Poverty Movies

Ivane, a Gurian peasant is struggling with social inequality, trying to feed an impoverished family, pay state and rent taxes with extreme physical...

Like Don Quixote, Zivan Pujic Jimmy fights for his annual punk festival. A film about failure, ambition, friendship and clinging to your dreams....

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

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...

In 2059, in a broken-down world, silicon has become the most precious material on the planet. A man and a girl barter transistors and microchips for...

Three strangers living in Silesia — a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner — are all...

Struggling against the harsh realities of poverty, a devoted father, Mike reluctantly turns to burglary to provide for his daughter. The narrative...

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

An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a...

We invite you to watch the play "The Moromete Family", adapted by Robert Popescu from the novels of Marin Preda.

Buddha's Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who, armed only with his master boxing skills, wages an...

A boy living in an abandoned cinema meets a young girl. As their friendship develops, the boy entertains the other cinema residents with stories and...

Son Hak-su (Kim Seung-ho) is a middle school teacher who barely gets by on his income because he's paying off a monthly mortgage for his welfare...

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...

Shows a campaign launched in Halifax in 1967 to probe the core of poverty in that city--low incomes, ill health and inadequate housing affect more...

Soledad, Mattias, Bahar, Facundo, and Josselin were born in 1976 and were the first generation of young people to grow up in Husby. Now, almost 30...

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...