Documentary Short Movies

An experimental short where the filmmaker considers her personal relationship with intimacy, sexuality and the male gaze.

A look inside the Batanes traditional boat and how the Ivatans preserve their custom of constructing their tataya (boat).

In 1984 a tiny anonymous Tipperary village was thrust in to the world's spotlight when US President Ronald Reagan arrived to visit his ancestral...

Following the example of an entomologist watching the behavior of insects Edmond Bernhard scrutinizes the doings and the words of a priest - assisted...

A movie director attemps to film the way he writes a screenplay.

A short documentary experiment on a trip to Bahrain, exploring nostaglia as a borrowed perspective.

Brenda Way, founder and artistic director of ODC, is a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation Community Awards "for creating a community hub...

Alice Waters, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2006 Community Leadership Awards (The John R. May Award) - for transforming our relationship...

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

Snow is precarious, unstable, elusive. Its aesthetic and symbolic register often refer to notions of the romantic. Snow reduces the colour palette...

Broadcast to a large portion of the Danish population in January 1970, Hesteofringen ('Horse Sacrifice') was the ostensible ritual slaughtering and...

A verbose essay film, making a mountain out of a molehill. Due to Covid-19, exploratory field trips to the countryside turned into school trips. Just...

A television documentary about miners: the reality of their work versus how it is made to look and sound in the public sphere.

Opening at a Soviet army base in Kabul, the film visits an attack helicopter squadron, a firebase outside Kabul, and a guard post near Kandahar. Then...

A short documentary on the "Harlem Street Singer," blues artist Rev. Gary Davis. Features footage of his neighborhood, Davis talking about his...

Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased...

“Are you a man, or a woman?” In a world built on binaries, this is the question every trans soul must learn to answer—again and...

A young Congolese girl moves to a historical adversary, Burundi, where her efforts to pursue studies are shared with a relentless desire to give back...

Low-level narcotics offenders too often cycle in and out of jail, re-offending soon after they hit the streets. District Attorney Kamala D. Harris...

Based in the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco, CommunityGrows teaches cooking and gardening in local elementary schools and after...