The Oscar-nominated short films in live action, animation and documentary often pass unnoticed even by avid cinephiles because of the considerable difficulty of accessing them.
Fortunately, the excellent Texas Public Radio Cinema Tuesday series will present all five documentary shorts nominated for this year’s Oscars on Tuesday, July 9.
The films cover a wide range of topics including a meditation on Taiwanese identity as it relates to the U.S. and China, a love letter to filmmaker Sean Wang’s charmingly eccentric grandmas, an investigation into the frightening increase in book bans in America and a penetrating look at the widening racial economic gap through the frame of a barber shop in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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