Oscar Qualifying Short Film Reviews – Page 7

From the film’s opening moments, a completely dark screen with a haunting string melody playing seductively in the background, award winning writer/director Uzo Oleh is

MOUSIE

Contrary to its playfully innocent title, Mousie is a period piece that captures the unnerving and unpredictable experience of being a target in Nazi Germany.

CHAMP

In the southwest, on the deep outskirts of nowhere, the backdrop in Champ that Oren Soffer sets up with his expansive cinematography – looks exactly

LOST KINGS

Brian Lawes brings us into a world that doesn’t exist in the minds of most Americans. In other words, many of us traverse the bucolic

FRIMAS

Given the complexity of human life, abortion is a divisive issue that will probably always have life. The sweeping abortion law in Texas and the

SHUTTER THE DOORS

A place is never just a place. It’s the people. It’s moments. It’s the time. So says the crucial dialogue in Shutter the Doors. But

TURNED

“With its auditory organs the moth can perform evading movements in the dark. The moth does terrible in the light, though. It can’t distinguish other

NO MORE WINGS

Some kids grow up and can’t wait to get out, while others never see a reason to leave home. The different mindsets obviously don’t put

ALIVE

When it comes to intimacy and disabilities, there is an unspoken history of forced sterilization, increased risks of abuse and victimization, and the societal assumption

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