OSCAR’S SHORTS 2012: Live Action Shorts

February 16, 7:00 PM @ NORMAL THEATER

Once again the Normal Theater presents our annual showcase of the year’s Academy Award nominated short films. Who will win the Oscars for Best Documentary Short, Best Short Film- Live Action, and Best Short Film- Animated? The winners will be announced to the world on February 26, but we’ll give you a chance to see them all February 14-19! Feb 16 & 17: Live Action Short Films– total running time approx. 110 minutes Pentecost – 11 minutes – English – Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane When Damian is forced to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish, he faces a difficult choice: conform to the status quo, or serve an extended ban from his life’s passion – football. Raju – 24 minutes – English/German – Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren Director Max Zaehle, together with his Director of Photography Sin Huh, and wonderful actors Wotan Wilke Möhring and Julia Richter, succeed at making the moral dilemma faced by couples wishing to adopt emotionally palpable. The