All The Empty Rooms: Release date news, streaming details and more about the upcoming Netflix docufilm

The award-winning, critically acclaimed short documentary titled All the Empty Rooms is set to premiere on Netflix on December 1, 2025. The film is 33 minutes long.

Premiering on Netflix isn't the only honour of the film, as it had its world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2025, along with screening at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2025.

The film is directed by Joshua Seftel and follows CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman, along with the photographer Lau Bopp, for years as they travel across the US to photograph the empty bedrooms of children who died in the school shootings. These rooms depict the quiet memories of the kids that still echo in their families.

Read on to know the complete streaming schedule of All the Empty Rooms.

All The Empty Rooms: Release date news, streaming details explored

All The Empty Rooms, as mentioned, tells the heartwrenching story of the school kids who died during the school shooting since 1999. The number accounts for more than 200, while the documentary film takes viewers through photographs of the empty room of the kids. This heartbreaking statistic forms the emotional foundation of the short documentary.

This documentary is arriving on Netflix on December 1, 2025, and will be available to stream on the platform with a subscription. Steve Hartman, the CBS correspondent and Lau Bopp are followed by the film director on their journey to account stories of these school kids. Hartman has begun a seven-year-long personal project with a photographer, without notifying his network bosses.

Joshua is also an Oscar-nominated director with his previous short documentary titled Stranger at the Gate. This project has been deeply personal for him. Joshua himself is a parent and struggles to confront the reality of school shootings. His fear emerges in the form of the film.

According to Deadline, Joshua mentioned in his director's statement about how he was disturbed by he shootings and at the same time received a call from CBS reporter Steve Hartman.

“After Sandy Hook, Parkland, and so many other school shootings, I began to feel numb. As a parent of two little girls, it was hard to even let myself think about the possibilities. Then, last year, my phone rang. It was veteran CBS News Reporter Steve Hartman. In the late 90s, I was Steve’s producer as he became nationally known for telling one-of-a-kind, uplifting, good news stories. But it had been twenty-five years since we had spoken.”

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The short documentary, during its festival run, has not just been officially selected but has won several awards. This includes SCAD Savannah Film Festival, the Santa Fe International Film Festival, Montclair Film Festival, among others.

Therefore, we can say that the film is indeed critically acclaimed, and if you are someone who likes real case stories or accounts and testimonies, All The Empty Rooms must be on your list.

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