2021 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
Run Time: 130 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2021
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Each year, the Film Center is thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular short films.
From 174 total qualifying films, these five received nominations in the Live Action Short Film category at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Live Action Short Film Program
The Nominees
The Present
Farah Nabulsi
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
Country: Palestine
Language: Arabic, English
Runtime: 25 min
Feeling Through
Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski
A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 19 min
Two Distant Strangers
Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
Cartoonist Carter James’ repeated attempts to get home to his dog are thwarted by a recurring deadly encounter that forces him to re-live the same awful day over and over again.
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 25 min
White Eye
Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman
Cartoonist Carter James’ repeated attempts to get home to his dog are thwarted by a recurring deadly encounter that forces him to re-live the same awful day over and over again.
Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Runtime: 21 min
The Letter Room
Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan
When a corrections officer is transferred to the letter room, he soon finds himself enmeshed in a prisoner’s deeply private life.
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 33 min
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