Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane

A quiet, sorrowful documentary that sits with grief and slowly finds consolation in two strangers' shared compassion.

Directed by

Kim A. Snyder

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Father Bob Weiss, Father Basil O’Sullivan

Overview

In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community suffered an eerily similar fate in 1996. From across the Atlantic, the two priests forge a poignant bond through the shared experience of trauma and healing.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest, bleak and warm. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Grief, trauma, healing, faith

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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