The Last Words of a Dying Glacier
A glacier is disappearing. An artist is trying to preserve its sound.
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The Oscar-winning series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers.
The Oscar-winning series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers.
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Credit What Do You Win When You Work at the Carnival?
In “The Sparkle,” a carnival worker dreams of leaving what he knows behind to follow his passion. What is there for him on the other side?
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CreditIsabelle Grignon-Francke Don’t Know How to Face Your Mom? Talk to Your Friend’s Mom Instead.
In a unique twist, three women swap mothers for a candid conversation about their choice to be child-free in “M/other.”
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A Mother. A Child. An Afternoon at a Prison’s Pretend Home.
In “Weekend Visits,” an incarcerated woman spends a day with her child at an extended visitation house in Virginia.
By Pete Quandt
The View From the Floor
After appearing on “Maury” 25 years ago, a singer without legs questions why she’s seen as inspirational in “View From the Floor.”
By Megan Griffiths and Mindie Lind
How Being an Influencer Became a New American Dream
Two preteen girls promote fashion and beauty products to thousands of online fans from their rural Alabama home in “Christmas, Every Day.”
By Faye Tsakas
For Iranian Women, Can a Revolution Take Place at Home?
Inspired by the movement for women’s rights in Iran, Elahe Esmaili returns to her hometown to start her own resistance in “A Move.”
By Elahe Esmaili
What a School Performance Shows Us About Japanese Education
A look into the delicate balance between teamwork, discipline and personal growth in the Oscar-nominated “Instruments of a Beating Heart.”
By Ema Ryan Yamazaki
For Day of the Dead, a Burst of Flowers to Honor the Departed
During the Day of the Dead, the cempasúchil, or marigold, is believed to guide spirits back home. In Mexico City, people who lost a loved one to Covid use the flower to honor their dead.
By César Martínez Barba
How Do You Say Goodbye to an Abusive Family Member?
How do you cope when an abusive family member becomes terminally ill?
By Frøydis Fossli Moe
Get to Know the Misunderstood Canada Goose
There’s a natural world trapped within our cities.
By Karsten Wall
‘That’s What I Would Have Liked, to Live in a Wild Sea’
An 86-year-old woman’s decision to end her life raises complex questions about life and death for a filmmaker.
By Guillermo F. Flórez
Four Women Share Their Experiences in the Sex Trade: ‘I Don’t Want to Be in This Forever.’
In this animated short film, women who work in the sex trade in Wales anonymously share their experiences.
By John Robert Lee
How the Ocean Is Liberating for One of South Africa’s Best Surfers
Michael February, a boundary-breaking surfer and the first Black South African on the World Surf League Championship Tour, embarks on a transformative journey.
By Sandra Winther and Michael February
Tennessee Abortion Clinic Workers Speak Out About the State’s Near-Total Ban
In Memphis, a doctor and a volunteer driver contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic two years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
By Lynne Sachs
I Asked A.I. Where It Thought I Was From. Its Answer: Nowhere.
In this short film, the visual artist Nouf Aljowaysir examines a question she’s struggled with since childhood.
By Nouf Aljowaysir
In 1974, Two Film Students Rowed to Ellis Island. Here’s What They Captured.
In the early 1970s, two high school filmmakers ventured out in a rowboat to make a 16 mm film about an abandoned space nearby: Ellis Island.
By Phil Buehler and Steve Siegel
When I Look at You, Will You Look at Me?
A long-due conversation between a man and his mother sends the two of them on a quest for acceptance and love.
By Shuli Huang
New Yorkers vs. Cockroaches: ‘It’s Them or Me.’
In the 1970s, the filmmakers Claudia Weill and Eli Noyes interviewed New Yorkers across the city about their unwanted roommates: roaches.
By Claudia Weill and Eli Noyes
The Geopolitics of a Czech-Polish Potato Salad Competition
In the midst of a political and environmental dispute between the Czech Republic and Poland over a coal mine, a potato salad contest is held in a small border town.
By Piotr Jasiński
For a Firefighter Struggling With Trauma, Ketamine Therapy Offers Hope
Rob C., a firefighter in Idaho, undergoes psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in an attempt to address his PTSD.
By Brandon Kapelow
What an Alleged U.F.O. ‘Crash’ Teaches Us About Our Time on Earth
Why would a U.F.O. crash in Roswell, N. M., of all places? In 1994, the filmmaker Bill Brown set out on a road trip to explore the story from 1947.
By Bill Brown
A Master of Dance Was Captured in a Film That Was Little Seen for Decades. Until Now.
Louis Johnson, the choreographer of “The Wiz,” could “outdance anyone.” Watch two rarely seen performances here.
By Richard Preston and Romaissaa Benzizoune
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