For the 18th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films (Documentary, Animated, and Live Action), your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts before the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12.
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS (165 min. / Rating equivalent of PG-13/R for adult themes)
HOW DO YOU MEASURE A YEAR?
dir. Jay Rosenblatt, USA, 29 min.
THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS
dirs. Kartiki Gonsalves, Guneet Monga, India, 40 min.
STRANGER AT THE GATE
dirs. Joshua Seftel, Conall Jones, USA, 29 min.
HAULOUT
dirs. Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev, UK, 25 min.
THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT
dirs. Anne Alvergue, Beth Levison, USA, 40 min.
ANIMATED SHORTS (95 min. / Rating equivalent of PG-13/R)
AN OSTRICH TOLD ME THE WORLD IS FAKE AND I THINK I BELIEVE IT
dir. Lachlan Pendragon, Australia, 12 min.
THE FLYING SAILOR
dirs. Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby, Canada, 8 min.
ICE MERCHANTS
dirs. João Gonzalez, Bruno Caetano, Portugal/France/UK, 15 min.
THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE
dirs. Charlie Mackesy, Matthew Freud, UK, 33 min.
MY YEAR OF DICKS
dirs. Sara Gunnarsdóttir, Pamela Ribon, USA, 26 min.
LIVE ACTION SHORTS (110 min. Rating equivalent of PG-13 for adult themes)
IVALU
dirs. Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan, Denmark, 17 min.
NIGHT RIDE
dirs. Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen, Norway, 16 min.
LE PUPILLE
dir. Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, 39 min.
THE RED SUITCASE
dir. Cyrus Neshvad, Luxembourg, 18 min.
AN IRISH GOODBYE
dirs. Tom Berkeley and Ross White, UK, 23 min.
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