Film Review: 2017 Oscar Nominated Animation Shorts

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Just in time for the Academy Awards ceremonies at the end of February, there will be screenings of 3 programs of short featurettes – short features, animated shorts and short documentaries.  These run from February the 10th  and make a welcome change from feature films.  These are the budding filmmakers who might make it big one day in Hollywood.

The total running time of this animated shorts program is 86 minutes.  The program runs for Feb 10th to the 16th at different times each day at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

For complete showtimes, click on the link below:

http://www.tiff.net/events/oscar-shorts-animation

Capsule Reviews of each animated short areme0w! outlined below:-

BLIND VAYSHA (Canada 2016) ***

Directed by Theodore Ushsev

Canada’s National Film Board’s (NFB) BLIND VAYSHA has the strangest animation of all the nominees.  Done like eerie paintings, the…