{"id":612174,"date":"2024-03-10T19:25:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-documentary-review\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T16:25:35","slug":"watch-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-documentary-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-documentary-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a1bf33fb8b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a1bf33fb8b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-documentary-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982024_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Documentary_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-documentary-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%982024_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Documentary_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982024_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Documentary_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%982024_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Documentary_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In a strange reversal of a longstanding trend with the Academy, this year\u2019s documentary short ballot is almost entirely domestic (which is to say, films made by or about Americans), while the feature doc category \u2014 where subtitles aren\u2019t so common \u2014 is entirely international. Judging by the overall quality of the films in the 141-minute \u201c2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary\u201d lineup, that\u2019s no sign of compromise. In fact, for Oscar completists, ShortsTV\u2019s annual roundup is one of the most rewarding theatrical experiences audiences could hope for this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Director Sean Wang premiered his debut feature, \u201cD\u00ecdi,\u201d at the Sundance film festival just four days before learning that his short, \u201cN\u01cei Nai and W\u00e0i P\u00f3,\u201d had been Oscar nominated. Both projects feature his paternal grandmother, octogenarian Chang Li Hua, who shares a house with his mother\u2019s mother, 94-year-old Yi Yau Fuei (the title combines the two women\u2019s Cantonese nicknames). At times, Wang\u2019s delightful, slightly freeform portrait plays like a high-end home movie, as the young helmer observes his Taiwan-born elders, who sleep in the same bed and taunt one another about their farts. But there\u2019s real artistry to the way he shapes the footage. N\u01cei Nai and W\u00e0i P\u00f3 light up when their grandson\u2019s around, flipping through old photos, sharing stories of their youth and reflecting on their remaining time. Wang honors these women by being silly rather than sentimental, demonstrating that a great documentary is sometimes merely a record of something that might have otherwise been lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Produced by The New Yorker, John Hoffman and Christine Turner\u2019s \u201cThe Barber of Little Rock\u201d believes in leading by example. The grassroots doc inspires at times, outrages at others \u2014 as when it touches on the history of redlining and other discriminatory lending practices \u2014 by profiling Arkansas community development advocate Arlo Washington. A self-made entrepreneur, this local hero runs a barber school designed to give struggling neighbors a trade with which they can start their own businesses. But that\u2019s just the beginning of this Black man\u2019s crusade against economic injustice. Recognizing that the American financial system remains highly inaccessible to his peers, Washington also co-founded a non-profit bank. The short strings together Oprah-worthy moments in which he writes grants or defers payments to those who need that extra boost, following the beneficiaries of such bespoke solutions long enough to witness their success. It\u2019s the individual attention that makes Washington\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach so effective, and the doc takes a similarly personal approach in outlining a workable alternative to institutionalized racism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    While Taiwan features far in the rearview mirror of the Bay Area-based grannies in \u201cN\u01cei Nai and W\u00e0i P\u00f3,\u201d filmmaker S. Leo Chiang wrestles with the country\u2019s ongoing identity crisis in self-reflexive essay film \u201cIsland in Between.\u201d The movie spends most of its time on Kinmen, an island just off the coast of China where Taiwanese forces (exiled from the mainland) once staged their resistance. Visiting Kinmen as a tourist today, Chiang recalls how his father did his military service there decades before, observing the Beishan Broadcasting Wall, a tower of speakers that blasted propaganda across the bay. That history helps to explain the ongoing tension between China and Taiwan, though the director questions the hand-me-down wisdom on the subject: He\u2019s spent time in China and seems fascinated by the culture thriving there now. The question of Taiwanese autonomy is an issue of \u201csides,\u201d which some experts predict could spark World War 3. Chiang is more ambivalent, laying out his three passports to illustrate how borders don\u2019t define him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Speaking of propaganda, MTV Documentary Films honcho Sheila Nevins\u2019 \u201cThe ABCs of Book Banning\u201d doesn\u2019t pretend to be anything less. After more than a dozen years running HBO\u2019s doc division, Nevins finally helms her first project, applying the tools of filmmakers she\u2019s supported to a cause she feels passionately about: saving books from conservative critics, who\u2019ve been extremely savvy about singling out offending lines in literature and getting those books removed from school libraries. Nevins turns these censors\u2019 tactics back on themselves, equating them to Nazis (cue the book-burning footage) and \u201cfeaturing the voices of those who haven\u2019t been heard\u201d: the children. The emotional short is sure to galvanize folks, as young people express their desire to learn about people different from themselves. Books don\u2019t turn people gay, but they allow closeted kids to recognize themselves \u2014 and non-queer readers to develop empathy that threatens intolerant adults. That said, not all books are appropriate for kids, and the sometimes inelegant short lacks some much-needed nuance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What a few of the nominees lack in polish, the final nominee, \u201cThe Last Repair Shop,\u201d more than compensates for. Ingeniously conceived and gorgeously shot, Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers\u2019 nearly-40-minute short (the upper limit the category allows) explores a Los Angeles Unified School District program to provide students with working instruments at no cost. The directors start with the kids, which feels fairly obvious. Their stroke of brilliance comes in profiling the handful of specialists who keep the instruments in working order. Through these artisans \u2014 Dana Atkinson, Duane Michaels, Laty Moreno and Steve Bagmanyan \u2014 the filmmakers reveal the incredible diversity that comprises L.A.: an LAUSD alum who took years to accept his own homosexuality, immigrants of Armenian and Mexican origin, and a fiddle player discovered by Elvis\u2019 manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Like \u201cABCs,\u201d but better, this micro-masterpiece celebrates how transformative it can be to put the right tools in kids\u2019 hands. Watching them all play over the end credits is the perfect way to wrap this year\u2019s stellar ensemble of Oscar-nominated shorts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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