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Search 2016, Documentary Short films by title (18)
ALIVE & KICKING: THE SOCCER GRANNIES OF SOUTH AFRICA
Dir: Lara-Ann de Wet, United States, 20 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Filmed in the heart of Limpopo, South Africa the village grannies "Vhakegula Vhakegula" lace up their soccer boots and start kicking their way through cent ... more »
AWANA
Dir: William Silva Reddington & Guille Isa, United States, 11 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Awana follows the journey of a handmade scarf made by a weaver in a rural village in Peru. ... more »
BAMAKO CHICKEN
Dir: Habib Yazdi, Mali, 4 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Aba Diko prepares chicken dinner in Bamako, Mali. ... more »
BRAVE BUNCH. THE UPRISING THROUGH CHILDREN'S EYES, A
Dir: Tomasz Stankiewicz, Poland, 30 min, 2015, Documentary Short
A Brave Bunch. The Uprising through children's eyes. When the Warsaw Uprising started in 1944, thousands of children lived in the city. Brave Bunch is abou ... more »
FREE TO LAUGH
Dir: Lara Everly, United States, 15 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Free to Laugh is a short doc about the power of comedy after prison. ... more »
GOOD BUSINESS
Dir: Robert Schermbrucker, South Africa, 25 min, 2015, Documentary Short
A man's fight to build an ethical company in an immoral country. The true story of Raymond Ackerman's commitment to grow Pick n Pay retail chain birthed d ... more »
IN CRYSTAL SKIN
Dir: Michaela O'Brien, Colombia, 18 min, 2015, Documentary Short
In Bogotá, Colombia, a charismatic eleven year old named Maria Alejandra struggles to maintain a normal childhood despite the limitations imposed by a rare ... more »
J'OUVERT
Dir: Philip Bell, United States, 15 min, 2015, Documentary Short
New York's J'ouvert overwhelms the senses during the pre-sunrise hours as it marks the start of Carnival festivities. Steel bands are ushered down Brooklyn ... more »
LAFMS: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
Dir: Holly Thompson & Mark McNeill, United States, 16 min, 2016, Documentary Short
These irreverent, LA-based experimental musicians have been fearlessly exploring sound since the early 1970's. The collective is bonded by friendship and a ... more »
LAST SHIP
Dir: Daniele Ragusa, Italy, 10 min, 2015, Documentary Short
In the same places where "La Terra Trema" by Luchino Visconti (1948) was filmed, the Rodolico family has been building ships for four generations. If yeste ... more »
MORIOM
Dir: Mark Olexa & Francesca Scalisi, Switzerland, 12 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Summer 2014. Rural Bangladesh. "I came from Heaven. I came to destroy all bad things in the world. I'm a police officer. I'm a flower angel. I got a job at ... more »
MUHAMMAD ALI - ME WHEE
Dir: Arny Stone, United States, 25 min, 1975, Documentary Short
Screening for the first time in 40 years! Shot in 1975 in and around his training camp in Deer Lake PA. and in Las Vegas "Me Whee" captures an incredible ... more »
OUSTAZ
Dir: Bentley Brown, Chad, 22 min, 2016, Documentary Short
In 1999, I move with my family from Texas to Chad, where I am introduced to the town Arabic headmaster to begin learning Arabic. At the same time that this ... more »
PATROLLING SANDY HOOK
Dir: Caroline Clark & Kelly Quinn, United States, 20 min, 2016, Documentary Short
The mass murder of twenty children and six adults inside an elementary school is still hard for many to believe...and some choose not to. Three years after ... more »
THRIVE
Dir: Paul Szynol, United States, 13 min, 2015, Documentary Short
A short documentary about the prodigious talent and irrepressible spirit of a musically precocious 12 year old blind boy who plays the piano. ... more »
WILLIAMSBURG HOUSES, THE
Dir: Tessa Rex& Irene Bartolomé, United States, 14 min, 2015, Documentary Short
This film gazes into the architecture and lives of the occupants of one of the most ambitious public housing projects ever built in the US. Exploring the r ... more »
WOLFFLAND
Dir: Laura Checkoway, United States, 14 min, 2016, Documentary Short
Story of NYC artist, Mia Wolff, who is forced out of her TriBeCa loft, the process and surprising resolution. With animation and paintings by the artist. ... more »
WRESTLING ZA'ATARI
Dir: Daniel B. Levitt, United States, 12 min, 2016, Documentary Short
This documentary tells the story of Mohammad Al-Krad, Syria's national wrestling champion now living in Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp. ... more »