Toronto filmmakers on Oscars shortlist for short documentary

Two Toronto filmmakers and theirdocumentariescould soon be nominated for anOscar.

Ann Shin and her film My Enemy, My Brother wereamong the 10contenders when theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released itsshortlistMonday for the 2015 Oscar nominations.

They're mentioned inthe short documentary category.

The story ofHaftlangandAboud was first featured on CBC Radio's Ideas. Greg Kelly, executive producer of the show, suggested the idea of a film documentary to Ann Shin.

• Listen to the Ideas episode 'Enemies and Angels' that inspired the documentary

The film is about two former soldiers,ZahedHaftlangandNajahAboud, who fought against each other during the Iran-Iraq war and reunited coincidentally 20 years later in Canada.

Acrowdfundingcampaignwas launched earlier this year to help fund the next part of theproject searching forAboud'smissing family and reunitingHaftlangwith his.

Of the 10 documentary short subjectfinalists for the 88th Academy Awards, five will be nominated for the awards. The nominations will be announced in January.

My Enemy, My Brotherwon the Sepanta Award for Best Documentary Short at the 8th Annual Iranian Film Festival in September. It is also eligible for TIFF's 15th Annual Canada's Top 10 Film Festival.

• Watch Ann Shin's documentary:My Enemy, My Brother

Shin's filmisn't the only Canadian documentary on the list.Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoahby Toronto film journalist Adam Benzinehas also been shortlisted in the same category and so hasA Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness by Pakistani-Canadian filmmakerSharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.

• Canadian doc filmmakers Ann Shin, Adam Benzine, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy are Oscar semi-finalists