Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
Join Vidiots and Cinema Eye Honors as we explore this year’s best non-fiction filmmaking with all-day screenings of the best documentary shorts of the year. Filmmakers at every screening! ***Am I the skinniest person you’ve ever seen?*** Directed by Eisha Marjara / The New York Times OpDocs / 24 mins Sisters Eisha and Seema start a diet that spirals into Eisha’s life-threatening anorexia. Years later, Eisha revisits her past in a lyrical memoir, reflecting on body image, self-acceptance, and the fragile line between adolescence and adulthood. ***Mama Micra*** Directed by Rebecca Blöcher / 24 mins The mother of filmmaker Rebecca Blöcher led a very unorthodox life, living in palaces and under bridges. Her independence was most important for her, which in the end became her undoing. She decided to live in her tiny car for 10 years. Only when the car broke down and she was unable to walk even, they got the chance to re-connect. ***Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud*** Directed by Brent Renaud and Craig Renaud / HBO | Max / 38 mins 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. **About Cinema Eye Honors:****** Cinema Eye Honors recognize feature and short-length films and series with an emphasis on nonfiction work that is designed for public distribution, whether primarily theatrical, festival, broadcast or streaming. Cinema Eye seeks to encourage audiences to engage with nonfiction work that crosses all genres, whether observational, journalistic, activist, essayistic, light-hearted or provocative as well as those exciting works that blur the lines between nonfiction and fiction. Since its founding, Cinema Eye has sought to change the conversation that film critics, festivals and awards bodies have surrounding documentary film, shifting the emphasis from importance of topic to artistic craft. See programs 2 and 3 [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-cinema-eye-honors-shorts-list-program-2/) and [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-cinema-eye-honors-shorts-list-program-3/)