Documentary of the Week

On Oscar Night, Don't Forget the Shorts


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2016 Oscar Nominees for Best Documentary Short

 

Body Team 12, directed by David Lang (13 minutes). Liberia's outbreak of Ebola is seen through the eyes of Garmay Sumo, the lone woman on a team dedicated to the safe disposal of dead bodies. For more information, click here to visit the official film web site.

Chau, Beyond the Lines, directed by Courtney Marsh (34 minutes). Chau, a Vietnamese teenager who suffered birth defects resulting from his mother’s exposure to Agent Orange, uses art to transcend his handicap. For more information, click here to visit the official film web site.

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, directed by Adam Benzine (40 minutes). Thirty years after the release of the epic documentary Shoah, director Claude Lanzmann looks back on the effort and his eventful life. For more information, click here to visit the official film web site. 

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (40 minutes). In Pakistan, eighteen-year-old Saba defies her family’s choice for marriage and is targeted for an “honor killing” by her father and uncle. But she survives to tell the tale. For more information, click here to visit the official film web site. 

Last Day of Freedom, directed by Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman (32 min). Illustrated with lyrical animation, Bill Babbitt tells the story of feeling obligated to turn in his troubled brother for a crime. For more information, click here to visit the official film web site. 

And here is a link to showtimes at the IFC Center.

 

Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen 

 

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