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- DirectorGiorgos KatakouzinosStarsMichalis ManiatisDionysis XanthosKaterina HelmyA handsome young Athenian attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father and the grinding poverty of his daily life by falling in love with a macho sailor who promises him a better life.
- DirectorYann Arthus-BertrandStarsLuis CancuAtmanBerthonyA collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human.
- StarsElisa SchlottReomy D MpehoFranziska BrandmeierSet in the 1950s in a small town in Germany with a large-scale US military presence, this historical drama is a powerful story of friendship between two young women during a time of upheaval.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveFernando ReyFranco NeroShortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.
- StarsTarita AlvarezAmberBoogieCompton was made famous by NWA's seminal album, Straight Outta Compton, which helped birth gangsta rap by documenting the volatile world of South Central Los Angeles in 1988. Now, the city is back in the spotlight thanks to Kendrick Lamar, whose music takes on many of the same issues that plagued Compton more than 20 years ago, including gangs and violence. In a documentary by VICE filmmaker Andy Capper, NOISEY correspondent Zach Goldbaum sits down with Kendrick and meets his friends, many of whom appear on the cover of his critically acclaimed album, To Pimp a Butterfly. Kendrick and the Piru gang members he grew up with give a candid portrait of life in Compton, helping show a deeper side to a group that society has written off.
- StarsZach GoldbaumA look at the music scene in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where eight baile funk musicians have been murdered during the past five years.
- DirectorDeclan McGrathNeasa Ní ChianáinStarsKevin McAreveyJan-Marie ReelSchool headmaster Kevin McArevey tries to change the fortunes of an inner-city Irish community plagued by urban decay, sectarian aggression, poverty and drugs.
- DirectorEmma ChristopherStarsJoe AllieLucy AmaraCuco CasanovaAfro-Cubans preserve ancestral traditions. A filmmaker traces roots to Sierra Leone, where villagers recognize lost kin's customs. A joyous festival reunites the long-separated family through shared cultural heritage.
- DirectorRaj PatelZak PiperAnita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognize, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.
- DirectorWaheed AlQawasmiStarsLorraine BraccoMalek RahbaniTutweezyA young Syrian refugee faces hard truths chasing the American dream on the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, while living in poverty, dealing with social injustice and witnessing his neighbor's opioid addiction.
- StarsNaemi FlorezLudwig SimonAlexander ScheerBerlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden. They are marked by poverty and crime.
- DirectorRehad Desai34 miners were killed in South Africa in 2012. A police cover-up was suspected.
- DirectorRob FruchtmanSix dancers from the acclaimed Battery Dance company travel the world, working with young people who've experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees.
- StarsCaleb BondJulie GoodwinJenny LeongThree prominent Australians will go on separate immersive journeys to gain insights into the world of poverty and disadvantage in Australia. The experience will be confronting and at times emotional - but how will it change them?
- DirectorLuis Alberto RestrepoStarsRolf AbderhaldenMarcela AgudeloHumberto DoradoTells the story of the Millán family, landowners who expanded their lands and their socio-political power at the cost of expropriating land from the poorest by illicit and violent means during the eighteenth century.
- DirectorDevanStarsRajashreeV.K. RamasamyCho RamaswamyThe story revolves around the two sons teaching a lesson to their father who disregards the poor.
- DirectorAlejandro MonteverdeStarsCristiana Dell'AnnaJohn LithgowDavid MorseAfter witnessing disease and poverty in the slums of New York, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini embarks on a daring journey to persuade the hostile mayor to provide housing and healthcare for hundreds of orphaned children.
- DirectorMarius PaparaStarsStefan IancuNatalia CalinToto DumitrescuAn aspiring young boxer living in the ghetto with his mother is faced with a difficult situation and has to make a choice that could change his future forever.