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The Florida Project

October 5, 2017

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them s...

I Care a Lot

February 18, 2021

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage....

Crash

May 5, 2005

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple ...

I Am Sam

December 27, 2001

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations ...

I, Daniel Blake

October 20, 2016

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario....

System Crasher

September 18, 2019

Wherever 9-year-old Benni ends up, she is expelled. She has become what child protection services call a “system crasher.” But she is not looking to change her ways, and has one goal: go bac...

Ustad Hotel

June 28, 2012

When his father refuses to support his choice of a career, an aspiring chef tries to fulfil his dream by helping his grandfather run his small eatery....

The Monitor

October 6, 2011

Oslo, Norway. After living a traumatic experience, Anna and her son Anders move into a huge apartment building. Feeling constantly terrified and insecure, Anna buys a babycall to monitor And...

Ladybird Ladybird

February 17, 1994

Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gra...

The Black Balloon

March 7, 2008

Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexua...

A Sinful Life

June 29, 1989

A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her....

Chasing Bonnie & Clyde

November 26, 2015

'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader ...

Molly Aunty Rocks!

September 13, 2012

Molly is an unstoppable woman, who will do only what she feels is right. Molly’s world is unique but she is its unquestioned queen!. Pranav is an egoistic bureaucrat of the premier and exclu...

The Ballad of Marie Nord and Her Clients

October 16, 2008

Marie is a social worker in an immigrant dense suburb. Outside her daily work she runs a youth center, leads courses and functions as parole officer for young Belem, who has served time in a...

Cotton Wool

October 9, 2017

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reverse...

The City Where Children Disappear

May 7, 2019

Documentary film by the Danish TV channel DR about sexual abuse and suicide in Tasiilaq, Southeastern Greenland....

ABEPSS 70 anos

May 14, 2017

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American Winter

March 17, 2013

Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Filmed over the course of one wint...