2023 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Documentaries at Real Art Ways

2023 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Documentaries, opens Friday, February 17, 2023. Individual trailers can be viewed on https://shorts.tv/. How Do You Measure a Year? – United States, directed by Jay Rosenblatt, 29 min. A father films his daughter every year on her birthday, asking the same questions. In a mere 29 minutes we see a girl go from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and awkward stages in between while the father/daughter relationship evolves in all its…

2023 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Animation, opens Friday, February 17, 2023. Individual trailers can be viewed on https://shorts.tv/. Four of the films are suitable for kids 10 and up, but the final film, My Year of Dicks, is for adult audiences only. An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It – Australia, directed by Lachlan Pendragon, 12 min. A mysterious talking ostrich helps an office worker in need uncover the flaws in his stop motion universe. The…

2023 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Live Action, opens Friday, February 17, 2023. Individual trailers can be viewed on https://shorts.tv/. Ivalu – Denmark, directed by Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan, 17 min. Pipaluk lives in a Greenlandic settlement with her father and older sister Ivalu. Pipaluk is not happy because Ivalu has disappeared and her father does not care. At night, Pipaluk dreams of a raven that leads her to Ivalu. Night Ride – Norway, directed by Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid…

Attention Parents: The film distributor tells us that Robin Robin, the first animated short, is good for children. The second animated short, Boxballet, less so. The last three are definitely not for kids. Individual film trailers can be viewed HERE. Robin Robin, UK, directors: Daniel Ojari, Michael Please Robin Robin is the tale of a small bird with a very big heart. After a shaky nativity of her own – her unhatched egg falls out of the nest and into a…

Opening Friday, Feb 25. Individual trailers can be viewed HERE. Ala Kachuu – Take and Run, Switzerland; director: Maria Brendle 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…

Opening Friday, Feb 25. Individual trailers can be viewed HERE. Audible, USA, director: Matt Ogens AUDIBLE is a cinematic and immersive coming of age documentary following Maryland School for the Deaf high school athlete Amaree McKenstry and his close friends as they face the pressures of senior year and grappling with the realities of venturing off into the hearing world. Amaree and his teammates take out their frustrations on the football field as they battle to protect an unprecedented winning…

Opening Friday, Feb 25. Individual trailers can be viewed HERE.   Three Songs for Benazir, Afghanistan; directors: Gulistan Mirzaei, Elizabeth Mirzaei The story of Shaista, a young man who – newly married to Benazir and living in a displacement camp in Kabul – struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family. Gulistan and Elizabeth Mirzaei’s remarkable access sheds light on the experience of…

2019 Academy Award Nominee: Foreign Language Film From Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Academy Award-winning director of The Lives of Others Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, the film tells the story of a young art student, Kurt (Tom Schilling) who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie (Paula Beer). Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband (Sebastian Koch), a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s choice of boyfriend, and vows to destroy the relationship. What neither of…

Ten 2019 Academy Award Nominations. 3 Oscars: Foreign Language Film; Directing; Cinematography 96% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes The most personal project to date from Academy Award-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a…

Held Over! Every year Real Art Ways brings the Oscar Nominated Short Films to its cinema so you can enjoy some of the finest film making of the year. All three categories are offered – Animation, Live Action and Documentary (Programs A & B). This is your annual chance to see all of these nominees before the Academy Awards on Sunday, February 24 at 8 PM. ANIMATION Bao (The Winner!) – Domee Shi and Becky Neimann-Cobb, USA, 8 minutes An aging Chinese mom…