The Perfect Neighbor

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The Perfect Neighbor

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Join us for a special screening of two Academy Award nominated documentaries from Netflix: Geeta Gandhbir’s feature The Perfect Neighbor and Josh Seftel’s short All the Empty Rooms.

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards, The Perfect Neighbor uses police bodycam footage to reveal how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice, and Stand Your Ground laws.

In the moving Academy Award nominated short documentary All the Empty Rooms, a journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.

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"The Perfect Neighbor serves as both an exploration of the law and a powerful tribute to a mother, a woman, and a human life tragically cut short."
Sara Clements, Next Best Picture
"While The Perfect Neighbor is, on the most visceral level, a documentary horror film built with police footage, it also reveals how a violent tragedy can be unwittingly manifested by unchecked grievance and a law that weaponizes white fear more than it guards anyone’s peace."
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

This film is part of the Catching Up: 2025 in Review series.



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