The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012: Live Action

The 2012 Oscar -Nominated Short Films
Animated | Live Action | Documentary
Shown in Three Seperate Programs (Ticketed Separatly)
Opens February 17th
(Showtimes TBA - Ticket Link Coming Soon)
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ANIMATED PROGRAM
total running time approx. 80 minutes
(including our Highly Commended titles, which are TBD)
Showtimes TBA - Ticket Link Coming Soon
Sunday/Dimanche - 10 minutes - English - Patrick Doyon
Every Sunday, it's the same old routine! The train clatters… Show more through the village and almost shakes the pictures off the wall. In the church, Dad dreams about his toolbox. And of course later Grandma will get a visit and the animals will meet their fate.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - 15 minutes - No Dialogue - William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/illustrator William Joyce and co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a hybrid style of animation that harkens back to silent films and MGM Technicolor musicals. Morris Lessmore is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.
La Luna - 7 minutes - English - Enrico Casaroasa
A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work.
A Morning Stroll - 7 minutes - No Dialogue - Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, we're left to wonder which one is the real city slicker.
Wild Life - 13 minutes - English - Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Calgary, 1909: an Englishman moves to the Canadian frontier, but is singularly unsuited to it. His letters home are much sunnier than the reality. Intertitles compare his fate to that of a comet.
HIGHLY Commended (Additional) Animated TITLES
Nullarbor - 10 minutes - English - Alister Lockhart
An animated road movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.
Amazonia - 5 minutes - English - Sam Chen
In the dangerous world of the Amazon Rainforest, finding a meal proves to be an impossible task for a little tree-frog named Bounce. His luck changes when he meets Biggy, a blue-bellied treefrog who takes him under his guidance and shows him the ways of the jungle in this animated journey set to Beethoven s Symphony No.8.
Skylight - 5 minutes - English - David Baas
Skylight is a mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world.
Hybrid Union - 4 minutes - English - Serguei Kouchnerov
In the imaginary land of Cyberdesert, Plus and Minus struggle with a dependency on an outdated source of energy. The mysterious self-sufficient Smart presents a new challenge for Plus and Minus and forces them to form an alliance - The Hybrid Union!
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LIVE Action PROGRAM
total running time approx. 110 minutes
Showtimes TBA - Ticket Link Coming Soon
Pentecost - 11 minutes - English - Peter McDonald and Eimear O Kane
When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish, he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo, or serve an extended ban from his life s passion - football.
Raju - 24 minutes - English/German - Max Z hle and Stefan Gieren
Director Max Zaehle, together with his Director of Photography Sin Huh, and wonderful actors Wotan Wilke M hring and Julia Richter, succeed at making the moral dilemma faced by couples wishing to adopt emotionally palpable.
The Shore - 31 minutes - English/Gaelic - Terry George and Oorlagh George
After 25 years in exile, Jim Mahon (Ciaran Hinds) returns to Ireland to show his American daughter Patty (Kerry Condon) his Belfast roots. But things don t go as planned when she learns of a secret love triangle and a long lost best friend, Paddy (Conleth Hill). Their reconciliation leads to hilarious confusion. Directed by two time Oscar nominee Terry George, The Shore won Best Director and Best Actor at the Rhode Island Film Festival, and is nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award.
Time Freak - 11 minutes - English - Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
A neurotic inventor creates a time machine, only to get caught up travelling around yesterday.
Tuba Atlantic - 25 minutes - Norwegian - Hallvar Witz
Everybody is going to die one day. Oskar, 70, is going to die in 6 days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago. Will he reach his brother, who he believes live on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it s too late?
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Documentary PROGRAM
total running time approx. 130 minutes
Showtimes TBA - Ticket Link Coming Soon
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom - 39 minutes - Japan/USA - Lucy Walker
Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins.
Incident In New Baghdad - 25 minutes - USA - James Spione
One of the most notorious incidents of the Iraq War - the July 2007 slayings of two Reuters journalists and a number of other unarmed civilians by Us attack helicopters - is recounted in the powerful testimony of an American infantryman whose life was profoundly changed by his experiences on the scene. Us Army Specialist Ethan McCord bore witness to the devastating carnage, found and rescued two children caught in the crossfire, and soon turned against the war that he had enthusiastically joined only months before. Denied psychological treatment in Iraq for his PTSD, McCord returned home, struggling for years with anger, confusion, and guilt over the war. When WikiLeaks released the stunning cockpit video of the incident, McCord was finally spurred into action, and began traveling the country, speaking out for the rights of PTSD sufferers against the American wars in the Middle East.
Saving Face - 40 minutes - Pakistan/USA - Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
Every year, hundreds of people -- mostly women -- are attacked with acid in Pakistan. The Hbo Documentary Saving Face, which premiers March 8 at 8:30 PM PT, follows several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them restore their faces and their lives.
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement - 25 minutes - USA - Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday
Mr. James Armstrong is a barber, a foot soldier and a dreamer whose barbershop in Birmingham, Alabama has been a hub for haircuts and civil rights since 1955. The dream of a promised land, where dignity and the right to vote belongs to everyone is documented in photos, headlines and clippings that cram every inch of wall space (and between the mirrors). 85-years-young, jauntily wearing a bowtie and suspenders, Mr. Armstrong will cut your hair while recounting his experiences as a foot soldier, citing the pictures on his wall as he does. In March 1965, civil rights activists began a march from Selma to Montgomery calling for voting rights. Mr. Armstrong, an Army Veteran, was the proud bearer of the American flag in that march, and it s said that even as state troopers tear-gassed the crowd and beat marchers with billy clubs, he held the flag high. On the annual commemoration of Bloody Sunday he carries that flag. He used his barber chair to educate: If you want a voice, you have to vote; you can t complain about nothing if you don t vote. Despite threats to his life and home, his two sons were the first to integrate an all white elementary school. Dying isn t the worst thing a man can do. The worst thing a man can do is nothing. No one can accuse Mr. Armstrong of doing nothing; and on the eve of the election of the first African-American president, The Barber Of Birmingham sees his unimaginable dream come true.

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