Movies: Documentary short

Taraz is the largest modern city in the south of Kazakhstan. Few people know that its history goes back more than one and a half thousand years. The archaeological study of ancient Taraz began in 2011, reaching its climax in 2014. In the very center ...

Short documentary written, directed and edited by Aleksandar Ilić. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Krakow Film Festival....

This short documentary focuses on traditional wood-working skills in the Cree community of Chipewyan Lake, Alberta. This first part of the film focuses on the construction of snow shoes....

This short documentary focuses on traditional wood-working skills in the Cree community of Chipewyan Lake, Alberta. This second part of the film focuses on the construction of a canoe....

The Algerian region of Tindouf is home to more than 170,000 Sahrawis, who have been living in refugee camps since 1976, when Morocco occupied the Western Sahara region. In a place of inhospitable conditions and scarcity, the Sahrawi population lives ...

In the wake of cataclysmic regional change in the artist's homeland of Hong Kong, Simon Liu’s Cinema-Strobo-Scopic film features a laborious sequence of analogue darkroom practices and dense shrouds of video processing techniques which actively work ...

A conversation with an author....

This documentary delves into the lives of two people who have faced a gender identity disorder (GID), where the person’s sense of being male or female isn’t definite. These individuals have a strong desire to assume the physical characteristics and g...

A rewilding success story, ONE MILLION FISH chronicles the 8-year effort of a Maine community to restore a run of fish that had been blocked by dams since 1783....

This story is set against the backdrop of a same-sex love murder case during the Japanese colonial period and contemporary Kaohsiung. It pieces together various "dual-sided" symbols from Taiwan's history, reconstructing a completely new narrative....

Documentary film about a night Ramadan in Cairo...

An in-depth look at how the short film Monkey Business was created. This was made in 1987 to explain to the clients of MPC what the new digital post production landscape had to offer....

Yulian Dorosh's film "Near the Sources of Folk Art" was shot in Kosiv region between 1963 and 1971. The film, done mainly on black-and-white, but with color inserts, tells out the masters of folk crafts of the Hutsul region. The film is dedicated "To...

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 ...

Examines the manifestation of aggressive instincts in animals and in humans. Discusses ways in which both animals and humans impose limitations on their violent impulses....

A depiction of the movements and physical characteristics of an infant. Through simplicity of technique, the film seeks a primacy of vision to match the innocence of its subject....

A film about a revolutionary road-protection system from the Icelandic inventor Einar Einarsson. This film won the audience award at Techfilm-Czechoslovakia 1976 and received an honorable mention certificate at The International Film Festival in Mosc...

What does it mean to be your parents' daughter? - Being the protagonists of their own film, three filmmakers ask themselves this particular question. The setup: one camera, three settings and three encounters with at least one parent, discussing som...

Anna Zett collages mostly unreleased footage from the Berlin Archive of the GDR-Opposition into a pulsating short film thriller. The film opens up an associative realm which allows for the re-evaluation of experiences of violence hard to access today...

Soon enough humankind will ascend to space. Who can join that mission? Who has to stay behind? In some places it has already started. Men and machine taking flight, leaving for the unknown future. For the endless void. That’s where they meet. The P...