2009 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action
Showcase of This Year's Academy Award Nominees
This year's five Oscar-nominated live-action shorts are:
- Auf Der Strecke (On the Line) - directed by Reto Caffi - Switzerland, 30 min.
A bookstore employee who is secretly in love with a coworker sees a potential rival attacked on the train.
- New Boy - directed by Steph Green and Tamara Anghie - Ireland, 11 min.
Adapted from a Roddy Doyle short story about a nine-year-old African boy on his first day of school in Ireland.
- Toyland (Spielzeugland) - directed by Jochen Freydank - Germany, 14 min.
In 1942, a German boy is convinced his Jewish neighbors are going to Toyland.
- The Pig (Grisen) - directed by Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh - Denmark, 22 min.
A man about to have surgery is comforted by a painting of a pig.
- Manon on the Asphalt - directed by Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont - France, 15 min.
A young woman hit by a bicycle reflects on her life.
Estimated total running time - 94 min.
2009 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action
Sun February 15, 2009, 7:00 & 9:00, Muenzinger Auditorium
USA, 2008, see website for updated info, digital projection
Tickets
10 films for $60 with punch card
$9 general admission.
$7 w/UCB student ID,
$7 for senior citizens
$1 discount to anyone with a bike helmet
Free on your birthday! CU Cinema Studies students get in free.
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