1. Un-Documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder
Un-Documented argues against Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s film Statues Also Die . Focusing on plundered objects in European museums and listening to the call of asylum seekers to enter European countries, their former colonizing powers, the film defends the idea that their rights are inscribed in these objects that were kept well documented all these years.
2. Halter Off
Set in Charles Town, West Virginia, Halter Off offers an unapologetic look at one man's shot at a second chance. Angelo Jackson, a 50-year old horse trainer with a checkered past, is looking to redeem himself after being one charge away from a life sentence in prison. Banned from the track and with the odds against him, Angelo is facing the biggest race of his career against mentor and legendary horse trainer, James W. Casey. As Angelo finds himself downs on his luck and with the system he is working for working against him, he puts it all on the line to win the race of his life.
3. Devil in the Room
Have you ever woken in the night unable to move, certain that you are not alone? This is an experimental documentary examining what happens when dreams leak into waking life. It is about what is real, what is not, and if it even matters.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
4. Joe's Violin
A 91-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the nation’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
5. Death Day
During his adventure in Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein made footage of a Mexican "Death Day" celebration for inclusion in his "Que Viva Mexico!" film project. When the 200,000-plus feet of film he eventually exposed in Mexico was first attempted to be made into a feature film, "Thunder Over Mexico", the producers excluded the Death Day material for subsequent compilation as an independent short subject. Silent with music track and explanatory English intertitles.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
6. Hard Lovin' Woman
Documentary short that explores the sacrifices acclaimed actress Juliette Lewis makes to pursue her first love, music.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
7. Homeland (Hemland)
A young woman escapes the war in Syria and ends up in the forest in Sweden. Listening to music is a way for her to survive and bring her back, in dreams and memories, to her homeland.
8. Dissonant (Dissonant)
Manon de Boer films the dancer Cynthia Loemij, who improvises to Eugène Ysaÿe’s 3 Sonates for Violin Solo.
9. Lapsus (Lapsus)
The relationship between the city and a car, through a dialogue where a common reality and "making a city" are disputed and revealed.
10. Our Lady of Loreto
An experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather
11. Little Belgium
A profile of the more than 2,000 Belgian refugees in the fishing port of Brixham.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
12. Mr. Gardenia Jones
Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.
It has an average vote of 4.2 on TMDB.
13. Insides and Outsides (Insides and Outsides)
Insides and Outsides is a documentary film project, which captures a timeline from the end of 2019, when the CAA/NRC protests were at their peak, till 2022 when the pandemic had upturned everyone's personal life. In an increasingly hostile environment of escalating violence, Arbab explores what it is like being a Muslim in India. The film ebbs and flows between looking outside, where a constant stream of hate erupts, and inside, where Arbab's parents renegotiate their place in the country with changing times.
14. An Act of Affection
While making a portrait of a single gay man in Lisbon, a Vietnamese filmmaker offers his character a little gift from the bottom of his heart. This is a film about the act of filming.
15. 92,8 MHz - drömmar i söder (92,8 MHz - drömmar i söder)
A small local radio station in the city of Trelleborg, Sweden. Very important to its listeners. A friend in the air.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
16. The Bowler
Meet Rocky Salemmo. He’s a ramblin’ gamblin’ man. For the majority of his adult life Rocky has hustled bowling for a living. Here is his story. A short documentary about booze, broads and bowling.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. The Black Belt
In September 2015, the state of Alabama closed 31 Department of Motor Vehicles offices, disproportionately affecting African-American communities and their ability to register to vote. A band-aid solution in the form of a pop-up mobile voter registration unit is quickly dispatched. It's so disorganized and unprofessional it could be a comedy skit—if it weren't so infuriatingly disrespectful.
18. Die Deutschländer (Die Deutschländer)
Short documentary
19. Carna (Carna)
Although it was actually an impersonal commissioned film, the director's style is clearly recognizable. Once again he manages to make something that is normal very strange: the dancing people in costumes are filmed in such a way that they look bizarre and absurd. Jan de Bont's camerawork shows a series of color images of dancing people, edited to the rhythm of the music. Halfway through the film, a lonely clown can be seen among the dancing crowd, accompanied by sad music. This clown is played by Ditvoorst himself.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
20. Crazy for Lynn Lowry
Cult star Lynn Lowry discusses her early career and the circumstances that lead to her role in George Romero's The Crazies.
