$12 General Admission, $9 Member, $7 child (age 14 or younger)
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LIVE ACTION SHORTS
Rated R (violence, language, and adult themes)
For the 17th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb. 25th. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, March 27th.
LIVE ACTION SHORTS (Estimated Running Time: 122 minutes)
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run Sezim – Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger, Kyrgyzstan/Switzerland, 38 min.
Sezim, 19 years old, wants to fulfill her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland. There, she’s forced to marry a stranger. If she refuses the marriage, she is threatened with social stigmatization and exclusion. Torn between her desire for freedom and the constraints of Kyrgyz culture, Sezim desperately seeks a way out.
The Dress – Tadeusz Lysiak and Maciej Ślesicki, Poland, 30 min.
Lust, sexuality, and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julia suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver, who soon becomes the object of her fantasies…
The Long Goodbye – Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed, UK/Netherlands, 12 min.
Riz and his family are in the middle of preparing a wedding celebration when the events unfolding in the outside world arrive suddenly on their doorstep. The result is a devastating and visceral feat of filmmaking and a poignant poetic cry from the heart.
On My Mind – Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson, Denmark, 18 min.
Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It’s a question of life, death and karaoke.
Please Hold – K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse, USA, 19 min.
In the not-so-distant future, Mateo (20s, Latino) is arrested by a police drone without explanation. Finding himself locked in a fully automated jail with no means of recourse, Mateo realizes he’s fallen through some kind of crack in the system. To get out alive he’ll have to go head-to-head with the labyrinthine, computerized bureaucracy of the privatized American justice system, in search of an actual human being who can set things right.
Martha’s Vineyard Film Society – 2022 Oscar Contest Ballot
Do you have your favorite Oscar-nominated films? Do you think you know who is going to walk home with an Oscar? Fill out our 2022 Oscar Ballot with your picks of what films will win and be entered for the chance of winning free movies with us for a year! Whoever gets the most categories correct will win a one-year MVFS membership, equivalent to an MVFS Film Enthusiast membership.
Click the link above to fill out the ballot and return it to us by March 26th through email (maury@mvfilmsociety.com) or mail:
MV Film Society
PO Box 4423
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
“Big issues tackled in brief films” – Variety
“Unsung but worth your time” – New York Times
