2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films
Documentary Oscar Shorts 2021
Don’t miss your chance to experience this year’s best short films under the stars before the 93rd Annual Academy Awards!
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malni – towards the ocean, towards the shore
Sky Hopinka’s poetic debut follows Sweetwater & Jordan as they wander the Pacific Northwest, contemplating afterlife, rebirth, and the place in-between.
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Africa Mia: The Mali-Cuba Connection
1964. In the midst of the Cold War, ten promising young musicians from Mali are sent to Cuba to study music and strengthen cultural links between the two socialist countries
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The Man Who Sold His Skin
Sam Ali left his country for Lebanon to escape the war. To be able to travel to Europe and live with the love of his life, he accepts having his back tattooed by one of the world’s most sulfurous contemporary artists.
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A Shape of Things to Come
A hypnotically compelling new doc/borderlands Western that follows an elderly herbalist who lives off the land in the beautiful but harsh Sonoran Desert, surviving on anything that nature gives him.
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This is not a Burial, it’s a Resurrection
This Is not a Burial, it’s a Resurrection creates an ode to a way of life perhaps soon to disappear in the name of progress and guides us through a world where the dead co-exist with the living.
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Shiva Baby
A near college graduate, Danielle, gets paid by her older lover/sugar daddy, Max, and rushes to meet her neurotic parents at a family shiva (funeral gathering).
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Perfumes
In this charmingly fragrant French comedy/drama, a talented and temperamental creator of world-class perfumes is forced to team up with her new driver to keep her career smelling pretty when she falls on hard times.
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Quo Vadis, Aida?
Bosnia, July 11th 1995. Aida is a translator for the United Nations in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
