
Documentary Shorts
2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films
Date
- Sun, Feb 16, 2025
- Expired!
Time
- 2:30 pm
Cost
- Adults - $15 (includes fee); Student / Senior - $12 (includes fee)
Location
For the 20th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb. 7th. 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.
Approximate Runtime: 2h 37m
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2025: DOCUMENTARY
— Death by Numbers by Kim A. Snyder
— I Am Ready, Warden by Smriti Mundhra
— Incident by Bill Morrison
— Instruments of a Beating Heart by Ema Ryan Yamazaki
— The Only Girl in the Orchestra by Molly O’Brien

Death by Numbers
DIRECTED by Kim A. Snyder & WRITTEN by Sam Fuentes
33 min. | USA (in English)
Death by Numbers turns an intimate lens on school shooting survivor Sam Fuentes’s journey to reclaim her power, processing trauma through journaling. To prepare for a confrontation with her assailant in his harrowing sentencing trial, she examines complex questions of collective hatred and community justice.
I Am Ready, Warden
DIRECTED by Smriti Mundhra
37 min. | USA (in English)
In the days leading up to his execution, Texas death row prisoner John Henry Ramirez seeks redemption from his victim’s son. I Am Ready, Warden, an elegy about the death penalty where a prisoner seeks forgiveness.
Incident
DIRECTED by Bill Morrison
30 min. | USA (in English)
Chicago, 2018. A man is killed by police on the street. Through a composite montage of images from surveillance and security footage as well as police body-cams, Incident recreates the event and its consequences, featuring vain justifications, altercations and attempts to avoid blame.
Instruments of a Beating Heart
DIRECTED by Ema Ryan Yamazaki
34 min. | USA (in English)
A young girl faces her fears and becomes one of the lead percussionists in an annual musical performance.
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
DIRECTED by Molly O’Brien
This short documentary celebrates trailblazing double bassist Orin O’Brien, the first woman to become a full-time member of the New York Philharmonic.
Date
- Sun, Feb 16, 2025
- Expired!
Time
- 2:30 pm
Cost
- Adults - $15 (includes fee); Student / Senior - $12 (includes fee)
Location
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