2022 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Documentary

Once again, O Cinema is proud to present this nationally-touring program highlighting all the Live Action, Animated and Documentary short films that received Academy Award nominations this past year. The 2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films program offers viewers the rare opportunity to experience the year’s best short films from across the globe, collected together in this special cinematic showcase courtesy of Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures!

AUDIBLE(Directed by Matt Ogens & Geoff McLean /2020 / USA / 39 min)A cinematic and immersive coming of age documentary following Maryland School for the Deaf high school athlete Amaree McKenstry and his close friends as they face the pressures of senior year and grappling with the realities of venturing off into the hearing world.

LEAD ME HOME(Directed by Pedro Kos & Jon Shenk / 2020 / USA / 39 min)500,000 Americans experience homelessness every night. This immersive, cinematic film personalizes the overwhelming issue by telling the real-life stories of those going through it as a first step toward challenging uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies and gives the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope and diversity of unsheltered America today.

THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL(Directed by Ben Proudfoot / 2021 / USA / 22 min)She is one of the greatest living women’s basketball players. 3 national trophies. Scored the first basket in women’s Olympic basketball at the ‘76 Olympics. Drafted to the NBA. But have you ever heard of Lucy Harris?

THREE SONGS FOR BENAZIR(Directed by Elizabeth Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei / 2020 / Afghanistan / 22 min)The story of Shaista, a young man who - newly married to Benazir and living in a displacement camp in Kabul - struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family.

WHEN WE WERE BULLIES(Directed by Jay Rosenblatt / 2021 / USA & Germany / 36 min)A mind-boggling coincidence leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class and fifth grade teacher to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident 50 years ago.