AFI DOCS: Short Films
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- DirectorAlain DelannoyAdult men share their stories of how their fathers explained sex to them as kids in an animated compilation.
- DirectorDavina PardoHolocaust survivor Eva Schloss preserves her story interactively so that she will be able to tell it forever.
- DirectorIan WinstanleyStarsLaura Tye Purkiss"Balancé" is a short documentary telling the story of working ballet dancer, Laura Purkiss. She is a soloist with Birmingham Royal Ballet with a unique difference; she is also Laura Tye; mother of two.
- DirectorNathan TruesdellStarsMary AllenBig ChuckLil JonThe city of Cleveland was abuzz on September 27, 1986. Over 1.5 million balloons were about to be released at once, breaking the world record. What could go wrong?
- DirectorJohn PicklapRelishing the fear of the unknown, artist Jean-Paul Bourdier travels into covert desert locations to infuse the nude body, bold color, and stark landscapes producing a surreal visual effect. Like Bourdier's work, the film transcends traditional narratives discovering something more real and true about the nature of who we are.
- DirectorZofia KowalewskaStarsBarbara TorhanZdzislaw TorhanAn elderly couple grumble constantly to each other. But why? At a special dinner the story is revealed.
- DirectorXavier MarradesRamon lives with his parents, although he is away most of the week working as a truck driver. These are long and lonely trips, until he meets a very special companion that changes everything. Cucli tells a story about love and companionship after death, and its transformative effect. A story about how, through memories, the supernatural can find its way into our mundane lives.
- DirectorLaura CheckowayEdith and Eddie, ages 96 and 95, are America's oldest interracial newlyweds. Their love story is disrupted by a family feud that threatens to tear the couple apart.
- DirectorHsien Yu NiuAn education that people often forget it existed in school, how can a female student survives in the school and wins the respect from the teacher...
- DirectorRyan ScafuroA crowd gathers until the early morning to watch the 2016 US presidential election at a pub in London. As dawn breaks, things take a turn for the worse.
- DirectorCharlie ShackletonStarsCaspar SalmonA search for the truth behind a fishy tale.
- DirectorJonathan BeamishPeople from all over the world search the banks of the Thames at low tide. Why do they search and what do they find? From the priceless to the macabre the Thames Foreshore washes up every kind of lost item and strange stories to be told.
- DirectorDarrio StanglStarsAlex IsraelZiggy LuzAn Englishman walks into an Australian pub called The Forger and finds/becomes an absolute bargain.
- DirectorMario FurloniKate McLeanStarsJosiah ZaynerA bio-hacker seeks to cure himself by swapping his microbiome with a donor's, a controversial and dangerous technique.
- DirectorJustin SimmsStarsAnthony CobbAustin ReidSet in the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, Justin Simms' short film HAND.LINE.COD follows a group of "people of the fish"-traditional fishers who catch cod live by hand, by hook and line, one at a time. Their secret mission? To drive up the price of fish. After a 20-year moratorium on North Atlantic cod, the stocks are returning. These fishers are leading a revolution in sustainability, taking their premium product directly to the commercial market for the first time. Simms takes viewers deep inside the world of the brave fishers returning to past methods that hold tremendous potential for the future. Travel with them from the early morning hours, spend time on the ocean, and witness the intricacies of a 500-year-old tradition that's making a comeback.
- DirectorGeoffrey FeinbergNineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nickname "Russian Spiderman."
- DirectorGaspar GonzálezJossie and Miguel Alonso's move into their stately Havana home coincided with the arrival of the Cuban revolution. Through five decades of social upheaval , the couple cared for each other and their house. Now a widow, Jossie still lives there, surrounded by her memories and the echoes of the past.
- DirectorSara BroosA young muslim woman from Damaskus escapes the war in Syria and ends up in the forest in Sweden.Music is a way for her to survive and brings her back in dreams and memories to her homeland. Specially one song by the Norwegian popband A-ha. A film about the meaning of homeland and the power of music and art.
- DirectorKhaula MalikA woman explores the psychological and visceral impacts of trauma.
- DirectorJay RosenblattThe Kodachrome elegies is a short documentary about a lost film stock, the loss of innocence and the end of an era.
- DirectorDean HamerJoe WilsonStarsEva BaronJoey Joleen MataeleA brave young transgender woman sets off on a journey to become her true self in the conservative Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga - with a little inspiration from Tina Turner along the way.
- DirectorClaire TailyourAn inspirational story of a group of cheerleading grandmothers in Arizona who refuse to act their age.
- DirectorLance OppenheimAt the Los Angeles International Airport, a parking lot has become an improvised village of airline employees.
- DirectorChelsea BrodskyAndrew MoynehanExperience the mind of artist Maciej Markowicz as he embarks on his latest work, a giant camera of New York proportions.
- DirectorPatrick BresnanStarsTa'Questa BrowningChristopher Burgess Jr.Crystal BurgessEvery weekend, seventeen year old Chris and his family hunt rabbits during sugarcane field burning and harvesting in the Florida Everglades.
- DirectorErik MoralesStarsRaeesMaharoofAazimA bunch of indian riders play being demigods defying any logic: They drive bikes and cars around on the walls of a wooden cylinder. The short documentary "Riders of the Well of Death", a personal project by Erik Morales produced by CANADA and Early Man Films, brings us to an unknown world full of danger and beauty.
- DirectorRawane NassifThis is an essay about the search for home in a transient environment. It is a personal journey inwards with an intimate camera that observes and takes its time to look at the buildings and the surroundings only to find its reflections.
- DirectorIfunanya MadukaIn 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria -- by dawn, nearly all had disappeared and their school was burnt. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.
- DirectorBrian BolsterStarsAlexandra de SteiguerLocated ten miles off the coast of mainland New England, the Oceanic Hotel is the grand, yet far-from-modern home to the thousands of guests who brave the choppy seas to visit during the warmer spring and summer months. Off-season, the hotel and the 43-acre Star Island on which it sits is home to one woman - its winter caretaker who braves the colder, darker months of inclement weather by embracing the solitude and finding inspiration, and life, in what would otherwise be considered the 'bones' of winter.