Tutti i corti del Sundance Film Festival 2025:
U.S. FICTION SHORT FILMS
An Almost Successful Dating App Love Story / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Winter Coleman, Producer: Kim Coleman)
Decisa a incontrarlo vivo o morto, una giovane donna curiosa assiste al funerale di un uomo con cui ha fatto amicizia su un’app di appuntamenti
Cast: Olivia Washington, Caleb Hearon, Derrick King, Caitlin Reilly
Azi / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Montana Mann, Producer: Steven Snyder)
Durante un weekend di vacanza con la famiglia della sua migliore amica, la diciassettenne Azi viene coinvolta in un gioco inaspettato con un altro ospite
Cast: Dior Negeen Goodjohn, Breeda Wool, Emma Filley, Dan Thiel
Debaters / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Alex Heller, Producers: Angie Gaffney, Brittani Ward, Amy E. Powell)
In una sala dibattiti, liceali benestanti discutono una proposta di legge sul salario minimo nel tentativo di impressionare due giudici della classe operaia.
Cast: Sripadh Puligilla, J. Smith-Cameron, Kenneth Lonergan, Bernadette Santos-Schwegel
Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Alexander Thompson, Producer: Roger M. Mayer)
Negli Stati Uniti degli anni ’30, devastati dalla Depressione, delle ragazze adolescenti devono adempiere a un rito di vecchia data in cui cacciano e uccidono una bestia mitica.
Cast: Milly Shapiro, Pollyanna McIntosh
En Memoria / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Roberto Fatal, Screenwriter and Producer: Ali Meyers-Ohki, Producer: Leah Dubuc)
In un futuro distopico, una madre lotta per finire di confezionare il vestito da quinceañera della figlia
Cast: Leslie Martinez, Frédérique LaTour, Jennifer Rader
Full Month / Singapore, U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Ash Goh Hua, Producer: Joel Neo)
Dopo la nascita di sua nipote, Jing torna a Singapore per festeggiare il compleanno della neonata. Lì è costretta ad affrontare il rapporto conflittuale con sua madre e le politiche della sua famiglia tradizionale, che l’avevano spinta a partire, un decennio prima.
Cast: Tess Pang, Doreen Toh, Gim Choon Goh, Timothy Wan, Shi-An Lim
Goodnight / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Isabel Pask, Screenwriter and Producer: Annie Fox, Producers: Catherine Gildea, Iris Beaumier, Brenna Power, John Way)
Un’infermiera di un ospizio rivive le cure e la paura dell’infanzia quando è costretta ad assume una babysitter che si prenda cura di lei per una notte.
Cast: Dagmara Domińcyzk, Annie Fox.
The Lily (เดอะลิลลี่) / U.S.A., Thailand
(Director, Screenwriter, Producer: Quintessa Swindell)
Due lottatori di Muay Thai che un tempo erano amici d’infanzia si riuniscono per un combattimento finale, che serve a risolvere in modo brutale il loro difficile legame familiare lacerato dall’odio dei rispettivi padri.
Cast: May Petchompoo, Quintessa Swindell, Sekou Laidlow
Out for Delivery / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Chelsea Christer, Producers: Clinton Trucks, Alexa Rocero, David B. Lyons)
Quando Joanna, malata terminale, prende la difficile decisione di perseguire le opzioni di fine vita concesse dalla legge, i sistemi che dovrebbero rendere la sua morte pacifica e dignitosa producono l’effetto contrario.
Cast: Deanna Rooney, Martin Starr, DeMorge Brown
Ragamuffin / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Kaitlyn Mikayla, Producers: Amber Neukum, Hannah Alline, Christina Jundt, Sailor Larocque)
Una dodicenne pilota di motocross trascorre quello che sembra un normale weekend di gara in pista con il padre. Ma con l’evolversi della situazione, si trova ad affrontare questioni sulla sua identità, la sua sordità e il suo essere donna.
Cast: Eden Harper, Robert Hadlock, Courtney Dietz, Bailey Sloan, Michael Aaron Milligan
Remember me / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Claire Titelman, Producer: Steve Collins)
Claire ha appena compiuto 40 anni, è stata lasciata e si è trasferita a casa per prendersi cura del padre morente. Per cui decide che è arrivato il momento di avere un appuntamento.
Cast: Claire Titelman
Somebody Cares / U.S.A.
(Director: Julien Lasseur, Screenwriter: Brian Groh, Producer: Patrick Koitzsch)
Dopo essere stato preso in ostaggio da un maldestro sicario in una baita nel bosco, Barry – un solitario fannullone di mezza età – deve convincere la sorella lontana a consegnargli l’eredità dello zio morto prima che il destino venga a riscuotere.
