30 Minutes or Less
Sometimes great movies come in small sizes. Enjoy one of these shorts, all under thirty minutes. Check back monthly for new selections!
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HERadventure
Directed by Ayoka Chenzira and HaJ • 2014 • United States
Starring Haj Chenzira Pinnock, Betty Hart, Joy BrunsonConceived as an innovative blend of narrative filmmaking and interactive gameplay, this science-fiction coming-of-age story follows the journey of HER, a reluctant female warrior-in-t...
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Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking
Directed by Les Blank • 1990 • United States
Exploration of cajun cooking and culture.
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Antoine and Colette
Directed by François Truffaut • 1962 • France
This short film is the first segment of five in the multinational feature Love at Twenty (1962), all five segments on the theme of first adult love. After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen-year-old Antoine Doinel, having been prov...
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A Girl’s Own Story
Directed by Jane Campion • 1983 • Australia
This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.
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Flores
Directed by Jorge Jácome • 2017 • Portugal
Starring André Andrade, Gabriel Desplanque, Jorge JácomeDrenched in lysergic lavender, this sci-fi pseudo-documentary is both a dreamy vision of ecological apocalypse and a tender queer love story set on an island in the Azores overrun by endlessly pro...
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Squish!
Directed by Tulapop Saenjaroen • 2021 • Thailand, Singapore
Starring Anongnart Yusananda, Aacharee Ungsriwong, Brett BurgsSQUISH! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary ...
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24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1946 • France
Jean-Pierre Melville's first directorial effort was this 1946 short film about a clown and his partner, who find inspiration one day in the streets for their performance in the circus that night.
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Voices of a Distant Star
Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 2002 • Japan
Starring Chihiro Suzuki, Sumi Muto, Donna BurkeWhen a teenage girl is sent to a distant universe to battle aliens, her relationship with a boy—carried out through text messages that take ever longer to reach Earth—unfolds across a vast expanse of time a...
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7 p., cuis., s. de b. . . . (à saisir)
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1984 • France
Starring Louis Bec, Colette Bonnet, Yolande MoreauAn ensemble performs a bizarre parody of domesticity at an abandoned Avignon hospice center in this richly surrealist experimental work.
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Call Your Father
Directed by Jordan Firstman • 2016 • United States
Starring Craig Chester, Jordan FirstmanUsually a reserved guy, Greg struggles to keep up with young, unpredictable Josh on their first date. But as things heat up and spiral out of control, the two men must confront the generational divide that...
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Warsha
Directed by Dania Bdeir • 2022 • Lebanon, France
Starring Khansa, Kamal Saleh, Hassan AqqoulQueer alienation gives way to an ecstatic experience of liberation in Dania Bdeir’s dazzlingly conceived short, a Sundance prizewinner. One morning, Mohammad (Khansa), a Syrian migrant working constructi...
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Borom sarret
Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1963 • Senegal
Starring Ly Abdoulay, AlbourahThis groundbreaking short film, which won first prize at the 1963 Touris Film Festival in France, was the directorial debut of Ousmane Sembène.
Restored in 2013 by the Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory...
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FISHING WITH JOHN: Episode 1
“Montauk with Jim Jarmusch”
Directed by John Lurie • 1992 • United StatesJohn Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime in FISHING WITH JOHN. In this episode, John Lurie battles sharks with Jim Jarmusch off the tip of Lo...
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Shake! Otis at Monterey
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus • 1986 • United States
Redding, a venerable star of Memphis’s Stax record label, seduced the "love crowd" in one of his best, and last, performances. SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY, feature the entire set of this legendary musician, a performance that has ...
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À propos de Nice
Directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman • 1930 • France
Jean Vigo was twenty-five when he made this, his debut film, a silent cinematic poem that reveals, through a thrilling and ironic use of montage, the economic reality hidden behind the facade of the Mediterranean resort town of Nice. The fi...