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2020 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Rating: PG 13 Release Year: 2020

Hair Love
Matthew A. Cherry, USA, 7 min.
It’s up to Daddy to give his daughter, Zuri, an extra-special hairstyle in this story of self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters.

Dcera (Daughter)
Daria Kashcheeva, Czech Republic, 15 min.
In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many years all the way to this hospital room, until the moment when a window pane breaks under the impact of a little bird.

Memorable
Bruno Collet, France, 12 min.
Recently, louis, a painter, is experiencing strange events. his world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects and people lose their realism. They are destructuring, sometimes disintegrating…

Sister
Siqi Song, China/USA, 8 min.
A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in china in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?

Kitbull
Rosana Sullivan, USA, 9 min.
Kitbull reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. together, they experience friendship for the first time.

Henrietta Bulkowski
Rachel Johnson, USA, 16 min. (featuring the voices of Chris Cooper and Ann Dowd)
A determined young woman, crippled by a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to see the world.

The Bird and the Whale
Carol Freeman, Ireland, 6 min.
A story about a young whale struggling to find his voice. After straying too far from his family to explore a shipwreck, he discovers it’s sole survivor, a caged songbird. Together they struggle to survive lost at sea.

Hors Piste
Léo Brunel, Camille Jalabert, Loris Cavalier, Oscar Malet, France, 5 min.
Two mountain rescuers take off in a helicopter for yet another rescue, but this time, not everything will go according to plan.

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