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Oscar®-Nominated Film Showcase: Live Action Short Film Nominees
  • Date: Saturday, February 21, 2015
  • Time: 5:00 pm
  • Location: William G. McGowan Theater, Washington, DC

Aya
Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
(40 minutes; unrated)
A young woman waiting at an airport has an unexpected encounter with an arriving passenger.

Boogaloo and Graham
Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
(14 minutes; unrated)
Jamesy and Malachy are presented with two baby chicks to raise by their soft-hearted father.

Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
Hu Wei and Julien Féret
(15 minutes; unrated)
A photographer and his assistant photograph the inhabitants of a remote Tibetan village.

Parvaneh
Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
(25 minutes; unrated)
An Afghan teenager living in a refugee center in Switzerland encounters difficulties wiring money to her family and asks a young Swiss woman for help.

The Phone Call
Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
(20 minutes; unrated)
A woman working for a crisis center phone line receives a call from a suicidal older man.

Total Running time: 114 minutes.

The National Archives hosts the eleventh annual free screenings of the Oscar® 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 Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film and the National Archives Foundation.

All public programs at the National Archives are free. Reservations are recommended; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The doors to the building will open 45 minutes prior to the start of the program. Use the Special Events entrance on the corner of Constitution Avenue and 7th Street, NW.Live captioning will be available online and in the William G. McGowan Theater. If you require an alternative or additional accommodation for an event (such as a downloadable transcript or a sign language interpreter), please send an email to public.program@nara.gov or call 202-357-5000 in advance.