Solo
April 22, 2024
Made in England
May 15, 2024
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 110-minute theatrical program of seven short films curated from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including three Festival Award–winning titles. The program is a sampling of Festival offerings and a testament to the unique storytelling potential that the format holds. Audiences can enjoy a mix of fiction, documentary, and animated shorts that are funny, sad, inspiring, and full of strong characters.
ALOK
A compelling portrait of Alok Vaid-Menon, acclaimed nonbinary author, poet, comedian, and public speaker.
Director: Alex Hedison
Executive-produced by Jodie Foster
Cast: Alok Vaid-Menon, Dylan Mulvaney, Chani Nicholas
Country: USA
Bug Diner
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass. Fiction.
Director and Screenwriter: Phoebe Jane Hart
Comedy. Cast: Jacob Levy, Phoebe Hart
Country: USA
2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award: Animation.
Dream Creep
A couple awakens in the night to sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice.
Director and Screenwriter: Carlos A.F. Lopez
Cast: Ian Edlund, Sidney Jayne Hunt
Country: USA
Essex Girls
After an incident at her high school pulls her into the orbit of the only other Black girl in her year, “Essex Girl” Bisola is plunged into a journey to discover a whole new side of herself.
Director: Yero Timi-Biu
Screenwriter: Busayo Ige
Cast: Busayo Ige, Corinna Brown, Maisie Smith, Adrianna Bertola, Krysstina Frempong, Rebecca Dike
Country: UK
Pathological
A woman who’s a pathological liar wakes up one day to discover her lies have become true.
Director and Screenwriter: Alison Rich
Cast: Alison Rich, Meaghan Rath, Luke Cook, Adam Lustick, Heather Pasternak, George Kareman
Country: USA
Pisko the Crab Child is in Love
Pisko’s father is a crab while her mother is human. Pisko falls in love with her teacher but is heartbroken when he leaves her because she is half-crab. Pisko finally finds love and companionship with her friend Kubokayo.
Director and Screenwriter: Makoto Nagahisa
Cast: Aiko Kano, Saya, Maki Fukuda, Kanta Sato
Country: Japan
2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing
The Masterpiece
Leo and Diana, a wealthy couple, meet Salif and Yousef, two scrap dealers, at a recycle center. Offering them more junk, Diana invites them to their mansion, but the immigrants actually might be the ones with something she wants.
Director and Producer: Àlex Lora Cercós
Screenwriter: Alfonso Amador, Lluis Quilez
Cast: Daniel Grao, Babou Cham, Melina Matthews, Adam Nourou, Guido Grao
Country: Spain
2024 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Grand Jury Prize