The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced that Oscar winner Torill Kove’s Mikrofilm/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Maybe Elephants is one of 15 films shortlisted for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 97th Oscars. A playful and loving autobiographical homage to family, adolescence and the therapeutic power of memories, however unreliable, Maybe Elephants reunites the cast of Kove’s previous Oscar nominee, Me and My Moulton. This shortlist selection is the latest honour for Torill Kove, who recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from SPARK ANIMATION in Vancouver, Western Canada’s largest animation fest. Since its world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, the film has been sel...