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 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