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Search 2015, Documentary Short films by title (23)
ABIGAIL DEVILLE'S HARLEM STORIES
Dir: Nick Ravich, United States, 7 min, 2014, Documentary Short
How does an artist acknowledge forgotten people? In this ART21 production, artist Abigail DeVille stalks the streets of Harlem with a trash-laden push cart ... more »
BORN INTO THIS
Dir: Lea Scruggs & Sean Ryon, United States, 23 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Born Into This examines the American Dream told through an immigrant father and his son's attempt to break into the world of professional boxing. Junior 'S ... more »
BORN TO BE MILD
Dir: Andy Oxley, England, 15 min, 2014, Documentary Short
The modern world is constantly speeding up. But not for the Dull Men's Club - a group of men quite content with life's more sedate pleasures. ... more »
COMIC BOOK HEAVEN
Dir: E.j. Mcleavey-Fisher, United States, 12 min, 2014, Documentary Short
This short documentary follows 81 year old Joe Leisner, owner of Comic Book Heaven in Sunnyside, Queens, NY as he cantankerously assesses the status of his ... more »
CRAZY FOR YOU
Dir: Marcelo Kiwi Beiger, Chile, 11 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Elias is a shy and lonely guy, while Carolina is sociable, cheerful and lives without prejudices, two people living together in one body. This is a portrai ... more »
DAGHWAH
Dir: Moe Najati, United Arab Emirates, 10 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Daghwah is a traditional fishing method that is still being used by the locals of Kalba in the United Arab Emirates. The documentary, narrated by fisherman ... more »
ERIC, WINTER TO SPRING
Dir: Danya Abt, United States, 15 min, 2015, Documentary Short
A glimpse into the life of a Brooklyn cab driver as he moves through one season of his life ... more »
FIRST LESSON
Dir: Nick Paley & Dawn Kim, United States, 6 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Following people of all ages studying a wide variety of disciplines, First Lesson is a lyrical portrait of the beginner. ... more »
GIVE HIM SOMETHING RED
Dir: Greg Accetta, United States, 5 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Give Him Something Red focuses on a young gay African American who decides to leave a very lucrative career in the porn industry to pursue his ultimate dre ... more »
GREEN CARD
Dir: Pilar Rico & David Whitmer, United States, 7 min, 2014, Documentary Short
A film about a song and its author, Mohammad Rahman, a convenience store owner from Bangladesh who lives and works in Williamsburg. Prompted by homesicknes ... more »
HERMIT, THE
Dir: Lena Friedrich, United States, 23 min, 2014, Documentary Short
"The Hermit" tells the incredible story of a man who lived in the woods of Maine with no human contact for 27 years. Christopher Knight aka "The Hermit" m ... more »
I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!!
Dir: Charlie Tyrell, Canada, 12 min, 2015, Documentary Short
In the late seventies David Boswell created Reid Fleming, the World's Toughest Milkman, a comic book anti-hero and counter culture icon. By the following d ... more »
INVISIBLE
Dir: Zofia Pregowska, Poland, 22 min, 2014, Documentary Short
90-year-old Krystyna, lives in the tiny apartment surrounded by books and writing pads. That's remarkable in itself since Krystyna is almost blind, but tha ... more »
LAST REEL
Dir: Steven Bognar, United States, 8 min, 2014, Documentary Short
The final days of projecting movies on 35mm celluloid film have arrived at one weathered art house cinema. But the Little Art Theatre is going out with a b ... more »
MR. GOLD
Dir: Brian Carlson, United States, 4 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Mr. Gold is the redemptive story of Jose Melendez, a 21-time felon who spent 11 years incarcerated and appeared on the Maury show twice for paternity tests ... more »
N64Q: BORN FREE
Dir: Sasha Gransjean, Japan, 11 min, 2014, Documentary Short
After spending almost half a century in Los Angeles, originally in search of revolution, ultimately the owner of a pet fish store, Kyoto is forced by finan ... more »
NEEDLE TOWN
Dir: Henrik Hylland Uhlving & Kaspar Synnevaag, Norway, 2 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Heroin addict Cato is steeling books to fund his drug habit. He has fallen in love with Goth Girl, who works at the local book shop. But the mall cop Crab ... more »
PERFECT SODA, THE
Dir: Oriel Danielson, Sweden, 19 min, 2013, Documentary Short
The Perfect Soda is a short documentary that follows film maker Oriel Danielson on a wild, chaotic journey of choices. On his quest for the perfect soft dr ... more »
RAT SLAYER OF HILLSIDE NJ, THE
Dir: Andrew Keogh Ruotolo, United States, 18 min, 2015, Documentary Short
Frank Balun, a grandfather, World War II veteran, and avid gardener, trapped and killed a rat that had been eating his prized tomatoes. When word got back ... more »
REGULARS, THE
Dir: Zoe Graham, United States, 12 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Old-timers sitting at the counter for their daily evening meal, locals stopping in for a chat and groups of teenagers giggling in the booths- behind the bu ... more »
SUPER UNIT
Dir: Teresa Czepiec, Poland, 20 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Superjednostka (Polish for Superunit) is a huge block of flats designed as a housing machine. Up to three thousand people can live on 15 floors of the buil ... more »
TERMS OF INTIMACY
Dir: Melissa Langer, United States, 8 min, 2014, Documentary Short
A glimpse into the emerging industry of professional cuddling and the lives of the clients that use this service. ... more »
TREASURE ISLAND
Dir: Elizabeth Lo & Melissa Langer, United States, 6 min, 2014, Documentary Short
Fantasy and realism collide in this exploration of how children living on a former naval base have created fantastical stories around the real threat of ra ... more »