Poverty Movies

Tara is denied electricity bill support by Social Services, who tells her to simply get a free grill instead - a task that leads Tara into...

Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of...

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...

Lahore, Pakistan. During a whole day, we follow Agha, a little boy who, to survive, collects waste in the street without caring about the world which...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to...

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

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

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

Francis has been living in his apartment for several years. However, his world quickly falls apart has he learns that he has five minutes to leave...

THE DEPARTMENT is a feature documentary which takes us inside the never-before-seen child protection system at work in NSW. Filmed in an...

A man fails to acknowledge the teenagers he mistreated when they were small children.

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...

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

Corruption, political instability and social poverty are explored in this tense documentary film chronicling the Greek government debt crisis and its...

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.

This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin without running water or electricity in the Williams...

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:...

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...