Movies: Poor

An original 12 minutes short film about 2 girls stuck in their dead mom's house. It takes place in the rural Romania, in Transylvania....

Josephine has all her life been told that her Peruvian aunt Augusta died in an armed struggle for the rights of the poor. As an adult Josefin decides to find out the truth about the legendary Augusta....

A story inspired by a shoe-doll displayed in Childhood Museum, Edinburgh. This short film shows a touching story about a young girl and her father in a poverty, London, 1910s. Qian Shi's BA Animation graduation film. The Best Student Film of BAF08. M...

Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how th...

In an office, a row of desks, with people facing each other. This is where unemployed people come to meet with their supervisors. At stake: their benefit payments. Here everyone has to abide by the same rigid procedure and bureaucracy but each has th...

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Documentary collecting some experiences of the first two years of the "Gira interminable" tour were Silvio Rodriguez performs for the marginal neighborhoods of Havana and other provinces....

Based on a traditional spoken tale, this Bertolt Brecht inspired musical humorously denounces poverty and insecurity, while ending on a very sarcastic note. A fine example of activist hand-crafted filmmaking....

‘No Longer Human’ follows the life of a newly homeless man who has fallen deep into the pits of loneliness. We all need someone, or something, to make sense of everything. That could take the shape of God, a partner, a best friend, but in this case.....