Documentary Short Movies

1903, cinematography by Frank Ormiston-Smith

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The...

A young boy's successful battle against cancer and his subsequent efforts to help other children overcome their fears of the illness.

With an off beat sense of humour, the film looks at the politics and glamour of lipstick and the dilemmas of the modern woman in a marketed world.

This 2007 behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of PERSEPOLIS features interviews with codirectors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud as...

Documentary which delves a bit deeper into the story of the film in which the cast and crew discuss some of the narrative beats, the performances in...

Mina Smallman’s daughters were murdered. As their killer and police who took selfies with the bodies come to trial, she shares her journey of...

After constantly moving, two students finally find the opportunity to start a family by adopting a stray dog.

Longyearbyen, Svalbard, is the northernmost settlement in the world. About 3000 polar bears and 400 snow scooters outnumber its 2700 inhabitants. It...

A short documentary from Eric Ashby on the badgers leaving near his home.

In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and...

A portrait of Austria captured with a broken camera, accompanied by an enhanced and AI-generated version of the national anthem.

Conceived as a challenge between twin brothers, the Dick’s-A-Thon has grown into Seattle’s premiere marathon event. Participants must run...

As the AIDS epidemic was spreading in 1987, the Swedish government commissioned Roy Andersson to make an educational film about the disease. In these...

CAFÉ TOGO looks at the efforts to change street names with colonial connotations in the so-called Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) in...

A short documentary film about how a last-minute news story is incorporated into a newspaper’s printing process.

Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the New South Wales...

Following the example of an entomologist watching the behavior of insects Edmond Bernhard scrutinizes the doings and the words of a priest - assisted...

Released on the 19th of February, 1917. Produced by Burton Holmes.