Festival
Shorts to Keep An Eye On From Sundance 2023
Our Sundance correspondent reports back on her favorite shorts from the fest and celebrates a banner awards night for S/W alums.
Thriller
Nikita Grushin
Fireworks
Through the city a minivan rides. Out go people. Nothing about them is known, but they are planning a series of synchronistic terrorist attacks.
Action
Tom Hankins & 3 Others
Mac 'n' Cheese
Your traditional student animation chase scene—Dutch-style. Evidently this means copious amounts of drugs and psychedelic imagery!
Festival
Sundance Film Festival 2023: A Short-Centric Guide
With Sundance 2023 finally back in-person (after the last two editions happened digitally only), here are our recommendations of what to watch at this year's festival
Drama
Wannes Vanspauwen
De dag die wit was (The Day That Was White)
A diverse group of people are stuck in a traffic jam on a foggy highway, the mist persists and becomes a cloak of uncertainty.
Poem
Jason van Genderen
Mankind Is No Island
Shot by cell-phone on the streets of New York and Sydney, Mankind is no Island stitches together words from posters, displays and street signs—to create a poem of breathtaking beauty and emotion.
Dark Comedy
Nicolas Keppens
Easter Eggs
**LINK OPENS IN A NEW TAB** - In an ordinary Belgian village, two bored teenagers are looking for something extraordinary.
Drama
Bram Schouw
Sevilla
A bittersweet examination of friendship, life, love and enduring bonds. Three youngsters make a roadtrip that will change their lives forever. But they, and you, could never be prepared for what happens in Sevilla.
Musical
Niki Lindroth von Bahr
The Burden (Min Börda)
In a market place, situated next to a freeway, the employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns
