For an Oscar Shorts Category Veteran, His Nomination This Year Is “the Most Important Subject Matter I’ve Ever Dealt With”

When Kim Magnusson and Anders Walter make a film, their peers tend to pay attention. Their first collaboration, a 2012 short film called 9 Meter, was Oscar shortlisted, and they won an Oscar together in 2014 for the short Helium. Though they’ve made features—including the 2017 fantasy drama I Kill Giants—they continue to be drawn to the speed and independence of short films, and they’re back in the race this year with Ivalu, a live-action short about a Greenlandic girl searching for her missing older sister. Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, Ivalu is at once both… Read Full Article