The Oscar nominees for Documentary Shorts are usually very difficult to watch. I mean, they re uniformly excellent, but the films are always extremely topical and unflinchingly brutal in their dedication to truth. At Tin Pan Theater over the last six or seven years, I ve been lucky enough to watch most of the Oscar Shorts (including the Animation and Live Action ones), but I m not sure any single short film affected me the way Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman s Hunger Ward did. Hunger Ward focuses on the famine in Yemen, ongoing since 2016 and beginning during the Yemini Civil War. As of 2018, more than 85,000 children have died with UNICEF calling the famine the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. The film follows health care workers Dr. Aida Alsadeeq and Nurse Mekkia Mahdi across two hospitals as they struggle to combat child malnutrition. It s filled with stories and imagery that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
Oscars 2021: Five nominees from the Middle East to look out for
Despite the pandemic and an industry struggling because of lockdown measures, these nominees from the Middle East are on the brink of making cinema history
This year s awards are being held two months later than usual due to the pandemic (MEE) By Published date: 21 April 2021 10:19 UTC | Last update: 1 min 3 sec ago
The 93rd Academy Awards - better known as the Oscars - take place on 25 April, in another unusual year for cinema.
The ceremony in Hollywood is taking place two months later than planned due to the coronavirus pandemic, and comes as the industry continues to grapple with the closure of cinemas and disruption to filming brought on by global lockdowns.
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