“The short films … offer a vision of what the Academy Awards should and could be but very rarely are: eclectic, cosmopolitan, scrappy and surprising.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times

Feeling Through 

Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski (USA, 19 min.)

A late-night encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.

The Letter Room

Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan (USA, 33 min.)

When a corrections officer is transferred to the letter room, he soon finds himself enmeshed in a prisoner’s deeply private life. With Oscar Isaac.

The Present 

Farah Nabulsi (Palestine, 25 min.)

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

Two Distant Strangers 

Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe (USA, 25 min.)

In “Two Distant Strangers,” cartoonist Carter James’ repeated attempts to get home to his dog are thwarted by a recurring deadly encounter that forces him to re-live the same awful day over and over again.

White Eye 

Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman (Israel, 21 min.)

A man finds his stolen bicycle, which now belongs to a stranger. While attempting to retrieve it, he struggles to remain human.