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2020 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts

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.

L.A. Story

Starring: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker

A wacky TV weatherman loses his job after taking off yet another weekend – after all, he figures, L.A. weather never changes, does it? And his personal life is a mess too, because his relationship with his long-time girlfriend has gone kaput. Everything looks pretty dismal, when he unexpectedly meets a British journalist on assignment in L.A. and falls instantly in love. He fears he has no chance with her, but while driving down a L.A. freeway, he suddenly realizes that one of the highway signs is trying to communicate with him. He stops to read the messages, takes a risk, and trusts in them to save his life.

Wendy

Starring: Shay Walker, Tommie Lynn Milazzo, Stephanie Lynn Wilson

The classic story of Peter Pan is wildly reimagined in this ragtag epic from Benh Zeitlin, director of Beasts of the Southern Wild. Lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril of growing up.

Just Mercy

Accessibility: Closed Captions, Assisted Listening

Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson

A powerful and thought-provoking true story, Just Mercy follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley (Larson). One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian (Foxx), who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie. In the years that follow, Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings and overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds-and the system-stacked against them.

Cherry 2000

Starring: Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Pamela Gidley

The Deuce Bozos celebrate Valentine’s Day with released-only-on-video CHERRY 2000, the futuroid love story made in 1987 but set in 2017!

In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. In this sci-fi adventure, a futuristic bounty hunter goes on a mission to find a robot replicant of a rich man’s short-circuited wife.

When successful businessman Sam Treadwell (David Andrews) finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 (Pamela Gidley), has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson (Melanie Griffith) to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of The Zone, Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes, but of real flesh and blood!

Mulan

Starring: Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Jason Scott Lee, Yoson An, Li Gong, Jet Li

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. Masquerading as a man, Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her inner-strength and embrace her true potential. It is an epic journey that will transform her into an honored warrior and earn her the respect of a grateful nation… and a proud father.

No Time To Die

Starring: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz

Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

A Quiet Place Part II

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

Peggy Sue Got Married

Starring: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Helen Hunt, John Carradine, Maureen O’Sullivan

Peggy Sue Bodell is a pretty, buoyant mother of two recently separated from her husband. Attending her 25th high school reunion alone, she faints and wakes up to find herself once again a senior in high school in 1959. Although she appears to her classmates as a 17-year-old bobby-soxer, Peggy Sue has her adult memory and perspective, from which she is able to enjoy the delicious, if at times heartbreaking, ability to revisit the past while knowing what the future holds. Able to take chances she never took, Peggy Sue does her best to right a few wrongs, but it’s the insight she gains into her relationship with her husband-to-be that may actually do her some good-once she gets back to the present.

The Wedding Planner

Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Justin Chambers, Alex Rocco, Kevin Pollak, Judy Greer, Kathy Najimy

Mary Fiore is an ambitious and successful San Francisco wedding planner who works only for the most wealthy and exclusive clients but who is also a perpetual single. Pressured by her father Sal to settle down, Mary is saved from a collision with an out of control dumpster by Steve Edison, a successful pediatrician. After sharing a romantic evening and a dance together, Mary learns that Eddie is engaged and that she’s being hired by his controlling fiancée Fran, an internet tycoon, to plan their lavish wedding.