Movies: Homelessness

Homeless student in New York City documents her family struggles....

Up to 30,000 youths are homeless in Australia, resorting to drugs, prostitution and crime to stay alive. This underclass of physically and emotionally abused children are the subject of this documentary. The program looks at massive changes in the ho...

Rejected by their family, school and society, three teenagers wind up defenseless on the mean streets of Tirana....

Homeless man Robert (Bobby) Webb discovers the art of filmmaking, turning pages of his life into a heartfelt reel. Through his journey he finds hope and new meanings in unexpected aspects of his life as he relives them....

A wandering homeless man seizes an opportunity....

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As Rose City grapples with continued vandalism and homelessness, businesses are hurting and boarded up amid a global pandemic. What can be done to bring Portland back?...

A collaborative video and activism project between long-time community filmmaker Rebecca Garrett and Sanctuary, a church community drop-in, evolves into an unflinching documentary immersion into the world of police and security guard violence against...

Beat Goes On is an impressionistic portrait of the activist Keith Cylar (1958–2004), co-founder of Housing Works and a central figure in the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) NY. Cylar spoke clearly, frequently and with moral force about the s...

In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inner city Sydney. An outpouring of social and political goodwill followed, with the then Prime Ministe...

Community First! Village is designed to lift the chronically homeless off the streets of the Austin, TX, offering them a place to call home, helping them to heal from the ravages of life on the streets, and allowing them to rediscover a purpose in th...

Where we come from shapes who we are, and how others see us. Home gives us a sense of belonging and stability. It’s so much more than just a physical structure. It’s our safety, our refuge, our launch pad. Yet, so many people in the U.S. face housing...

SHELTER IN THE CITY is a documentary about homelessness that focuses on a father’s heartbreaking struggle to get his mentally ill son off the streets of New York City. Nominated for an Emmy award....

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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 by a camera that they took it as their own to express themselves and fight the silence....

In the district of Kristineberg in Stockholm there is an abandoned hotel that the young film makers Roxane and Moa often pass by. In believing that the hotel is empty, they take the camera and go there, but it turns out to be temporary accommodation ...

Whilst saving up for a hotel, a homeless man is robbed and must find a place to sleep....