Film
2020 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
Dir. Delphine Girard
Belgium, 2018, 16min
A night. A car. Alie is in trouble. To get by, she must make the most important call of her life.
Dir. Meryam Joobeur
Canada, Tunisia, Qatar & Sweden, 2018, 25min
Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. He is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tensions rise between father and son over three days, until they finally reach a breaking point.
Dir. Yves Piat
France & Tunisia, 2018, 17min
Two young brothers come across a donkey in the desert. Strangely, the animal is wearing headphones over its ears.
Dir. Bryan Buckley
USA, 2019, 22min
Two inseparable orphaned sisters, Saria and Ximena, fight against daily abuse and unimaginable hardship at Virgen de La Asuncion Safe Home in Guatemala. The film follows the events leading up to a tragic fire in 2017 that claimed the lives of 41 orphaned girls.
Dir. Marshall Curry
2019, 20min, USA
The Neighbors’ Window tells the story of Alli, a mother of young children who has grown frustrated with her daily routine and husband. But her life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street and she discovers that she can see in their apartment.

The Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short Film include an unlikely animal friendship, a painter whose world is mutating, and tales of families in the USA, Czech Republic, and China.
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