A third of Europeans live in economic insecurity: Zero hours contracts, the fear of redundancy and stagnating wages have brought more and more people into poverty and precariousness and provided fertile conditions for the political extremes. This documentary focuses on the new working poor, the precariat.

J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...

Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...
Documentary film about four families in Pori, Finland, all struggling with unemployment and poverty.

This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourho...

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.

Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...

There are thousands of people working as scrap workers in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana, and Abdallah i...

The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration si...

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.
A silent film depicting the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, a final destination for s...

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the is...

DEBT is the story of a frantic pursuit: the search for the responsible for the televised cry of hung...

For many years, the Swiss photographer Jean-Claude Wicky captured the world of Bolivian miners in ph...

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called ...