Oscar-nominated documentary shorts, program A
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- Body Team 12--Heroic, patriotic Liberian Red Cross workers--with a particular focus on the deeply religious lone woman on the team--whose task it is to remove Ebola victims from their homes, sometimes against the violent wishes of their families, and take the remains to the crematorium.
- A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness--So your daughter marries the boy you approved of until your brother persuaded you to give her to his brother-in-law; what to do? Well, you put a bullet through her head and dump her in a river, of course, because, this being Pakistan, the legal system, while condemning your crime, gives you an out if you can obtain family forgiveness, and since the community elders pressure your son-in-law's family--oh, and your daughter, who survived (her theory: because the perpetrators had sworn on the Qur'an that they wouldn't harm her, Allah preserved her)--your ass goes free. I couldn't make this shit up.
- Last Day of Freedom--The rare animated documentary, an interview with one Bill Babbitt, who went to Sacramento police with his suspicions that he beloved younger brother Manny had committed an unsolved murder. Police told him that Manny's PTSD from his stint in Vietnam would shield him from the death penalty, but a politically ambitious DA and a drunken and incompetent public defender effectively conspired to make Bill watch his brother die. Brutal.
For the rest of the nominees, click here.
Which film should win? I have to go with the scaldingly infuriating Girl in the River. What will win? Never bet against the Holocaust-related film.
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