Documentary Short Movies

JaBig, a Montreal-based DJ, is on a quest to beat the record for the longest continuous bike ride in a single country. Join him on the last day of...

Fred Parke's thesis film on facial modeling at the University of Utah is an early landmark in computer animation.

From 1884 to 1914, a small belt of land between the British Gold Coast Colony and French-governed Dahomey was part of the German overseas empire in...

Is this documentary actually about the magnificent palace of Beloeil, owned for generations by the princes of Ligne and about its splendid park? Or...

What is a home? Can a body become a home? This short film tries to answer these questions about the construction of our identities through the...

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

A dedicated dance teacher continues inspiring his current and former students even after the arts high school in Gary, Indiana where he's taught for...

Training film demonstrating safe and proper procedure for towing, mooring, and jacking the B-17 bomber.

In the male dominated society of Iran, Farahnaz Shiri, the first female bus driver in Tehran, has made her own little society in her bus. In Iran...

Short documentary about Teigan who became disabled as a result of being kissed on the lips by a family member with a cold sore, and how mum and dad...

Dancer Nonoko Sato at Gallery Kaos No Ma in Kyoto. Shot in ambient light on 30 year old Kodachrome and developed in Caffenol, each frame of the film...

Lost Theaters of Wichita has the inside story from those who were there. It’s a tale of two great entertainment palaces—one that barely...

A cell phone was the only thing that kept Yonas, an Eritrean refugee, connected to Jérôme, the French journalist who wanted to tell his...

Hearing Films is a portrait of Joe Sidarose, a blind film lover who experiences cinema through sound, rhythm, and feeling. His world of film is...

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...

In the Peruvian mountains, rituals offer connection between participants and the divine. Resplendently realized in black and white by director...

A look inside the Batanes traditional boat and how the Ivatans preserve their custom of constructing their tataya (boat).

A cinematic dysfunction based on found footage and manipulated lost films that come together to rethink modern society. The perversity of control,...

In this film, a group of women and children gather sweet, fresh /ole berries and sha roots. The younger women, led by N!ai, bait a nest of wasps. As...

In a quiet village, a puppeteer works peacefully on a new project. This gains unexpected momentum when he decides to take in refugees from eastern...