2025 Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts
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- Starts Friday, February 14, 2025.
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The Documentary Program runs a total of about 2 hour and 45 minutes and includes all 5 films nominated in the Documentary Short category.
Admission is $7 for adults or $5 for seniors, students and children. There is no matinee price for this event.
Instruments of a Beating Heart (23 mins, Japan)
First graders in a Tokyo public elementary school are presented with a challenge for the final semester: to form an orchestra and perform “Ode to Joy” at a school ceremony.
Incident (30 mins, USA)
Through a montage of surveillance and police body-camera footage, a reconstruction of a deadly shooting by a Chicago police officer becomes an investigation into how a narrative begins to take shape in the aftermath.
I am Ready, Warden (37 mins, USA)
John Henry Ramirez is convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the state of Texas. During his incarceration, Ramirez tries to reach out to his victim's son while also preparing to say goodbye to his family.
The Only Girl in the Orchestra (35 mins, USA)
Trailblazing double bassist Orin O’Brien was never one to seek the spotlight, but when Leonard Bernstein hired her in 1966 as the first female musician in the New York Philharmonic, she inevitably became the focus of media attention and, ultimately, one of the most renowned musicians of a generation.
Death by Numbers (36 mins, USA)
Four years after being shot with an AR-15 in her high school, Samantha Fuentes reckons with existential questions of hatred and justice as she prepares to confront her shooter. - Runtime:
- 165 mins.
