Think Oscar!

Among the surprises prepared by the organizers for the festival’s public, there is the special program Think Oscar! Ron Diamond, a member of the American Academy of Film, presents, for the first time in Romania, at Anim'est, a collection of short films made ​​in different ages, grouped into four programs: Oscar award-winning animations, animations nominated for prestigious awards but that did not win the trophy, short films viewed by the Academy members that have not been nominated and animations that were never seen, though deserved a chance.

Six titles are in the award-winning short films category. In 1993, the winner was Bob’s Birthday (dir. Alison Snowden & David Fine), in which the British humor and midlife crisis are simmering, while the wife of dentist Bob prepares a surprise party, for his 40th birthday. Frank Film (1973) is an experimental short film signed by Frank and Caroline Mouris, composed of images collected from magazines over two overlapping narratives. The film received an Oscar next year and in 1996 was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for the National Film Registry .

The Norwegian animation The Danish Poet/Den danske dikteren (dir. Torill Kove, 2006), narrated by Liv Ullmann, follows a 40s poet who embarks on a journey in search of inspiration, but finds love. Besides the Oscar, the film received the prestigious Genie Award, the Canadian equivalent thereof. Father and Daughter, a Danish short film from 2000 directed by Michaël Dudok de Wit, received an Oscar and over 20 other awards for an illustration full of metaphors of the relationship between a daughter and her father throughout her life. The Australian animation The Lost Thing by Andrew Ruhemann and Shaun Tan, follows a young man who stumbles upon a strange creature on a beach from a gloomy Melbourne, being awarded the Oscar in 2011.

In the Japanese film La Maison en Petites Cubes by Kunio Katō, a widower continuously builds a new floor to his home, in order to prevent flooding - the film received the Grand Prize for Short Film at 2008 Annecy and an Oscar a year later.

Ron Diamond will present each of the four programs and provide, in a masterclass, details about the criteria for selection and the reasons why some potential titles were disqualified.

Also, moviegoers will have access to animated shorts nominated for Oscars this year under a program offered by ShortsTV, a station dedicated to short films, recently launched in Romania.

Think Oscar! is an event supported by the U.S. Embassy.