Film
2020 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
Dir. Daria Kashcheeva
Czech Republic, 2019, 15min
In a hospital room, a daughter recalls a childhood moment when she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her father. That moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has endured over many years, all the way to her hospital room, until a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird.
Dirs. Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr. & Bruce W. Smith
USA, 2019, 7min
This heartfelt film centers around the relationship between an African-American father, his daughter Zuri, and the most daunting task a father could ever come across: doing his daughter’s hair for the first time.
Dir. Rosana Sullivan
USA, 2019, 9min
An unlikely connection sparks between a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.
Dir. Bruno Collet
France, 2019,12min
Recently the painter Louis is experiencing strange events. His world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects, and people lose their realism. They are destructuring, sometimes even disintegrating.
Dir. Siqi Song
China & USA, 2018, 8min
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 be like if things had gone differently?

The Oscar nominees for Best Live Action Short Film include stories of Tunisia, Belgium, Guatemala, and New York.
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