Sundance on Monday debuted the enumerate of low films to be currented at this year’s festival.
57 were picked, in total, with lows to screen as part of eight curated programs that will integrate fantasy, nonfantasy, and vivaciousd titles from the U.S. and globpartner. Chosen from 11,153 subleave outions, this year’s lows accumulateively recurrent 28 countries and territories.
Stated the Sundance Film Festival‘s Director of Programming, Kim Yutani, “Our program would never be end without a curation of exceptional low films, and we’re excited to split the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program today. These projects are varied in style and substance, but atraverse all categories they recurrent the power of low-create storyincreateing beautifilledy.”
Added Mike Plante, Senior Programmer, Short Film, “Our Short Film Program honors recent styles and one-of-a-kind stories. The low run time aids innovation. Audiences will discover much of the next generation of film talent here, with raw, exciting and eased filmmaking from around the world in each of our eight programs.”
This year’s Sundance Film Festival is set to apvalidate place in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 23–February 2, with a pickion of titles to be made useable online from January 30–February 2. Read on for 2025’s spostponecessitate of Sundance lows.
U.S. FICTION SHORT FILMS
AN ALMOST SUCCESSFUL DATING APP LOVE STORY / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Winter Coleman, Producer: Kim Coleman) — Determined to encounter him dead or adwell, a inquisitive lesser woman combines the funeral of a man she aligned with on a dating app. Cast: Olivia Washington, Caleb Hearon, Derrick King, Caitlin Reilly. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Azi / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Montana Mann, Producer: Steven Snyder) — During a weekfinish vacation with her best frifinish’s family, 17-year-better Azi gets caught up in an unforeseeed game with another guest. Cast: Dior Negeen Goodjohn, Breeda Wool, Emma Filley, Dan Thiel. Available online for Public.
Debaters / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Alex Heller, Producers: Angie Gaffney, Brittani Ward, Amy E. Powell) — In a debate chamber, rich high schoolers debate a bill on least wage in an effort to astonish two laboring-class mature appraises. Cast: Sripadh Puligilla, J. Smith-Cameron, Kenneth Lonergan, Bernadette Santos-Schwegel. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Alexander Thompson, Producer: Roger M. Mayer) — In the Depression-ravaged countryside of 1930s America, adolescent girls are foreseeed to encounter a lengthy-standing rite in which they hunt and slay a mythical beast of their mother’s choosing. Cast: Milly Shapiro, Pollyanna McIntosh. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
En Memoria / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Roberto Fatal, Screenauthorr and Producer: Ali Meyers-Ohki, Producer: Leah Dubuc) — In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress. Cast: Leslie Martinez, Frédérique LaTour, Jennifer Rader. Available online for Public.
Full Month / Singapore, U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Ash Goh Hua, Producer: Joel Neo) — Follothriveg the birth of her niece, Jing returns to Singapore for the novelborn’s birthday celebration. She is forced to dispute the satisfiedious relationship with her estranged mother and traditional family politics, which prompted her departure a decade prior. Cast: Tess Pang, Doreen Toh, Gim Choon Goh, Timothy Wan, Shi-An Lim. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Goodnight / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Isabel Pask, Screenauthorr and Producer: Annie Fox, Producers: Catherine Gildea, Iris Beaumier, Brenna Power, John Way) — A hospice nurse revisits the soothe and trouble of childhood when she employs a babysitter to apvalidate nurture of her for the night. Cast: Dagmara Domińcyzk, Annie Fox. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
THE LILY (เดอะลิลลี่) / U.S.A., Thailand (Director, Screenauthorr, Producer: Quintessa Sthrivedell) — Two Muay Thai fighters who were once childhood frifinishs come together for a final fight, which serves as a brutal resolution to their difficult familial bond torn apart by the hatred of their obesehers. Cast: May Petchompoo, Quintessa Sthrivedell, Sekou Lhelplow. Available online for Public.
