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Oscar-nominated shorts...

The Long Goodbye

2021 Oscar nominee Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) co-wrote and stars in this violent nightmare come true. A South Asian family is preparing for a wedding when armed white militiamen storm their modest suburban London home. Vimeo

The Dress

Tadeusz Lysiak’s heartbreaker of a 30-minute drama follows a motel maid with dwarfism whose longing for intimacy focuses on a truck driver who is a frequent guest. YouTube

The Queen of Basketball This favorite to win the Oscar for short documentary spotlights Lusia Harris, a Mississippi-born basketball force of nature who, when she was selected by the New Orleans Jazz in 1977, became the only woman ever drafted by an NBA team. YouTube

Audible

It doesn’t take long to get into the world of Amaree McKenstry-Hall, a deaf high school football star reeling from the suicide of his best friend and trying to power through his senior year. This one is as touching as documentaries get. Netflix

Robin Robin

The studio behind Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit produced this animation front-runner, about a robin raised by a family of mice. Netflix

The Windshield Wiper Alberto Mielgo, a rising star in animation, brings his unique style to a gorgeous series of vignettes organized around the question “What is love?” YouTube

Lead Me Home

Many pundits have expressed outrage over the tent cities rising up in West Coast cities. This documentary changes the conversation by approaching the problem as an emerging humanitarian crisis. Netflix