Shorts Attack in February 2020

2 programs:

Live Action /Animation

Program 1:

Oscar Shorts 2020 – Live Action

5 films in 103 minutes

A SISTER
Delphine Girald
Belgium
2018
16 min
Phone call
A night. A car. Alie is in danger. To get by she must make the most important phone call of her life.

 

BROTHERHOOD
Meryam Joobeur
Canada, Tunesia, Katar, Sweden 2018
25 min
Family
When a hardened Tunisian shepherd’s son returns home after a long journey with a new wife, tension rises between father and son.

 

THE NEIGHBOR´S WINDOW
Marshall Curry
USA 2019
20 min
Generations
Alli is a mother of young children, frustrated with her daily routine and husband. But her life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

 

SARIA
Bryan Buckley
USA
2019
23 min
Justice
Saria 12, and her sister Ximena, devise a daring plan to escape horrendous abuse in the orphanage that houses them.

 

NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB
Yves Piat
Frankreich 2018
17 min
Drugs
Two young brothers come across a donkey in the desert. Strangely, the animal wears headphones over its ears and is carrying bags full of a white powder on its back.

 

Program 2:

Oscar Shorts 2020 – Animation

9 films in 83 minutes

HAIR LOVE
Matthew A. Cherry
USA 2019
7 min
Frisurliebe
It’s up to Daddy to give his daughter, Zuri, an extra-special hairstyle in this story of self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters.

 

DAUGHTER (Dcera)
Daria Kashcheeva
Tschechien 2019
15 min
Parents
In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father.

 

SISTER
Siqi Song
USA 2018
8 min
Memories
A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in China in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?

 

MEMORABLE
Bruno Collet
France 2019
12 min
Irritations
The world appears to be changing for Louis, a painter, and his wife Michelle. In fact, recently all sorts of strange things have been happening to them.

 

KITBULL
Rosana Sullivan
USA 2019
9 min
Animals
KITBULL, directed by Rosana Sullivan and produced by Kathryn Hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures.

 

+ 4 bonus films (prenominated):

THE BIRD AND THE WHALE
Carol Freeman
Ireland 2018
7 min
Sea
A baby whale separated from his family discovers a caged bird, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Together they struggle to survive, lost at sea.

 

HORS PISTE
Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier
France 2019
6 min
Rescue
The two best rescue workers in the region take off for their umpteenth mission. Professionalism and efficiency all around, but things don’t really go as planned…

 

HENRIETTA BULKOWSKI
Rachel Johnson
USA 2019
16 min
Fly
A determined young woman, crippled by a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to see the world.

 

 

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