Documentary Shorts

Fighting on Wheels

As the first wheelchair karate practitioner in New Zealand, martial arts have been an empowering force in John Marrable’s life. The sixth-dan black belt in Goju-Ryu karate first visited Okinawa, the home of karate, to train in 1981. This year’s Okinawa Traditional Karate Ceremony marks his eighth time there. 

Post

A brief history of the 20th Century explored through postage stamps as artistic objects and cultural artifacts expressing perceptions of nationhood, geography, and identity.

All it Gives

Showcasing one of Toronto’s best up-and-coming hiphop dancing stars, “All It Gives” follows the story of Kosi Eze, a Nigerian immigrant who moved to Canada when she was 14. 

One Room School

In the final academic semester of National Institute of Design, the Design Project allows a student to take up a documentary film as the project. It involves research, pitching the project, direction, editing and sound design of the film under a budget of 100$ in 10 weeks by an individual student.Ek Orda ni Shala (One Room School) is a documentary film on efforts taken by a school called Helpline Education Home in Ahmedabad.

Eau de Toilette

Mario and Ingo know a face of Berlin which is unfamiliar for most people. Instead of iconic night clubs and on-trend vernissages they see the daily waste water produced by the metropolis: They are sewerage workers. A portrait of a job that keeps the system running and shows the differences between a world above and below the surface.

 

THEY

THEY is an intimate portrait of Hobbit and Jake, who have decided to raise their one-year-old child Anoush gender-open. The family lives on a houseboat in the UK and in order to prevent people from making gender-related assumptions, they keep the biological sex of their baby a secret.

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