The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012
Animation & Live Action
Ends Thursday, February 23!
Animation: 6:00 each evening
Live Action: 8:00 each evening
Animated
(Not Rated; 80 minutes)
Dimanche/Sunday: A small boy's Sunday is filled with both ordinary and extraordinary events.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore: A storm transports a young man to a place where books are living entities.
La Luna: A young boy accompanies his father and grandfather to their unusual nighttime job.
A Morning Stroll: A New Yorker passes a chicken out for its morning stroll.
Wild Life : A young Englishman with more enthusiasm than practical experience emigrates to Canada to become a rancher.
Live Action
(Not Rated; 107 minutes)
Pentecost: A young Irish boy faces a difficult choice that may leave him at odds with his small community.
Raju: A German couple adopts an Indian orphan in Calcutta.
The Shore: Two boyhood best friends from Northern Ireland reunite after 25 years.
Time Freak: A neurotic inventor hopes to correct his past mistakes by creating a time machine.
Tuba Atlantic: With only six days left to live, 70-year-old Oskar wants to put things right with his brother.
Documentary
(Not Rated; 130 minutes)
Incident in New Baghdad: 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.
Saving Face: Every year hundreds of people -- mostly women -- are attacked with acid in Pakistan. The film 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: 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 Tsnunami and the Cherry Blossom: Survivors in the areas hardest hit by Japan's recent tsunami find the courage to revive and rebuild as cherry blossom season begins.