Atlanta Documentary Film Festival 2026: Shorts #1, "The Ones Who Stay" (Day 1)

From the venue:

The Atlanta Documentary Film Festival returns March 19 - 22 at Synchronicity Theatre in Midtown Atlanta for our 21st annual celebration of documentary films.

This year’s program includes powerful investigative films, personal stories, and documentaries that are funny, surprising, and deeply human. Some films will challenge you. Others may make you laugh or see something in a new way. That range of tone is part of what makes documentary filmmaking so exciting.

For the first time, the festival will also present a separate collection of films online, March 23 - April 6, giving audiences another way to discover documentaries beyond the theater.

Join us in Atlanta for four days of remarkable nonfiction storytelling. If you can't make the live event, be sure to check out our online selections.

Shorts #1 

These short films follow people who commit to care, protection, and stewardship, sometimes without recognition, and often when walking away would be easier.

A Mystical Ornithology – Jeremy Seifert & Benjamin James Roberts
Call of the Crow – Sarah King
Dick’s-A-Thon – Dylan Young
NIO KO BOKK – David Clancy
Red, White, Blue & Yellow – Jason Kushner
Second Chance – Ryan Edens
The Wheelchair Mafia – Cade Martin
TSHEGL – Philipp Silbernagl

86 min run time
*filmmakers in attendance