For the 12th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb. 10th. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country (and now the world), don't miss this year's selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, Feb. 26th.
ANIMATED SHORTS (Running Time: 86 minutes)
Borrowed Time – dirs. Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj, USA, 7 minutes
Pearl – dir. Patrick Osborne, USA, 6 minutes
Piper – dir. Alan Barillaro, USA, 6 minutes
Blind Vaysha – dir. Theodore Ushev, Canada, 8 minutes
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The Head Vanishes (additional film) – 9 minutes
Asteria (additional film) – 5 minutes
Happy End (additional film) – 6 minutes
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Pear Cider and Cigarettes – dir. Robert Valley, Canada and UK, 35 minutes
Important note: PEAR CIDER AND CIGARETTES, one of the five nominees, will be the last film in the program. An inventively animated first-person narration about a troubled friendship, there's violence, language, sex, and drug use in it, and it's not appropriate for children. We'll have a Parental Guidance warning prior to this short, so that parents and caregivers can usher children out of the theater if they'd like. Other than PEAR BRANDY AND CIGARETTES, the program is acceptable for kids.
LIVE ACTION SHORTS (Running Time: 132 minutes)
Ennemis Interieurs – dir. Selim Aazzazi, France, 28 minutes
Silent Nights – dir. Aske Bang, Denmark, 30 minutes
Sing – dir. Kristof Deak, Hungary, 25 minutes
Timecode – dir. Juanjo Gimenez Pena, Spain, 15 minutes
La Femme et la TGV – dir. Timo von Gunten, Switzerland, 30 minutes
PROGRAM A (Running Time: 72 minutes)
Extremis – dir. Dan Krauss, USA, 24 minutes
4.1 Miles – dir. Daphne Matziaraki, USA, 22 minutes
Joe's Violin – dir. Kahane Cooperman, USA, 24 minutes
PROGRAM B (Running Time 82 minutes)
Watani: My Homeland – dir. Marcel Mettelsiefen, 39 minutes
The White Helmets – dir. Orlando von Einsiedel, 41 minutes