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2022 Oscar Nominated LIVE ACTION Short Films (R)
February 25, 2022 - March 2, 2022
Showtimes – Live Action Short Films:
Fri Feb 25 at 2 PM
Sat Feb 26 at 7 PM
Wed Mar 2 at 2 PM
For more than fifteen years, ShortsTV has proudly brought the Oscar© Nominated Short Films to audiences across the globe. This special release features the year’s most spectacular short films and for a limited time is available to watch on the big screen. Each nominee is released in one of three distinct feature-length compilations according to their category of nomination: Live Action, Animation or Documentary. The theatrical release of the nominated short films each year is the world’s largest commercial release of short films on the planet, delighting audiences and giving filmmakers unprecedented opportunity to entertain short film fans.
2022 Oscar Nominated – BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
Ala Kachuu — Take and Run (Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger). Running Time: 38 min.
Sezim, 19 years old, wants to fulfill her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland. There, she’s forced to marry a stranger. If she refuses the marriage, she is threatened with social stigmatization and exclusion. Torn between her desire for freedom and the constraints of Kyrgyz culture, Sezim desperately seeks a way out.
The Dress (Tadeusz Lysiak and Maciej Ślesicki). Running Time: 30 min.
Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver, who soon becomes the object of her fantasies…
The Long Goodbye (Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed). Running Time: 12 min.
Riz and his family are in the middle of preparing a wedding celebration when the events unfolding in the outside world arrive suddenly on their doorstep. The result is a devastating and visceral feat of filmmaking, and a poignant poetic cry from the heart.
On My Mind (Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson). Running Time: 18 min.
Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It’s a question of life, death and karaoke.
Please Hold (K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse). Running Time: 19 min.
In the not-so-distant future, Mateo (20s, Latino) is arrested by a police drone without explanation. Finding himself locked in a fully automated jail with no means of recourse, Mateo realizes he’s fallen through some kind of crack in the system. To get out alive he’ll have to go head-to-head with the labyrinthine, computerized bureaucracy of the privatized American justice system, in search of an actual human being who can set things right.
Total Running Time: 2 hours, 1 minute
Rated R – for adult themes, violence and language.
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