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Sundance on Monday debuted the list of short films to be presented at this year’s festival.

57 were selected, in total, with shorts to screen as part of eight curated programs that will include fiction, nonfiction, and animated titles from the U.S. and globally. Chosen from 11,153 submissions, this year’s shorts collectively represent 28 countries and territories.

Stated the Sundance Film Festival’s Director of Programming, Kim Yutani, “Our program would never be complete without a curation of outstanding short films, and we’re excited to share the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program today. These projects are varied in style and substance, but across all categories they represent the power of short-form storytelling beautifully.”

Added Mike Plante, Senior Programmer, Short Film, “Our Short Film Program celebrates fresh styles and unique stories. The short run time encourages innovation. Audiences will find much of the next generation of film talent here,...

Sundance added 57 short films to its impressive 2025 lineup on Monday, including new films starring Dagmara Domińcyzk, J. Smith Cameron, Kenneth Lonergan, and Martin Starr.

“Our program would never be complete without a curation of outstanding short films, and we’re excited to share the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Program today,” said Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “These projects are varied in style and substance, but across all categories, they represent the power of short-form storytelling beautifully.”

“Our Short Film Program celebrates fresh styles and unique stories. The short run time encourages innovation,” said Mike Plante, Senior Programmer, Short Film. “Audiences will find much of the next generation of film talent here, with raw, exciting and inspired filmmaking from around the world in each of our eight programs.”

According to the Sundance press release, “The 57 short films selected for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival were chosen from 11,153 submissions.

With the features lineup out of the way last week, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival has revealed the short films headed to Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, for the event’s 41st edition. Beginning January 23 through February 2, festival attendees can catch 57 short films from 28 countries and territories — including live action, animated, and nonfiction documentary titles. Shorts will also be available online during the festival’s second half along with select feature sections.

The 57 short films selected for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival were chosen from 11,153 submissions. Out of these submissions, 4,909 came from the U.S. and 6,244 were international. The selected films will be eligible for juried awards at the end of the festivals.

The Sundance Film Festival has long been celebrated as a platform for innovative short-form projects spanning genres from international filmmakers. Alums of the short film program include Andrea Arnold, Lake Bell, Damien Chazelle, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jay Duplass,...

Exclusive: Production has wrapped in Singapore and the United States on Charlotte Hong’s debut feature Tropical Rain, Death Scented Kiss.

The animation and live-action hybrid film is set in an apocalyptic vision of Singapore falling into a wilderness populated by spirits. A dime store romance blossoms as an alienated lesbian teenager struggles to confess her feelings for her mysteriously-resurrected best friend.

Starring Shi An Lim, the film is produced by Singapore’s Momo Film Co, the Philippines Daluyong Studio and the U.S.’s Total Blur in association with True Colour Media and Purple Tree Content.

At an earlier stage in project, Tropical Rain, Death Scented Kiss won a special mention at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Southeast Asian Film Lab and Talents Tokyo. Production was supported by the Singapore Film Commission, and Talents Tokyo Next Masters Support Program.

Atfter winning the Golden Leopard in the first and...