Oscars 2012: Handicapping

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

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when you find me

Director: Bryce Dallas Howard

Synopsis: A young boy asks his pregnant mother if he will like his baby brother, and he asks her if she has a brother. This sends the mother, Lisie, on a reverie of her relationship with her older sister, Aurora, when they were kids and their mother was dying.

100/1

The Night Shift Belongs to the Stars

Synopsis: It's a story about a man and a woman. He is alone. She is married. Both mountaineers, both survivors of cardiac operation. He has in his chest the heart of a young woman, she has a mitral valve. A fate and a promise unites them . A short story where the rhythm of the heartbeat accelerates, to find at the end, a steady pace.

100/1

Salar

Synopsis: Two lives cross in an isolated Bolivian village: a disgruntled American doctor looking to leave, and a Bolivian salt miner who's just been stabbed in the hand.

100/1

Kiruna-Kigali

Director: Goran Kapetanovic

Synopsis: A young woman in Rwanda is about to give birth. The baby is turned the wrong way and her life is in danger. At the same time the water breaks for a woman in Sweden.

100/1

Henry

Director: Yan England

Synopsis: Henry, a great concert pianist, has his life thrown in turmoil the day the love of this life, Maria, disappears mysteriously. He'll then discover the inevitable verdict of life.

100/1

Death of a Shadow

Director: Tom Van Avermaet

Synopsis: Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shadows.

100/1

Curfew

Director: Shawn Christensen

Synopsis: At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

100/1

Buzkashi Boys

Director: Sam French

Synopsis: Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the coming of age story of two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who struggle to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth.

100/1

Asad

Director: Bryan Buckley

Synopsis: A coming of age fable of a Somali boy as he struggles to survive in his war-torn land.

100/1

A Fabrica

Director: Aly Muritiba

Synopsis: Visiting day. Lindalva prepares food to take it to her son who is in jail. Metruti, Lindalva's son, shaves and wears the best clothes to welcome his mother. Today is a very special day and he really needs to make a phone call. His mother is taking a risk, she's willing to smuggle a cell phone for him into the penitentiary.

100/1

9meter

Director: Anders Walther

Synopsis: A story about a boy with a great talent for jumping, whose mother is dying. The boy has an idea that he can carry her over or past death by making a world record. It is his effort to get his mother to live.

100/1

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