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These documentary portraits take you inside the lives of a wide range of fascinating people with intimacy and beauty.

Short Films

Call Me Mommy (dir. Tara Isidora O'Callaghan)

A compelling portrait of the multifaceted life of Sinead, a 40-year-old single mother, and online sex worker, who deftly straddles her personal and professional lives while exploring an array of "mommy issues"—including her own.

Waking Up In Silence

Ukrainian children are confronted with their past as they explore their new home in Germany: a former Wehrmacht military barracks.

Clean

A woman’s love letter and final goodbye to heroin, as she attempts to come off the synthetic opiates that have kept her clean for the past six years.

Shirampari: Legacies of the River

In one of the most remote places of the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using just a hook to start his journey to becoming an adult.

Kaamoksen Valossa

Antti, a musher from Northern Finland, loves his sled dogs and way of life. When he’s advised to quit he has to decide what he’s willing to risk for his freedom. Meet the filmmaker: https://youtu.be/sUM-oeHNqkQ

ShortFest 2023