Each year the five nominees for best live action short films at the Oscars are packaged together and shown in theatres for several weeks. I’ve found each year’s package to be great viewing, and this year’s is no exception. From a fictionalized account of the true abduction of black teenage boy by white racists in 1955 Mississippi, to a fictionalized account of a bus hijacking in Kenya, highlighting tense relations between Christians and Muslims, to a fictionalized account of an attempted attack on a US elementary school by a mentally disturbed man, to the sweet and sad tale of a young deaf girl in a hearing family, to the one comedy in the group, a very funny encounter of a psychiatrist and his patient who thinks he is the psychiatrist — they are well worth your time.
