The 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

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Animation Nominees
• "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation" (28 mins) (US) WINNER
  Explores the difficult emotional terrain of father/son relationships as seen through the filmmaker’s own turbulent relationship with his father.
• "Badgered" (7 mins) (UK)
  The tale of a grumpy badger who just wants the world to let him sleep.
• "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello" (27 mins) (AUS)
  The story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his plague-ridden home on a desperate voyage to redeem himself.

Live Action Nominees
• "Our Time is Up" (15 mins) (US)
  When a therapist finds out he has six weeks to live, he adopts a fresh method of treatment: brutal honesty.
• "Ausreisser (The Runaway)" (23 mins) (Germany)
  A man is confronted by the six-year old son he didn’t know he had. A search for the mother ensues, but she’s nowhere to be found.
• "The Last Farm" (15 mins) (Iceland)
  In a remote valley, all of the farms except one have been abandoned.
• "Six Shooter" (27 mins) (Ireland) WINNER
  On a train journey home through rural Ireland, an older man grieving the loss of his wife encounters a strange young character.
• "Cashback" (19 mins) (UK) A London college art student’s vivid imagination runs wild as he works the late shift at a local supermarket. Cashback has been developed as a full length feature, that is currently in post-production.

Bonus Shorts
• The Fan and the Flower
• Imago