Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring some of the year’s most spectacular short films.
Academy Award winner, Best Adapted Screenplay. TIFF 2023 People’s Choice Award. Thelonious “Monk” Ellison’s writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.” Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. | Country: United States | Language: English
Bonus content coming March 22! Academy Award winner, Best Animated Feature. A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. Opening film of the 2023 Toronto Film Festival. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings in Japanese with English subtitles
Hailed as one of the greatest films of the 1950s, the first and only film directed by famed actor Charles Laughton. In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money. | Country: United States | Language: English
To the Hashira Training: this exciting cinematic experience includes the thrilling finale of the Swordsmith Village Arc and an advanced screening of the beginning to the highly anticipated Hashira Training Arc. | Country: Japan | Language: English; select screenings presented in Japanese with English subtitles
A comedy caper from one-half of the Coen brothers, written with his wife, Tricia Cooke. Bemoaning yet another breakup with a girlfriend, free spirit Jamie and his ex’s demure friend Marian embark on an impromptu road trip in search of a fresh start, only to get mixed up a group of inept criminals. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English
Best Director, 2023 Venice Film Festival. Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Two Senegalese teenagers, Seydou and Moussa, travel from Dakar to Europe in the hope of becoming pop stars in Europe, finding danger, heartbreak and unexpected joy along the way. | Country: Italy, Belgium, France | Language: Wolof, French with English subtitles
Academy Award winner, Best International Feature and Best Sound. 2023 Cannes Grand Prix and FIPRESCI Prize winner. The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. | Country: United State, United Kingdom, Poland | Language: German, Polish, Yiddish
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English, Romanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Latin
2023 Cannes Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Actor winner. From legendary director Wim Wenders, a sweet slice-of-life drama about a janitor in Tokyo. Nominated for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. | Country: Japan, Germany | Language: Japanese, English
Four-time Academy Award winner, including Best Actress for Emma Stone. She’s like nothing you’ve ever seen. This is the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Winner of two Golden Globes and named Best Film at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. | Country: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom | Language: English
Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring some of the year’s most spectacular short films.
