Homelessness Movies

Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang...

The UN estimates street children worldwide at 150 million. In Latin America, they are 40 million. In Brazil, street boys and girls felt so enchanted...

From the 17th floor of an office building, Pierre is staring out a colleague that is here for hours.

A lowly comic book shop owner discovers a mysterious young woman loitering in his shop, leading to an unlikely friendship.

'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...

In Montreal, front-line workers work hard to provide appropriate care to the most vulnerable citizens in our society.

A street-wise teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence.

Street Life documents the lives of Chinese migrants in Shanghai, one of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities, now symbolic of...

Max Ramsey, an advocate for those experiencing poverty, uses what he has gone through to serve the impoverished community of Milwaukee despite...

A homeless man explores the bustling city after receiving a fragmented mirror piece from a mysterious, odd-looking figure.

Rita is a naive 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately,...

Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close...

A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.

Shot in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the documentary looks at what really happens with the money donated to help with disaster aid.

A woman arrives in Paris with her little girl to look for work. With limited funds and no luck, they end up penniless, homeless and dependent on the...

A fantasy about a daughter’s yearning for her mother’s warmth and comfort, which turns into a nightmare about harsh reality of a group of...

A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.

The Meaning of Vanlife is an adventurous, revealing look into the Vanlife community through the eyes of nomads who have chosen to live a life of...

Now a successful filmmaker, Lorna Tucker was once a teenage runaway sleeping rough on the streets of London. For this frank, forceful and inspiring...