Poverty Movies

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...

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

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...

Documentary about what makes a house a home.

The Slums is a 2019 comedy mockumentary film about an urban poor family terrorized by a documentary crew that promised to help them.

In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to...

A third of Europeans live in economic insecurity: Zero hours contracts, the fear of redundancy and stagnating wages have brought more and more people...

Can there be a bleaker portrait of a life half-lived? Cinematic treatment of poet R.S. Thomas's story of Twm, the "shy soul" who lives and dies alone...

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...

Migrants from the countryside and unemployed people from neighbouring cities take over some unused land and establish a neighbourhood in the...

Set in Isaan, this is the story of a mother who struggles to lead her needy family through seemingly endless hardships and pressures. To help the...

"This feature documentary is considered to be the forerunner of the NFB's Challenge for Change Program. The film offers in inside look at 3 weeks in...

A look at the rampant HIV epidemic rate in Swaziland.

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

Two young friends, urban out-of-a-job types, work out, along with a mate -a professional pusher- a way to get out of the misery they are living in:...

Based on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal.

Violeta and Vyollca Dukay live in the south of Kosovo, close to the border with Albania. Faced with a very high unemployment in their country since...

Peronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a metaphor of the poem Martin Fierro.