Best Documentary
Afterlife | Is This What Happens When You Die?
Afterlife is an intimate and deeply personal documentary by filmmaker Ben Harl, who sets out to explore one of humanity’s greatest mysteries: what happens after we die?
Driven by his own anxieties about mortality, Ben interviews a wide range of individuals—doctors, spiritual healers, skeptics, and survivors of near-death experiences—each offering radically different views on the soul, consciousness, and the continuation of existence.
With honesty and emotional vulnerability, Ben documents not only their stories, but his own transformative journey through doubt, grief, and wonder.
As the film unfolds, the question of an afterlife becomes less about definitive answers and more about how we choose to live today.
Whether shaped by religion, science, or psychedelic insight, Afterlife confronts death not with fear, but with curiosity, empathy, and the courage to ask the unanswerable.
Director : Ben Harl
Published May 19, 2025
