2026 Oscar-Winning Short Film: The Singers
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”
Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.
This movie will always resonate with queer people, for as long as queer people exist.
I was able to watch the gleefully mesmerizing Disney remake that was Robert Zemeckis’ Pinocchio. I was enthralled by Zemeckis’ iteration.
Sisters Mia and Emma discover and hunt down a unicorn with magical blood and want to protect it.