Documentary Short Movies

The passionate advocates of the ‘Cigar Box Guitar Revolution’ express their love of making unique hand-made instruments and the...

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

Shortly after retiring, Bruce and Terry Jenkins transformed their home into a hospice and senior living facility for cats.

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...

A study of nocturnal butterflies and their mating habits.

A famous Iranian singer who was devoting all his life to his brother's family, died in an earthquake.

Survey of the Boer war with reconstructions and actualities.

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...

Documentary about Montreal, old French city and modern metropolis. Thanks to its secular churches, its old houses, its old markets, Montreal retains...

Joan Braderman talks about and appears in front of a projected version of the soap opera Dynasty.

A video-verité manifesto made with self-identified gender outlaw, author and activist, Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014). Raw and confrontational,...

The only North American crayfish that does cheer you up: this stop-motion copy of fabric. The exotic little animal is a huge plague in our ditches...

The light and the noise stain the dark night.

Soon enough humankind will ascend to space. Who can join that mission? Who has to stay behind? In some places it has already started. Men and...

The life of the inhabitants of a shelter near Moscow for people in a crisis situation: women with young children, the homeless, victims of abuse.

What is it like to be HIV-positive in Russia? The authors of the film spent several days with the HIV-infected characters Alexandra and Olesem and...

Dark matter, which makes up 85% of the matter in the Universe, remains one of the greatest mysteries in physics. A team of scientists are using...

A short documentary on life in Iceland.

Costa Rica, 1987. Amidst state violence and the HIV crisis rattling diverse communities, a 33-year-old prepares to debut as a drag queen at one of...