Biographyshort films

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Biographyshort films

Curated by conviction, not by metrics. Hand-picked by the Klipist editors.

Hand-picked Curated Free to watch
Filter by mood
For filmmakers

Have a short film?
Share it with the world.

Klipist is where short films find their audience. Hand-curated, independently run, watched in 190 countries. If you’ve made something great, we want to see it.

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Curator’s note

Real lives, told short and told true

The biography short is the genre at its most generous. It hands you a whole person in the time it takes to make coffee, and trusts a single well-chosen life to do the work a feature would pad out with three acts. Mostly documentary, always grounded in someone who actually existed, these are portraits rather than potted histories. The form rewards the filmmaker who knows which window into a life to open.

What you get is a remarkable spread of people worth meeting. Plantman sits intimately with a humble gardener. Babyface is a joyful account of a childhood dream of becoming a pro wrestler, and The Simplicity of Happiness follows a search for contentment that starts and ends inside the self. The Night is Black and the Day is White opens up a family's life raising an autistic child, My Journey to Switzerland retraces a young Spaniard's path north, and Hawker recovers the true story of WW1 fighter pilots at the dawn of aerial combat.

Each of these was chosen for the life it captures, and each one streams free, start to finish.