A young Palestinian activist documents the Israeli displacement of the local villages in No Other Land. Basel Adra is a young activist living in Masafer Yatta, Palestinian West Bank. For decades, the Israeli military has been displacing the local villages, claiming that the land is meant as a training zone. With the help of sympathetic…
For the 20th year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-nominated Shorts for Animation, Live Action, and Documentary. 2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films – Animation Magic Candies (Daisuke Nishio – Japan) Dong-Dong acquires a bag of marble-shaped candies, each with a different magical property. Magic Candies is directed by Daisuke Nisho of Toei Animation, best known for Dragonball Z and Interstella 5555,…
A woman seeks answers after her husband is forcibly disappeared in I’m Still Here. It is the early 1970s and Brazil is under a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) lives in a beachside house in Rio De Janeiro with her former congressman husband Rubens (Selton Mello) and their five children. Despite the ongoing dictatorship,…
Robbie Williams tells the story of his tumultuous career, characterized as an anthropomorphic chimpanzee, in Better Man. Growing up in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England, Robert Williams (Jonno Davies) dreams of being a performer like his absentee father Peter (Steve Pemberton). Robert gets his big break at 15 when he is chosen by manager Nigel Martin-Smith…
Two young black men form a bond in a cruel reform school in Nickel Boys. Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse) is a young African-American man in 1962 in Tallahassee, Florida. He has a seemingly bright future when his high school teacher, Mr. Hill (Jimmie Fails), gets Elwood enrolled in a tuition-free accelerated study program at an…
A Jewish Hungarian architect immigrates to the United States after the Second World War in The Brutalist. In 1947, Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody) emigrates from Budapest to Philadelphia, where he is taken in by his cousin Attila (Alessandro Nivola) and his wife Audrey (Emma Laird). While awaiting word of when his wife Erzsébet…
An old enemy returns in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Wallace (Ben Whitehead) has been using his inventions to automate his daily life, much to the minor annoyance of Gromit. Wallace’s latest invention is the “Smart Gnome” Norbot (Reece Shearsmith), which becomes a surprise hit for Wallace due to Norbot’s exceptional gardening skills. This…
Robert Eggers reimagines F.W. Murnau’s German Expressionist adaptation of Dracula with Nosferatu. In 1838 in the German city of Wisborg, real estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) is assigned by his employer Herr Knock (Simon McBurney) to visit the castle of Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård), who plans to retire to a mansion in the city….
The early years of the career of Bob Dylan are recreated in A Complete Unknown. In 1961, enigmatic folk singer Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) travels to New York to visit his hero Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), who’s hospitalized with a degenerative illness. It is at the hospital where Bob meets Peter Seeger (Edward Norton), who…
A struggling woman in post-WWI Copenhagen is taken in by a confectioner running a side business taking unwanted babies in The Girl with the Needle. In the dying days of the first World War, seamstress Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne) is suddenly evicted from the apartment she shared with her MIA husband Peter (Besir Zeciri). Karoline…
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