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Get ready for this year’s biggest night in film with a special screening of the 2026 Oscar-nominated documentary shorts, including Canadian nominee Perfectly a Strangeness.

The Academy Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, March 15. Join us for our FREE livestream at the Cinema! Tickets here.


This program of shorts features a 10 minute intermission.

Perfectly a Strangeness (D: Alison McAlpine | Canada | 15 min)
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.

The Devil is Busy (D: Geeta Gandbhir & Christalyn Hampton | USA | 31 min)
A day on the frontlines in the battle for reproductive rights at a women's healthcare clinic.

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (D: Craig Renaud & Brent Renaud | USA | 38 min)
An intimate chronicle about documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud, the first American journalist killed while reporting on the Russo-Ukrainian War.

All the Empty Rooms (D: Joshua Seftel | USA | 33 min)
In this moving short documentary, a journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.

Children No More: “Were and Are Gone” (D: Hilla Medalia |  Israel | 36 min)
In Tel Aviv, activists gather weekly to demonstrate their opposition to the war in Gaza with a silent vigil for the children killed in Israeli attacks.


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