Now an annual film festival tradition, Sedona audiences will be able to see all of the short films nominated for Academy Awards before the Oscar telecast on March 15. A perennial hit with audiences around the country (and the world), don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. All of the Live Action Short Film nominees will be featured in this program.

The Oscar-nominated Live Action Shorts Program will include:

• Butcher’s Stain (Israel): Samir, an Arab Israeli working in a supermarket in Tel Aviv, is accused of tearing down hostage posters in the break room. He sets out to prove his innocence to keep this job that he desperately needs.

• A Friend of Dorothy (U.K.): A lonely widow’s (Miriam Margolyes) quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden.

• Jane Austen’s Period Drama (USA): Set in England in 1813, in the middle of a long-awaited marriage proposal, Miss Estrogenia Talbot gets her period. Her suitor, Mr. Dickley, mistakes the blood for an injury, and it soon becomes clear that his expensive education has missed as spot.

• The Singers (USA): An impromptu sing-off will decide the best singer in the bar tonight.

• Two People Exchanging Saliva (France/USA): In a society where kissing is punishable by death and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angeline, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store where she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.

The Oscar Live Action Shorts Program will show: Friday, Saturday and Thursday, March 6, 7 and 12 at 4:00 p.m.; Monday and Wednesday, March 9 and 11 at 6:30 p.m.; and Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona.