
Up
Up is a 1984 American short film directed by Mike Hoover and Tim Huntley. The film depicts a man who sets a hawk free, then tries to find it in the wild on his hang glider. In 1985, it won an Oscar for Best Short Subject at the 57th Academy Awards.
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- PremiereWorldfest Houston1 Apr 1985
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Up was released on 1 April 1985.
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CinemaSerf
12/6/2025
First things first: if you are all acrophobic then this is definitely not for you! It starts out with a man releasing - rather emotionally - his hawk and then taking to the skies in an hang glider as he tries to find it again. We begin over some beautifully snowy mountain tops, then fly over some wind-carved desert scenery as Ed Cesar (and occasionally an accompanying film-maker) rides the thermals as if he, himself,…
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