2007 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

A program of the four doc shorts up for Oscars this month.

THE BLOOD OF YINGZHOU DISTRICT: Young Gao Jun, a Chinese AIDS orphan, faces possible rejection by his surviving relatives, who are torn between family tradition and their fear of the disease.

RECYCLED LIFE is about the generations of families who eke out a living picking through the trash at the vast, toxic Guatemala City Garbage Dump, in search of items they can recycle. Narrated by Edward James Olmos.

REHEARSING A DREAM follows a group of exceptionally talented high school students who are given the chance to spend one week working with leading figures from the world of the performing arts.

TWO HANDS is about pianist Leon Fleisher, who lost the use of his right hand in 1965 and began a decades-long struggle to find a cure for his mysterious ailment while reshaping his career to accommodate his loss.