Documentary Short Movies

An excerpt from a nature documentary included in Wholphin Issue Number 6

Sandra rummages in the fragments of her memory and photographs in order to reconstruct the portrait of the life and death of her brother.

"As a right, people should have access to affordable housing and jobs that allow them to support their families with dignity" - Luis Granados

Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the American Southwest, in the...

Walk listening to the campanus of the cows in the bush. Light a charcoal stove. Go out to the prao with the albarcas. One day everyday things that...

Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the New South Wales...

Brian Hall has been living with Parkinson's since he was 14. He is now in his 60s. How do you fill the well of optimism when it's been drained...

A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička

South Africa's first and only all-female, anti-poaching unit, fighting to rescue their country's rhinos from the edge of extinction.

In the aftermath of Typhoon Odette, an elderly fishing couple grapples with the devastating impact on their lives and livelihood. Once abundant...

What is a home? Can a body become a home? This short film tries to answer these questions about the construction of our identities through the...

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...

The Gender Chip Project is the product of the unique vision of director Helen DeMichiel and an extraordinary collaboration with Media Working Group...

Evanston, a suburb just north of Chicago, touts its progressivism and inclusion. It was the first city in the U.S. to offer reparations for Black...

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

What does it mean to be of a place? Of the sun and soil and bees, of the water and black ants and cowpeas. To be so entangled with an ecosystem,...

A conversation with an author.

Ein Qiniya, a small Palestinian village in the West Bank, occupied since 1967. This is where Milena Desse is to make her own enquiries: how can one...

An Editor recounts the diaries of a failed film production as they attempt to construct a new narrative from the remaining footage.

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...