This was Warmerdam’s first Oscar nomination. Live action short films are like audition tapes for filmmakers seeking bigger movies, offering winners a vote of confidence and a pipeline to bigger ...

After directing the outlaw biker drama The Loveless and phenomenal vampire movie Near Dark in the ’80s, Kathryn Bigelow set her sights on the action genre for the ’90s. And, as it turns out ...

It paved the way for the post-apocalyptic action genre, influencing countless films, TV shows, and video games. The film’s impact was so significant that it spawned three sequels: Mad Max 2 ...

If there’s one thing the 2025 Oscar nominated short live-action films have in common it’s that none of them, at least in the traditional sense of the phrase, are feel-good. All five on the list — “A ...

FOUR short films and one feature film, all of various genres, will be projected onto a wall (and later, the ceiling) for a screening organized by the film collective Kinoise.