Documentary Short Movies

Documentary about the extraction and manufacture of charcoal, in Pompeu, Minas Gerais, focusing on charcoal burners in action, their lives,...

An informative short film from Thames Water providing an in depth look at their operations and how they supply water from the Thames River for a...

Major communal ceremonies for purification, exaltation of the forces of life and deliverance from hostile powers marking the very intense religious...

An in-depth look at how the short film Monkey Business was created. This was made in 1987 to explain to the clients of MPC what the new digital post...

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...

A hairdresser's shop in Madrid crowded with people who come to see and touch a replica of the Virgin of Quinche. A priest proposes to take the statue...

A depiction of the movements and physical characteristics of an infant. Through simplicity of technique, the film seeks a primacy of vision to match...

In this personal documentary, Indigenous comedian Chad Charlie goes to participate in the Standing Rock occupation and has a transformative...

the documentary short "The Stream XII" by Hiroya Sakuri (Japan)

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...

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...

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...

Walk listening to the campanus of the cows in the bush. Light a charcoal stove. Go out to the prao with the albarcas. One day everyday things that...

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....

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...

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...

Mini-documentary covering the making of Record of Lodoss War (1990).

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