Children are the future, and their present experiences captured in these shorts demonstrate what that future might look like.

Thatch Elmer, a 14-year-old cowboy poet, has found the cultural practice to be a wellspring of strength, connection, and healing.

Cowboy Poet

Inspired by Kobe Bryant's Mamba Mentality, a young man returns to coach the kids in his city of Liangshan, where basketball is so popular with the Yi minority that the center of town is not a park but a basketball court.

Eagles Rest in Liangshan

A look at Tuktoyaktuk (Tuk), one of the northernmost towns in the world, capturing the Indigenous community during one of the last summers before climate change forced its coastal population to relocate to more habitable land.

Arctic Summer

To get over his Sunday boredom, a young Atikamekw spends time with friends, reminiscing about his dogs.

The Lord’s Day

A form-bending archival odyssey into life in Israel in the 1990s, as told through Jewish rituals, cultural and political rites of passage, and a failed prom.

The Promise

Following the deaths of several USC students, a film student befriends the editor of the school newspaper to investigate potential underlying causes of these tragedies and the impact they had on the rest of the university.

At What Cost?

United States of America

Doc Shorts: This Is Our Youth

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