Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 6:30 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! ***Crying Glacier*** Directed by Lutz Stautner / New York Times OpDocs / 10 mins What does a melting glacier sound like? Artist Ludwig Berger attempts to record a disappearing environment. ***The Long Valley*** Directed by Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian / 13 mins Does dreaming allow us to imagine a better future, or prevent us from living our current lives? Shot in tableaus that sit in the space between film and still photography, the film documents the land and the people who work it. Reappropriating the talking head to open questions rather than answer them, Central and South American immigrants living in the Salinas Valley share divergent perspectives on the passage of time, acceptance of reality, and finding the space to dream. ***perfectly a strangeness*** Directed by Alison McAlpine / 15 mins In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys, discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be. ***We Were The Scenery*** Directed by Christopher Radcliff / 15 mins The story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who, in 1975, after fleeing the Vietnam War by boat and docking in the Philippines, were utilized as background extras in the filming of *Apocalypse Now*. ***Who Loves The Sun*** Directed by Arshia Shakiba / 20 mins In war-torn northern Syria, Who Loves the Sun delves into the world of makeshift oil refineries and the stark realities of life within this post-apocalyptic landscape. Mahmood is a prominent figure in these operations, navigating harsh working conditions and complex local dynamics. **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 1 and 3 [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-cinema-eye-honors-shorts-list-program-1/) and [here](https://vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/2026-cinema-eye-honors-shorts-list-program-3/)