Paperman is one of the cutest shorts ever and the clear winner from the 2013 nominations. It is a black and white short with little to no dialogue and a love story involving paper airplanes that takes up a whopping seven minutes of time.
The story opens in old school New York City on a man and a woman at a train station. The man in his suit and his stack of papers and the woman with red lipstick engage in a tangle with papers blown by wind, and then suddenly the woman boards a train and disappears. A turn of fate finds them just across the street from one another at their end destinations and, convinced that she is The One, the man employs his killer paper airplane skills to try to catch her attention.
The story is cute, quirky, and magical. It does not waste its seven minutes and nor does it over pack them. There is just enough repetitive action to create a tension the audience can feel, and then as if in response to the viewers, the man changes course into something unexpected and humorous.
Seven minutes of this cute film is certainly not a waste of time. I definitely recommend it, and it is very easily found online. Enjoy!