oAgain, the UK-based shorts streaming platform has created valuable services by packaging short films that were nominated for this year in three categories: live-action, animation and documentary (15 in total). I’m going. Here, a high point to make up for some of the dull and redundant moments.
In the live action drama category, the most wreath is already a man who could not remain silent from Croatian director Nebosa Srijepsevic. It was the winner of the Cannes Palme de Orle short film, and the Serbian paramilitary forces called for each passenger to stop the train and demand that the patron saint of the family be stopped and the 1993 Stolp massacre during the Bosnian War. Based on a true story (how to tell who Orthodox Serbs are); they stripped off 18 Muslims and one croto to be murdered. The film is about one man who stood up to them, and the film shuns the audience with an interesting misdirection about who that person will be and who is the film’s hero. It’s really cold when the train finally trembles again and people realize they’re safe, with a mixture of salvation and shame… because they’re silent.
It’s a great short, but my personal Oscar probably goes for a simpler and more talked about drama. I am an El Salvadoran immigrant. They are summoned to the Department of Homeland Security to normalize his residence, and they are happy to be sure things will go well. Of course, it’s not the case, and there’s a nauseating twist. It’s a film that tells modern America.
I wasn’t particularly interested in Anuja, a slightly cliched Indian set film about American academics and podcaster Adam J. Graves’ poor street child. Two sisters work in a sweat shop. However, the manager who faces Hatchet (who keeps spitting Chai into the cup) thinks he can exploit her amazing abilities for mental arithmetic, and if she stops, he too will do so He says he’ll fire her sister – and this is the terrible dilemma she faces. Meanie Manager wants to keep Anuja up, because she has an electronic calculator that can figure out the total she does in her head, but it’s not so clear.
The South African film The Last Ranger is worth killing rhinos for the horns, if you are serious with heart. Of course it’s a bad thing. The national park rangers tasked with protecting wildlife take young girls to ride in a jeep, and they fall into a dangerous situation. But this drama, derived from a true story, brings some tension and danger, and in fact, unexpectedly horrifying violence at its climactic moment. Some sci-fi, and in fact much-needed comedy, are provided by the Dutch film I’m Not a Robot, Blade Runnery Lark from Victoria Warmerdam. It’s not an M robot” Captcha test (clicking on the square in a photo containing a bridge or something similar) repeatedly mistakes and makes something terrible. It was fun and well shot with the interior and exterior location.
In the world of animation, I remained as usual with a valuable tendency with pixies and I was a bit settled in the fact that animation seemed to mean mainly films about children. This genre seems to drift frequently at childlike addresses to audiences. However, all five candidates were appealing. Yeah! French animator Roic Espece is about laughing and laughing with adult kisses about little kids running wild at a holiday resort. They think you can see your lips glow pink when engaged in this terrible activity, but two of these kids have pink lip charm to each other I’ll notice. The Iranian film in the shadow of Hossein Moreyemi and Shirin Sohani’s Cypress is a complicated, subtle, dreamy film about a former military captain living on the island with his daughter and suffering from PTSD. A whale on the beach. Magic Candy is promising, but ultimately the Japanese superintendent Daisuke Nisuke: an ambiguous short from a lonely little child whose other children can’t play with him. Talk to him as long as the sweetness stays in his mouth. A wonderful premise.
But the film Beautiful Men by Belgian artist Nicholas Koeppens is an Oscar nominated animation that is not about children. Three bald men go to Istanbul for hairy masculinity like a bargain, and their fragile masculinity is remarkably challenged. But my Oscars in this category go to Wonder from the Dutch animator Nina Gantz. It’s about an imaginary 1980s kids television show where three characters are left in a kind of apocalyptic wasteland when their father, Johnny Ball-type presenter, dies, and leave them alone to form their own programmes. . When I reminded David Mitchell and Robert Webb that they remain indoors, I mean it as a composure.
Three of the five films are about law enforcement and violent crime, while the other two are interesting features of the documentary section, where Beethoven is extremely heavy. My Oscar is a true crime film of a rather surprising discovery about the deadly shooting of a barber by a joke probation police officer on the corner of Chicago Street in 2018. The film also edits footage (mostly silent) of a bodycam that police later forced to release along with traffic camera video. These photos tell the story surrounding the stomach of the victim, who was actually armed but did not draw his holster weapon as the officer claimed. You can hear the police screaming at each other, and you can hear the public that the man pulled a gun (you probably believe it at that moment, maybe not). ). We then absorb the complicated narrative of a female officer who is oddly emotional and protective of the officer who killed the man, desperately trying to keep him (and herself) from danger as the angry crowd gathers. And the other officers become strangely silent when they realize that what they say is being recorded. (The real extraordinary thing about all of this for Brits is that carrying a deadly weapon is normal.)
The other two films are about the death penalty in the United States. The numbers’ deaths relate to a 14-year-old school shooting that killed 14 people at the age of 14 in Parkland, Florida in 2018. It’s a horror that’s too familiar to you, but in one respect it’s rare. The archer did not die at the end of everything. With a guilty plea, the ju judge had to decide between life without parole and the death penalty. One survivor, Sam Fuentes, is brilliantly honest about what she is not entirely certain about it, and her final “Victim Impact Statement” speech is very powerful. The murderer himself is clearly emptied behind a covid mask in court as a way not to face his victims. I’m ready, Warden is a death row film about John Henry Ramirez, a former US Marine who was arrested in Mexico in 2008. Exile, the film does not reveal whether her mother knew her situation when she began the relationship. He was finally executed in 2022 after many delays and long-term legal debates related to his demands for a religious pastor to put his hand on him at the moment of a fatal injection. . The cynician may wonder if this is a delay tactic maintained in the case of last minute tolerance. But Ramirez seems sincere enough. The film includes a strong interview with Ramirez’s son and the adult son of the victim.
For me, the most confusing documentary short is Emma Ryan Yamazaki’s pounding heart instrument. The girl chosen to play the cymbals is excited to join first, then a male music teacher humiliates her in front of all the other children, mistakes it and practices well enough Humiliation for not being able to do so almost gave me a nervous breakdown. Then a kind female teacher helps her and she makes it right. It is a story arc with a happy ending that may have been shaped by the editing. But what lessons have you learned here? Would you like to work with your school community? Will you follow the authority of a man and become a conformant? It seems that this ode had not had much joy and joy.
Conversely, the only girl in the orchestra is about double bassist Olyn O’Brien, a veteran New York Philharmonic. O’Brien is an incredibly young 87-year-old and has just retired after playing and education in a renowned career that was heavily praised by Leonard Bernstein. She has been the only female member of the orchestra for many years, and the title’s sexist formulation “Girls” is taken from a choot profile in Time Magazine from the 1960s. (The film cites Zubinmeta’s Boulish and embarrassing remarks from Zubinmeta, the conductor of Raphil Harmony from 1971. “I don’t think women should be in the orchestra”) ‘Brien (FW Murnau The Sunrise Stars, and the film has something interesting to say about her West Coast nurturing and her move towards a serious New York music career. She also believes that double basses are not flashy solo instruments, but rather the foundation for musical collaboration and integration. She manifests herself in enormous musical intelligence, humility and seriousness. Directed by O’Brien’s nie Molly O’Brien, the film is probably not long enough to get into the issues of her private and emotional life, but she does have the “German Bow” technique You’d have wanted to hear them discuss the benefits of. The bow in the hand, the palm of the hand.
Oscar Shorts 2025 will be available in cinemas in the US and Canada starting February 14th.
