2021 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: LIVE ACTION

Titles include the following nominees:

Feeling Through 
(USA / Directed by Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski / 19 min.)
A teen wandering the streets of New York encounters a DeafBlind man in need of assistance getting to a bus stop.

The Letter Room 
(USA / Directed by Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan / 33 min.)
An empathetic prison officer gets transferred to the prison’s Letter Room and finds escape in the deeply personal letters written to an inmate on death row.

The Present 
(Palestine / Directed by Farah Nabulsi / 25 min.)
On his wedding anniversary, Yusuf and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift, encountering soldiers, segregated roads, and checkpoints.

Two Distant Strangers 
(USA / Directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe / 25 min.)
A man’s repeated attempts to get home to his dog are interrupted by a recurring deadly encounter that forced him to relive the day over and over again.

White Eye 
(Israel / Directed by Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman / 21 min.)
A man finds his stolen bicycle, which now belongs to a stranger. While attempting to retrieve it, he struggles to remain human.

Estimated Running Time: 2 hrs 5 mins.