Community Movies

Toronto’s historic Hanlan’s Point beach is the oldest recognized nude beach in the world. This documentary unpacks what being naked in...

This public television documentary examines the passionate life and career of Elbert Hubbard, a businessman who in 1895 established a socially...

This documentary explores the ancient water system of Douiret-Sbâa, Morocco, a remarkable network fed by a local spring that has sustained the...

Arnold Perkins, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2007 Community Leadership Awards (the San Francisco Foundation Award). Arnolds broad...

Based in the Western Addition neighborhood in San Francisco, CommunityGrows teaches cooking and gardening in local elementary schools and after...

A documentary about socialising and society in early 1970s New Zealand.

System (2025) is a short documentary film exploring intergenerational connections to land and country. Interviews with Aunty Denise Morgan Bulled, a...

In 2001, a series of leaks within the Bionicle community began to appear, claiming that a seventh protagonist named "Voriki" would be arriving soon....

Trailer Boys follows the journey of Muhammad Irfan Rafieh, a key member of Abam2 Trailer Singapura, which is a community of heavy vehicle drivers...

Brenda Way, founder and artistic director of ODC, is a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation Community Awards "for creating a community hub...

Over four years, the film follows SV Todesfelde, the club of a village of about a thousand people in Schleswig-Holstein, during a run of success in...

Children’s Book Press, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (The San Francisco Foundation Award) – the...

Food, health, and nutrition divide two sides of town in Gainesville, Florida - how the movement to bring Black culture, history, and knowledge back...

A documentary tracing the journey of a volunteer teacher in Frankadua, a remote African village in the eastern side of Ghana. It explores the...

A documentary about the role of a local newspaper in the small community of Ulricehamn. Instead of focusing on the technicalities of newspaper...

The fight for survival in one of Tokyo’s vanishing geisha districts. Documenting everything from ancient moss-covered woodlands to the streets...

Apple Gatherers follows two workers in an apple cider factory, the Peeler and the Shoveller. The film explores the loneliness and dissatisfaction of...

AMEKETUNI celebrates the unwavering determination of Brenda, Hawi, and Paul, Black immigrants forging their own path in Ottawa, carrying the wisdom...

Communities in Rwanda have come together every last Saturday of month since the 11th century to build, clean, and plant.