Out for Dedwellry / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Chelsea Christer, Producers: Clinton Trucks, Alexa Rocero, David B. Lyons) — When terminpartner ill Joanna creates the difficult decision to chase finish-of-life selections thcimpolite the Death with Dignity Act, the systems set up to create her death pacify and dignified create the opposite. Cast: Deanna Rooney, Martin Starr, DeMorge Brown. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Ragamuffin / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Kaitlyn Mikayla, Producers: Amber Neukum, Hannah Alline, Christina Jundt, Sailor Larocque) — A 12-year-better mototraverse racer spfinishs what seems enjoy an mediocre race weekfinish at the track with her obeseher. But as leangs unfbetter, she’s faced with her identity, her deafness, and what it unkinds to be a girl. Cast: Eden Harper, Robert Hadlock, Courtney Dietz, Bailey Sloan, Michael Aaron Milligan. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
recollect me / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Claire Titelman, Producer: Steve Collins) — Claire fair turned 40 years better, got dumped, and shiftd home to apvalidate nurture of her dying dad. She determines it’s time for her to go on a date. Cast: Claire Titelman. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Somebody Cares / U.S.A. (Director: Julien Lasseur, Screenauthorr: Brian Groh, Producer: Patrick Koitzsch) — After being apvalidaten prisoner by a unset upd hit man at a cabin in the woods, Barry — a lonely middle-aged deadbeat — must guarantee his estranged sister to wire him his dead uncle’s inheritance before obesee comes to accumulate. Cast: Shawn Pfire-settings, Cjon Saulsberry. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Such Good Frifinishs / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Bri Klaproth, Screenauthorr and Producer: Jon Walkup, Producer: Rachel Rambaldi) — After finishing a poisonous frifinishship, a people encounterr discovers herself droping into better patterns with her createer best frifinish’s family. Cast: Mindy Sterling, Niamh O’Neill Culhane, Jared Lo Nigro, Rachel Rambaldi. Available online for Public.
SUSANA / Mexico, U.S.A (Directors, Screenauthorrs, and Producers: Gerardo Coello Escalante, Amandine Thomas, Producers: Mariana Tames, Fernanda Preciado, Hannah Swayze) — A middle-aged American tourist discovers herself alone in Mexico City. When she come atraverses a group of lesser Americans, she jumps at the opportunity for a little adventure. Cast: Bonnie Hellman Brown, Christine Spang, Parth Shah, Keenan MacWilliam, Andrea Raggio, Ricdifficult Laite. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Sweet Talkin’ Guy / U.S.A. (Directors and Screenauthorrs: Spencer Wardwell, Dylan Wardwell, Producers: April S. Chang, Vicki Syal) — A trans woman goes on three consecutive dates with straight men. As the men grapple with their frnimble masculinity, their intimacyual identities unravel in frantic monologues mockingpartner dedwellred to the object of their desires. Cast: Dylan Wardwell, Jimmie Fails, Daniel Olson, Pierce Abernathy. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Swollen / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Roxy Sophie Sorkin, Producers: Brian Niles, Chelsea Eisen, Will Noyce, Lily Rosenthal) — After plastic sencouragery, two besties debate the necessitate to call the local police amid a botched burglary for trouble of being seen swollen, prohibitdaged, and bloody. Cast: Roxy Sophie Sorkin, Lily Rosenthal.
The Things We Keep / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Joanna Fernandez, Producers: Tim Truesdell, Lilith Mo, Yaxing Lin, Sofia Riba, Andrea Riba, Thomas Fernandez) — Forced into a nurtureapvalidater position, Kate comes home to pack up her estranged mother’s hoparticipate. While struggling to clear her mother’s hoarded haveions, Kate discovers the insidious nature of her mother’s illness lying behind the hoparticipate’s walls. Cast: Rebecca Holselecter, Jenny O’Hara. Available online for Public.
