2022 OSCAR SHORTS: LIVE ACTION

February 25 – March 10, 2022
2022 OSCAR SHORTS: LIVE ACTION

Ala Kachuu – Take and Run –Maria Brendle, Switzerland, 38 min.
Sezim, 19 years old, wants to fulfill her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland. There, she’s forced to marry a stranger. If she refuses the marriage, she is threatened with social stigmatization and exclusion. Torn between her desire for freedom and the constraints of Kyrgyz culture, Sezim desperately seeks a way out.

On My Mind – Martin Strange-Hansen, Denmark, 18 min.
Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It’s a question of life, death and karaoke.

Please Hold – KD Davila, US, 19 min.
In the not-so-distant future, MATEO (20s, Latino) is arrested by a police drone without explanation. Finding himself locked in a fully automated jail with no means of recourse, Mateo realizes he’s fallen through some kind of crack in the system. To get out alive he’ll have to go head-to-head with the labyrinthine, computerized bureaucracy of the privatized American justice system, in search of an actual human being who can set things right.

The Dress – Tadeusz Lysiak, Poland, 30 min.
Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver, who soon becomes the object of her fantasies…

The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia, UK, 12 min.
Riz and his family are in the middle of preparing a wedding celebration when the events unfolding in the outside world arrive suddenly on their doorstep. The result is a devastating and visceral feat of filmmaking, and a poignant poetic cry from the heart.

Dir: Various / 2021 / Various / 122 min

SCREENING: FRI 2/25 4PM; SAT 2/26 4PM; THU 3/3 4PM; FRI 3/4 4PM; SAT 3/5 4PM; SUN 3/6 4PM; THU 3/10 4PM
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