2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films – Live Action (2017)
Watatu (2015)
In this drama that morphs into documentary, the lives of 3 men in Mombasa intertwine as one of them falls victim to radicalization.
Chinese Doctors (2021)
Silent Rose (2020)
A hybrid drama concerning the students, teachers and staff of a high school as they try to navigate life in modern-day America.
Nobel Son (2007)
Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley’s illegitimate half-brother. Motivated…
Paradise Falls (1997)
When the family’s North Carolina farm is about to be taken by the banks during the Depression era, two boys decide to start robbing banks and return the money to…
Patti Cake$ (2017)
Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest…
It Nearly Wasn’t Christmas (1989)
Feeling unneeded, a disillusioned Santa Claus (Charles Durning) quits Christmas. Through the selflessness of a little girl looking to reunite her parents for Christmas (and the help of his bumbling…
A Long Way Down (2014)
Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a solipsistic muso—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year’s Eve. When this…
Tauw (1970)
Mai presus de orice (1979)
Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. The film was not broadcast in the country.