2010 Oscar Nominated Short Films

FRENCH ROAST
FRANCE/8 MINS
Director/Writer: Fabrice O. Joubert
In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman is about to pay the check when he finds out that he has lost his wallet. To save time he decides to order more coffee.

GRANNY O'GRIMM'S SLEEPING BEAUTY
IRELAND/6 MINS
Director: Nicky Phelan/Writer: Kathleen O'Rourke
Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, loses the plot as she tells her version of ‘Sleeping Beauty' to her terrified granddaughter.

THE LADY AND THE REAPER
SPAIN/8 MINS
Director/Writer: Javier Recio Gracia
A sweet old lady lives alone on her farm, waiting for death so that she can see her beloved husband once again. One night, she is invited to enter death's domain, but someone will ruin it for her.

LOGORAMA
ARGENTINA/17 MINS
Director: Nicolas Schmerkin/Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker
Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, wild animals rampaging through the city and even more in Logorama! Featuring the voices of director David Fincher and screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker. (Please note: This film is not appropriate for young children due to strong language and violence. It will run at the end of the entire Animation program.)

A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH
UNITED KINGDOM/30 MINS
Director: Nick Park/Writers: Nick Park, Bob Baker
Wallace & Gromit have started a new bread baking business, ‘Top Bun' and converted 62 West Wallaby Street into a granary with ovens, robotic kneading arms and an old-fashioned windmill on the roof. The transformation is perfect. While they enjoy being the ‘Toast of the Town', Gromit soon realises his master's life is in jeopardy, and turns sleuth to solve the escalating murder mystery in what quickly becomes ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death.'

THE KINEMATOGRAPH
POLAND/12 MINS
Director: Tomek Baginski
The Kinematograph is based on one of Mateusz Skutnik's steampunk Revolutions graphic novels.

RUNAWAY
CANADA/9 MINS
Director: Cordell Barker
Runaway takes you on a journey that is both funny and disastrous. Happy passengers are having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the unknown fate that awaits them around the bend.

Live Action
Please be advised that the Live Action program is rated R.

Live Action Shorts Showtimes:
Tuesday, March 2 & Wednesday, March 3: 8:45 pm
(No shows on Monday, March 1 or Thursday, March 4)
Friday, March 5 & Saturday, March 6: 4:15

THE DOOR
IRELAND/17 MINS
Director/Writer: Juanita Wilson
A father attempts to come to terms with the devastating affects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

INSTEAD OF ABRACADABRA
SWEDEN/22 MINS
Director/Writer: Patrik Eklund
Tomas is a bit too old for still living at home with his parents, but his failure to become a magician leaves him with no other choice. His father Bengt wants him to get a proper job. On Bengt's 60th birthday party Tomas give him, and all his guests, an quite bizarre show.

KAVI
USA/INDIA/19 MINS
Director/Writer/Producer: Gregg Helvey
Kavi is a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.

MIRACLE FISH
AUSTRALIA/17 MINS
Director/Writer: Luke Doolan
8-year-old Joe has a Birthday he will never forget. After friends tease him, he sneaks off to the sick bay, wishing everyone in the world would go away. He wakes up to find his dream may have become a reality.

THE NEW TENANTS
DENMARK/USA /20 MINS
Director: Joachim Back/Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen
A prying neighbor, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Set amidst the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start of two men on what might just be the worst moving day ever. Their new apartment reveals its terrifying history in a film that is by turns funny, frightening, and unexpectedly romantic.