Docs in Exile: SHORT DOCS

In a stray-dog refuge in Morocco, more than 750 animals await adoption, a surprising parallel to millions of displaced human beings in search of a new home.

A small, wooden structure between the concrete buildings becomes a place to observe the wonders of everyday interactions. There is space to breathe.

Hundreds of broken instruments from the Philadelphia public school system are collected, fixed and then returned into the hands of students.

Every dawn, an old fisherman calls forth the largest catfish in the Danube. This meeting is the only thing that makes sense in his lonely existence anymore.

Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has sent his floral sculptures into space and sunk them to the bottom of the sea, a constant exploration of the life and death of flowers.

“Material Bodies” looks at the relationship between amputees and their limbs through a sensual combination of dance and dialogue.

Α personal documentary about the director’s father, neighbor and other cowboys from Põdra Village who drank themselves to death.

An intimate portrait of artist Jill Gill, who captured New York City buildings in watercolor and ink before they were lost to history.

Near the forest of Saint-Jean, an abandoned military base, overtaken by nature, used to be the worst nightmare of French Legionnaires in the ‘70s.

A mirthful portrait of Kiev’s Soviet scrap metal ‘Kachalka’ gym – the world’s most hardcore gym.

Τhe mysterious journey of a man who disappeared while writing a report about the decommissioning of a nuclear plant in Scotland.

Before binging TV was our reality, Mark Bennett obsessively memorized every detail in the 1950s television shows from his childhood.

Through her personal photos and footage, a woman tells the story of her life with HIV, mingling motherhood and resurrection.

Patte and Randa Starr are hell-bent on happiness. After overcoming a dark past, these sisters are committed to living out the childhood they never had.

The story of a grown-up who seeks answers in children’s words and in their imaginations.

Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her family to craft a portrait of love, grief and intergenerational trauma.

At 17 years old, Amaryllis and Margot have fought most of their teenage battles together. “Shirley Temple” is a tribute to women’s friendship at all ages.