2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films - Documentary
How Do You Measure a Year? (PG) – Jay Rosenblatt, USA, 29 min.
Director Jay Rosenblatt examines the relationship that developed with his daughter from age 2 to 18 as he films her answering the same questions every year.
The Elephant Whisperers (PG) – Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga, India, 40 min.
An indigenous couple in South India encounter an orphaned elephant that they care for and work to ensure his survival.
Stranger at the Gate (PG) – Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones, USA, 29 min.
When a U.S. Marine plans to carry out a terrorist attack at a mosque in an American small town, things take a very unanticipated when he encounters the people that he has set out to murder.
Haulout (PG) – Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev, UK, 25 min.
In the emptiness of the Russian Arctic, a man is waiting in his hut to observe an annual natural event that happens there, but the warming ocean is taking a huge toll on it.
The Martha Mitchell Effect (PG) – Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison, USA, 40 min.
It examines Martha Mitchell, the wife of Richard Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell, who spoke out about Watergate and how the Nixon administration attempted to gaslight her into keeping quiet.