Poverty Movies

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 inspira...

A teenager has to undo the mess his older brother made and protect his family even if he has to stand against dangerous thugs.

In this deeply personal film, director Roger Ross Williams sets out on a journey to understand the complex forces of racism and greed currently at wor...

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 liv...

Documentary film about a slum community on the outskirts of Recife, a major city in northeastern Brazil. A portrait of life in extreme poverty and law...

It is the true story of a man called Biagio Conte, a Sicilian who was looking for God and ended up founding a mission to help the homeless and the poo...

In 1985 a picturesque Argentinian holiday town was completely flooded, not to re-emerge until 2009. Now only Pablo remains in this modern day Atlantis...

One stranger on his way to an important meeting will transform the afternoon for another man in this emotionally stirring short film.

A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.

Documentary following Serbian football coach Zoran Đorđević as he helps form South Sudan's first national football team.

The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out onto the rooftops. Resilient and remarkable, thes...

The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the International Hotel's tenants culminated a...

Two poor farmers spend all their money on a chicken, while waiting for her first egg they slowly start to get the feeling there’s something very wrong...

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

A former lawyer leaves everything behind to embark on the quest for a dinosaur-like animal supposedly living in Africa's unexplored forests.

Tony, Pol and Baby are three friends that get together to search a solution to their project for the future, at a standstill. They criticize constantl...

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

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