade union rates. This is the story of how these workers fought back....

Mike Porcel is the lost member of the Cuban Nueva Trova musical movement. His lack of “revolutionary spirit” condemned him to the scorn of his peers and made him a pariah for a decade, until he managed to go into exile. Without resentment, but withou...

The film retraces the origins, history, habits and traditions of the Roma people but also tells the direct experience of some of the people who belong to it....

Serif, the manager of a launderette in London’s Bethnal Green, dedicates her time to her regulars. Serving cups of tea and listening to their stories, Serif enriches their lives by helping the local elderly community. Laundriness is a simple and sen...

The Lourenço mine, in northern Amapá, continues to attract people driven by the dream of gold, despite the extreme wear of bodies and souls that the activity provides. We enter this world through the oral accounts of young and old miners who share th...

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Short documentary on female workers at school, made by a high school student....