2023 Sundance Film Festival Shorts
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- DirectorTom BrownStarsJocelyn SiAndrew IsarFlorian DesbiendrasChristopher embarks on a transatlantic voyage as a passenger on a cargo ship. His hopes of finding out what lures so many men to sea sets him on a journey into solitude, fantasy and obsession.
- DirectorGabriel Gabriel GarbleStarsGabriel Gabriel GarbleA boy lends his friend a prosthetic arm for the day.
- DirectorDavid DoutelVasco SáStarsAntónio DurãesDavid DoutelPaulo CalatréA Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under the sun's blazing heat. The young boy, Joel, discovers a man who is about to set the forest on fire.
- DirectorIyabo KwayanaAn unlikely hero's journey into his own memories becomes a vehicle for reconciliation and healing for himself and his sibling. Available Online.5/10
- DirectorMaddie BrewerStarsMaddie BrewerTwo coworkers at a derelict fast food franchise accidentally discover a yonic meat portal to another "burger" world, wherein they're the only ones who can liberate an oppressed vegetable populace from the all-controlling hand of big meat.6/10
- DirectorJiwon HanStarsHyunmin JooKeum-san KwonYeonju LimSejin once had the power to have anything she wanted just by thinking about it. Now she has lost her magic. Hours before her interview to be a tourist interpreter, Sejin heads to the weary sea to save her father.5/10
- DirectorLucia FlorezIn one of the most remote places in the Peruvian Amazon, an Ashéninka boy must overcome his fears and catch a giant catfish using only a hook to begin his adult journey.
- DirectorTara O'CallaghanStarsSinead ConnellSinead O'Connell balances the daily chores of single motherhood with the pressures of making a living in the online sex industry. She loves her kids and her work, but they both demand her attention.7/10
- DirectorDmytro Sukholytkyy-SobchukStarsAndriy HoldiyOrest VoytekhivskiyRoman SovaIn Western Ukraine, sculptors who used to make religious statues retrain to fight the Russian invasion.
- DirectorShuli HuangAs a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.
- DirectorMeredith MooreAn artist and visual effects instructor connects with her aging grandmother, Margie, through collecting, art-making, and obsessing as a way to enhance reality. World Premiere.
- DirectorDaphne GardnerStarsRobert MaloneEdy ModicaMo StarkTracey is just trying to jerk off with her bathtub faucet like normal when some old memories dredge themselves up, the pipes explode with dirty water, and she starts leaking black goo.
- DirectorKilian FeusiJessica MeierSujanth RavichandranStarsDave StriegelTom von ArxBob is a plumber hired to fix a broken pipe. He lands, to his surprise, in a gay fetish club.
- DirectorInga Elin MarakattStarsJohn Steinar BaalEllen Anna BuljoCuoivvatA pregnant widow is in desperate need of help. Without help from the community, she decides to steal silver from a dead body, in order to survive and feed her daughter. But the silver is cursed, and it has consequences for all of them, including the unborn.
- DirectorAndreas NilssonStarsAlex AvvakumovZaza ChanturiyaDidier MalletA young man faces the wrath of criminals targeting people who are famous on the internet. Things take an unexpected turn when their scheme fails.
- DirectorAemilia ScottStarsKate FlanneryDierdre FrielRachael HarrisFollows six women as they come to a consensus.
- DirectorSelma CervantesStarsYalitza AparicioJuan Pablo de SantiagoJuan Carlos MedellinInés works as a seamstress in a sweatshop where pregnancy tests are periodically administered. When she becomes pregnant, she is sure that her condition will get her fired. She does everything she can to keep it a secret
- DirectorSky HopinkaMovements of resistance are collapsed and woven together, from reflections of one's own body in the world today, to documentation of Alcatraz, the reclamation of Cahokia, and the repatriation of the ancestors
- DirectorChloé AlliezViolette DelvoyeStarsEvmorfia SpanoudisHélène Bolenge BotekuRaphaël Riestra y ArangoTonight is the big party at Claire's and it's going to be so cool. Besides, Jimmy came. Everyone knows he is there for Maya. But does her heart beat for Jimmy?
- DirectorThanasis NeofotistosStarsLena PapaligouraKonstantina KoutsonasiouHaris AlexiouA troublesome new set of orthodontics is just one of the factors that provoke a midair crisis for a flight attendant.
- DirectorCrystal KayizaStarsAlicia BasiimaMargaret BisaseOlivia NantongoA young Ugandan-American girl gains a new understanding of her family and her place in the world as she travels with her mother and brother from New York to Oklahoma.
