3 Powerful Movies on International Inequality


I love movies which make us think. Here are 3 eye-opening movies I love, exploring real-life issues around world culture, and social and ethical expectation around gender, discrimination, and inequality. These movies show us the real life of real people, their issues in societies, and in the people's hearts. 

1. Kaakka Muttai (2014)

It's a brutally honest story about two kids and their one simple dream - to eat a pizza, opening up a world we might not be aware of. Two boys, growing up in a slum in India, who make their living stealing coal from the railway yard. They have one big dream - to eat Pizza from the newly opened Pizza shop, which they can not afford. It's a movie what definitely touches the heart to its bottom.
Imdb rating 8.5




2. Sonita (2015)


Sonita is a teenage Afghan girl, despite living as a refugee in Tehran, facing the threat of being sold into child marriage by her family, – is determined to pursue her dream of becoming a rap star. She protests over her parent's plans to sell her as a child bride by recording a music video, channeling her frustration about oppressive traditions, which brings her to global attention. Making a risky return to her homeland, she attempts to get the documents to an education in the United States.

''Sonita'' is a powerful documentary, giving us a glimpse (through an optimist case) the reality of Afghan women. I's a real story, where the film makers where actually the ones in her rescue.
Imdb rating 7.8




3. A Borrowed Identity (2015)

Also known as Dancing Arabs
 What makes us who we are, and what divides us, is examined in "A Borrowed Identity," a heart-tugging drama about Jewish and Palestinian Israelis. The story is about love, rebellion, tragedy, and cultures that can both collide and embrace.

Gifted Eyad, a Palestinian Israeli boy, is given the chance to go to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. As he desperately tries to fit in with his Jewish schoolmates and within Israeli society, Eyad develops a friendship with another outsider, Jonathan a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy, and gradually becomes part of the home Jonathan shares with his mother. After falling in love with a Jewish girl, he leaves school when their relationship is uncovered, and he discovers that he will have to sacrifice his identity in order to be accepted.
Imdb rating 7.2





Love,
Mariliis

1 comments

  1. SilviaOctober 30, 2017

    I have to say I haven't seen any of these films yet, but they do seem extremely interesting-thanks for putting them on our radar!

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