When We Were Bullies was a 2022 Academy nomination for Best Documentary Short. The film recounts an incident in Brooklyn 1965, in which, as a fifth grader, the filmmaker participated in a schoolyard mauling of a classmate. The documentary conjures the past—through photographs, animation and interviews—to better understand the brutal nature of collective violence.The film tries to understand the events that led up to the incident by calling up individuals from filmmaker, Jay Rosenblatt's, school