With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers, Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi, take on the role of voter and whittle the 45-title shortlists down to the 15 short films they think should advance to the nominations round.
George discovers that the end of the world is the perfect time to lose everything.
Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family, Aaron struggles to be heard as he watches his mother willingly die.
Her dress is far too lavish and the toilet cubicle way too small for the bride to fit in. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood alarmingly good. Something is about to burst: The groom’s delusion of grandeur? The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her stepfather’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?
On a remote island in the future, people are training for an important mission. Take a look at the mechanics of this training facility and the creatures within.
Teonna is unexpectedly suspended from school and is faced with a day on the streets of Washington, DC. Created in collaboration with local high schoolers, the film is an unflinching portrait of the lived experience of teenagers finding their way through an overburdened public school system.
After being escorted to a mysterious irradiated site, Evgeniy finds himself experiencing strange visions and questioning the very reason he was sent to investigate the site in the first place.
Two friends locked in a love-hate relationship bury a dead frog as rain beings to fall. They make a fateful decision to wait out the storm under a tree and wake up in a world quite unlike the one they left behind.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE ** - Based on a beloved children's story from Japan, Takeshi Yashiro brings this tale of a mischievous orphaned Fox to screen in glorious stop-motion
