Festival
An S/W-Centric Guide to Sundance 2021
S/W takes a deep dive into the 2021 Sundance Programme, previewing a mix of features and shorts from members of the short film community.
Documentary
Samuel Patthey
& Silvain Monney
Ecorce (Peel)
Time seems to have stopped around the retirement home. As we journey inside the building, discovering weakened bodies, auxiliary nurses and a black cat, the minutes go by slowly and repetitively.
Romance
Emily Carmichael
RPG OKC
Two 8-bit video game characters enter the world of online dating and forge an unlikely romance.
Dark Comedy
Ed Barrett
& 6 Others
Chronemics
Set in a world of distinct contrasts, two central characters, Light and Dark, find themselves caught in continuous conflict as they compete for dominance in the universe they share.
Drama
Igor Legarreta
El Gran Zambini (The Great Zambini)
An aging circus performer seeks to mend the troubled relationship he has with his young son.
Horror
Takashi Shimizu
Gakko No Kaidan G / Katasumi (In a Corner)
Before Ju-On and The Grudge, Takashi Shimizu had to prove his new edgy take on horror in the form of two short films—this is the first.
Drama
Tom Campbell
The Bends
A Mixed Martial Arts fighter wrestles with the news she is pregnant in the lead-up to the most important fight of her career.
Adventure
Melody Wang
The Casebook of Nips and Porkington
A mouse and pig as members of the constabulary on their quest across a variety of print media elements to return a kidnapped egg to its distraught parents.
Experimental
Phinehas Hodges
ALONE
An experimental exploration of who we are when no one is watching: the freedom we experience, and the loneliness—the way we sing, dance, love, cry, and dream when we are alone.
