Sundance announces short film programme

The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the 72 shorts it will screen at its 2016 edition, held between January 21-31 in Park City, Utah. Alongside screenings for US and International narrative shorts, Sundance shorts will also be packaged in the festival’s Midnight and New Frontier stands.

A number of well-established festival hits the most prominent of which will be Jörn Threlfall’s Over, the powerful deconstruction of a crime scene that has won awards at the likes of Palm Springs, Encounters and many others. There are more award winners in the delicate Croatian film Belladonna – the winner at this year’s Venice Film Festival – while Lebanese animation Waves ’98 was the winner of Palme D’or for Best Short at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. French film Maman(s), fresh off a Grand Prix win at this year’s Leuven Short Film Festival, will also be screened while British Cannes entry Rate Me, by Fyzal Boulifa will also continue its run of success.

The full list of films screening is:

U.S. Narrative Short Films

Affections (Dir. Bridey Elliott)
Catching Up (Dir. Bill Crossland)
Dirt (Dir. Darius Clark Monroe)
Dogwalker (Dir. Kim Sherman)
Dolfun (Dir. Sebastian Silva)
Emperor of Time (Dir. Drew Christie)
How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps (Dir. Benjamin Berman)
Join the Club (Dir. Eva Vives)
Jungle (Dir. Asantewaa Prempeh) — The lines between trust, betrayal, and
Killer (Dir. Matt Kazman)
Partners (Dir. Joey Ally)
A Reasonable Request (Dir. Andrew Laurich)
So Good to See You (Dir. Duke Merriman)
Solemates (Dir. Bryce Dallas Howard)
Thunder Road (Dir. Jim Cummings)
Too Legit (Dir. Frankie Shaw)
Verbatim: The Ferguson Case (Dir. Brett Weiner)

International Narrative Short Films

Audition (Dir. Lovisa Sirén, Sweden)
Belladonna (Dir. Dubravka Turic, Croatia)
Her Friend Adam (Dir. Ben Petrie, Canada)
It's Not You (Dir. Don McKellar, Canada)
Land Tides (Marea de Tierra) (Dirs. Manuela Martelli & Amirah Tajdin, Chile/France)
Maman(s) (Dir. Maïmouna Doucouré, France )
MeTube 2: August sings Carmina Burana (Dir. Daniel Moshel, Austria)
Mobilize (Dir. Caroline Monnet, Canada)
Over (Dir. Jörn Threlfall, UK)
Peacock (Dir. Ondřej Hudeček, Czech Republic)
Rate Me (Dir. Fyzal Boulifa, UK)
Seide (Dir: Elnura Osmonalieva, Kyrgyzstan)
Tuesday (Dir. Ziya Demirel, Turkey/France)

Documentary Short Films

Another Kind of Girl (Dir. Khaldiya Jibawi, Jordan)
Bacon & God's Wrath (Dir. Sol Friedman, Canada)
Beneath the Embers (Bajo las Brasas) (Dirs. Verónica Jessamyn, López Sainz & Andrea Fuentes Charles, Mexico
Chekhov (Dir. Jack Dunphy, USA)
Entrapped (Dir. Razan Ghalayini, USA)
Figure (Dir. Katarzyna Gondek, Poland/Belgium)
Flower of a Thousand Colours (Dir. Karen Vazquez Guadarrama, Belgium)
Jáaji Approx. (Dir. Sky Hopinka, USA)
I Am Yup'ik (Dirs.Daniele Anastasion & Nathan Golon, USA)
Mining Poems or Odes (Dir. Callum Rice, Scotland)
Peace in the Valley (Dirs. Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher, USA)
Roast Battle (Dir. Jason Reitman, USA)
The Saint of Dry Creek (Dir. Julie Zammarchi, USA)
The Send-Off (Dirs. Ivete Lucas & Patrick Bresnan, USA)
The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere (Dir. Mickey Duzyj, USA)
Speaking is Difficult (Dir. AJ Schnack, USA)
Territory (Dir. Eleanor Mortime, UK)
A Woman and Her Car (Dir. Loïc Darses, Canada)

New Frontier Short Films

Abendland (Hours, Years, Aeons) (Dirs: Patrik Söderlund & Visa Suonpää, Finland)
Swimming in Your Skin Again (Dir. Terence Nance, USA)
Voyagers (Dir. Santiago Menghini, Canada)
YúYú (Dir. Marc Johnson, France)

Midnight Short Films

Boniato. (Dirs. Andres Meza-Valdes, Diego Meza-Valdes & Eric Mainade, USA).
The Chickening (Dirs. Nick DenBoer, Davy Force, USA/Canada)
Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family (Dir. Jason Woliner, USA)
Fuckkkyouuu (Dir. Eddie Alcazar, USA)
Manoman (Dir. Simon Cartwright, UK)
The Pound Hole (Dirs. Daniel Scheinert &Daniel Kwan, USA)
The Procedure (Dir. Calvin Lee Reeder, USA)
The Puppet Man (Dir. Jacqueline Castel, USA)

Animated Short Films

Bob Dylan Hates Me (Dir. Caveh Zahedi, USA)
A Coat Made Dark (Dir. Jack O'Shea, Ireland)
Deer Flower (Dir. Kangmin Kim, South Korea/USA)
Edmond (Dir. Nina Gantz, UK)
Glove (Dirs Alexa Haas & Bernardo Britto, USA)
The Grandfather Drum (Dir. Michelle Derosier, Canada)
The Itching (Dir. Dianne Bellino, USA)
Life Smartphone (Dir. Chenglin Xie, China)
Limbo Limbo Travel (Dirs. Zsuzsanna Kreif, Borbála Zétényi, France/Hungary)
Pombo Loves You (Dir. Steve Warne, UK)
Shiny (Dirs. Spencer Susser & Daniel Cloud Campos, USA)
Waves '98 (Dir. Ely Dagher, Lebanon)