Documentary Short Movies

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC),with The San Francisco Foundation Aw...

This documentary short film by Arthur Kent recounts the June 4, 1989 assault by the People's Liberation Army on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing...

No matter how far the war retreats, its traces are imprinted on the torn earth and the memory of generations for tens, hundreds of years with bloody t...

Behind the scenes of the animated film Mary and Max.

A mother overcomes the odds when she learns her son is autistic, by first of all educating herself in child care, helping her son get into mainstream...

"Tale in a teacup"- a short documentary on England's love affair with tea.

Poles forcibly displaced from the eastern lands after 1945 tell about their experiences, recall that difficult period when they had to leave their hom...

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 conn...

For nearly 10 years, Belarus has had a Shelter — place for women victims of domestic violence. This is a big private house in Minsk. Many victims are...

Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the American Southwest, in the ho...

Joe Brainard (1941-1994) was an artist particularly noted for his work in collage and comics. Brainard’s artistic career took off during his teenaged...

Gracenter is a recovery residence that offers a supportive and gently challenging program for women who wish to strengthen their early sobriety. Typic...

JoAnn Elam was an experimental filmmaker, postal worker, and social activist. She is most known for her films Rape and Lie Back and Enjoy it. This fil...

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

The Sabbat Festival Of Dark Arts is an annual festival exploring the influence of witchcraft, magick, cults and the occult on pop culture. Recorded at...

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...

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 Af...

Short documentary which highlights the inner workings of the "JIFFY" Mix plant and over 130-year history of the family-owned Chelsea Milling Company.

In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a ne...