2020 Nominees

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)

A+E IndieFilms, Grain Media

USA

Documentary & Factual - Social & Current Affairs

In the war-torn city of Kabul, a class of young girls from disadvantaged neighborhoods learns to read, write--and skateboard--in director Carol Dysinger's love letter to a place she has filmed in for the last fifteen years. Winner: 2020 Academy Award® Documentary (Short Subject) Winner: 2020 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards British Short Film Winner: 2019 IDA Documentary Awards Best Short