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    Oscars 2021: The Short Films battling for an Academy Award

    With Oscar voting starting tomorrow, the S/W team explores the shortlists for the 2021 Academy Awards and highlights our favorite film in the Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Subject & Live Action Short Film categories

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    Drama Finbar Watson & Alec Green

    Teacups

    For almost half a century, Don Ritchie (Hugo Weaving) would approach people contemplating suicide at the edge of a cliff near his home. Teacups is a poignant animation about his life, his surreal interactions with hundreds of suicidal individuals and his journey to reconcile the suicide of his best friend.

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    Fantasy Phuong Mai Nguyen

    Chez Moi

    A 2016 Oscar shortlisted animation, this fantasy from emerging star Phuong Mai Nguyen delves into a young boy's possessiveness over his single mother after she takes a giant bird for a lover.

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    Horror Eros V

    Right Place, Wrong Tim

    During a routine live taping, the cast of thespians are suddenly derailed by the entrance of a clone of Tim.

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    Drama Delphine Le Courtois

    Corps contrarié (Upset body)

    Gabrielle is a young, independent woman who believes she is in control of her life. Unexpected news changes her outlook and forces her to call herself into question.

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    The Short Awards 2022: Category Winners

    From the 233 short films we featured on Short of the Week in 2021, our team has selected 14 we think deserve extra praise and attention. This is the 2022 Short Awards

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    Drama Eloïse Alluyn & 5 Others

    Acrobats

    A girl comes back home to an oppressive living room and throws up acrobats in front of her family.

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    Drama Grainger David

    The Chair

    2012 Cannes Official Selection, The Chair is the story of a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold in a small town, and one boy's attempt to understand his mother's death, his grandmother's obsession with their discarded recliner, and the roots of this short-lived, strange, and inexplicable plague.

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