OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS - LIVE ACTION
Just in time for your Oscar bets, the Bill Cosford is please to bring back the Oscar Nominated Shorts Program for this year, including both Live Action and Animation. The Live Action nominees include new filmmakers and veterans as well as stories from around the globe. Join us for this special collection of celebrated short films before the Academy Award ceremony. (Runtime: approximately 100minutes)
PENTECOST (Ireland, 11minutes)
Directed by Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane.
Ireland 1977. Eleven-year-old Damian Lynch is called in at the last moment to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish. Following his last appearance as an altar boy when he knocked Father O'Toole off the altar, Damien is serving a three month ban from his only passion in life... football. To make matters worse Damian's team, Liverpool FC, are playing in their first European Cup final in two weeks. Damien's father offers him a reprieve and crucially a chance to see the European Cup final if he serves the mass correctly. Damien now faces a choice: either conform to the status quo or never watch his beloved Liverpool play again...
RAJU (Germany, 24minutes)
Directed by Max Zahle and Stefan Gieren.
The Fischers, a German couple, adopts in Kolkata an Indian orphan from Calcutta. When their new child disappears, the Fishers realize that they might be part of the problem.
THE SHORE (Ireland, 29minutes)
Directed by Terry George and Oorlagh George.
An inspiring story of two boyhood best friends divided by twenty-five years of misunderstanding. Their world and their friendship is shattered by the conflict escalating in Northern Ireland, the two boys' lives take very different paths until, twenty-five years later, Joe returns home. What happened all those years ago? Can old wounds be healed? The answer is equal parts hilarious and moving.. Starring Ciaran Hinds.
Terry George has been nominated for two best screenplay awards: HOTEL RWANDA (2004) and IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (1993)
TIME FREAK (USA, 10minutes)
Directed by Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey.
A neurotic inventor hopes to correct his past mistakes by creating a time machine. It is a strange genre hybrid of comedy and science fiction.
TUBA ATLANTIC (Norway, 25minutes)
DIrected by Hallvar Witzo.
Everyone is going to die one day. Oskar is going to die in six days. He is now ready to forgive his brother for a disagreement years ago. Will he reach his brother, who he believes lives on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, before it is too late?
And don't miss the Animation Nominated Shorts also playing this weekend!