Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation

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For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is 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. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, Feb. 9th.

Hair Love – Matthew A. Cherry, USA, 7 min.
Synopsis: A man tries to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.

Dcera (Daughter) – Daria Kashcheeva, Czech Republic, 15 min.
Synopsis: Synopsis: in a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father. a moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all the way to this hospital room, until the moment when a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird.

Sister – Siqi Song, China/USA, 8 min.
Synopsis: a man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in china in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?

Memorable – Bruno Collet, France, 12 min.
Synopsis: Recently, Louis, a painter, is experiencing strange events. his world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects and people lose their realism. they are destructuring, sometimes disintegrating…

Kitbull – Rosana Sullivan, USA, 9 min.
Synopsis: ‘KITBULL,’ directed by Rosana Sullivan and produced by kathryn hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. together, they experience friendship for the first time.

PLUS A SELECTION OF ADDITIONAL ANIMATED SHORTS:

Henrietta Bulkowski – USA, 16 min. (featuring the voices of Chris Cooper and Ann Dowd!)

The Bird and the Whale – Ireland, 6 min.

Hors Piste – France, 5 min.

Maestro – France, 2 min.

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