2023 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary
The annual popular program provides both the delight of discovery and renewed wonder at the ways in which short-form cinema can explore the world through fresh points of view and unbridled curiosity.
The total 177 minute runtime includes a 12 minute intermission.
Jay Rosenblatt in IN PERSON immediately following the Saturday, Feb 18 presentation of his Oscar nominated short, HOW DO YOU MEASURE A YEAR?
Program:
How Do You Measure a Year?
Director: Jay Rosenblatt
For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking the same questions. What results is a unique chance to watch time, to see a young woman come into focus physically, mentally and emotionally.
USA/29 MINS/2022. Trailer!
The Elephant Whisperers
Director: Kartiki Gonsalves
The Elephant Whisperers follows an indigenous couple as they fall in love with Raghu, an orphaned elephant given into their care, and tirelessly work to ensure his recovery and survival.
INDIA/39 MINS/2022 Trailer!
Stranger at the Gate
Director: Joshua Seftel
From Executive Producer Malala Yousafzai. After 25 years of service, a US Marine filled with hatred for Muslims plots to bomb an Indiana mosque. When he comes face to face with the immigrants he seeks to kill, the story takes a shocking twist toward compassion, grace, and forgiveness.
USA/30 MINS/2022 Trailer!
Haulout
Director: Evgenia Arbugaeva & Maxim Arbugaev
On a remote coast of the Siberian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.
UK/25 MINS/2022. Trailer!
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Director: Anne Alvergue & Debra McClutchy
She was once as famous as Jackie O. And then she tried to take down a President. The Martha Mitchell Effect is an archival documentary portrait of the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: Martha Mitchell, a Republican cabinet wife who was gaslighted by the Nixon Administration to keep her quiet. It offers a female gaze on Watergate through the voice of the woman herself.
USA/39 MINS/2022. Trailer!