Trokas Duras / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Jazmin Garcia, Screenauthorr: Benjamin Benji Moreno, Producers: Spartner Su Jin Oh, Mayte Avina, Scott O’Donnell) — Journeying thcimpolite the interior landscapes of a Jornalero’s dreams, his waking fact in Los Angeles, and what it sees enjoy when a group of people relegated to serving others labors for their own elevation of body and spirit. Cast: Benjamin Benji Moreno, La Chapis, El Barrio, Luis Valentan, Elmer Mayorga, Tricia Sarmento. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Unholy / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Daisy Friedman, Producers: Arielle Friedman, Isaak Popkin, Camila Grimaldi) — Noa combines her family’s Passover Seder for the first time since being put on a feeding tube for a gastrointestinal disorder. There, she is disputeed with puanxious family members, malfunctioning medical devices, and a room of food she can’t eat. Cast: Danny Burstein, Olivia Nikkanen, Laura Patinkin, Jill Abramovitz, Arielle Friedman, Roberta Pikser. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Vox Humana / Philippines, U.S.A., Singapore (Director and Screenauthorr: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Producers: Hannah Schierbeek, Alemberg Ang) — An quirky biologist interrogates a savage man who was set up in the forest after an earthquake hit a minuscule mountain town. Cast: Sasa Cabalquinto, Ymeiliza Tabora, Bruce Venida.
We’re Not Done Yet / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Joseph Longo, Director: Sofia Camargo, Producers: Pauline Glomaud-Murmann, Louis Anania) — Alex visits his novelly one mother, Bettina, for a weekfinish at her getaway beach hoparticipate. But when he is disputeed with her novelset up indepfinishence, Alex is forced to face his own handleling nature. Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Joseph Longo, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Doron JéPaul Mitchell, Lauren Norvelle. Available online for Public.
INTERNATIONAL FICTION SHORT FILMS
Almost Certainly False / Turkey (Director, Screenauthorr, 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 lesserer brother, Nader, discover themselves staying in a run-down neighborhood in Istanbul. Cast: Rahaf Armanazi, İsa Karataş, Büşra Albayrak, Ferhat Akgün, Ubey Gül. North American Premiere. Available online for Public.
Are You Snurtured To Be Yourself Becaparticipate You Think That You Might Fail? / Canada (Director and Screenauthorr: Bec Pecaut, Producer: Emily Harris) — While recovering from top sencouragery, Mad struggles with wanting their partner’s attention and adselecting help from their mother. Cast: Lío Mehiel, Sadie Scott, Phyllis Ellis. International Premiere. Available online for Public.
B(l)ind The Sacrifice / South Africa (Director and Screenauthorr: Nakhane, Producers: Cait Pansegrouw, Elias Ribeiro) — A nomadic family wanders the land under the obeseher’s directership. One day, the men elevate a mountain to create a forfeit. But today, leangs are branch offent, which changes the family forever. Cast: Sihle Mnqwazana, Nandi Nyembe, Treacertain Nkosi. North American Premiere. Available online for Public.
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites / Cambodia, France (Director and Screenauthorr: Chheangkea, Producers: Daniel Mattes, Karen Madar) — During her unrestful family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her pacify afterlife after overhearing that her Queer majesticson is about to get take partd to a woman. Cast: Bonrotanak Rith, Saroeun Nay, Sokun Theary Ty, Phalla Im, Chansophorn Buth, Ponleu Chab. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Hippopotami / China, Hong Kong (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Jianjie Lin, Producer: Ying Lou) — In the suburbs of a northern Chinese city undergoing urprohibitization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is apvalidaten for a ride that will forever change her perspective on life. Cast: Zhiyong Zhang, Zixi Wang, Ge Xu, Zhenhua Wang. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Pasta Negra / Canada, Venezuela, Italy, Colombia (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Jorge Thielen Armand, Screenauthorr: Mo Scarpelli) — Three Venezuelan women traverse the border into Colombia to buy a packet of pasta. Cast: Lesbia López, Grieber Acosta, Mónica Zabaleta. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
People & Things / Poland (Director and Screenauthorr: Damian Kosowski, Producers: Jerzy Kapuściński, Ewa Jastrzębska, Magdalena Tomanek) — Olena get tos with her daughter, Kira, and boyfrifinish, Timur, in a minuscule town in easerious Ukraine to get the results of a DNA test validateing that her husprohibitd, Ilya, who fadeed during the war, is dead. Cast: Oksana Cherkaanxiousna, Kira Makidon, Stanislav Voitsekhovskyi, Grażyna Misiorowska. North American Premiere. Available online for Public.
