2019 Academy Award® Nominated Short Films – Live Action Program

Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Register now to see the Academy Award® Nominated Live Action Films at the Des Moines Art Center! 

Showings

Running Time: 105 minutes

Friday, February 15 / 6:30 pm

Sunday, February 17 / 1:30 pm (repeat of 2/15 films)

Nominees

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  marguerite

  Director Marianne Farley, Canada
  19 minutes

  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.

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  skin

  Director Guy Nattiv, USA
  20 minutes

  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.

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  detainment

  Director Vincent Lambe, Ireland
  30 minutes

  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.

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  fauve

  Director Jeremy Comte, Canada
  17 minutes

  Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer...

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  madre (mother)

  Director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spain
  19 minutes

  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.