Movies: Documentary short

Aneta is the manager of an erotic massage parlor in France. She left Poland to find her own path but nothing goes as she would like it to. Pressing problems with her partner and growing up children motivate her to take her life in her hands....

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....

This short documentary takes a look at the ideas and feelings of successful, black gay men on such issues as sexuality and masculinity, as well as their perception of, and their role within, the black community....

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...

Amidst heightened quarantine restrictions, a group of Badjao roams the locale of Agusan del Sur in search of food and a way to get through the day. This is a story about their survival, hopes, and worldview as they also experienced the challenges of ...

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

A documentary on classic character actors...

The crystallization processes of various chemicals which are visible only through the microscope are shown using time-lapse acceleration at times....

A researcher finds a phone video showing hundreds of ISIS captives running through a desert. She is puzzled that the video is posted on YouTube by Les Observateurs, a French state-funded news channel as a work of “citizen journalism”. While the vide...

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...

This personal film is made up of landscape photos from the archive of the director's father, through which he returns to his life while exploring the material possibilities for creating "landscapes": the film itself is exposed to the effects of yeast...

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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...

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 ...

Explores the role of the cabinetmaker in colonial America, including the tools and technology used to carve table legs, wooden hinges, and more....

Illustrates the behavior of boys organized in clubs, each of which is run either on democratic principles, an autocratic principles, or as a laissez-faire group. Shows the responses when the groups are changed from one type to another. Includes graph...

In If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, Helen McCrorie takes us to Cultybraggen Camp in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Originally built during World War II as a prisoner-of-war camp, Cultybraggen has also functioned as an army training ...

Why box? Is it the thrill of competition, or the lure of commercial riches, the chance to compete at the Olympics, or a simple need to test oneself. This film details the motivations of the Belfast boxing fraternity, as juniors and veterans, amateurs...

Sunchica and her retired friends enjoy the many cultural offerings of Skopje, on a daily basis—not to mention the free food and drinks that come with these events. But when societal judgment threatens to stop their fun, they realize just how much the...