The first film to be sold out of the 2025 Telluride Film Festival is All the Empty Rooms , a documentary short that chronicles CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp ’s seven-year quest to memorialize the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings, which, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, Netflix has bought and plans to push for awards recognition.

The 33-minute tearjerker, which was directed by Joshua Seftel (who was Oscar-nominated for his 2022 Malala Yousafzai doc short Stranger at the Gate ), is one of five shorts that will be playing in Telluride’s main program alongside dozens of features. Its world premiere screening will take place at the Le Pierre theater on Sunday at 7:45pm MDT, and Bopp’s photographs featured in the fil

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