Welfare

The nature and complexity of the welfare system is explored in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of constituting problems: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abu

Welfare

Welfare Warriors

Two friends on government welfare who, upon being forced into jobs, decide to steal cryptocurrency from a self-absorbed influencer.

Welfare Checks

Joyce, her mother, and two sisters are dependent on welfare checks, like her grandmother before them. Too much of their money is wasted supporting no-good boyfriends. Joyce is determined to break the cycle but her sister

Welfare

A short film

Bagyeli Welfare

This film is about the ways how Bagyeli (“Pygmies” group in Cameroon) manage to get healthy when they are sick. The movie shows also the relationship Bagyeli people have with the forest in order to survive. From it they

Child Welfare

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You."

Concern for Welfare

Ali is a gay Lebanese probationary constable and kicking against her Muslim brother's controlling behaviour. When she attends a 'concern for welfare' and discovers the body of an elderly man who died alone and unnoticed,

Child Welfare

A delivery guy visits a kid after getting a complaint for sneaking food from child welfare support. What is going on in this house?

Discussion on Welfare

A discussion about the effects of welfare on Fogo Island residents.

Welfare

Some call them “welfare bums.” Others call them lazy and lucky. They are judged and looked down on. Yet anyone can find themselves living on social assistance. Welfare tells the story of four people who share their strug

The Welfare Cuts Squad

In the near future, in Adachi Ward, Tokyo, a ‘Welfare Cutoff Squad’ is formed to plug the gaps in the deteriorating public finances. Their objective is to strip welfare recipients of their entitlement to benefits. Howeve

From Welfare to Millionaire

A rap group wants to win a talent show to help them become millionaires, but an old friend turned enemy has his own plans.

Welfare of the Workers

A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what Hitler takes by force."

My Week on Welfare

Award-winning documentarian – and former teenage welfare mother – Jackie Torrens explores stereotypes about welfare recipients by going back on welfare for a week. She finds out what the day-to-day reality of life is rea

Church Welfare in Action

This is a documentary on what LDS Church welfare is and how it functions.

Community Welfare that Residents Choose

Toru Iwakawa is elected mayor of Takanosu on the platform of improving welfare. With the support of a group formed by residents, he aims to develop a "care town" to stop the isolation of the elderly. However, the town co

Brian Earle on Merchants and Welfare

A look at the relationships among the Fogo Island merchants and fishermen, and at the demoralizing effects welfare has on them.

For The Welfare of All

Celebrate the blessings of the welfare program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare

In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as the first woman on a presidential cabinet. Against overwhelming odds, she became the driving force behind Social Security, the 40-hou