Sundance 2017: Shorts Program Features Kristen Stewart, Annabelle Dexter-Jones
68 shorts will screen come January with U.S. Dramatic, Documentary and NEXT
The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled 68 titles for its Shorts program, which will screen in addition to complement their U.S. Dramatic, Documentary, Next and World competitive slates.
From a former YA sensation to some Hollywood legacies, the program’s focus includes features, docs and animated efforts across the board.
Kristen Stewart’s “Come Swim,” which she wrote and directed, is described as “a diptych of one man’s day, half impressionist and half realist portraits.”
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Robbins, son of actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, directs this short about one of the first films in American cinema to address climate change — that also happens to be a work of hardcore pornography.
A desperate man in Trump’s America tries to shift his luck with the perfect crime in this story inspired by true events.
Overwhelmed by doubt and confusion after her ex-boyfriend’s return to New York, Cecile embarks
on a series of telephone conversations that serve only to distract her from the one conversation she really needs to have.
A complex chick deals with a vanilla beau, a shitty brunch and a dead coyote all in a Los Angeles day.
Ellen Stringer, Stephen Jacobson — An amateur electronic-drum enthusiast travels to a housewares trade show looking to strike up the perfect business partnership.
Teenaged Andrea uses a male stripper to gain
the respect and admiration of cool girl Daphne in this exploration of coming-of-age sexuality and teen girls’ complex relationships, based on a true story.
A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after she inadvertently becomes a viral sensation.
Here’s a day in the life of a husband and wife living in a world of giant monsters.
On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.
After traveling 200 miles, a young woman waits out Texas’s state-mandated 24-hour waiting period before her abortion can proceed.
Take a satirical look at the dumber side of technology.
saying goodbye, the old couple faces a dilemma: keep living with the memories or leave the village for good?
When a strange sound wipes out the hearing population, a small group of deaf people must band together to survive.
An exploration of Shakespeare’s intentions when writing Othello explores the play’s racial themes in historical and contemporary settings, and draws wider parallels between immigration and blackness in the UK today.
A young boy does an unusual favor for a friend, assuming his identity to visit his senile grandmother.
In a small-town high school, days before the college entrance exam, teacher Chen Jun finds out that the father of his most promising student has died in a mining accident.
Through the eyes of cosmic cartographers, the viewer takes a voyage through 950 million years of Earth history and 15,000 years of cartography.
On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father makes a decision that puts his daughter’s life at risk.
A broke and rebellious teen navigates a suburban wasteland, hustling money for the morning-after pill–before it’s too late.
A Chinese couple visits the daughter they gave up for adoption 30 years ago.
While meeting the French adoptive parents, language barriers become apparent and the birth mother’s hidden emotions rise to the surface.
Walter Naegle’s boyfriend, Bayard Rustin, was a famous civil rights activist 30 years Walter’s senior.
Barbara and Zdzislaw will soon celebrate their 45th anniversary — despite their constant bickering, and the fact that Zdzislaw spent eight of those years living with another woman.
Kelvin Peña, a charismatic 17-year-old from rural Pennsylvania, shares his story of going viral after befriending a group of wild deer in his backyard.
Behind a fishy tale lies this search for the truth.
Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy undergoes an adventure of wild proportions when she accidentally smuggles cigarettes.
Stephen continues producing traditional baskets to honor his father and thus finds peace in his studio as he connects with the man who taught him the craft.
Based on NSA documents, this film reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in Manhattan.
People who have never been up a 10-meter diving tower must choose whether to jump or climb down in this entertaining study of people in a vulnerable position.
New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British-born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams in Chibok, Nigeria–by dawn, nearly all had disappeared, and their school was burned to the ground.
Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko Haram.
What happens when a punk fanzine challenges the status quo?
In an aging private hospital, a single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician’s oath when violent gangsters storm in to stop a crucial operation.
Raimo’s comfortable, middle-class bubble is burst when a Satan-worshipping sex cult moves in next door.
All sex scenes have been removed as to not distract from the conscious message.
Between kidnapper and guardian angel, he never takes his eyes off his roommate.
Alone at home one evening, a young girl decides to have a solo pleasure session–but not everything goes according to plan.
Dave is about to lead the first mission to Mars when he’s teamed up with a sentient melon, who claims to be the reincarnation of a fashion designer, upstaging his big moment and driving him to the brink of madness.
The early childhood memory of aerial attacks leaves a lasting impression, with strong stimulus and disquiet.
Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the changing atmosphere on one planet caused by a meteoric impact in a distant solar system.
Inhabitants on this pulsing planet become one with each other, in various ways, in this three-chapter exploration of affection.
Attempting to remove an unresponsive badger from a dark road, a police patrol soon realizes that the animal is not dead but rather dead drunk.
Once the parents leave the island, the strangeness lurking beneath the surface is revealed–aliens exist, horses become unicorns and there are monsters under the bed.
A turntable springs out a woman named Avocado; her instinct creates a man called Soul.
Seeds of passion breed conflict among five men, eventually leading Soul to a deeper understanding of life.
Creatively visualized through 3D printing, two elderly Latinos embark on a resonating he said/she said account of the events that led them to live separately after more than 50 quirky and stressful years together.