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Get an edge on your Oscar pool with this year’s standout selection of short doc award contenders, streaming in one vital collection. Looking back at the Hong Kong protests, Black history and more, these bite-sized gems start big conversations with urgent and poignant stories of grief, identity, intergenerational exchange, and reckoning with the past.
A Love Song for Latasha
D: Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan | USA | 18 min
A dreamlike portrait of a vibrant 15-year-old girl whose shooting death sparks the 1992 L.A. Riots.
Do Not Split
D: Anders Hammer and Charlotte Cook | USA, Norway | 36 min
The story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local protestors that escalate into conflict when highly armed police appear on the scene.
Hunger Ward
D: Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman | USA | 40 min
Filmed from inside two of the most active therapeutic feeding centers in Yemen, Hunger Ward documents two female health care workers fighting to thwart the spread of starvation against the backdrop of a forgotten war.
Colette
D: Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard | France, Germany, USA | 24 min
Resistance took courage in Nazi-occupied France. 75 years later, facing one's ghosts may take even more.
A Concerto Is a Conversation
D: Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers | USA | 13 min
A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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