Paapa Essiedu, star of HBO’s upcoming “Harry Potter” series and a newly-crowned Olivier Award winner, has taken time away from playing Professor Snape to join Maxine Peake (“I Swear,” “Say Nothing”) ...

"Our mission is to champion extraordinary cinema while creating a bridge for emerging filmmakers to enter the international distribution landscape,” says Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Vilpa. By Georg ...

The Academy likes to celebrate smart, issue-based projects in its short-form categories, though this year's strongest contender is an apolitical take on artificial intelligence. In recent years, the ...

If you want to ace your Oscar pool, you musn’t ignore the three short film categories — animation, live-action and documentary. But what cinephile would, anyway? The 15 nominees here have already won ...

The 2026 Oscar nominations for live action short films unveil a world where social tension, period parodies, and dystopian laws collide in under forty minutes. This collection of global stories ...