Catch all five of this year’s Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films, featuring stunning and unique animated filmmaking that will stay with you long after their fleeting runtimes are over.

1. LETTER TO A PIG (17 MINS)
Director: Tan Ce Ding | Country: France, Israel

A Holocaust survivor writes a thank you letter to the pig that saved his life. After a young schoolgirl hears his testimony in class, she sinks into a twisted dream version of the man's tale.

2. NINETY-FIVE SENSES (13 MINS)
Directors: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess | Country: USA

An ode to each of the body's five senses delivered by a man (Tim Blake Nelson) who is slowly losing his ability to enjoy them. From the husband-and-wife directors of Napoleon Dynamite.

3. OUR UNIFORM (7 MINS)
Director: Yegane Moghaddam | Country: Iran

While examining the wrinkles, textures and fabrics of her old school uniform, a young girl unfolds her memories of going to school in Iran and questions her inherent value as a female.

4. PACHYDERME (11 MINS)
Director: Stéphanie Clément | Country: France

Every summer, young Louise stays with her grandparents at their country home, but things take a turn for the topsy-turvy when it suddenly begins snowing in the middle of summer.

5. WAR IS OVER! INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF JOHN AND YOKO (11 MINS) – WINNER!
Director: Dave Mullins | Country: USA

In an alternate reality where World War I continues to rage on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess using carrier pigeons to make their moves.

This year’s five Oscar-nominated Live Action Short Films may be brief in length, but there’s no shortage of big stars exploring big themes, from death and grief to the whimsical world of Roald Dahl.

1. INVINCIBLE (30 MINS)
Director: Vincent René-Lortie | Country: Canada

14-year-old teenager Marc-Antoine Bernier desperately searches for freedom in the last 48 hours of his life, in this moving tribute to an unfortunate lost soul. Inspired by true events.

2. KNIGHT OF FORTUNE (25 MINS)
Director: Lasse Lyskjær Noer | Country: Denmark

Two old men who have each been struck by grief meet by chance and have an unexpectedly significant encounter, in this tragic-comic look at accepting the death of a loved one.

3. RED, WHITE AND BLUE (23 MINS)
Director: Nazrin Choudhury | Country: USA

Faced with an unexpected pregnancy, an already-struggling single parent (Brittany Snow) is forced to make a life-altering decision to travel out of state to obtain an abortion.

4. THE AFTER (18 MINS)
Director: Misan Harriman | Country: UK

After losing a family member to a random act of violence, a grief-stricken ride-share driver (David Oyelowo) picks up a passenger who forces him to come to terms with his past.

5. THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (37 MINS) – WINNER!
Director: Wes Anderson | Country: USA/UK

Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes and more star in Wes Anderson’s delightful adaptation of Roald Dahl’s short stories, following a man who can predict the future after stealing a book.