Movies and TvShows featuring "marginalization" theme.

The Specials follows the lives of a group of special needs adults who receive care and support at a center in Paris. As they navigate their way through daily challenges, they form deep friendships and learn valuable life lessons. This heartwarming film touches on themes of empathy, compassion, and the importance of inclusion in a multicultural society.

In this comedy, a new kid in school named Rafe starts off on the wrong foot with the bullies, but quickly finds his place among a group of misfits. They band together to take on the school's ruthless principal and his strict rules, while Rafe also learns important lessons about friendship, competition, and self-confidence. As he faces various challenges and tests his limits, Rafe discovers his true potential and becomes a hero in his own right.

The House I Live In is a powerful documentary that delves into the devastating consequences of the war on drugs in America. Through personal stories and expert interviews, the film examines the deep-rooted issues of systemic racism, social class disparity, and the prison-industrial complex. It sheds light on the destructive cycle of criminalization, recidivism, and the overall failure of the criminal justice system. The House I Live In also raises questions about the moral implications, political opportunism, and hidden motives behind the drug war.

A compelling documentary drama that delves into the lives of individuals residing on the fringes of society. Through captivating storytelling, it highlights various themes such as poverty, drugs, racial issues, and personal struggles. The film showcases the challenges and resilience of these individuals in the face of adversity.

Nico, a güero who has grown bored of his privileged life, decides to make a documentary film on punk culture. He meets Omar, the Club Internacional Aguerridos leader, who introduces him to a world of music, pot, delinquency and free love.

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization. The film is intended as a mood piece, a chance encounter between a lone figure and an indifferent crowd. This film was made as part of the fourth edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.

'M' is an old woman who lives adrift: a lonely shadow that crosses her own geography every day. She spends her days dreaming about her past, until one day she finds something very similar to her - an ant. M decides to share her world haunted by nostalgic memories and a dark presence, until the day a "mechanical angel" arrives to help her...

Through the interactions between two film directors and a longtime film extra, this documentary questions the distinction between real and fake. A game of power between assistant director and director leads to the realisation that we all live our lives as extras, ‘accessories’ in the background who wait for the chance to become a star.

Beyond Access takes us on a journey with young Afro-Latina ocean explorer and storyteller, Xochitl Clare, on her quest to champion equal access to the great outdoors. The film centers her discussions on the next generation of leaders and practitioners who are diversifying outdoor spaces. It also highlights the importance of allyship in ensuring that underserved and historically marginalized youth and families are able to rebuild a sense of belonging in nature.

Cunnamulla, 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, is the end of the railway line. In the months leading up to a scorching Christmas in the bush, there's a lot more going on than the annual lizard race. Here, Aboriginal and white Australians live together but apart. Creativity struggles against indifference, eccentricity against conformity.

In The Random, a marginalized individual in North Africa becomes opinionated and sparks a revolution against discrimination in Libya.

The first gay Japanese documentary, Rough Sketch of a Spiral, takes an intimate look at the personal lives of gay men in Osaka. The star is 25-year-old Yoshiichi Yano who has written a play he hopes will open the public’s eyes to the status of gays in contemporary Japan, a society with deep-rooted prejudices against homosexuality. With abundant humor and nonchalant candor, director Yasufumi Kojima follows the day-to-day efforts of Yano to produce his play while introducing us to Yano’s friends and actors in the play, including a stunning drag queen and a charming 60-year-old man who claims to be gay but a virgin.

A story of friendship in a squalid suburb of a city of southern Italy. Alexander and Ferdi come from poor families and live in a city in decline, where there is no future.

Naples. Home of the unbowed, of madmen and paupers. A city that refuses to lick anyone's boots, let alone stoop to pretense. This documentary bad trip takes us on a tour of the city's dismal suburbs and into the homes of the marginalized and rejected: a man, a girl, and a masked boxer - three protagonists yearning for something else, although they're not quite sure what. (Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2019)

A short documentary that takes a hip, gritty look at the reality of life on the street for kids with three strikes against them: They're young. They're gay. They're homeless. Queer youth make up approximately 20 to 50 percent of the 20,000 homeless young people in New York City. Homophobia, poverty and mental illness put them on the streets, where they struggle with violence, drugs, sex work and daily life in the youth shelter system. See the issues through their eyes, in their own words.