2019 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts

My advice would be to not read this until after you have seen these five movies, because there is no way to say much of anything beyond that they are all well done and suspenseful, which is true to the genre.
Four of the five are from outside the United States, two are from Canada, only two are in English, and it was very hard for me to choose the one I thought was best.
Madre is a Spanish film that centers on a mother whose six year old son is spending the weekend away with his father, who she is no longer involved with.  Suffice it to say that after this movie I am going to encourage the use of something like 'Find Friends' in the future.
Fauve is a film of two young boys who are essentially goofing off and land themselves in serious trouble, which is juxtaposed against Detainment, which is two other sub optimally supervised boys who get into even more, or at least very serious trouble.  Skin is a cautionary tale about children, guns, and racism colliding for a traumatic end (this one does demonstrate the danger of guns leading to death and worse). Marguerite is the sole nominee that has what is only a sad story thread.  Again, these are well done, but a somber group.