If you didn’t manage to get into one of very few theaters in your area screening this year’s Oscar shorts, don’t fret—ShortsHD has released the majority of them online. For a minor fee (let’s face it, it’s cheaper than the cost of a movie ticket) you can rent or buy BOTH the Animated and Live Action nominees and see what the Academy views as the cream of the crop.
Below you can find details on each of the nominated shorts, along with a link to the Vimeo page and the trailer created for each collection. Get watching, and maybe come up with some new ideas for this year’s Screencraft Short Film Screenplay Contest!
Live Action Short Film Nominees
Live Action - 2015 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films - Trailer from on Vimeo.
Aya
Directors: Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
Synopsis: A young woman waiting at an airport has an unexpected encounter with an arriving passenger.
Countries of origin: France, Israel
Runtime: 39:50
Boogaloo and Graham
Directors: Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
Synopsis: Jamesy and Malachy are presented with two baby chicks to raise by their soft-hearted father.
Country of origin: UK
Runtime: 14:00
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
Directors: Hu Wei and Julien Féret
Synopsis: A photographer and his assistant photograph the inhabitants of a remote Tibetan village.
Countries of origin: France, China
Runtime: 15:54
Parvaneh
Directors: Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
Synopsis: An Afghan teenager living in a refugee center in Switzerland encounters difficulties wiring money to her family and asks a young Swiss woman for help.
Country of origin: Switzerland
Runtime: 24:26
The Phone Call (2015 Academy Award Winner)
Directors: Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
Synopsis: A woman working for a crisis center phone line receives a call from a suicidal older man.
Country of origin: UK
Runtime: 20:56
The Bigger Picture
Directors: Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
Synopsis: Tensions arise between two brothers as their elderly mother requires more care.
Country of origin: UK
Runtime: 7:27
The Dam Keeper
Directors: Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
Synopsis: A lonely little pig in charge of maintaining the town dam is cruelly bullied by his classmates.
Country of origin: US
Runtime: 18:08
Me and My Moulton
Director: Torill Kove
Synopsis: Three sisters growing up in an unconventional Norwegian family ask their parents for a bicycle.
Country of origin: Canada
Runtime: 13:08
A Single Life
Director: Joris Oprins
Synopsis: A mysterious vinyl single gives a young woman the power to move back and forth through the years of her life.
Country of origin: Netherlands
Runtime: 2:18
The 2015 Academy Award Winner Feast is not available as part of this Vimeo collection. However, you can purchase it separately on this Youtube page (and we recommend that you do).
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