Cast: Shawn Parsons, Cjon Saulsberry
Such Good Friends / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Bri Klaproth, Screenwriter and Producer: Jon Walkup, Producer: Rachel Rambaldi)
Dopo aver messo fine a un’amicizia tossica, la protagonista si ritrova a cadere in vecchi schemi noti con la famiglia della sua ex migliore amica.
Cast: Mindy Sterling, Niamh O’Neill Culhane, Jared Lo Nigro, Rachel Rambaldi
Susana / Mexico, U.S.A
(Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Gerardo Coello Escalante, Amandine Thomas, Producers: Mariana Tames, Fernanda Preciado, Hannah Swayze)
Una turista americana di mezza età si ritrova sola a Città del Messico. Quando incontra un gruppo di giovani americani, coglie al volo l’opportunità di una piccola avventura.
Cast: Bonnie Hellman Brown, Christine Spang, Parth Shah, Keenan MacWilliam, Andrea Raggio, Richard Laite
Sweet Talkin’ Guy / U.S.A. (Directors and Screenwriters: Spencer Wardwell, Dylan Wardwell, Producers: April S. Chang, Vicki Syal)
Una donna trans ha tre appuntamenti consecutivi con uomini etero. Mentre gli uomini sono alle prese con la loro fragile mascolinità, le loro identità sessuali si dipanano in monologhi frenetici consegnati ironicamente all’oggetto dei loro desideri.
Cast: Dylan Wardwell, Jimmie Fails, Daniel Olson, Pierce Abernathy
Swollen / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Roxy Sophie Sorkin, Producers: Brian Niles, Chelsea Eisen, Will Noyce, Lily Rosenthal)
Dopo un intervento di chirurgia plastica, due amiche discutono sulla necessità di chiamare la polizia locale in seguito a un furto con scasso per paura di essere viste gonfie, fasciate e insanguinate.
Cast: Roxy Sophie Sorkin, Lily Rosenthal
The Things We Keep / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Joanna Fernandez, Producers: Tim Truesdell, Lilith Mo, Yaxing Lin, Sofia Riba, Andrea Riba, Thomas Fernandez)
Costretta a fare la badante, Kate torna a casa per impacchettare la casa della madre. Mentre lotta per liberarsi degli oggetti accumulati dalla madre, Kate scopre la natura insidiosa della malattia che si cela dietro le mura della casa.
Cast: Rebecca Holopter, Jenny O’Hara
Trokas Duras / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Jazmin Garcia, Screenwriter: Benjamin Benji Moreno, Producers: Sally Su Jin Oh, Mayte Avina, Scott O’Donnell)
Un viaggio attraverso i paesaggi interiori dei sogni di un Jornalero, la sua realtà vigile a Los Angeles e quel che si scopre quando un gruppo di persone relegate a servire gli altri opera per la propria elevazione, del corpo e dello spirito
Cast: Benjamin Benji Moreno, La Chapis, El Barrio, Luis Valentan, Elmer Mayorga, Tricia Sarmento
Unholy / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Daisy Friedman, Producers: Arielle Friedman, Isaak Popkin, Camila Grimaldi)
Noa partecipa al Seder di Pasqua della sua famiglia per la prima volta da quando le è stato applicato un tubo di alimentazione per un disturbo gastrointestinale. Lì, si trova ad affrontare membri della famiglia invadenti, dispositivi medici malfunzionanti e una stanza piena di cibo che non può mangiare.
Cast: Danny Burstein, Olivia Nikkanen, Laura Patinkin, Jill Abramovitz, Arielle Friedman, Roberta Pikser
Vox Humana / Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore
(Director and Screenwriter: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Producers: Hannah Schierbeek, Alemberg Ang)
Un eccentrico biologo interroga un uomo selvaggio trovato nella foresta dopo che un terremoto ha colpito una piccola città di montagna
Cast: Sasa Cabalquinto, Ymeiliza Tabora, Bruce Venida
We’re Not Done Yet / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Joseph Longo, Director: Sofia Camargo, Producers: Pauline Glomaud-Murmann, Louis Anania)
Alex va a trovare la sua nuova madre single, Bettina, per un weekend nella sua casa al mare. Ma quando si confronta con la ritrovata indipendenza di Bettina, Alex è costretto ad affrontare la propria natura dispotica.
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Joseph Longo, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Doron JéPaul Mitchell, Lauren Norvelle
INTERNATIONAL FICTION SHORT FILMS
Almost Certainly False / Turkey
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Cansu Baydar, Producers: Sinan Yusufoğlu, Ceyda Yüceer, İzlem Genç, Ulaş Tuna Astepe, Ali Farkhonde)
Having fled the war in Syria, Hanna and her younger brother, Nader, find themselves staying in a run-down neighborhood in Istanbul.
