Viewing: February 28,2025
Screening Only on Friday, February 28th & Saturday, March 1st
The Oscar season is just around the corner! So, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be screening some of the short films that have been nominated for cinema’s most prestigious award. We’ll be showing films, presented by SHORTS, from both the Animated Shorts category and the Live Action Shorts category on February 28th and March 1st. We’ll also have ballots available for attendees, so you can cast your vote for the films you think best deserve to take home the handsome golden statue.
It’s a great honor to offer our community the chance to see these amazing and creative films before the official Academy Awards broadcast taking place on March 2nd, 2025!
Some films may contain content not suitable for children.
Featured Animated Shorts
Beautiful Men – Directed by Nicolas Keppens. Belgium/France/The Netherlands, 18 min, 2023. This film includes nudity, and may not be appropriate for audiences under 14 years old
Synopsis: Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
In The Shadow Of The Cypress – Directed by Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani. Iran, 20 min, 2023.
Synopsis: Living in a house with his daughter by the sea, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.
Magic Candies – Directed by Daisuke Nishio. Japan, 21 min, 2024.
Synopsis: The other kids at the park never ask Dong-Dong to play. But he’s fine just playing marbles on his own. One day he goes out in search of new marbles, but ends up buying a bag of colorful, marble-shaped candies instead. But the first time he pops one of them into his mouth, he’s astonished to hear his old sofa talking to him! For the next few minutes, until the candy melts away, he has the most unexpected and amazing conversation of his life. Realizing that these are no ordinary candies, Dong-Dong looks at the rest of the colorful sweets. Who else will he be able to talk to, and what else will he learn, through these magic candies?
Wander to Wonder – Directed by Nina Gantz. The Netherlands/Belgium/France, 13 min, 2023. This film includes nudity, and may not be appropriate for audiences under 14 years old.
Synopsis: Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a kids’ TV series called WANDER TO WONDER. After the creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. Struggling to find enough to eat, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
Yuck! (Buerk!) – Directed by Loïc Espuche. France, 13 min, 2024.
Synopsis: Adults kiss each other on the mouth, and children find it disgusting! What’s more, you can see it from afar: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo makes jokes about it, as do the other kids at the summer camp. But, he has a secret he won’t tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.
