Documentary Short Movies

  • 2013
    Lie Back and Enjoy It: A Film About JoAnn Elam

    Lie Back and Enjoy It: A Film About JoAnn Elam

    Lie Back and Enjoy It: A Film About JoAnn Elam

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    JoAnn Elam was an experimental filmmaker, postal worker, and social activist. She is most known for her films Rape and Lie Back and Enjoy it. This fil...

    Lie Back and Enjoy It: A Film About JoAnn Elam
  • 1978
    King David

    King David

    King David

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    This is a documentary of David Hammons prior to his leaving the Los Angeles arts community. This video covers the artist's creative strategies at that...

    King David
  • 2021
    Days of Love

    Days of Love

    Days of Love

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    A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the conn...

    Days of Love
  • 2018
    The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage

    The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage

    The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage

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    The Flight of the Condor traces the global circulation of the melody “El Condor Pasa”: from the Andes mountains to global metropoles; from Lima to Par...

    The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage
  • 2021
    A Love Letter to the Basement

    A Love Letter to the Basement

    A Love Letter to the Basement

    02021HD

    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,...

    A Love Letter to the Basement
  • 2009
    Ester Hernandez

    Ester Hernandez

    Ester Hernandez

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    Ester Hernandez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (Helen Crocker Russell Award) - for fostering community and r...

    Ester Hernandez
  • 2019
    The Little Blue Box

    The Little Blue Box

    The Little Blue Box

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    Short documentary which highlights the inner workings of the "JIFFY" Mix plant and over 130-year history of the family-owned Chelsea Milling Company.

    The Little Blue Box
  • 2020
    What the Sea Forget

    What the Sea Forget

    What the Sea Forget

    02020HD

    The sea is the epitome of freedom for the Palestinians. But due to the restrictions on their freedom of movement, a majority of Palestinians have for...

    What the Sea Forget
  • 2018
    All the Witches

    All the Witches

    All the Witches

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    Fly-on-the-wall documentary footage of a film crew shooting a horror scene in Mumbai.

    All the Witches
  • 2018
    Beach Clinic

    Beach Clinic

    Beach Clinic

    02018HD

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

    Beach Clinic
  • 2024
    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

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    Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for adv...

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012
  • 2024
    Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008

    Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008

    Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008

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    Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2008 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award) - for buildi...

    Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2008
  • 2012
    The Invisible Mountains

    The Invisible Mountains

    The Invisible Mountains

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    Several women recounted their experiences after the disappearance of their children and husbands in the seventies, when they were identified as sympat...

    The Invisible Mountains
  • 2024
    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

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    The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC),with The San Francisco Foundation Aw...

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards
  • 2009
    Body Parts

    Body Parts

    Body Parts

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    No matter how far the war retreats, its traces are imprinted on the torn earth and the memory of generations for tens, hundreds of years with bloody t...

    Body Parts
  • 2020
    Unknown Belarus. Shelter

    Unknown Belarus. Shelter

    Unknown Belarus. Shelter

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    For nearly 10 years, Belarus has had a Shelter — place for women victims of domestic violence. This is a big private house in Minsk. Many victims are...

    Unknown Belarus. Shelter
  • 2020
    If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?

    If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?

    If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?

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    In If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?, Helen McCrorie takes us to Cultybraggen Camp in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Originally built...

    If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it?
  • 2018
    Gifted Hands

    Gifted Hands

    Gifted Hands

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    A mother overcomes the odds when she learns her son is autistic, by first of all educating herself in child care, helping her son get into mainstream...

    Gifted Hands
  • 2020
    The Stream X

    The Stream X

    The Stream X

    02020HD

    In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a ne...

    The Stream X
  • 1947
    A Tale in a Teacup

    A Tale in a Teacup

    A Tale in a Teacup

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    "Tale in a teacup"- a short documentary on England's love affair with tea.

    A Tale in a Teacup