Cast: Rahaf Armanazi, İsa Karataş, Büşra Albayrak, Ferhat Akgün, Ubey Gül
Are You Scared To Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail? / Canada
(Director and Screenwriter: Bec Pecaut, Producer: Emily Harris)
While recovering from top surgery, Mad struggles with wanting their partner’s attention and accepting help from their mother.
Cast: Lío Mehiel, Sadie Scott, Phyllis Ellis
B(l)ind The Sacrifice / South Africa
(Director and Screenwriter: Nakhane, Producers: Cait Pansegrouw, Elias Ribeiro)
A nomadic family wanders the land under the father’s leadership. One day, the men ascend a mountain to make a sacrifice. But today, things are different, which alters the family forever.
Cast: Sihle Mnqwazana, Nandi Nyembe, Treasure Nkosi
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites / Cambodia, France
(Director and Screenwriter: Chheangkea, Producers: Daniel Mattes, Karen Madar)
During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her Queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.
Cast: Bonrotanak Rith, Saroeun Nay, Sokun Theary Ty, Phalla Im, Chansophorn Buth, Ponleu Chab
Hippopotami / China, Hong Kong
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Jianjie Lin, Producer: Ying Lou)
In the suburbs of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride that will forever change her perspective on life.
Cast: Zhiyong Zhang, Zixi Wang, Ge Xu, Zhenhua Wang
Pasta Negra / Canada, Venezuela, Italy, Colombia
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Jorge Thielen Armand, Screenwriter: Mo Scarpelli)
Three Venezuelan women cross the border into Colombia to buy a packet of pasta.
Cast: Lesbia López, Grieber Acosta, Mónica Zabaleta
People & Things / Poland
(Director and Screenwriter: Damian Kosowski, Producers: Jerzy Kapuściński, Ewa Jastrzębska, Magdalena Tomanek)
Olena arrives with her daughter, Kira, and boyfriend, Timur, in a small town in eastern Ukraine to receive the results of a DNA test confirming that her husband, Ilya, who disappeared during the war, is dead.
Cast: Oksana Cherkashyna, Kira Makidon, Stanislav Voitsekhovskyi, Grażyna Misiorowska
Platanero / Canada
(Director and Screenwriter: Juan Frank Hernandez, Screenwriter: Vincent Labelle, Producers: Laurence Ly, Béatrice Moukhaiber)
Ti-Frè and Gran-Frè, two brothers of Haitian origin living in a Dominican Republic shantytown, struggle daily to survive. On a full moon night, desperation pushes them to steal from a plantation where a mysterious beast prowls among the banana trees.
Cast: Stanley Exantus, Irdens Exantus, Jonathan Saint-Armand, Ramón Emilio Candelario
Stranger, Brother. / Australia
(Director and Screenwriter: Annelise Hickey, Producers: Tessa Mansfield-Hung, Josie Baynes)
When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from.
Cast: Tiaki Teremoana, Samson Uili, Charly Thorn, Patrick Livesey
Suo Jiang / Taiwan
(Director and Screenwriter: Chien-Yu Lin, Producer: Amo Chang)
A locksmith gifted with the ability to open any lock is unwilling to return home. He pursues a hostess who has no intention of keeping him company. Facing a profound sense of emptiness, he turns himself toward another path.
Cast: Han Chang, I Tseng Chuang, Hsiao Hsuan Chen, Yu Hsuan Chen
Sweetheart / U.K.
(Director and Producer: Luke Wintour, Screenwriter: Alastair Curtis, Producers: Luke Kelly, Chloe Culpin, Elliot Zelmanovits)
In 1723 London, Thomas Neville is discovered cruising in the public toilets and forced to take refuge in a Molly House. There, he encounters a secret community as they prepare for a night of festivities.
Cast: Eben Figueiredo, Thomas Flynn, Ian Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan
Upper / Belgium
(Director and Screenwriter: Lennert Madou, Producers: Laura Scheerlinck, Helena Vlogaert)
Waiting for an asteroid to pass through the sky, two friends play in a remote landscape driven by a curious urge to constantly aim higher.
Cast: Pablo Schils, Cyrille Mairesse
ANIMATION SHORT FILMS
Bunnyhood / U.K.
(Director: Mansi Maheshwari, Screenwriters: James Davis, Anna Moore, Producer: Ashionye Ogene)
Innocent Bobby discovers whether her mom would ever lie to her when she is surprised by a last-minute trip to the hospital.
Cast: Nina Wadia, Mansi Maheshwari, José Prats
Caries / Switzerland
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Aline Höchli)
Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals in the mouth of a vain weather presenter.
Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado / France
(Director and Screenwriter: Natalia León, Producer: Luc Camilli)
Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.
Cast: Carolina Zárate Wall, Natalia León, GAYA, Rebeca Magdely Gonzalez Alfaro
The Eating of an Orange / U.K.
(Director and Screenwriter: May Kindred-Boothby)
Convention and sexuality are explored through slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange.
