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Watch All the Oscar-Nominated Shorts at IFC Center This Weekend

By Danielle Tcholakian | January 29, 2015 10:58am
 The IFC Center on Sixth Avenue will screen all of the Oscar-nominated short films starting Friday. The series will continue until the Oscars air.
The IFC Center on Sixth Avenue will screen all of the Oscar-nominated short films starting Friday. The series will continue until the Oscars air.
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GREENWICH VILLAGE — Want to beat all your friends at guessing the winners at this year's Oscar party? The IFC Center is here to help.

Starting Friday, Greenwich Village's indie movie theater is showing Oscar-nominated short films in four sets: all of the animated shorts; all of the live action shorts; two of the documentary shorts; and the remaining three documentary shorts.

The animated shorts series runs about 77 minutes and is recommended for audiences ages 8 and older. It not only includes the Academy's five animated quick picks, but a bonus additional four animated shorts as well. Viewers will spend 14 minutes in mid-'60s Norway during "Me and my Moulton," and six minutes observing a man’s love life through the eyes of his dog in "Feast."

The live-action series is recommended for viewers age 11 and older, with shorts ranging from 14 minutes to 39 minutes. The films come from all over the globe: In the Swiss flick "Parvaneh," an Afghan immigrant travels to Zurich and meets a female punk rocker; "Butter Lamp," filmed in China and France, follows a photographer and his Tibetan nomad subjects.

The documentary shorts nominated for Oscars are split into two separate screenings.

The first runs 81 minutes and couples "Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1," which showcases the work of crisis hotline workers who specialize in helping troubled service members, and "Joanna," a Polish story of a dying woman who promises her son she will do her best to live as long as possible.

The second group of short docs, with a runtime of 79 minutes, packages "Our Curse," by a Polish director whose newborn child has a rare and incurable disease; "White Earth," the story of an American oil boom seen from the perspective of three children and their immigrant mother; and "The Reaper," about a man who has worked in a Mexican slaughterhouse for 25 years.

Show times can be found on the IFC Center's website, and trailers for some of the films are available on the Oscars website. Tickets are available online and at the box office. All four programs open on Friday and will run until the Academy Awards air on Feb. 22.