Sundance

In The Chimney Sweeper, filmmaker Jack Raese offers an intimate portrait of tradition and craftsmanship, following a family trade passed down through generations in his Sundance documentary debut.

In Mangittatuarjuk The Gnawer of Rocks, animation director Evan DeRushie reflects on stop motion as a form of cultural stewardship, translating Inuit oral tradition into a tactile and atmospheric Sundance animated short.

Valerie Veatch discusses her Sundance premiering documentary Ghost in the Machine, examining power, authorship, and the real cost of so called artificial intelligence.

María Cristina Pérez discusses her Sundance selected animated short Once in a Body exploring embodiment vulnerability and intimate visual storytelling.

Directed by Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre, the Sundance selected documentary short offers a tactile, meditative experience rooted in Inuit knowledge, land stewardship, and the enduring bond between people and caribou. Rather than explaining its subject, the film invites viewers to slow down, listen, and feel the material presence of the Arctic landscape.

In Sorrow Doesn’t Sleep at Night, grief takes form in silence, shadow, and memory. Premiering at Sundance, the animated short transforms isolation into an unsettling dreamscape where the past refuses to rest.

In a world that often rushes past emotion in favor of efficiency, animator Grace An  slows things down using humor, softness, and surreal imagery to explore memory, family, and identity. Her animated short Cabbage Daddy , selected for the Sundance Film Festival Animated Shorts Program , is a deeply personal film disguised as something playful and strange. What begins with an odd title gradually unfolds into a tender meditation on love, inheritance, and the quiet ways we carry

Animator Kate Renshaw-Lewis discusses her Sundance-selected short Busy Bodies, exploring labor, everyday objects, and hand-drawn animation through surreal, tactile storytelling.

HUGS is a tender animated short exploring connection, vulnerability, and human closeness, premiering in the Sundance Animated Shorts program.

At Sundance, animation isn’t just spectacle, it’s language. And few films in the Animated Shorts program speak as poetically as The Bird’s Placebo, a surreal and deeply human short from Tunisian animator and filmmaker Rami Jarboui.