Just came back from watching Oscar Shorts
http://theoscarshorts.shorts.
My pick
Animated Shorts: Me and My Moulton
Live Action Shorts. Butter Lamp
LIVE ACTION SHORTS:
Pervaneh: Story of a teenager Afghani girl in Zurich, trying to find legal status, being financially exploited and trying to help a struggling family back home. Accidentally finds friendship and experience liberty meeting up a renegade Caucasian girl,
Butter Lamp:A roving portrait photographer in a small town in Tibet (perhaps). Excellent portrayl of characters. Groups of people come and get their pictures taken in front of background screens of views of all over China, Tieenman Square, Great Wall, Monasteryies etc. Powerfal play of human emotions in an otherwise ordinary situation.
Phone Call: Will perhaps get the Oscar. Excellent role by Sally Hawkins of Blue Jasmine fame. Acts as a crisis center telephone worker who helps a miserable man live through the last minutes of his life, while herself anxiously waiting to meet her boyfriend at 7 PM
Aya: An Israeli women cannot resist an oppurtunity to be someone else for some time and runs away for a short time, with a Danish music judge who takes her as his pickup driver from Tel Aviv to Jerusulam. She lets herself wander a bit too much before she heads home,
Boogaloo and Graham:Most Funny. Story of two brothers in Belfast given chicken by their dad as a present, start to love them and would not compromise on anything to be separated from them. Most hilarious joke lines.
ANIMATED SHORTS:
Me and My Moulton: A story of three sisters in Norway, living on limited resources with what-they-think weird parents, longing for a better life. Finding out in end that happiness can be in small things and appreciate their parents despite their limitations. Old style animation, simple budget very well done.
Feast:
Typical Disney style. High tech animation, a gluttony dog, ultimately helps get his owner win the love of his life, and everybody lives and eats happily thereafter
The Bigger Picture: Story of two brothers and their dying mother. One lives at home and takes care of house chores and the other is worldly successful, have sibling rivalry, but find peace between themselves after mother dies. Very artistic painting style animation.
A Single Life:
A very short movie, only two minutes, With in the playback of a record, one lives the whole life from pizza loving kid to cremation and all the stages in between. Very artfully done.
Sweet Cocoon:Funny high tech animation of a cocoon and finally turning into a beutifyl butterfly for a split second before being eaten up by a bird. Pixar typical
http://theoscarshorts.shorts.
My pick
Animated Shorts: Me and My Moulton
Live Action Shorts. Butter Lamp
LIVE ACTION SHORTS:
Pervaneh: Story of a teenager Afghani girl in Zurich, trying to find legal status, being financially exploited and trying to help a struggling family back home. Accidentally finds friendship and experience liberty meeting up a renegade Caucasian girl,
Butter Lamp:A roving portrait photographer in a small town in Tibet (perhaps). Excellent portrayl of characters. Groups of people come and get their pictures taken in front of background screens of views of all over China, Tieenman Square, Great Wall, Monasteryies etc. Powerfal play of human emotions in an otherwise ordinary situation.
Phone Call: Will perhaps get the Oscar. Excellent role by Sally Hawkins of Blue Jasmine fame. Acts as a crisis center telephone worker who helps a miserable man live through the last minutes of his life, while herself anxiously waiting to meet her boyfriend at 7 PM
Aya: An Israeli women cannot resist an oppurtunity to be someone else for some time and runs away for a short time, with a Danish music judge who takes her as his pickup driver from Tel Aviv to Jerusulam. She lets herself wander a bit too much before she heads home,
Boogaloo and Graham:Most Funny. Story of two brothers in Belfast given chicken by their dad as a present, start to love them and would not compromise on anything to be separated from them. Most hilarious joke lines.
ANIMATED SHORTS:
Me and My Moulton: A story of three sisters in Norway, living on limited resources with what-they-think weird parents, longing for a better life. Finding out in end that happiness can be in small things and appreciate their parents despite their limitations. Old style animation, simple budget very well done.
Feast:
Typical Disney style. High tech animation, a gluttony dog, ultimately helps get his owner win the love of his life, and everybody lives and eats happily thereafter
The Bigger Picture: Story of two brothers and their dying mother. One lives at home and takes care of house chores and the other is worldly successful, have sibling rivalry, but find peace between themselves after mother dies. Very artistic painting style animation.
A Single Life:
A very short movie, only two minutes, With in the playback of a record, one lives the whole life from pizza loving kid to cremation and all the stages in between. Very artfully done.
Sweet Cocoon:Funny high tech animation of a cocoon and finally turning into a beutifyl butterfly for a split second before being eaten up by a bird. Pixar typical
The Dam Keeper: Story of a neglected piglet
who doubles as the Dam Keeper of a town and is a day time school kid,
How he is either avoided or bullied and how tender feelings are
cultivated once he meets a mate.
Footprints: A complicated satire on trigger happy gun lovers
Duet:
A typical Disney animation of a boy, his dog and the girl though
different stages of life, from infants to a loving couple. A fairly
tale. Goo music and dance animation, nothing much else
Bus Story: A dark humor story of a bus driver rookie in rural Canada. 
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