For the 17th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar®-Nominated Short Films, opening on March 11. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners and give yourself a leg up in the Oscar pool! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts and catch The Academy Awards® on Sunday, March 27.

Screening Friday, March 11 at 8:30 PM & Sunday, March 13 at 2:00 PM

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Shorts included in this package:

ALA KACHUU (TAKE AND RUN)- Dir. Maria Brendle | Switzerland, 38m

19-year-old Sezim wants to fulfill her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland where she is forced to marry a stranger. If she refuses the marriage, she is threatened with social stigmatization and exclusion.

THE DRESS- Dir. Tadeusz Lysiak | Poland, 30m

Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver, who soon becomes the object of her fantasies.

THE LONG GOODBYE- Dir. Aniel Karia | United Kingdom, 12m

Riz and his family are in the middle of preparing a wedding celebration when the events unfolding in the outside world arrive suddenly on their doorstep. The result is a devastating and visceral feat of filmmaking and a poignant poetic cry from the heart.

ON MY MIND- Dir. Marting Strange-Hansen | Denmark, 18m

Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It’s a question of life, death and karaoke.

PLEASE HOLD- Dir. KD Davila | USA, 19m

In the not-so-distant future, a twenty-something, Latino man named Mateo is arrested by a police drone without explanation. Finding himself locked in a fully automated jail with no means of recourse, Mateo realizes he’s fallen through some kind of crack in the system.

RATING: R

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