BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Movies & Screenings DESCRIPTION:The Oscar season is just around the corner! So\, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be screening some of the short films that have been nominated for cinema’s most prestigious award. We’ll be showing films from both the Animated Shorts category and the Live Action Shorts category on Ma rch 8th and March 9th\, respectively. We’ll also have ballots available for attendees\, so you can cast your vote for the films you think best deserve to take home the handsome golden statue.\n\nIt’s a great honor to offer ou r community the chance to see these amazing and creative films before the o fficial Academy Awards broadcast taking place on March 10th\, 2024!\n\n \n\ nFEATURED ANIMATED SHORTS\n\n \n\nLETTER TO A PIG – Tal Kantor\, Israel. 16 min. 2022\n\nSynopsis: A Holocaust survivor reads a letter to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks i nto a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity\, collective trauma\, and the extremes of human nature.\n\n \n\nNINETY-FIVE SENSES – Jer usha Hess & Jared Hess\, USA. 13 min. 2023\n\nSynopsis: An ode to the body’ s five senses delivered by a man with little time left to enjoy them.\n\n \ n\nOUR UNIFORM – Yegane Moghaddam\, Iran. 7 min. 2023\n\nSynopsis: An Irani an girl unfolds her school memories on the folds and fabrics of her old uni form.\n\n \n\nPACHYDERME – Stéphanie Clement\, France. 11 min. 2021\n\nSyno psis: As every summer\, Louise is entrusted to her grand-parents for a few days of vacation in the country. The green grass of the garden\, the swimmi ng in the lake\, the fishing with Grandpa\, everything seems a sweet as Gra ndma’s strawberry pies. Yet\, this year\, the snow will fall and a monster will die.\n\n \n\nWAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko – Dave Mullins\, USA. 11 min. 2023\n\nSynopsis: Set in an alternate WWI reality wh ere a senseless war rages on\, two soldiers on opposite sides of the confli ct play a game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers’ che ss moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier kn ows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its final climactic move . Whoever wins the game\, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war. DTEND:20240309T000000Z DTSTAMP:20241122T231333Z DTSTART:20240308T230000Z GEO:39.328395;-82.100838 LOCATION:Athena Cinema SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: ANIMATION UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_45738466810383 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/oscar_nominated_shorts_animation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Movies & Screenings DESCRIPTION:The Oscar season is just around the corner! So\, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be screening some of the short films that have been nominated for cinema’s most prestigious award. We’ll be showing films from both the Animated Shorts category and the Live Action Shorts category on Ma rch 8th and March 9th\, respectively. We’ll also have ballots available for attendees\, so you can cast your vote for the films you think best deserve to take home the handsome golden statue.\n\nIt’s a great honor to offer ou r community the chance to see these amazing and creative films before the o fficial Academy Awards broadcast taking place on March 10th\, 2024!\n\n \n\ nFEATURED ANIMATED SHORTS\n\n \n\nLETTER TO A PIG – Tal Kantor\, Israel. 16 min. 2022\n\nSynopsis: A Holocaust survivor reads a letter to the pig who saved his life. A young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class and sinks i nto a twisted dream where she confronts questions of identity\, collective trauma\, and the extremes of human nature.\n\n \n\nNINETY-FIVE SENSES – Jer usha Hess & Jared Hess\, USA. 13 min. 2023\n\nSynopsis: An ode to the body’ s five senses delivered by a man with little time left to enjoy them.\n\n \ n\nOUR UNIFORM – Yegane Moghaddam\, Iran. 7 min. 2023\n\nSynopsis: An Irani an girl unfolds her school memories on the folds and fabrics of her old uni form.\n\n \n\nPACHYDERME – Stéphanie Clement\, France. 11 min. 2021\n\nSyno psis: As every summer\, Louise is entrusted to her grand-parents for a few days of vacation in the country. The green grass of the garden\, the swimmi ng in the lake\, the fishing with Grandpa\, everything seems a sweet as Gra ndma’s strawberry pies. Yet\, this year\, the snow will fall and a monster will die.\n\n \n\nWAR IS OVER! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko – Dave Mullins\, USA. 11 min. 2023\n\nSynopsis: Set in an alternate WWI reality wh ere a senseless war rages on\, two soldiers on opposite sides of the confli ct play a game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers’ che ss moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier kn ows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its final climactic move . Whoever wins the game\, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war. DTEND:20240309T210000Z DTSTAMP:20241122T231333Z DTSTART:20240309T200000Z GEO:39.328395;-82.100838 LOCATION:Athena Cinema SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:OSCAR NOMINATED SHORTS: ANIMATION UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_45738466812432 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/oscar_nominated_shorts_animation END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR