Best animated shorts

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Riz Ahmed stifled a snicker the other morning, announcing My Year of Dicks as one of five Oscar-nominated Best Animated Shorts.

But its an interesting take on a teen losing her virginity. You can see it here.    (25 mins) 

It's part graphic novel, part cartoon, and lapses into Japanese anime.

The shorts are always the most fun of the Oscars.

The Ice Merchants, another of the five nominees, has already been seen on this blog, here.

Canada's Nation Film Board was nominated for The Flying Sailor. It seems very old fashioned, in a wispy style familiar to NFB fans. It's here.

The fourth nominee--The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse--can be seen in Great Britain on the BBC iPlayer. If you take your internet via a VPN, you can watch it as well.

It's also streaming on Apple TV, trailer here.

And An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake's trailer is here.

• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud.
• The Flying Sailor. Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby.
• Ice Merchants. João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano.
• My Year of Dicks. Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon.
• An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It.