THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2019 - LIVE ACTION
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The Awards Season is upon us and iShorts are once again bringing you the opportunity to view all the animated and live-action shorts, competing for the Academy Award, on the big screen. Come see Hollywood’s cream of the crop and pick your own winners. THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2019 - LIVE ACTION
Madre (Spain)
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Producers: María del Puy Alvarado, Rodrigo Sorogoyen |
Star: Anne Consigny, Marta Nieto, Alex Brendemühl |
Year: 2017 | Length: 19 min | Live Action |
A single mother receives a call from her seven-year-old son who is on vacation with his father in the French Basque Country. At first the call is a cause for joy, but soon it becomes a horrible nightmare when the child tells her that he is alone and cannot find his father who left a while ago.
FAUVE (Canada)
Director: Jeremy Comte | Producers: Evren Boisjoli, Maria Gracia Turgeon |
Star: Félix Grenier, Alexandre Perreault, Louise Bombardier |
Year: 2018 | Length: 17 min | Live Action |
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. Alone in the wild the two boys play around. Complicity evolves into a confrontation where one wants to have power over the other. Taking proportions larger than nature, this game will not prove as harmless as they thought.
MARGUERITE (Canada)
Director: Marianne Farley | Producer: Marie-Hélène Panisset |
Star: Béatrice Picard, Sandrine Bisson |
Year: 2017 | Length: 19 min | Live Action |
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.
DETAINMENT (Ireland)
Director: Vincent Lambe | Producers: Robert Dwyer-Joyce, Vincent Lambe, Darren Mahon |
Star: Ely Solan, Leon Hughes, Will O'Connell |
Year: 2018 | Length: 30 min | Live Action |
Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts from the James Bulger case which shocked the world in 1993 and continues to incite public outrage across the UK today.
SKIN (USA)
Director: Guy Nattiv | Producers: Jaime Ray Newman, Andrew Carlberg, Tim Harms |
Star: Johnse Allende Jr., Zeus Campbell, Lonnie Chavis |
Year: 2018 | Length: 20 min | Live Action |
A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.
Total length of the screening 105 min. In original language with Czech and English subtitles.
