DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS

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DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS
  • GLOBAL CITIES FREE OF SLAVERY feature film, 56min., Documentary

    Global Cities Free of Slavery is a 52-minute documentary on modern slavery and the exploitation of labor in three different cities, located in different continents. Nottingham in the UK, Maputo in Mozambique and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

    Directed by Luiz Eduardo Lerina

    Director Statement
    It's a...

  • STILL LIGHT short film watch, 3min., Experimental

    Still Light is an experimental short made of photographic stills. The film explores the relation of light to perception. It is entirely shot and edited on a mobile phone.

    Directed by Aparna Sharma

  • DANCING HEART short film watch, Mexico, Romance documentary

    Lesbian love has always been a rebel act. But a relationship between two women, teenagers and feminist is pure anarchy. Dancing heart is a pathway over the time Luisa and Violeta have been together, how they have faced discrimination and how with courage and feminism they have hold to go on and g...

  • MY MOTHER, MY SELF short film watch, 3min., Documentary

    It's December 1991 and a man tell his mother he's been diagnosed with HIV.

    Writer/Director/Star: Lary Campbell

    Director Statement
    With "My Mother, My Self" I hope to portray the emotional toll an HIV diagnosis took on an individual during the time before effective medication treatment was avail...

  • KARIBU NYUMBANI short film watch, 12min., Documentary/Environmental

    “Karibu Nyumbani” translates as “Welcome to my Home” in Swahili. Guides in the Maasai Mara have a deep-rooted pride, knowledge, and love for wildlife. This film encapsulates that passion from the perspective of George Osono, a guide in Mara North Conservancy, who completely embodies this spirit o...

  • RESTORATION NATION short film watch, 7min., Documentary

    The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe keeps the health of the natural resources in mind when approaching sustainable development projects that benefit both the tribe and the surrounding community.

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  • THE LOST JEWS OF PAKISTAN short film watch, 12min., Documentary

    Imagine a scenario where a teenage boy's compassion shines through for a religious community that was forgotten, transforming a neglected graveyard into a place of beauty and solace. That's the heartwarming story we captured in our documentary: The Lost Jews of Pakistan. It's a tale that will in...

  • THE GREAT BASIN! short film watch, 15min., Documentary/Environmental

    Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desert

    The Great Basin! Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desert is a film, book and print project that addresses climate change, the severe drought in the Western United States, gun culture, the military’s use of the basin and range ...

  • WILD TERRITORY short film watch, 27min., Documentary/Environmental

    Wild Territory explores the relationship between a daring wildlife photographer, Etienne Littlefair, and the vast freshwater ecosystems that define Australia's far north. From free-diving in murky water to find crocodiles and rare turtles, to spending days on end staking out drying riverbeds for ...

  • EXTINGUISH THE BURNERS AND LIGHT UP LIFE short film watch, 30min., Documentary

    Pablo Fajardo, the renowned environmental lawyer who managed to bring down the North American transnational Chevron (formerly Texaco), shows us his world of commitment for the rights of an Amazonian population affected by oil activities. Together with the activist Donald Moncayo and the Union of ...

  • SURVIVAL, 6min., UK, Documentary

    The year 2022, which has just passed, was a tough year for the world, and it was also a challenging year for the UK. The energy crisis caused by the Russia-Ukraine war, the following economic crisis, the pound's fall, global warming... All of this affects everyone in the world.

    In the UK, many s...

  • DANCE OF THE DAKINIS short film watch, 28min., USA, Documentary

    The film focuses on the empowerment of female monastics and the innovation of gender roles in Vajrayana Buddhism. The film has two frameworks: an outer framework that focuses on rising status of Tibetan nuns in previously male dominated religious structures, and an inner framework that focuses on...

  • THE USELESS GLASSBLOWER (Der Nutzlose Glaspuster) short film watch, 15min., DOC

    A fascinating short documentary on a traditional glassmaker deep in the southern German Black Forest, and his thoughts and feelings about what this 7000-year-old craft has taught him about life.

    Directed by Holger E. Metzger

    Music by Aleksandar Zavišin

    Subject: Dirk Bürklin

    Director Statement...

  • THE FULL CATASTROPHE, 4min., USA, Documentary

    Written by Yolanda Stassinopoulos Reid Chassiakos

    Produced by Matthew Toffolo

    Narrator: Val Cole

    Ethnic Cleansing in Smyrna, 1922: A Family's Odyssey

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  • Sununú: The Revolution of Love short film, 24min., UK, Documentary

    Trans Dad Fernando Machado became an international news sensation when he announced he was pregnant with his trans girlfriend Diane Rodriguez in Ecuador last year.

    This film is an intimate and touching portrayal of a couple getting to grips with parenthood while they challenge complex ideas of g...

  • SILENT RHYTHM, 36min., USA, Documentary / Dance

    This short documentary explores the relationship dancers have with music, especially when none of the dancers can hear the music. The Gallaudet Dance Company is home to a small dance studio that pushes the meaning of dance beyond the scope of sound. This year marked a specific turning point for t...

  • BEING BLACK, 5min., UK, Documentary / LGBTQ+

    Wayne is a proud black, Afro-Caribbean, gay man living in the UK. His father was also a proud man, moving to the UK in the 1950's was his duty to the 'father country'.

    For Wayne being a UK citizen now doesn't make him proud and is a different story.

    Director Statement
    Having lived with an Afro-...

  • him short film, 8min., Documentary / LGBTQ+

    Directed by Daniel Montoya

    A look into the life of a transgender rights activist, Ethan, as he fights for equality in conservative Texas.

    Director Statement
    Film is a tool with powerful transformation capabilities and I use it to generate change and impact by telling stories that matter, storie...

  • I THINK I'LL MAKE IT short film, 18min., Documentary/LGBTQ+

    When Kat Hurley was five years old, her father murdered her mother. And Kat saw it happen. Now, 30 years later, she remains haunted by the memory, but determined to channel the pain into something positive by becoming a mother herself. This is her struggle to be more than just another victim of a...

  • REFUGIO short film, 9min., Bolivia, Documentary/Environment

    Sergio, a 27 year old environmental engineer, veterinary student and environmental activist in Bolivia makes it his life's mission to save animals and the vulnerable ecosystems we depend on. His journey takes us to Senda Verde, an animal refuge in the jungle with over 900 wild animals rescued fro...

  • THE LIVING SEA, 15min., Hong Kong, Documentary

    Logline: 12-year-old scuba diver Ema sets on a quest to find out why corals around the globe are dying but somehow in Hong Kong they are more resilient.

    Synopsis: We are the only planet with oceans, and they are indispensable for our survival. However, many people are unaware of the importance o...

  • CHAMELEONS feature film, 82min., Austria, Musical Documentary

    You have to empathize with every given situation and adapt to it: creative, communicative and flexible - like a chameleon.

    The documentary focuses on the diverse work of instrumental and singing teachers in the field of tension between education and being an artist, between elementary music teac...

  • INNSBRUCK. POWDER. PEOPLE. short film, 17min., Austria, Sports Documentary

    After many winter seasons and competitions at the highest level all over the world, a professional freeride skier from New Zealand named Neil Williman ends up in Innsbruck. There he meets many talented locals that show him just how great the mountains around Tirol are. Deeply impressed by the pos...

  • UN CHALET AU PLED DES FIZ short film, 36min,. France, Environmental/Documentary

    An elderly woman returns to her chalet at the foot of the Chaîne des Fiz and finds the draft of a letter she had written years earlier.

    Directed by Godefroy de MAUPEOU