ShortsTV presents the 2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films. This exclusive release features the year`s most spectacular short films and for a limited time is available to watch on the big screen, only at PVR Cinemas.

The film features the five Oscar-nominated short films in the Live Action category. It also includes the Oscar-nominated documentary, `Period. End of Sentence`, which tells the story of women fighting the deeply rooted stigma of menstruation in India.

Enjoy the gripping live action & join us in celebrating the leading edge of what is the world`s very best in short film and the true future of filmmaking!

LIVE ACTION

DETAINMENT: IRELAND/30MINS/2018

Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts from the James Bulger case which shocked the world in 1993 and continues to incite public outrage across the UK today.

FAUVE: CANADA/16MINS/2018

Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. Alone in the wild the two boys play around. Complicity evolves into a confrontation where one wants to have power over the other. Taking proportions larger than nature, this game will not prove as harmless as they thought.

MARGUERITE: CANADA/19MINS/2017

An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.

MADRE (MOTHER): SPAIN/19MINS/2017

A single mother receives a call from her seven-year-old son who is on vacation with his father in the French Basque Country. At first the call is a cause for joy, but soon it becomes a horrible nightmare when the child tells her that he is alone and cannot find his father who left a while ago.

SKIN: USA/20MINS/2018

A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.