2022 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts
Run Time: 160 min. Release Year: 2022
This shorts program contains adult themes and is not suitable for children.
As part of Awards Season at the Film Center each year, we are thrilled to present the Academy Award-nominated shorts program featuring the year’s most spectacular Animated, Documentary, and Live Action short films.
From 82 total qualifying films, these five are nominees for the Documentary Short Subject category of the 94th Academy Awards.
Documentary Short Film – The Nominees
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Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean
Football player Amaree McKenstry-Hall and his Maryland School for the Deaf teammates attempt to defend their winning streak while coming to terms with the tragic loss of a close friend.
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 39 min
When We Were Bullies
Jay Rosenblatt
A mind-boggling coincidence leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class and fifth grade teacher to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident 50 years ago.
Country: United States, Germany
Language: English
Runtime: 36 min
Three Songs for Benazir
Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
Newly married and living in a displacement camp in Kabul, Shaista struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family. Sheds light on the experience of modern-day Afghans who live, love, and seek space for themselves amid constant instability.
Country: Afghanistan
Language: Pashtu, Dari
Runtime: 22 min
Lead Me Home
Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
500,000 Americans experience homelessness every night. This immersive, cinematic film tells the real-life stories of those going through it as a first step toward challenging uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies and gives the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope and diversity of unsheltered America today.
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 39 min
The Queen of Basketball
Ben Proudfoot
She is one of the greatest living women’s basketball players. 3 national trophies. Scored the first basket in women’s Olympic basketball at the ‘76 Olympics. Drafted to the NBA. But have you ever heard of Lusia Harris?
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 22 min
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