A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."
The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-p...
When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, t...
Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...
A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst ...
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcol...
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes...
Amy is taken on a impromptu camping trip by her Dad on her 15th Birthday. Along with her little brot...
Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts...
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Min...
Gangstresses, a documentary by Harry Davis, tells the story of violence, poverty, and survival in th...
DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...
In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while...
Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by yo...
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with ...
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
A thirteen-year-old girl named Daisy, who suffers from terminal Epidermolysis Bullosa, meets Stinky,...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.