Poverty Movies

tells the experience of a group of medical students who travel to the north of Argentina to assist different indigenous communities that suffer the...

Nanay Mayang, a single mother who makes ends meet by selling bananacue each day, struggles to provide for her two children, Toto and Nene. With their...

In the mountains of Northern Thailand lies a boarding school. The students come from different tribes in the area and live together with their Thai...

The intimate life of the mythical Candy Dubois, from her childhood in a correctional facility to her success with the "Blue Ballet" in the great "BIM...

Benok, robbed off his childhood, had to work due to poverty. While his mother spends time on gambling. In his eyes, the world has changed where...

A solitary Frenchman seeks inspiration in a ruined duchy, meeting eccentric figures with their visions of art, madness, and myth. During 15 minutes...

Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles.

There are thousands of people working as scrap workers in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana, and Abdallah is one of them. Like the majority, Abdallah is...

Four homeless teenagers live one day at a time, stealing, sharing, and waiting for a meaning that never answers. Miguel invents a hero to fill the...

"...Gurudasi Mondol, who roams the streets of her small town in Southern Bangladesh and is known as a mad woman who takes money from passersby at...

A tragic account of the poverty and desperation in the once-prosperous nation of Zimbabwe.

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...

This short film tells the story of a marginalized man who, in order to survive, collects old cassettes from shops and off the street and carries them...

A silent film depicting the ship-breaking yards of Chittagong, Bangladesh, a final destination for ships too old to ply the oceans. Every year,...

This film was shot in Cuba in 1994. The opportunity came when Russel Porter, an Australian documentary filmmaker, was invited to teach at the...

Short documentary about the marginalized youth in Canyelles, Barcelona.

Sometimes it feels like we live in different worlds. But really, we're not that far away.

These are the future leaders of their communities. Ever wonder what it’s like to walk a day in their shoes? How the world looks through their...

A short film documenting the time the filmmaker spent in Kenya.

Far West Nepal, where maximum labour migration to Bombay happens, is reeling under the impact of an HIV micro epidemic. This documentary is an in...