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All the Empty Rooms (2025)

All the Empty Rooms poster
Directed by
Joshua Seftel
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
33 min
Rated
PG-13
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 55 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A journalist and a photographer travel across the United States to document the bedrooms of children who died in school shootings. The film shows them creating memorials for these lost young lives.

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What happens

All the Empty Rooms is a 2025 American documentary short film directed and produced by Joshua Seftel. It follows Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark across the United States to memorialize the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. All the Empty Rooms had its world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2025. Netflix released it globally on its streaming service on December 1. At the 98th Academy Awards, it was awarded the Best Documentary Short Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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