The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019: Documentary

137, R

 

Black Sheep (Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn) follows a young Nigerian boy whose mother moves him away from the dangers of London. But even far from the big city, the boy must go to extremes to fit in.

End Game (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman) A positive look at the end of life at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, where doctors, nurses, and counselors ease their patients’ fears with transformative compassion.

A Night at the Garden (Marshall Curry) If it wasn’t on film, it would be hard to imagine: in February 1939, 20,000 Americans gathered in Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism.

Lifeboat (Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser) Meet the people behind the headlines, as volunteers of SeaWatch try to rescue refugees crossing the Mediterranean to escape the poverty and violence of their homelands.

Period, End Of Sentence. (Winner). Rayka Zahtabchi and Melissa Berton. Something as basic as menstruation forces girls to drop out of school in a village outside of Dehli. When a machine that make sanitary pads is installed, lives are changed.