This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
When his girlfriend is interned in a psychiatric hospital after a traumatic event, the author of this short film docume…
This Oscar-winning fake documentary follows a group of scientists and filmmakers on their quest to find some strange cr…
When a piece of clothing gets stolen from her at a hotel on the island of Samoa, an anthropology student begins an odys…
After undergoing a laryngectomy and becoming mute, Joël Perrotte confined himself to his basement. But it is time for h…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
A psychologist keeps in his attic small objects handcrafted by the prisoners of the jail where he works. In this short …
Bold and concise, this animation illustrates the bizarre yet ordinary day at an elementary school in Israel.
This short film is a millimeter observation to the art of Arnaud, an artist whose work is based on the intervention of …
When Vera is diagnosed with severe depression, the filmmaker Annelie Boros, one of her best friends, resorts to the cin…
This short film follows French street artist Eric ZeKing, known as EZK, whose work has been a reference for social and …
A ghost is haunting Europe, the ghost of right-wing populism. This film reflects with sarcasm and crudeness how this ph…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
When high school students in France stop their classes to speak openly with the institution's authorities, the tensions…
Shortly after Trump was elected president, an Indian immigrant is killed in a hate crime in Kansas. His widow carries t…
After years of absence, the filmmaker Kat Tolkovsky returns to her hometown in the Czech Republic. A documentary short …
This short film takes us to the mountainous south of China to draw a subtle portrait of a 10-year-old girl. Her dream: …
Through a stop-motion animation, the filmmaker reinterprets a story that emanates from her grandfather's old diary.
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
This short film is a delicate gaze at a religious and culinary rite in a town in Iran, where the believers prepare a me…
This award-winning short film is an experimental portrait of Yussuf Mume Saleh, an Ethiopian man who has a deep connect…
A long tracking shot introduces us to a polluted river, where a woman fishes and the inhabitants of a village refuse to…
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
This short film documents the interaction of human beings with natural formations in northern France and southeast Engl…
Through an irreverent narrative, this short film reinterprets the roots of Bulgaria, a territory where rites and battle…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
This Oscar-winning documentary short film made in 1949 poses an institutional approach to explain the role of the publi…
In this short film made like a collage, an eloquent female journalist recounts her experience as a freelance correspond…
The filmmaker Renato Borrayo films the first year of his first son Carlos. He is dark skin and was born in the Russian …
A filmmaker discovers what happened to the dream of who was his next-door neighbor 16 years ago, a man who built an oce…
Eastern Ukraine. After all the villagers of Pesky were evacuated due to the armed conflict between pro-Russian rebels a…
Through the texture of a 16mm camera, this short film makes a contemplative approach to a mystical island.
Some make documentaries of successful people, while others - like the case of this short film - prefer to look at those…
An Indian family faces the dilemma of eating or not their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their live…
In this experimental short documentary, a solitary walk around a common neighborhood becomes a surreal experience inspi…
Judit tries to convince her mother Ica to move to a house near her before the Alzheimer's separates them further than t…
This beautiful and heartbreaking short film captures the previous instants of a group of young Russian women who face t…
With humor and intelligence, this documentary is a picturesque exercise of observing life within a metro in Russia.
Having as background the port city of Murmansk, in Russia, a young human rights activist questions her position towards…
This animated experimental short film discourses on how containerization is shaping the world as we know it today.
In this experimental short film, fragments of the film "The Wild Child" are reinterpreted in image and sound to propose…
Inspired by a short story of the writer Fernando Pessoa, this short film plays with words and dream-like images to tell…
With a stunning camera work, this short film portrays the craftsmanship of prisoners in four prisons in Serbia, where i…
In just a few minutes, this short documentary shows us in a cold and punctual way how social violence in Chicago is ram…
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