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ShortsHD is once again bringing the wildly popular Oscar nominated short film program (Live Action, Animation, and Documentary) to theaters in the US, Canada, and Europe beginning February 10th. The theatrical release of the Academy Award nominated short films has met with enthusiastic audiences ever since its launch 6 years ago, giving people around the world an opportunity to see the nominated films prior to the Academy Awards ceremony on February 26th.
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An English dreamer experiences both the beauty and harshness of nature when he relocates to the Canadian prairie.
Young Starkey
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the young woman he has just made love to dead and his only ally is a nun
Thomas
William Carey sailed in 1793 to India with a reluctant wife and four children to bring the message of Jesus. There he encountered so much hardship it is amazing he didn't abandon his mission and go home. But he stayed for over 40 years.
Captain Forbes
When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.
Dick Swiveller
1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of money to Nell's grandfather as an investment, expecting a large profit. But when Quilp finds out the old man has lost all the money with playing cards, he is determined to get the man in a madhouse as revenge. Nell and her grandfather are forced to leave their house and to start traveling across the country. But Quilp isn't sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also looking for Nell's grandfather.
Ewan Montagu
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of true-life 1935 trial that shocked all of England. Though notable evidence and strong suspicion suggests that the murder may have been of crime of passion perpetrated by the jealous lover only half her age, Alma Rattenbury (Helen Mirren) confesses to the murder of her husband and is soon brought to trial. Despite the fact that Alma is already being deemed guilty by the general public for her adulterous indiscretion alone, her lawyer, star attorney T.J. O'Connor (David Suchet), remains convinced that his client will eventually be cleared of all charges.
Balazar
The Doctor is summoned before the High Council of Time Lords to stand trial for the charges of harmful interference to the course of events during his travels which have threatened the sanctity of the universe. Indignant at these accusations, the Doctor pleads his case to the Inquisitor with the hope that she will see him as a source of hope and goodwill for existence. However, his prosecuting attorney, a sinister Time Lord known simply as the Valeyard, begins a crusade against the Doctor with the motive of framing him as a villainous renegade.
Mr. Hadley
영국인 아델라(주디 데이비스 분)는 인도에서 치안 판사로 근무하는 약혼자 로니를 만나기 위해 그의 어머니인 무어 부인(페기 애쉬크로프트 분)과 함께 인도로 향한다. 역에서 로니의 마중을 받은 두 사람은 영국인 전용 관저에 짐을 푼다. 그러나 얼마 지나지 않아 판에 박힌 인도 생활에 염증을 느낀 모어 부인은 우연히 인도인 의사, 아지즈(빅토르 바네르지 분)를 만나게 되고 아델라 또한 그를 통해 인도인들과 가까워진다. 또한 아델라는 인종차별주의자인 로니에게서 실망감을 느끼고 결혼을 망설이게 된다. 그런 어느 날, 아지즈는 유적 마라바 동굴의 여행을 제의하고, 인도인들과 가깝게 지내는 필딩 교수와 무어 부인, 아델라, 그리고 인도인 가드볼리 교수가 함께 떠나기로 한다. 여행 당일, 가드볼리와 필딩이 늦는 바람에 무어 부인과 아데라, 아지즈만이 기차를 탄다. 많은 인도인들 사이에서 색다른 동양의 문화를 느끼는 아델라. 그러나 아지즈에 의지해 산에 오르던 아델라는 무더운 날씨와 음습한 동굴이 주는 은밀함과 인도에 온 후로 가슴속에서 꿈틀거리던 욕망에 휩싸인다. 동굴 속의 신비스러운 메아리에 도취된 그녀는 아즈지가 자신을 능욕하려 했다는 착란을 일으킨다. 여행에서 돌아 온 후 아지즈는 아델라의 강간혐의로 기소되고 이 사건은 인도 전체의 인종 차별문제로 확산되는데...
Devon 1940. The boys of the local public school are alerted after a German parachute drop and as members of the Local Defence Volunteers they prepare to put their youthful enthusiasm for war into practice.
