Movies: Documentary short

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 lobbying Toronto to remove illegal billboards from neighbourhoods across the city. He assembles a tea...

A film producer, an assassin, and a patriot. These aren’t three characters in this film but three ways of describing Wu Dun, a member of the United Bamboo Gang who murdered the Taiwanese-American writer Henry Liu and became a producer of wuxia films....

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....

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

Ein Qiniya, a small Palestinian village in the West Bank, occupied since 1967. This is where Milena Desse is to make her own enquiries: how can one decipher remaining traces and reconstruct History? How can one shine a light, as they say, on such pla...

Illustrates the behavior of boys organized in clubs, each of which is run either on democratic principles, an autocratic principles, or as a laissez-faire group. Shows the responses when the groups are changed from one type to another. Includes graph...

A short, sharp, shock of a documentary detailing treatments for hysteria in Victorian Britain including clitoridectomy and genital massage. Not for the faint-hearted!...

A documentary about the up-and-coming band, Beach Clinic....

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With economic and physical challenges in the way a young Japanese expat prepares to compete in a 1000 mile dog sled race to fulfill her mother's dying wish....

In this film, a group of women and children gather sweet, fresh /ole berries and sha roots. The younger women, led by N!ai, bait a nest of wasps. As the day wears on, Debe, N!ai's youngest son, grows restless. Di!ai asks N!ai to take Debe home, but s...

Documentary about Montreal, old French city and modern metropolis. Thanks to its secular churches, its old houses, its old markets, Montreal retains some features of its former face. But its art galleries, its universities, its airport, its sorting s...

"Why we’re all paying so much more for Netflix, and what we can do about it."...

Sainath, age 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, age 80, lives far afield in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They share a ‘film letter’ with each other. A film mounted with an expression like a warm letter weighted ...

A conversation with an author....

The villagers like to visit Dr Thi because they trust him. Most of his patients are over seventy years old. Though time has past, war sequels remain vivid. “Talking helps to relieve the pain” says Doctor Thi. The camera never leaves the precincts of ...

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

A documentary on the Hammer film...

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 bar, cultural space and performance collective in South East London....

This short documentary takes a look at the ideas and feelings of successful, black gay men on such issues as sexuality and masculinity, as well as their perception of, and their role within, the black community....