Field Recording / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Quinne Larsen, Producer: Louie Zong)
A meandering joke about three dreams.
Cast: Quinne Larsen. Louie Zong
Flower Show / Finland
(Director and Screenwriter: Elli Vuorinen, Producers: Jani Lehto, Kimmo Sillanmikko)
Wildflowers are stomped to the ground during the celebration at an annual flower show where girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations.
Cast: Teija Raninen
Hurikán / Czech Republic
(Director and Screenwriter: Jan Saska, Screenwriter: Václav Hašek, Producers: Kamila Dohnalová, Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasová)
Hurikán rushes to save his favorite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he has a crush on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.
Cast: Johana Matoušková, Patrik Velek
Inkwo for When the Starving Return / Canada
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Amanda Strong, Screenwriters: Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Richard Van Camp, Producers: Maral Mohammadian, Nina Werewka)
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to protect their community from an unearthed swarm of terrifying creatures.
Cast: Paulina Alexis, Tantoo Cardinal, Art Napoleon
Jesus 2 / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Jesse Moynihan, Producers: Aron Fromm, Casey Rupp)
In a future where no one can die and no one wants to live anymore, two space pirate brothers must destroy an evil messiah to break the curse of immortality and deliver humanity to its final resting place.
Cast: Steve Little, Michael Cusack, Sarah Natochenny, Duncan Trussell, Johnny Pemberton, Natalie Palamides
Luz Diabla / Argentina, Canada
(Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza, Producer: Courtney Wolfson)
Martin, a flamboyant urban raver, is involved in a strange car accident on his way to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas.
Cast: Gianluca Zonzini, Gulliver Markert, Mario Alarcón, Emanuel Gabotto, David Tokar
Paradise Man (II) / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Jordan Michael Blake, Producer: James Rodenhouse)
Paradise Man searches for meaning in an unknowable universe.
A Round of Applause for Death / U.K.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Stephen Irwin)
Death takes center stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable in a series of murderous dreams.
Cast: Mimi Gainsbourg
View From the Floor / U.S.A.
(Directors and Producers: Megan Griffiths, Mindie Lind)
A singer confronts inspiration porn, exploitation, and impostor syndrome in pursuit of a life on the stage without legs.
NONFICTION SHORT FILMS
Deadlock / France, Algeria
(Directors: Lucien Beucher, Mahdi Boucif, Producers: Germain Robin, Myriam El Mounsif)
Stuck in their Algiers neighborhood, Sifou and Mahrez gaze at the sea while thinking of their brothers who left for new lives. As uncertainty lingers on the horizon, they wonder if they can break the deadlock.
Death Education / China
(Director and Producer: Yuxuan Ethan Wu)
In China, a high school teacher has introduced a death education class for young students. On the traditional Tomb Sweeping Day, they bury unnamed ashes at a public cemetery where they contemplate and contextualize the meaning of death.
Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune / U.S.A., Côte d’Ivoire
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Dominic Yarabe, Screenwriter: Hyacinthe Houphouet Yarabe, Producer: Carlo Nasisse)
An Ivorian father and his daughter set out to continue the book he never finished about a war he experienced as a child. With children in his village today, three generations create timelines, dreams, and memories.
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / U.K.
(Director: Theo Panagopoulos, Producer: Marissa Keating)
When a filmmaker of Palestinian descent based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage.
Hold Me Close / U.S.A.
(Directors and Producers: Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver)
A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share.
Hoops, Hopes & Dreams / U.S.A.
(Director and Producer: Glenn Kaino, Producers: Michael Latt, Alexys Feaster, Afshin Shahidi)
The untold story about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an all-star team of civil rights activists took to basketball courts to rally young voters while winning hearts of communities, and how their strategy has echoed in contemporary politics.
The Long Valley / U.S.A.
(Directors and Producers: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck)
Documenting the people and landscapes of the Salinas Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in California.
Miss You Perdularia / Cuba
(Director: Manu Zilveti, Screenwriter: Stefano Lopes, Producer: Cynthia Deus)
At a Cuban high school, a group of girls who call themselves “Las Perdularias” find ways to deal with the absences on an island that is becoming increasingly empty.
The Reality of Hope / U.K., Sweden
(Director and Producer: Joe Hunting, Producer: Max Willson)
Virtual reality creator Hiyu is facing kidney failure. His online friend Photographotter travels from New York City to Stockholm to be a live donor to Hiyu.
Tiger / U.S.A.
(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Loren Waters, Producer: Dana Tiger)
A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company.
We Were The Scenery / U.S.A.
(Director: Christopher Radcliff, Producers: Cathy Linh Che, Jess X. Snow)
In 1975, Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che fled from Vietnam by boat and docked in the Philippines, where they were utilized as background extras during the filming of Apocalypse Now.
