2025 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animated
For the 20th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films.
With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, March 2nd.
2025 AniMated program:
Magic Candies
dir. Daisuke Nishio/Japan/21min/in Japanese with English subtitles
The other kids at the park never ask Dong-Dong to play. But he’s fine just playing marbles on his own. One day, he goes out in search of new marbles, but ends up buying a bag of colorful, marble-shaped candies instead. But the first time he pops one of them into his mouth, he’s astonished to hear his old sofa start talking to him! For the next few minutes, until the candy melts away, he has the most unexpected and amazing conversation of his life. Realizing that these are no ordinary candies, Dong-Dong looks at the rest of the colorful sweets. Who else will he be able to talk to, and what else will he learn, through these magic candies?
In the Shadow of the Cypress
dirs. Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi/Iran/20min
Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.
Yuck!
dirs. Loïc Espuche/France/13min/in French with English subtitles
Yuck! Adults kiss each other on the mouth, and children find it disgusting! What’s more, you can see it from afar: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo makes jokes about it, as do the other kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won’t tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.
Please Note: The following films include nudity, and may not be appropriate for audiences under 14 years old.
Wander to Wonder
dir. Nina Gantz/ Netherlands, Belgium, France, & United Kingdom/14min
Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a kids’ TV Series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. Struggling to find enough to eat, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
Beautiful Men
dir. Nicolas Keppens/Belgium, France, & Netherlands/18min/in Flemish, Dutch, Turkish, and English with English subtitles
Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.
