Mid (11-30min)

Documentary films between 11 and 30 minutes

Living Without Laws: Slab City, USA

Living Without Laws: Slab City, USA

This bizarre, lawless land in the California desert is inhabited by drug addicts, eccentrics, army vets, hippies and just plain old weirdos. Slab City is referred to by its residents as “the last free place in America.”

Missile Silo Homes

Missile Silo Homes

In the 1960s, the US government built secret missile silos across the country to protect citizens against nuclear attack. They now serve as homes to the reclusive and gathering places to the adventurous.

Suicide Forest in Japan

Suicide Forest in Japan

The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year.

Building the Perfect Bug

Building the Perfect Bug

A mutated bird virus that could kill millions has been built by scientists to advance medical knowledge — but should their research be published?

Panama: Village of the damned

Panama: Village of the damned

One indigenous tribe is engaged in a life and death struggle against the big business interests flooding their land.

The KaChing! Dynasty

The KaChing! Dynasty

China will soon be home to half the world’s billionaires, so can the superrich help the superpower stay in the box seat?

Caine's Arcade

Caine’s Arcade

Nirvan Mullick portrays a 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store. He is about to have the best day of his life.

Sound Machines of the Amazon

Sound Machines of the Amazon

Way up in the isolated northern state of Pará, right on the edge of the Amazonian wilds, something else is playing. The people of Belém, the capital of Pará, listen to technobrega.

Free the Network

Free the Network

A story about the incredibly high stakes of living networked in today’s world.

Mr. Button

Mr. Button

Mr. Button retains a collection of clothing and memorabilia that all the big boys of past and present fashion – from Gianni Versace and Karl Lagerfeld to Miuccia Prada and Thierry Mugler.