Documentary Short Films / Permanent Collection

Documentary Short Films / Permanent Collection

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Documentary Short Films / Permanent Collection
  • Eight Years and Ninety Miles (United States) by Luca David Higonnet- Faithfull

    Ocho Años y Noventa Millas, a documentary film that follows professional soccer player Bruno Rendon, after he chooses to defect from his home country of Cuba to attempt to start a professional career in the United States. This decision means he won't be able to return home to see his loved ones f...

  • King of the World (Belgium) by Ron Chiers

    Synopsis: Marc is an artist with bipolar disorder. He filmed himself, and was filmed, during a psychosis. It is an insight into the raw reality of someone struggling with mental illness. Like a lonesome rider, he lets us see into the depths of his soul and goes off the track with his uncontrolled...

  • Fragments (United Kingdom) by Mélodie Roulaud

    A portrait of trans non-binary artist Fleur Bloemsma, short film Fragments takes an introspective journey into their understanding and experience of their own body, and the meanders of their mind. Directed by French filmmaker and photographer Mélodie Roulaud, the film interrogates the language us...

  • The Discoverer of the Discoverers (Norway) by C. S. Nicholson

    A family in West Africa tells the story of how their ancestor discovered the European explorers — to a European film crew. We get to see how this encounter is still remembered ritually. But do all the claims about the historic event bear a closer look? And to which degree can we trust the filmmak...

  • It will hurt (Germany) by Dasha Altukhova

    This poetic documentary follows a Japanese art of rope, Shibari. I reflect on the physical and emotional forms of pain. The film provides an intimate glimpse into the journey from the confrontation with pain to deal with it and finding its new meanings. Ultimately, it offers a window into the tra...

  • Limbo (USA) by Alex Ramsey

    Edward, now 28, hasn't seen his family since he crossed the US-Mexico border on foot 10 years ago. Trapped in the US by a maddening waiting game for citizenship, he grapples with the idea of leaving the life he built in New York behind forever in exchange for a long overdue homecoming. Will Edwar...

  • Down to the Bottom ( USA) by Carina Miller

    An unflinching, 13-minute look at alcohol use disorder and it's impact. The short documentary pulls from conversations between a father and daughter recorded in 2022.

  • The Path of a Memory (Belgium) by Katerina Indesteege

    Growling mountains, trees full of fruits, giggles, whispers and tears. The past is still present in the mind of the daydreamer. Documentary meets fiction when the filmmaker fantasizes about her mother's memories. How could her life have looked like in a country far from here, in times of a dictat...

  • From Moerbeke With Love (Belgium) by Laura De Baudringhien

    Synopsis: Far away from home in a small Flemish village, Marta and her female colleagues are planting the seeds for the future of their (grand)children back home in Poland. Through her repetitive and physical work, Marta tries to stay connected and take care of her family. Stuck between east and ...

  • The Storyless Land (Iran) by Mitra Roohimanesh

    The storyless land is about a far, ancient deprived village with no facilities, even hygiene, electricity, clinic, school, bathroom and ...
    Where most of the people are blind, mental retarded or disable and Golmah, their omniscient, who is an old 98 years woman, involved with their birth, marria...

  • Little Leaf (United States) by Mhaya Polacco

    A short documentary following Kate and her pygmy goat Little Leaf and their sweet, storybook life.
    Running time: 00:02:17

  • Nine Letters (USA) by Cristina Müller

    The sensation of living in New York, away from home, is shared by those who come to live in this great metropolis from elsewhere. In Nine Letters, this experience of ‘here and there’ is conveyed by letters, and by images of everyday urban life, evoking the dream state of the present imbued by th...

  • Looking For Arthur Ashe (2020/USA) by Kevin Powell

    “Looking for Arthur Ashe” is a short film about the incredible life of the tennis legend, civil rights hero, and humanitarian, narrated in rap form by J. Keys, and Mr. Ashe’s own words.