Sundance is over, and with this, the last batch of 2011 Sundance short films released to the Screening Room, this unique collaboration between the most prestigious North American festival and YouTube will be over too. Well.
Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.
We take a look at the 2021 Encounters Film Festival programme and pick out our highlights from this year's extensive selection of short films.
Pelle, a 12 year old boy with a freshly broken arm, realises he can’t stay a wallflower forever if he truly wants to experience the warmth of a summer romance.
A melancholy boy attends his estranged Father's wedding to a large Latina woman aboard a small and cramped boat on a shark infested sea.
Indian-American teen Lekha sneaks out of the house to fulfill a prom night fantasy. When the evening goes awry, she ends up back where she started - but in a different place altogether. A short film about all the identities we share, or hide, with others.
Muddled in ambiguous relationships, a Mumbai boy paces through the streets, trying to find a partner to spend New Years Eve with.
After beating cancer a boy realizes he can no longer lie to himself and faces an identity crisis. Seduced by the muscular bodies of bodybuilders, he begins to explore his physique and his sexuality.
A mysterious and otherworldly teenage girl confronts the limits of her power when she meets a boy at a house party.
Alex, a six-year-old boy from Quebec, is oblivious to the thousands of refugees entering Canada illegally to avoid deportation. Yet when his father takes him along to a vigilante patrol in the woods to hunt out trespassing migrants, something inside him tells him to rebel.
