Oscar Nominated Short Live Action Film (2020)

These two of the nominees, plus Brotherhood, really hit home for me this year.  Brotherhood is about a father jumping to conclusions about his son who ran off to fight with ISIS.  He assumes that he is the same man who left, but the war changed him, and he is trying to do a good thing for someone else.  The father does something that changes everything, and it is very very sad to watch.  As usual, a very high impact in a short time frame.
The Nefta Football Club is one where you are on the edge of your seat the whole time, really expecting things to go terribly wrong, and then you see a far better outcome than you could possibly imagined.
Then there is the winner, which is emotionally very nuanced.  A couple with small exhausting children look across their apartment complex courtyard at the lives of a young couple who do not have children.  What they each learn about each other over the course of the movie is heart breaking and heart warming at the same time.  It is not the one that I picked to win, but it is a very good choice.