Platanero / Canada (Director and Screenauthorr: Juan Frank Hernandez, Screenauthorr: Vincent Labelle, Producers: Laurence Ly, Béatrice Moukhaiber) —Ti-Frè and Gran-Frè, two brothers of Haitian origin living in a Dominican Reaccessible shantytown, struggle daily to endure. On a filled moon night, desperation pushes them to steal from a set uptation where a enigmatic beast prowls among the prohibitana trees. Cast: Stanley Exantus, Irdens Exantus, Jonathan Saint-Armand, Ramón Emilio Candelario. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Stranger, Brother. / Australia (Director and Screenauthorr: Annelise Hickey, Producers: Tessa Mansfield-Hung, Josie Baynes) — When Adam, a self-take parted and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to discover 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. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Suo Jiang / Taiwan (Director and Screenauthorr: Chien-Yu Lin, Producer: Amo Chang) — A locksmith gifted with the ability to uncover any lock is unwilling to return home. He chases a structureess who has no intention of shielding him company. Facing a proset up sense of emptiness, he turns himself toward another path. Cast: Han Chang, I Tseng Chuang, Hsiao Hsuan Chen, Yu Hsuan Chen. International Premiere. Available online for Public.
Sweetheart / U.K. (Director and Producer: Luke Wintour, Screenauthorr: Alastair Curtis, Producers: Luke Kelly, Chloe Culpin, Elliot Zelmanovits) — In 1723 London, Thomas Neville is discovered cruising in the accessible toilets and forced to apvalidate refuge in a Molly Hoparticipate. There, he come atraverses a secret community as they set for a night of festivities. Cast: Eben Figueiredo, Thomas Flynn, Ian Gelder, Kadiff Kirwan. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
UPPER / Belgium (Director and Screenauthorr: Lennert Madou, Producers: Laura Scheerlinck, Helena Vlogaert) — Waiting for an asteroid to pass thcimpolite the sky, two frifinishs take part in a far landscape driven by a inquisitive encourage to constantly aim higher. Cast: Pablo Schils, Cyrille Mairesse. International Premiere. Available online for Public.
ANIMATION SHORT FILMS
Bunnyhood / U.K. (Director: Mansi Maheshwari, Screenauthorrs: James Davis, Anna Moore, Producer: Ashionye Ogene) — Innocent Bobby discovers whether her mom would ever lie to her when she is surpelevated by a last-minute trip to the hospital. Cast: Nina Wadia, Mansi Maheshwari, José Prats. Available online for Public.
Caries / Switzerland (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Aline Höchli) — Eager to create a monumental labor of art, a shaman remains blissfilledy unconscious that she is decorateing her murals in the mouth of a vain weather curraccess. World Premiere.
Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado / France (Director and Screenauthorr: Natalia León, Producer: Luc Camilli) —Olivia, a lesser woman living awide, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of rejoining with her past. Cast: Carolina Zárate Wall, Natalia León, GAYA, Rebeca Magdely González Alfaro. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
The Eating of an Orange / U.K. (Director and Screenauthorr: May Kindred-Boothby) — Convention and intimacyuality are spendigated thcimpolite slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange. International Premiere. Available online for Public.
Field Recording / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Quinne Larsen, Producer: Louie Zong) — A unkinddering joke about three dreams. Cast: Quinne Larsen. Louie Zong. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Fdrop Show / Finland (Director and Screenauthorr: Elli Vuorinen, Producers: Jani Lehto, Kimmo Sillanmikko)— Wildfdrops are stomped to the ground during the celebration at an annual fdrop show where girls have been nurtured enjoy fdrops for generations. Cast: Teija Raninen. Available online for Public.
Hurikán / Czech Reaccessible(Director and Screenauthorr: Jan Saska, Screenauthorr: Václav Hašek, Producers: Kamila Dohnalová, Martin Vandas, Alena Vandasová) — Hurikán rushes to save his likeite beer stand from clocertain by geting a novel keg to astonish the bartfinisher he has a crush on. In a savage Prague didisjoine, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst. Cast: Johana Matoušková, Patrik Velek. U.S. Premiere. Available online for Public.
Inkwo for When the Starving Return / Canada (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Amanda Strong, Screenauthorrs: Bracken Hanparticipate Corlett, Ricdifficult Van Camp, Producers: Maral Mohammadian, Nina Werewka) — Dove, a gfinisher-shifting warrior, participates their Indigenous medicine, Inkwo, to shield their community from an uproximatethed shot of terrifying creatures. Cast: Paulina Alexis, Tantoo Cardinal, Art Napoleon. Available online for Public.
