Short of the Week's Oscars insider, Céline Roustan, takes a closer look at the shortlist for the Best Live Action Short Film award.
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?
Spanish for "Origami", Papiroflexia is the tale of Fred, a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.
This Sundance horror-thriller is the year's scariest short. An illegal migrant worker decides it’s time to move on from picking crops and find a better job. Little does she know, insidious supernatural forces have a different plan for her. Some borders aren't meant to be crossed.
The most acclaimed student work of the decade is this post-apocalyptic CG action short out of UCLA, which won the director the right to adapt it to the big screen.
A snappy absurdist comedy about a blind date where everyone brings their emotional baggage to the table in the form of literal suitcases.
A practical joke spectacularly backfires when a night watchman at a movie studio gets stuck inside an unwieldy monster costume.
A high school wrestler comes to terms with the death of his father.
