2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.

A release that features 7 shorts from Italy, Israel, Tunisia, New Zealand, the United States and France, exploring those furtive first steps that men...

A pain management specialist in a Berlin hospital laments how difficult it is to see if black skin has turned blue. The patient, 15­year­ old...

Three boys and three girls. All born in the Middle East now living in Sweden. All with different views of Islam, integration, the World and Sweden. ...

The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news...

A computer screen, images from the four corners of the world. We cross borders in one-click while another trip’s story reach us in bits,...

A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the...

Part road-movie and part intimate portrait of lives in transit, IT WILL BE CHAOS unfolds between Italy and the Balkan corridor, intercutting two...

A documentary that measures the cost of providing amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

This documentary explores the many questions raised by Canada's immigration policy in the face of one of the world's largest immigration movements....