2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films - Live Action

Valentine Crush(ed)!

A guy falls in love with a girl who walks by his home, and decides to express his love on Valentines Day.

Iceberg

A married woman falls in love with a 19-year-old girl, and she has to make a choice between her family and the one who might be the love of her life.

Goldi

Eva is a little girl who lives with her uncaring aunts and mean cousin Berit. Eva's mother is in the hospital and might not make it, and her aunts aren't making it easy for her. A story about how a little girl fights injustice in her own special way.

Storm

An unsuspecting user is sent through a turbulent series of splash portals when his government-enforced dating app malfunctions in the bathtub. Storm is set in the near future, where everyone has to live by the government’s Federal Relationship Compatibility Act – a policy which ensures that citizens are matched with only completely compatible individuals. If an individual cannot find a match which satisfies the government’s strict algorithm, they will be sentenced to a life alone in a permanent facility.

New faces

Still Rolling

A rookie filmmaker on a TV production set tries to survive a constraining environment where people don't respect her boundaries. During the wrap party, she begins to process what she experienced.

Fallen Art

Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-proclaimed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant Al from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete.

Breaking the Circles

Milena, a successful photographer from Macedonia decides to visit Prague and surprise her secret lover. Instead of a warm welcome, Milena faces the emptiness of the city. Most of the time she is alone thinking of their relationship and waiting for her mystique lover to appear. The city slowly drives her into a paranoid journey in which she is forced to face her greatest wishes, desires and fears. Her life is spinning in circles. Alone and desperate, she decides to break that circle.

Letters

LETTERS, a dramatic historical fiction written by Mrs. Evelyn Merritt in 2010, tells the story of U.S. soldiers and their loved ones through their correspondence beginning with the Civil War and ending with the War in Iraq. Sahuarita High School students adapted the Readers’ Theatre play into a movie, reasoning the student actors would be kept safe from Covid-19 by filming them individually, and afterward the footage could be reassembled into a screenplay following the original dialogue.

Nicky's Game

A down on his luck Brooklyn native parlays his Yale education into a job as a professional poker player.

Añoranzas

A woman, a diary. A world of reminiscences, dreams, childhood. The longing for the past, for the things you could not take back.

Deep Down

Deep Down redraws a descent into hell of a stripper called America, lost in the very depths of the U.S, taken away by a devastating love-story.

Como en casa

Mateo is an unscrupulous young real estate agent. He lives in a house where nothing is lacking, but his well-off life will be disturb one morning because of the presence of an intruder.

Red, White and Blue

A young mother from Arkansas is forced to travel across state lines in search of an urgent and necessary abortion.

Necropolis

Love Crisis

During one night at the end of the summer, in a random plaza in the centre of Madrid there is room for anything to happen - even turtles.

Ballet Shoes

Two dancers are forced to confront their feelings for each other on the eve of a ballet competition.

Love with a Wo-Man

Xiaoxing, who was diagnosed with "Ublis syndrome" (in simple terms, she lost the ability to be afraid) did not believe that she had this disease, so she tested herself. Turns out anything scary only amuses her. She has become very "manly" since she stopped being scared. In order to find a brave man to fall in love with, Xiao Xingxin will conduct some tests on the boys after meeting them. In the end, they never meet again, until a timid mushroom-headed boy Danan appears......

Back to Back

A couple sees each other after their breakup, and it brings back memories.

Gameboy

Thijs, Tobias, Sjeng, and Tarik break into a house and steal a multitude of their school exams for profit. But in time, as their gain notoriety, the jig is up! But will all four go down, will there be consequences, and will that be all that happens to these rambunctious four young men?