Movies: Discrimination

Interview-based documentary about the conditions for gays and lesbians in Danish society....

In American Sign Language (ASL) with subtitles available in English, Spanish and Canadian French. This powerful documentary uses real life experiences from Deaf people of varied social, racial, and educational boundaries showing how this form of opp...

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 BAM BUM"....

We all share the same kind of brain yet everybody has a different view of the world around us. As a very intriguing example, Carlotta vividly explains how a world without faces does look like. She suffers from the miswiring of a tiny brain region tha...

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A story about racism, discrimination, and prejudice: in a dystopic future governed by only women, there is a fight between blondies and brunettes. In this society, the blondies are discriminated against because of the color of their hair....

Santa, a peasant woman loyal to the Revolution, is sent to guard Andrés, a gay writer who is under house arrest, considered “ untrustworthy” for his ideas and sexuality by the Cuban authorities. Set in a small village in eastern Cuba during the ear...

A story about the lives of Leila Avakh and Sedigheh Momennia who have chosen, with much love and passion, carpentry as a profession, a profession that is considered extremely masculine in the traditional society of Iran. As such, these two face many ...

This feature documentary takes us to the heart of the Jane-Finch "Corridor" in the early 1980s. Covering six square blocks in Toronto's North York, the area readily evokes images of vandalism, high-density subsidized housing, racial tension, despair ...

After their daughter is discriminated in her school, Victoria and Rosana's relationship falls into a crisis due to their different opinions on the matter. Victoria will have to face the fear of assuming her homosexuality and the possible dissolution ...

Djomeh is a young Afghan man who has come to live in Iran because of family trouble. Working as a milk boy, he encounters discrimination from the Iranian villagers and disdain from Habib, a fellow Afghani to whose trust Djomeh was given. The only per...

Cynthia Wood, a 17-year-old, light-skinned black girl, tries to pass off as white after getting hired of a wealthy movie magnate Mr. Langley who has family problems with his spoiled wife and his promiscuous teenage daughter and son....

Winter of 1921. After fighting for France for four years, the combatants of Bizkarsoro (Lower Navarre, France) have returned from the battlefront. Like the yellow star of the Jew or the ear of the Cagots, children who speak Basque are marked with an...

After the success of Bato Muni ko Phool (2010), the sequel "Bato Muni Ko Phool 2" is out which will mainly focus on the love story and caste discrimination that exist in Nepalese society. "Bato Muni Ko Phool 2". Most of the movie scenes are from east...

Seven Asian-Americans discuss their experiences with racism and the spike in Asian-directed hate crimes as a result of COVID-19....

Everyone has a story to tell, and when you create opportunities for those stories to be told and listened to, something amazing starts to happen. In early 2018, men and women of color sat down at CTV Studios in Roseville, MN to speak about a time whe...

Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells her history, her struggles and the constant abuses she had to live on a society that still exclude...

Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society....

This short documentary features children aged 5 to 12 talking about their experiences with bullying and discrimination because they or their families do not fit into traditional gender and family roles. This film explores the contemporary diversity o...

Tutti a casa” is the real story of Maria Silvia Spolato, a university math teacher, activist, and lesbian in the 70s.She was photographed in a feminist demonstration with the "homosexual liberation" sign. She was fired and disowned by her family. She...