• Director(s)

    Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz, Adam J. Graves, Victoria Warmerdam, Cindy Lee, Nebojsa Slijepcevic

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Release date

    17/02/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    104m

  • Cast

    -

Film

2025 Oscar Nominated Short Films - Animation

strong language, bloody images

This compilation of international short live-action films explores a range of themes including labour exploitation, rhino poaching and ethnic cleansing. …

This compilation of international short live-action films explores a range of themes including labour exploitation, rhino poaching and ethnic cleansing.

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threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

injury detail

theme

alcohol and smoking

violence

  • Director(s)

    Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz, Adam J. Graves, Victoria Warmerdam, Cindy Lee, Nebojsa Slijepcevic

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Release date

    17/02/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    104m

  • Cast

    -

strong language, bloody images
Classified Date:
18/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
ShortsTV
threat and horror
Scenes are occasionally suspenseful and tense. In one short film, a man and his young daughter attempt to flee from immigration enforcement officers.
language
Occasional strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'prick', 'whore', 'ass', ‘fricking’, 'shit', 'Jesus', 'hell' and 'damn'.
sex
Brief verbal references are made to sex dolls and sex workers.
discrimination
An armed soldier expresses Islamophobic views while carrying out an ethnic cleansing operation. However, his attitudes are immediately challenged and occur within a historical context.
injury detail
Blood splatters onto a poacher’s face during a rhino horn removal. A robot falls from height, resulting in sight of a pool of blood.
theme
There are references to the illegal killings of rhinos within the context of poaching. Upsetting scenes centred around death and separation also occur.
alcohol and smoking
Adults smoke cigarettes.
strong sex references
Classified Date:
18/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
ShortsTV
violence
Infrequent scenes of mild violence occur.
threat and horror
Flashback scenes depict characters in danger while travelling at sea.
language
Mild bad language ('bloody') is accompanied by even milder terms such as 'hell', 'God' and 'damn'.
sex
An ejaculating penis and sexualised breast nudity are seen graffitied on a wall. There is also sight of a man's flaccid penis while he prepares to video call a woman.
suicide and self-harm
A man self-harms during mental health episodes, resulting in minimal bloody aftermath detail. However, this is infrequent and self-harm is clearly not endorsed by the film as a whole.
injury detail
There are bloody images within the context of an animal killing.
nudity
Scenes include full-frontal male nudity at a public bathhouse and within a surreal, apocalyptic setting.
rude humour
There are comic references to flatulence.
theme
There are upsetting scenes in which a man experiences traumatic flashbacks and behaves erratically.

  • Classified date

    18/02/2025

  • Language

    English