Documentary Short Movies

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

Citizen Film and the Bright Horizons Children’s Home created a short film about the innovative school that gives Nepali orphans, semi-orphans...

From The Basement to the World is a short documentary that tells the story of Joe and Frank's childhoods, the origin of The Basement Yard podcast,...

While documenting the streets of Al-Muhammadiyyah in Jeddah, a Filipino expat unexpectedly unveiled his relationship with the place and his peculiar...

A personal look into master carpenter Richard Grell’s woodworking skills and techniques, as he crafts traditional Windsor Chairs from trees...

"Why we’re all paying so much more for Netflix, and what we can do about it."

This short documentary focuses on traditional wood-working skills in the Cree community of Chipewyan Lake, Alberta. This first part of the film...

This short documentary focuses on traditional wood-working skills in the Cree community of Chipewyan Lake, Alberta. This second part of the film...

Sainath, age 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, age 80, lives far afield in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They...

A part of Porto’s nightlife history is revealed. In this work, the artist draws on her extensive archive of video recordings of Porto’s...

For twenty years, male members of a fraternity at a major state university and their female guests have been celebrating the end of the school year...

Short documentary

The Gentleman Boxer: Richard Torrez Jr. is a 30-minute candid look at the rising American heavyweight Richard Torrez Jr. (5-0, 5 KO) ahead of his...

Short documentary which highlights the inner workings of the "JIFFY" Mix plant and over 130-year history of the family-owned Chelsea Milling Company.

Guaranteed in Gary follows an income gift experiment in Gary, Indiana, designed to help create pathways to lift local residents out of poverty and to...

Yulian Dorosh's film "Near the Sources of Folk Art" was shot in Kosiv region between 1963 and 1971. The film, done mainly on black-and-white, but...

Anna Zett collages mostly unreleased footage from the Berlin Archive of the GDR-Opposition into a pulsating short film thriller. The film opens up an...

the documentary short "The Stream XII" by Hiroya Sakuri (Japan)

At the end of summer 2021 boys spend their last lazy days together in a small town by the Volga River. Their childish routine of roaming streets,...