The Devil Is Busy (2025)

Here we are on the front lines of the war on women. While the sex trafficking of underage women by powerful men is minimized by the current administration--we can all guess why that might be--they are waging an equally destructive war on reproductive health care for women of child bearing age. This is a front row seat into what that health care looks like in the post-Roe era. This is nominated for an Academy Award in the Short Documentary category. The film focuse on Tracii, a staff member at Atlanta’s Feminist Women’s Health Center—now renamed the Feminist Center for Reproductive Liberation—whose workday begins long before sunrise. Her mornings are marked by both practical vigilance—ensuring the safety of the clinic and its patients—and private prayer that sustains her through a job fraught with protest, legal restriction, high stress, and real danger. The film captures the tense choreography of daily life at the clinic: security guards patrol parking lots, staff screen patients to comply with increasingly complex laws, and protesters wield megaphones and scripture as tools of intimidation. Most telling is a man who literally murdered someone himself who spends his days telling women that god will not forgive them while he believes himself forgiven. The audacity and conceit of men is on full view here, once again giving Christianity a bad look, having fully strayed from the teachings of Christ. Yet amid this hostility, the documentary emphasizes compassion—the small gestures of reassurance that Tracii and her colleagues offer women at their most vulnerable moments.