Movies: Documentary short

The master collects silver parings, melts it down, created earrings, rings, bracelets, hair pins, stones inset into the silver, the master imparting the craft to his apprentices....

Narrated by Bill Slater, this short black & white educational film is about sporting and outdoor activities on the majestic Hudson River in New York State....

A documentary profiling transgender athlete Tyler Wilde and his story with the Gillis beach Bodysurfing Association. It navigates the tumultuous waters that Tyler Wilde has had to move through as he searched for big surf, his true self, and his chose...

Dave Meslin, a 47-year-old Canadian activist, is known for his campaigns to defend public space from commercial interests. For 15 years, he has been lobbying Toronto to remove illegal billboards from neighbourhoods across the city. He assembles a tea...

A delicious flavour of queer London nightlife through the lens of someone who had their life changed by The Chateau, a (now gone) underground DIY bar, cultural space and performance collective in South East London....

The lack of clean drinking water in Karakalpakya from the view of the well builders. A well made on request yields spoiled unpotable water. A good well with potable water is then ruined by a bulldozer....

The film takes place in the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria against the historical backdrop of Spanish colonialism and the Morroccan invasion of the Western Sahara. The Saharawi women, who make up 80% of the adult refugee population, provide a powe...

Part 4, Episode Nº 77, Chroniques de France (1964–1978) — This 4-part film covers the "Abstrels" of artist Jacques Potin (Bernard Queysanne); Paul Gauguin in Tahiti (Jean-Daniel Simon); the visit of a silversmith's workshop (Jacques Scandelari); and...

In this documentary about the perception of perfection and beauty, three people share the stories of how they got their scars. Created by King Yaw Soon at San Francisco State University in 2016 as part of Campus Movie Fest....

The story of the larger than life boxing legend John Davison, From Wheeler dealer to WBC Boxing Champion....

A film shot in the early 1930s and revised in 1952 which covers Moscow, the tribal areas of the Caucasus Mountains, avant-garde and Jewish theatre preformances, dance festivals, the newly established U.S. Embassy, as well as local daily life....

A documentary on classic character actors...

"Michikha Is Not Afraid of Airplanes" is a visual essay about a journey - even one that is impossible, didn't take place, or was undertaken vicariously. The project examines the extent to which the early 20th century story of Evenk guide Michikha and...

A five-year-old boy is completely uninterested in food, which results in conflicts with his mother. The effort she invests in feeding him is equal to the boy’s effort not to eat the offered food. The longer the lunch, the clumsier is their balance on...

A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the connection between father and daughter, the director returns to her own family, discussing love and grow...

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The Flight of the Condor traces the global circulation of the melody “El Condor Pasa”: from the Andes mountains to global metropoles; from Lima to Paris to New York, and back; from panpipes to piano and from symphony orchestras to the disco; from ind...

A short documentary on the "Harlem Street Singer," blues artist Rev. Gary Davis. Features footage of his neighborhood, Davis talking about his upbringing, and two performances including "Death Don't Have No Mercy." Benefiting from New York's folk rev...

A loving portrait of two motorcycle-riding lesbians....

When Nick Hurndon was six years old he and his two older brothers were set on fire by their stepfather in their San Francisco home. Now in his early forties, Nick is a retired Marine and is raising two sons that are about the same age he was when he ...