Documentary Shorts 2026: Program 2

DIRECTOR(S):
Daniel Straub; Jack Raese; Laura García Andreu; Victor Gabriel; Leah Varjacques; Justice Rutikara
SYNOPSIS:

RiverRun is an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the category of Documentary Shorts. This is one of two shorts blocks in competition, of which the winner may submit for Academy Awards consideration.

 

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Presented in Multiple Parts

A Short Documentary About a Giant Pencil

Two Minneapolis homeowners and a chainsaw sculptor shape meaning (and a 20-foot-tall pencil) from the twisted ...
22 min | Daniel Straub | USA | North Carolina | English
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The Chimney Sweeper

Markus—whose great-great-great-grandfather invented the nutcracker doll—makes nutcrackers for a living, as...
9 min | Jack Raese | USA | North Carolina | English, German
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No to Mini-Bins

A few simple recycling bins spark a war....
20 min | Laura García Andreu | Spain | North Carolina | Catalan
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I Got My Brother

Two brothers reflect on their candid and often humorous memories of surviving the foster care system and priso...
17 min | Victor Gabriel | USA | North Carolina | English
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Sound Guardians

As Jakarta sinks and sea levels rise, Indonesia is moving its capital to Borneo, on the traditional land of t...
18 min | Leah Varjacques | Indonesia | North Carolina | Indonesian, English
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Ibuka, Justice

Valentine and Jean-Claude form a new couple at the start of the 1994 genocide and civil war in Rwanda. They ma...
23 min | Justice Rutikara | Canada | French
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