2024 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Animation

Experience this year’s Oscar-nominated animated short films on the big screen. 

Join us at Dendy Cinemas on March 7 and 9 to see all five of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Animated Short Film. This special event is a must-see for awards season fans and lovers of the very best in animated short films from around the globe.

This year’s nominees are:

LETTER TO A PIG (FRANCE/ISRAEL)
A Holocaust survivor reads a letter he wrote to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks into a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity, collective trauma, and the extremes of human nature.

NINETY-FIVE SENSES (USA)
An ode to the body's five senses delivered by a man with little time left to enjoy them.

OUR UNIFORM (IRAN)
An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories on the wrinkles and fabrics of her old uniform.

PACHYDERM (USA)
As every summer, Louise is entrusted to her grand-parents for a few days of vacation in the country. The green grass of the garden, the swimming in the lake, the fishing with Grandpa, everything seems as sweet as Grandma’s strawberry pies. Yet this year, the snow will fall in summer and a monster will die.

WAR IS OVER! INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF JOHN & YOKO (USA)
Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates.