Festival
Sundance Film Festival 2025: A Short-Centric Guide
Céline gives our annual preview of Sundance's slate with a specific eye to the alums and shorts we're excited for.
Comedy
Erica Eng
& Rell Battle (writer/creator)
Off Fairfax
Still reeling from the disappearance of his black activist mother twenty years earlier, Quinn Park has dedicated his life to solving local mysteries in his LA neighborhood. Accompanied by his two best friends to a diner on Fairfax Avenue, his latest hunt looks to solve the murder of a popular musician.
Documentary
Alexandra Kern
& Lina Abascal
Stud Country
Stud Country, the largest queer country western line dancing event in America, was created to preserve Los Angeles' little known 50+ year queer line dancing tradition. Despite its success and fiercely committed community, the event is set to lose its venue due to gentrification.
Documentary
Alex Sutherland
The Jump
In 1980, with a healthy mix of imagination, balls and roughly-remembered Newtonian physics, a Kiwi bloke jumped off a bridge and started a worldwide phenomenon.
Documentary
Matthew Salton
Richard Twice
Richard Atkins was at the beginning of a promising musical career — until a single disastrous performance changed the course of his life.
Horror
Gustav Egerstedt
Live Forever
Based around an anthemic song which sees the dead unite across genres and time, Live Forever is a musical love letter and tribute to the poor victims of horror films who didn’t make it to the sequel.
Dark Comedy
Larry & Terry Ziegelman
Boom Boom
Two jihadists bump into each other at a small coffee shop and bicker over who's "special day" it is in this dark satirical comedy.
Drama
Daisy Friedman
As You Are
When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.
Dark Comedy
Helen Simmons
& Julia Cranney
Measure
The horror of Jen's teenage past catches up with her when she takes her autistic son to a birthday party in her hometown.
