Spinoff 'Gravity' short film

The $500 million-grossing film Gravity featured a scene in which Sandra Bullock's character Ryan Stone has a terrifying experience as she is trapped inside a Russian space capsule, convinced she won't make it out alive. She does make brief, broken up contact with another man, which leads her to have some hope but also to flashback to a previous time in her life. Jonas Cuaron, son of director Alfonso Cuaron co-wrote the box office hit, and now he has put out a short film that depicts what was going on for the man on the other side of that conversation.

The seven-minute short, filmed in Greenland on a budget of only $100,000, is called Aningaaq, and while it was originally meant to be an accompaniment for the film, it is getting recognition on its on at festivals in Venice and Telluride.

Warner Home Video financed the project and has now submitted it for Oscar consideration in the live-action short category. If it is chosen for a nomination, along with Gravity, they will be the first ever to have both a feature film and spinoff nominated in the same year.

"It's this moment where the audience and the character get this hope that Ryan is finally going to be OK," Jonas told The Hollywood Reporter. "Then you realize that everything gets lost in translation."

THR put it well: "Two films potentially could win for representing different sides of one conversation, to say nothing of having come from father and son."

Watch the short film below.