Little films are a very big deal at this year’s Academy Awards. Topics as heavy as PTSD, ethnic cleansing and the immigration system, and as light as music, kissing and children with a passion to ...

Seventeen years ago, a group of moms created the Providence Children’s Film Festival out of desire to bring something more interesting than the typical Hollywood fare to Providence. What began as an ...

*The 6 th annual “Imagination Lunchbox International Children’s Film Fest” (ILICFF) is now open for submissions of short films made by and for youth. Four awards will be presented Saturday, August 6, ...

The 15 films that made the shortlist in the Oscars’ documentary short category are all powerful and thought-provoking, making the competition for an Academy Award nod incredibly stiff this year.

The inaugural edition of the Gaza Children’s Film Festival opens Thursday with a screening of Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 Cannes Palme d’Or-winning short classic The Red Balloon. The one-month festival ...

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 ...

In what’s become an awards-season tradition, the compilations of Oscar-nominated short films in live-action, animation and documentary categories are back in theaters ahead of the big night March 2, ...

Three critics briefly consider the short films nominated for the 98th Academy Awards. By Jeannette Catsoulis Alissa Wilkinson and Ben Kenigsberg From dive-bar patrons to Regency paramours, ...