The film, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), won for Best Documentary Short Subject and focuses on young girls in Afghanistan who go to school and learn to skate through the non-profit Skateistan. Through interviews with 8 to 12 year-old students, teachers, and a ripping skate instructor named Treena, the film demonstrates how many obstacles women growing up in Afghanistan have to accessing basic things like education and independence, and how since 2008, Skateistan has changed the lives of over 7,000 boys and girls around the world. In addition to their two centers in Afghanistan (Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif), Skateistan also works with kids in Cambodia and South Africa. If you aren’t one for Oscar awarded movie’s let this be the exception, a truly exceptional tale.