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Oscar-nominated live-action shorts grapple with fraught sociopolitical points
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Oscar-nominated live-action shorts grapple with fraught sociopolitical points

Last updated: February 12, 2025 11:42 pm
Editorial Board Published February 12, 2025
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The 5 Oscar-nominated live-action brief movies every deal with pressing sociopolitical points. By inserting us within the footwear of individuals on the entrance strains of them — even in a sci-fi pseudo-comedy — they promise to shake viewers.

‘A Lien’

Sophie and Oscar have been collectively for years. They’re married, they’ve a younger daughter. However Oscar got here to america as an undocumented immigrant and when he arrives for a required interview on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers workplace to determine his green-card standing, Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers are arresting these answering the summons. At its core, says Sam Cutler-Kreutz, the tense and frantic “A Lien” — impressed by a New York Occasions article — is “a horror film about documents.”

Cutler-Kreutz, who co-wrote and co-directed together with his brother, David, laments a “Kafkaesque” immigration system labyrinthine sufficient to confuse native-born People, a lot much less noncitizens trying to comply with the principles to realize authorized standing. “We’ve built this process that is fundamentally for humans but is strangely inhumane.”

‘Anuja’

The title protagonist in “Anuja” is a 9-year-old orphan residing together with her younger teen sister in Delhi, surviving by working lengthy hours in a garment manufacturing unit.

“Child labor is not an Indian problem alone,” says filmmaker Adam Graves. “It exists on all continents in every country, right here in California as well; right here in Los Angeles, for that matter.”

When Anuja has a possible method out of squalor, the selection isn’t so easy; she additionally has to consider the probably dire penalties for her beloved sister.

“It’s easy to kind of wag your finger and say, ‘Go to school, Anuja,’” Graves says. “I’ve tried to tell a story that complicates it and [respects] the decisions a lot of kids and their families who live in abject poverty are faced with on a daily basis.”

‘I’m Not a Robotic’ A woman (Ellen Parren) faces an unexpected identity crisis in "I'm Not a Robot."

Victoria Warmerdam’s “I’m Not a Robot” begins from a humorous premise — what should you fail the take a look at posed by online-verification applications — then shifts to its doubtlessly severe ramifications.

“As a female, bodily autonomy is always a question in terms of some other people” accepting it, says Warmerdam, acknowledging it among the many many different questions the situation raises..

“It really resonates with people who are neurodivergent and are not fitting in,” she says. “There’s something off [with the world], but they can’t describe it. I have two neurodivergent brothers. So this film and my two previous films are about outsiders.”

‘The Last Ranger’ A woman huddles close to a child against a bright sky in "The Last Ranger."

(Pan African Movie Pageant)

Rhinoceros poaching in South Africa is a severe problem that “The Last Ranger” places into sharp focus, highlighting the risks not simply to the endangered animals however to the people who attempt to defend them.

When the venture started, writer-producer Darwin Shaw says, “It was more a cartel story, but we honed it down into a woman’s story.”

Shaw and actor David Lee recruited Lee’s sister, Cindy, a veteran director, to make the movie a few younger, impoverished lady who goes with a courageous, mother-figure ranger on patrol, with tragic penalties.

“It’s so much bigger than somebody taking a horn off a rhino,” the director says. “The communities sometimes have no other source of income, and that’s a very big problem.”

‘The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent’ Two men on a train stand together looking concerned in "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent."

An strange man is touring by practice together with his two younger daughters. It stops unexpectedly and armed males with a paramilitary unit start questioning passengers about their faith … and taking passengers away. A nervous younger man of their compartment admits to them he doesn’t have his identification papers. What can the daddy do? It’s 1993 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The quietly tense “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” places us very uncomfortably inside an notorious incident within the Bosnian Warfare, when one man (Tomo Buzov) made a momentous resolution.

“What he did is something that needs to be remembered,” says writer-director Nebojša Slijepčević. “He was sort of a forgotten hero for political reasons that may be too complex to explain now because it’s very local Balkan stuff. He did not fit any of the nationalistic narratives.

“I recognize something very universal in this situation, when you witness violence that is not intended against you, you’re just a witness and you must decide what to do in this situation. Do you ignore it or do you react and risk your safety? There is no easy way out.”

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