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Oscar Shorts 2004

The 2004 Academy nominees for Best Short Film have been collected in this release by Apollo Cinema. Some of the shorts are only a few minutes long, some run up to half an hour; together they comprise 87 minutes of fine cinema.

There are two films set in mid-war Sarajevo in which life and redemption are found amidst the rubble. Another entire film takes place inside a squash court where a megalomaniac boss pushes a timid and underperforming employee to the edge. The Oscar winner in this category, an animated short narrated by Geoffrey Rush, tracks the bittersweet life of Harvie Krumpet, a hapless Polish immigrant living in Australia. Another hilarious animated short is based on the true story of a fishing trip and the many stops that take place on the way. Finally, a special bonus for the Rochester audience was the 2003 Student Academy Award Winner for Animation, won by RIT student Kimberly Miner. Her very short film was an animated study of the puzzling question of what happens when you drop a cat with a jellied piece of bread tied to its back.

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