Nominees in live\u002Daction, animated and documentary categories are coming to Canadian cinemas
Longest of the lot are the docs, which often bump right up against the 40-minute barrier that officially separates a short from a feature. Though the most effective of the five might also be one of the shortest., clocking in at 25 minutes, looks at an annual walrus migration in the Russian arctic, as witnessed by marine biologist Maxim Chakilev. Camped out on a beach and surrounded by a mass of writhing walruses, Chakilev looks to have wondered into a zombie-apocalypse story.
, in which two brothers try their best to fulfill their mother’s bucket list on her behalf, just after her death. There’s alsoLe Pupille , which takes place at a Catholic boarding school in Italy during the First World War, and finds its young charges up to no end of mischief.tells the story of an Indigenous girl in Greenland whose older sister has gone missing, whilefeatures a young woman from Iran arriving at an airport in Europe, anxious to avoid the man who is waiting to meet her there.Article content
The animated short lineup is notable for marking the third year in a row without a Disney or Pixar offering, which used to be the standard start of the list of nominees. Instead we get, a decidedly not-for-children story about the director’s teenaged quest to lose her virginity.An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
might give you existential nightmares. It’s a stop-motion animated tale of an office worker who begins to suspect he’s in a stop-motion animated tale, not least because of the liminal blur of filmmakers’ hands visible at the edges of the frame. Trippy stuff.
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