The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2019: Animation

75, PG

 

Enjoy a wonderful afternoon of animation on Cinestudio’s big (single) screen! This year’s collection of Oscar-nominated animated shorts is a family-friendly funhouse, running the gamut from Animal Behavior, a group therapy session made up entirely of animals, to a woman who believes that her home made steamed bun has turned into a son (Bao –Winner). In fact, family figures in most of the shorts: Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas’ One Small Step follows an Asian-American family and the daughter’s dreams of space travel; Trevor Jimenez’s Weekends illustrates a childhood switching between divorced parents; and the imaginative and tender Late Afternoon, an Irish film by Louise Bagnall about a young caregiver to an older woman, as she enters her patient’s mind to experience the memories locked inside.