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Oscar®-Nominated Film Showcase: Live Action Short Film Nominees

• Date: Saturday, February 27, 2016
• Time: 5:00 pm
• Location: William G. McGowan Theater, Washington, DC

Ave Maria
Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont
(15 minutes; unrated)
Five nuns living in the West Bank find their routine disrupted when the car of a family of Israeli settlers breaks down outside the convent. Unable to use the telephone due to Sabbath restrictions, the family needs help from the nuns, but the sisters’ vow of silence requires them to work with their visitors to find an unorthodox solution.

Day One
Henry Hughes
(25 minutes; unrated)
On the heels of a painful divorce, an Afghan-American woman joins the U.S. military as an interpreter and is sent to Afghanistan. On her first mission, she accompanies troops pursuing a bomb-maker, and must bridge the gender and culture gap to help the man’s pregnant wife when she goes into labor.

Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Patrick Vollrath
(30 minutes; unrated)
Michael, a divorced father devoted to his eight-year-old daughter, Lea, picks her up for their usual weekend together. At first it feels like a normal visit, but Lea soon realizes that something is different, and so begins a fateful journey.

Shok
Jamie Donoughue
(21 minutes; unrated)
In Kosovo in 1998, two young boys are best friends living normal lives, but as war engulfs their country, their daily existence becomes filled with violence and fear. Soon, the choices they make threaten not only their friendship, but their families and their lives.

Stutterer
Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
(12 minutes; unrated)
For a lonely typographer, an online relationship has provided a much-needed connection without revealing the speech impediment that has kept him isolated. Now, however, he is faced with the proposition of meeting his online paramour in the flesh, and thereby revealing the truth about himself.

Total Running Time: 103 minutes

The National Archives hosts the 12th annual free screenings of the Academy Award^® nominees in four categories: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Live Action Short Film, and Animated Short Film.

The screenings are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in partnership with the National Archives.

Registration for the 2016 film showcase is now closed. While we cannot guarantee you a seat, we anticipate being able to accommodate a certain number of walk-ups. Reserved seats will be made available to those waiting 15 minutes before the program begins.

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