BEST ANIMATED SHORTS
The front-runner for this year’s Best Animated Short is the Sony Animations short, “Hair Love,” which played in front of “The Angry Birds Movie 2” and later “Jumanji: The Next Level” and was also my personal favorite. Pixar has it’s own short in contention with “Kitbull.” The rest of the contenders are foreign entries.
Dcera (Daughter)
Daria Kashcheeva
In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a difficult childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father.
UNLIKELY
Daria Kashcheeva
| NONE |
COUNTRY: Czech Republic
LENGTH: 15 min
VIEWED ON: February 8, 2020
HAIR LOVE
Matthew A. Cherry | Karen Rupert Toliver
An African-American father learns to do his daughter’s hair for the first time.
FRONT-RUNNER
Matthew A. Cherry | Karen Rupert Toliver
| NONE |
COUNTRY: USA
LENGTH: 7 min
VIEWED ON: February 4, 2020
KITBULL
Rosana Sullivan | Kathryn Hendrickson
A fiercely independent stray kitten and a chained-up pit bull experience friendship for the first time.
POSSIBLE
Rosana Sullivan | Kathryn Hendrickson
| NONE |
COUNTRY: USA
LENGTH: 9 min
VIEWED ON: February 4, 2020
MEMORABLE
Bruno Collet | Jean-François Le Corre
Painter Louis and his wife Michelle are experiencing strange events. Their world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects, and people lose their realism. They are “destructuring,” sometimes disintegrating.
UNLIKELY
Bruno Collet | Jean-François Le Corre
| NONE |
COUNTRY: France
LENGTH: 12 min
VIEWED ON: February 8, 2020
SISTER
Siqi Song
A man remembers his childhood and growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?
UNLIKELY
Siqi Song
| NONE |
COUNTRY: China
LENGTH: 8 min
VIEWED ON: February 5, 2020