- DirectorKymon GreyhorseStarsTara FolsomWe adapt and change as time moves on and the world around us shifts. Even though we might look different, deep down we are still the same. We all are made from Mother Earth - mud, wood, love, and patience.
- DirectorJessica BardsleySet in the outer space of consciousness, where the surfaces of far-out planetary bodies form the terrain for an exploration of 24/7 capitalism, insomnia, and the disappearance of darkness.
- DirectorAnya ChirkovaMeran IsmailsoyStarsJames ChoySina DjamshidiatMaziyar KhatamA middle-aged Iranian man makes a desperate bid to keep his apartment as his relationship with his son unravels
- DirectorKayla GalangStarsKailyn DulayMelissa ArcayaElle RodriguezTeenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their auntie's house in southeast San Diego in 2006.
- DirectorDane RayStarsShannon PlumbChris ThomasA mourning widow suspects a stranger in town is wearing her late husband's Army jacket. She cautiously stalks the man into the night in an attempt to find closure.
- DirectorShalini AdnaniStarsPushpa Madam Singh ChauhanHarish KesariyaSushannt SapareA man is summoned from Mumbai to his village to deal with a termite infestation threatening to destroy his childhood home.5/10
- DirectorNova PaulAt the edge of the playground close to the forest, the children of Okiwi School made a refuge they call Hawaiki. Hawaiki has spiritual and metaphysical connections for Maori as the children create a space for their self-determination
- DirectorReema SenguptaStarsTrupti KhamkarBebo MadiwalSomnath MondalSomewhere between fantasy, trauma, paranoia, precaution, and the promise of a burger, a night gets catapulted into an investigation of child abuse at a dysfunctional police station in Mumbai
- DirectorMelina ValdezStarsGreg PoppaLilia KarstMaxwell FoxStruggling to connect with her grieving family after the sudden death of her stepfather, a teenager sneaks off to shoot guns in rural Florida with her best friend.6/10
- DirectorAmanda ForbisWendy TilbyA sailor is sent hurtling into the sky by the Halifax Explosion.
- DirectorVincent FontanoStarsNadjani BullinFrançoise GuimbertNicolas MoucazamboIn an insular city, a young girl is paralyzed by the fear of her loved ones disappearing. Her grandmother tells her the tale of Edwardo, the first one of his kind to have fought death
- DirectorLuis Fernando PuenteStarsAlejandra HerreraCherie JulanderEnoc OteoFollows Maria Luisa as she confronts the anxiety of losing the life she had planned after her green card interview takes an unexpected turn.
- DirectorAngal FieldStarsAugust AckleyJoshuah MelnickSusan KramerCam is used to seeing the same customers while working at his family's cherry stand. After a handsome cyclist passes through and asks for directions to a local cruising site, Cam takes it as an invitation to follow him.
- DirectorMaisha MaeneStarsSarah BahatiFaustin BiyogaIbrahim TwahaAn 'afronaut' emerges from the wreckage of a spaceship in the volcanic crater of Mount Nyiragongo. Descending into the city below, encountering the people of Goma, he begins to understand what he must do.
- DirectorTai LeclaireDavid SpadoraStarsSami GriffithTai LeclaireAustin PohlenFollows a queer Native who retreats into his mind to find the perfect response from different versions of his own identity after being confronted by a non-Native wearing a ceremonial headdress at a music festival.
- DirectorHadi Rezayati CharanStarsAlireza DashtiyariPakray KhoshdelArshia ZeinaliA boy lives in a border village with Azheh. After Azheh's death, the boy tries to fulfill her will to be buried in his homeland.
- DirectorBridey ElliottStarsBridey ElliottBilly ScafuriAngela TrimburFollows two friends as they role-play a breakup conversation.
- DirectorXenia MatthewsStarsLynn-Catherine DanielsJoilet Harris-LawtonEvesha HarryThe long-dead Ourika, a Senegalese girl enslaved by a French aristocrat, is awoken in the eerie space between life and death, between body and soul, where she finds her way back to life and into liberation7/10
- DirectorLiz SargentStarsAnna SargentJeena YiJoan SargentAfter their mother's death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward.
- DirectorImmanuel EsserMatthias SahliStarsUrsula BenzManuela BiedermannTobias BienzFor years now, giant talking newts have been used both for their labor and as laboratory animals. The Newt Congress takes place at a conference building surrounded by nature where participants have come together to optimize the exploitation of the animals.