The 2020 Oscar Nominations are in and you can catch most of the Short Film nominees right here on Film Shortage!

Animated Short Film Nominees


Hair Love

by Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver
(United States)

Mohamed is deeply shaken and suspicious when his estranged eldest son Malek returns home to rural Tunisia with a mysterious young wife in tow. The emotional complexities of a family reunion and past wounds lead to tragic consequences.

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Dcera (Daughter)

by Daria Kashcheeva
(Czech Republic)

In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a difficult childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father.


‘Daughter’ is still enjoying a festival run so the film is not online yet.


Kitbull

by Rosana Sullivan
(United States)

A fiercely independent stray kitten and a chained-up pit bull experience friendship for the first time.

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Memorable

by Bruno Collet
(France)

Painter Louis and his wife Michelle are experiencing strange events. Their world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects, and people lose their realism. They are “destructuring,” sometimes disintegrating.


‘Memorable’ is still enjoying a festival run so the film is not online yet.


Sister

by Siqi Song
(France)

A man remembers his childhood and growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?

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Live-Action Short Film Nominees


Brotherhood

by Meryam Joobeur
(Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden)

Mohamed is deeply shaken and suspicious when his estranged eldest son Malek returns home to rural Tunisia with a mysterious young wife in tow. The emotional complexities of a family reunion and past wounds lead to tragic consequences.

Watch it on Film Shortage

Nefta Football Club

by Yves Piat
(France)

In south Tunisia, two football fan brothers bump into a headphones-wearing donkey in the desert on the border of Algeria. Unaware that two men are waiting for the donkey and its hidden drug stash, the brothers take the animal back home with them.

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The Neighbor's Window

by Marshall Curry
(United States)

The life of a middle-aged woman with small children is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

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Une Soeur (A Sister)

by Delphine Girard
(Belgium)

An emergency services dispatcher must tap into all her professional skills when she receives a call from a woman in a desperate situation.


‘A Sister’ is still enjoying a festival run so the film is not online yet.


Saria

by Bryan Buckley
(United States)

Inseparable orphaned sisters Saria and Ximena are fighting against daily abuse and unimaginable hardship at the Virgen de La Asuncion Safe Home in Guatemala when a tragic fire claims the lives of 41 orphaned girls.


‘Saria’ is still enjoying a festival run so the film is not online yet.