Activism Movies

Activists have been fighting for animal rights for decades. Will they succeed in winning the battle against meat production or will the food industry...

National Center for Lesbian Rights, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award), for its...

A working student bustles through scorching Manila, pushed to a cycle of exhaustion as the disparities of a distant world of capitalist excess kindle...

The workers of Safai Karmachari Andolan, led by Roman Magsaysay Award winner activist Bezwada Wilson, are on a mission to eradicate manual...

In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in...

The short documentary ‘Complexos‘ features intimate and emotional views on how residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro use media and arts...

In a Rio de Janeiro where street skateboarding is banned, a group of skateboarders organize a movement to legalize skateboarding in Square XV.

Helena asks for her subprefecture's secretary to help her clean up the local beaches. The reason is that, a few days earlier, she went to the beach...

The story of the ancient and sacred Gureombi Rock. The story of the people of Gangjeong Village who rise up against the construction of a US/Korea...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has established himself as the most impactful world leader of this millennium. To mark his 25th anniversary of being...

After the military occupation of Western Sahara in 1976, Moroccan government attacked the civil population with hard repression, forcing hundreds of...

A smuggled camera slips into the heart of Hama. Amid hidden faces and disguised voices, one woman stands unmasked: Fidaa Al Hourani: doctor and...

For ten years, artist Johannes collected traces of the migrant crisis in Calais: through his thought-provoking artworks, he explores the human...

Tucked at the edge of Metro Manila, a 67-year-old fisherman continues to resist and struggle against ongoing reclamation projects at the heart of...

Gowanus Current is a documentary feature film about a neighborhood asking what is truly valuable in their community, and who gets to decide.

The intersex community on the African continent remains one of the most marginalized communities. From forced surgeries and discrimination, a lot is...

Mexico is one of the countries worldwide with the highest rate of femicides, the murder of women because they are women. The mothers of two murdered...

Advertising shits in your head. London artists are taking to the streets to reclaim public spaces and challenge passerby's to think differently about...