Documentary Short Film

A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.

On March 13, 2022, filmmaker Brent Renaud was killed by Russian soldiers, the first American journalist to die while reporting on the war in Ukraine. His younger brother and collaborator, Craig Renaud, recovered Brent’s body and his final recordings from Ukraine and brought them back to their childhood home in Arkansas. As Brent’s journey to his final resting place unfolds, the film chronicles the years he and his brother spent covering some of the world’s most dangerous conflicts.

In Tel Aviv, activists gather weekly to demonstrate their opposition to the war in Gaza with a silent vigil for the children killed in Israeli attacks.

THE DEVIL IS BUSY follows the head of security at an abortion clinic in Atlanta. This film is part of the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Documentary Shorts 2 Profoundly Personal Stories viewing which is 95 min total.

In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.