Food Movies

Care work, awareness-raising, waste reduction. Thieboudienne, chaufa, paella. What do these recipes have in common? Who cooks them? Where?

Charlie Chaplin meets a hobo and he is in desperately in need of food and shelter. What transpires is Charlie’s mission to help this hobo...

This documentary portrays the life of Xime Minutti, a young university who dedicates her time to taking care of the puppies on the streets of...

A short video about the processing of matter, using found footage, all food-related, as its material. A comparatively unobtrusive soundtrack, though...

After nearly 40 years in operation, the family-run Koto Japanese Restaurant is closing down. Over the course of its final service, the small...

A father teaches his daughter the ancient art of hand pulled noodles

Partitions draws on photographs, state documents, audio recordings and footage of domestic spaces and routines, to tell a story of Sindhi migration...

You are what you eat goes the old saying. So what can we learn about Chicagoans from the food on our plates? WTTW 11's Geoffrey Baer plays both...

This documentary about Rene Redzepi's Copenhagen restaurant follows the proceedings in the kitchen for six months as Noma climbs to the top of the...

Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short,...

A girl grieves for an ended relationship.

Travel through Sicily with pleasure

Ninlawan Pinyo is the matriarch of a Thai American family, who hustled for her fortune by founding a naem pork sausage factory in Chiang Mai,...

In an alternate food-themed reality, the brash Detective Alfredo crosses former friends and enemies in an attempt to retrieve a stolen heirloom, The...

Short documentary about—the now closed—Olympic Doughnuts in Footscray, Melbourne.

A "short" documentary about people explaining their eating habits in the context of their lives. The film conveys the peculiar way in which we talk...

In February 2012, the death of Feng Fei Fei, the Taiwanese singing stardom in the 60s, shocked the whole island. People were occupied in a haze of...