Community Movies

When a Ghanaian-American woman relocates to Ghana in search of community and belonging, a friend’s wedding seems like the perfect opportunity...

The fight for survival in one of Tokyo’s vanishing geisha districts. Documenting everything from ancient moss-covered woodlands to the streets...

Mary Lou Breslin, co-founder of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership...

The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents Bishop Yvette A. Flunder, founder and director of Ark of Refuge, with the Robert C....

Communities in Rwanda have come together every last Saturday of month since the 11th century to build, clean, and plant.

Documentary about a skate hall in Kiruna that has become a lifeline for young people in a city that is literally being moved.

Through the eyes of International Chess Master Paul Cassidy, this documentary traces a lifetime of strategy, triumph, and heartbreak, from...

When aspiring DJ Yamilet learns the record store she works at is being forced to close, she rallies her community to try and save it.

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

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

System (2025) is a short documentary film exploring intergenerational connections to land and country. Interviews with Aunty Denise Morgan Bulled, a...

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

Yard One shows fragments of people navigating the city of Brussels through dreams, family and community. It's a tribute to its rich electronic music...

For those who electrical sensitivity, there aren’t many places to seek refuge. In a remote part of West Virginia, the so-called National Radio...

Mexican documentary short film that portrays the importance of the self-management process of communities in the republic around the cacao seed, not...

A portrait of a Scottish community, land and heritage.

With a massive, unrestricted salvage area, the Yellowknife dump is one of the last and largest open dumps in North America. People from all walks of...

Hunnarshala, founded in the wake of the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India, facilitates community-driven, artisan-led reconstruction in post-disaster...

A group of people interact and commune with a supernatural, female spirit referred to as ‘The Goose’ and her resting ground, Crossbones...

Previously a central part of communal life, the movie palaces of New York’s Chinatown are now extinct. This documentary short takes us inside...