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Oscars Short Films 2024: The Titles Battling for an Academy Award
The Oscar shortlists are here! Find out which short films made the cut and where you can watch them.
Filmmaker Update
The Watchlist (April 2023)
Films from Karen Maine, A.V. Rockwell, Saim Sadiq, Miles Warren and more feature in our latest Watchlist article.
Festival
A S/W Centric Look at Encounters 2022
Back for its first in-person edition since 2019, the UK’s leading short film Encounters returns to Bristol with an eclectic programme of short films, industry panels and interactive experiences.
Sci‑Fi
Matthew Jankes
Umkhungo
Made a with a grant from Focus Features, a boy comes into mysterious abilities and is branded a demon. Relying on a jaded street thug for protection, the pair go on the run. Set at the intersection of sci-fi and superstition in South Africa, can the boy stay one step ahead of his pursuers, and, importantly, learn to control his burgeoning power?
Drama
Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Recrue (Rebel)
Alex, a six-year-old boy from Quebec, is oblivious to the thousands of refugees entering Canada illegally to avoid deportation. Yet when his father takes him along to a vigilante patrol in the woods to hunt out trespassing migrants, something inside him tells him to rebel.
Fantasy
Stephen Irwin
World to Roam
Mother and Father lay the child in his cot at the same time every night. However, come morning, only a shallow crater remains; a baby-shaped depression. The boy was destined to be a wanderer.
Action
Mahiro Maeda
Gala
A giant object falls from the sky sending a small village into turmoil. But these villagers don't seem normal! Nor is the object for the matter! A visual and intellectual Anime treat from the "Genius Party" collection.
Interview
Interview with Tony Comley
Tony Comley talks about his latest film, 'Verse. What interested you in creation myths and in crafting your own version? The sheer scale of creation myths next to the pettiness of their usual themes makes me very happy.
See You Soon
A young man travels across the country to spend the weekend with someone he's been talking to for months on a dating app, hoping to find the kind of romance he thought he'd never get to experience.
SOTW
Watch Oscar Short Film Nominees
In our announcement Tuesday I mentioned my skepticism in finding any of the Short Film Oscar nominees online, but you, our readers, did not share my defeatist attitude and unearthed a couple! Thanks go out to Hans and Sam, now you can watch one film from each of the 3 short film categories: Documentary Short Subject, Short Film (Live-Action) and Short Film (Animation). Follow Short of the Week on Facebook [caption id="attachment_4586" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Click to Watch"][/caption] Documentary Short SubjectThe Warriors of Quigang: A Chinese Village Fights Back In Quigang, a tiny hamlet of 1,900 people, a nearby chemical plant is polluting the land and water.
