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2024 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

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The Oscar-nominated short Films in the documentary category tackle a wide range of subjects, all with an average running time of about half an hour. This year’s nominees tackle everything from economic justice to censorship in schools to an appreciation of music. There’s even a personal interest doc about two grandmothers. Nǎi Nai and Wài […]

2024 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

To Kill a Tiger

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A farmer seeks justice for the gang rape of his 13-year-old daughter in To Kill a Tiger. One night in Jharkhand, India, a 13-year-old girl is raped by three men. However, when her rice farmer father Ranjit reported the incident to police, they instead suggested that his daughter just marry one of the rapists. Ranjit

To Kill a Tiger

Leave the World Behind

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Two families must deal with the repercussions of an apocalyptic cyber attack in Leave the World Behind. Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts) spontaneously decides to book a weekend getaway at a Long Island beach house with her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) and two children Rose (Farrah Mackenzie) and Archie (Charlie Evans). However, in the middle of

Leave the World Behind

My Animal – Blood in the Snow 2023

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An outcast teenager tries to balance their new love with their darkest secret in My Animal. Heather (Bobbi Salvör Menuez) is an aspiring hockey goalie, who is cursed by the fact that their father Henry (Stephen McHattie) is a werewolf and passed this trait down to Heather and their younger brothers Cooper (Charles F. Halpenny)

My Animal – Blood in the Snow 2023

Seagrass – TIFF 2023

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A Japanese-Canadian woman’s relationship with her family is forever changed while at an island self-development retreat in Seagrass. Judith (Ally Maki) travels with her husband Steve (Luke Roberts) and children Stephanie (Nyha Huang Breitkreuz) and Emmy (Remy Marthaller) to a self-development retreat on a remote island in the Pacific. While attending group therapy sessions on

Seagrass – TIFF 2023

Beau is Afraid

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An anxiety-ridden man tries to make it home for his mother’s funeral in Beau is Afraid. Beau Wassermann (Joaquin Phoenix) is a middle-aged man who lives on his own, often afraid to venture out into the world around him. Beau regularly visits his therapist (Stephen McKinley Henderson) to talk about his anxieties, often involving his

Beau is Afraid

Renfield

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The servant of Count Dracula fights for his independence in Renfield. For decades Robert Montagu Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) has been the familiar for Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage), with his primary task being locating victims for his master. Following Dracula’s latest defeat, Renfield relocates to an abandoned hospital in New Orleans. He nurses his master back

Renfield

Evil Dead Rise

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Demonic forces terrorize a family in a dilapidated apartment complex in Evil Dead Rise. Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) is a single mother living with her children Danny (Morgan Davies), Bridget (Gabrielle Echols), and Kassie (Nell Fisher) in an old Los Angeles apartment complex that is slated for demolition. The family is visited by Ellie’s sister Beth

Evil Dead Rise

Air

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The floundering Nike basketball decision hopes to recruit star prospect Michael Jordon for a new line of shoes in Air. In 1984, Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) is a talent scout for the endangered basketball division of Nike, headed by Howard White (Chris Tucker), which also includes Marketing VP Rob Strasser (Jason Bateman). The division was

Air

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

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Photographer Nan Goldin fights the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. Nan Goldin is a renowned photographer known for her work with L.G.B.T.Q. subcultures and her ongoing slideshow exhibition, “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.” In 2017, Goldin founded the advocacy group P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) to

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed