Documentary Short Movies

A daughter struggles to speak with her father about her grandmother, revealing the quiet distances — and shared inheritances — that shape...

A documentary focusing on Polish 60-year-old Henryk Kowalczyk who is deaf-blind and being taught sculpture. Working with clay and other materials is...

A Foot in the Door tells the story of Kindergarten to College (K2C), the first universal children’s savings account program in the United...

Short documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: The Return.

A satirical archive-based portrait spanning 30 years that follows the rise of Christian cinema’s most visible presence, David A.R. White, and...

Directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog describe and discuss the film The Act of Killing (2012).

Made refugees by the war in Ukraine, Olga and her granddaughter Milana travel to a summer camp in the Austrian Alps to test the limits of their own...

1901, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

"This world of porn exists to make everyone happy," says Touru Muranishi, 49, Japan's leading pornographer. Acting as producer, director, cameraman...

Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the South Australian...

This documentary features candid studio conversations with people of diverse backgrounds from the Erika Lust community. They share personal...

Get a glimpse into surfer Lucas Chianca's incredible life as the Brazilian waterman balances chasing heavy waves around the world with his biggest...

Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never...

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated...

A portrait of the city of Zagreb, as it was in 1943.

Dramatizes the case of a family in which the father respects and loves his wife and children, permitting each to develop as an individual, and...

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

A 1930s geography lesson on dairy farming, around the pasturelands of Wixenford Farm near Plymouth.

The cast and crew talk about making the film with some behind-the-scenes footage.

A prospective wish is announced at the very beginning: "Imagine a land without ownership". Ownership? Since when? How? Where? With which...