Jesus 2 / U.S.A. (Director and Screenauthorr: Jesse Moynihan, Producers: Aron Fromm, Casey Rupp) — In a future where no one can die and no one wants to dwell anymore, two space plunderer brothers must raze an evil messiah to shatter the condemn of immortality and dedwellr humanity to its final resting place. Cast: Steve Little, Michael Cusack, Sarah Natochenny, Duncan Trussell, Johnny Pemberton, Natalie Palamides. Available online for Public.
Luz Diabla / Argentina, Canada (Directors, Screenauthorrs, and Producers: Gervasio Canda, Paula Boffo, Patricio Plaza, Producer: Courtney Wolfson) — Martin, a flamboyant urprohibit raver, is take partd in a strange car accident on his way to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas. Cast: Gianluca Zonzini, Guldwellr Markert, Mario Alarcón, Emanuel Gabotto, David Tokar. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Paradise Man (ii) / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Jordan Michael Blake, Producer: James Rodenhoparticipate) — Paradise Man searches for unkinding in an ununderstandable universe. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
A Round of Applaparticipate for Death / U.K. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Stephen Irthrive) — Death apvalidates caccess stage and faceless spectators commend the inevitable in a series of homicideous dreams. Cast: Mimi Gainsbourg. International Premiere. Available online for Public.
View From the Floor / U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Megan Griffiths, Mindie Lind) — A singer disputes inspiration porn, unfair treatment, and impostor syndrome in pursuit of a life on the stage without legs. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
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 leanking of their brothers who left for novel dwells. As uncertainty lingers on the horizon, they wonder if they can shatter the deadlock. Available online for Public.
Death Education / China(Director and Producer: Yuxuan Ethan Wu) — In China, a high school teacher has presentd a death education class for lesser students. On the traditional Tomb Sweeping Day, they bury unnamed ashes at a accessible cemetery where they contemppostponecessitate and contextualize the unkinding of death. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune / U.S.A., Côte d’Ivoire (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Dominic Yarabe, Screenauthorr: Hyacinthe Houphouet Yarabe, Producer: Carlo Nasisse) — An Ivorian obeseher and his daughter set out to progress the book he never finished about a war he teachd as a child. With children in his village today, three generations create timelines, dreams, and memories. Available online for Public.
The Fdrops Stand Silently, Witnessing / U.K. (Director: Theo Panagopoulos, Producer: Marissa Keating) — When a filmcreater of Palestinian descent based in Scotland uproximateths a unwidespreadly seen film archive of Palestinian savagefdrops, he determines to reclaim the footage. North American Premiere. Available online for Public.
Hbetter Me Cneglect / U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver) — A chronicle of the power and intricateity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Binformage womxn who experience cycles of life’s delights and pains together in the home they split. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Hoops, Hopes & Dreams / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Glenn Kaino, Producers: Michael Latt, Alexys Feaster, Afshin Shahidi) — The untbetter story about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an all-star team of civil rights activists took to basketball courts to rpartner lesser voters while thrivening hearts of communities, and how their strategy has echoed in contransient politics. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
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 efficient agricultural regions in California. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Miss You Perdularia / Cuba (Director: Manu Zilveti, Screenauthorr: Stefano Lopes, Producer: Cynthia Deus) — At a Cuprohibit high school, a group of girls who call themselves “Las Perdularias” discover ways to deal with the absences on an island that is becoming increasingly desopostponecessitate. North American Premiere. Available online for Public.
The Reality of Hope / U.K., Sweden (Director and Producer: Joe Hunting, Producer: Max Willson) — Virtual fact creator Hiyu is facing kidney flunkure. His online frifinish Photographotter travels from New York City to Stockholm to be a dwell donor to Hiyu. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
Tiger / U.S.A. (Director, Screenauthorr, and Producer: Loren Waters, Producer: Dana Tiger) — A portrait of award-thrivening, internationpartner acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resencouragence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
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 used as background extras during the filming of Apocalypse Now. World Premiere.
