Shorts Attack in August 2023

7 films in 90 minutes

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour presented by Shutterstock is a 90-minute theatrical program featuring seven curated short films from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, including two award-winning titles. The festival is considered the premier showcase for short films and a launching pad for many for many independent filmmakers known today. It took place January 19-29, 2023 in Park City, Utah.

The program:

Help Me Understand
Aemilia Scott
USA
14 min
Finding consens
Six women come to a consensus. That is: they want to come to a consensus. And so they sit together on a large table and do their best to communicate for consense.

Inglorious Liaisons
Chloé Alliez, Violette Delvoye,
France/ Belgium
11 min
Party and love
On the night of a big party for Lucie, Maya, and their friends, Jimmy has also come. Everyone knows he is here for Maya, but does she have the same feelings for Jimmy?

Parker
Catherine Hoffman, Sharon Liese
USA
13 min
Name grotesque
Three generations of a Kansas City family are finally unified when they do something that countless other Black Americans could not — choose their own last name. Non-Fiction.

Pro Pool
Alec Pronovost
Kanada
8 min
Work reality
Newly graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history and civilization, he struggles to find a job in his field and must rely on a clerk position in a pool shop. Feeling down, he navigates his gig as best he can.

Rest Stop
Crystal Kayiza
USA
12 min
Family together
On a bus ride from New York to Oklahoma, a young Ugandan-American girl, realizes her place in the world through her mother’s ambitious effort to reunite their family.

Take Me Home
Liz Sargent
USA
16 min
Sister love
After their mother’s death, a cognitively disabled woman and her estranged sister must learn to communicate in order to move forward, it is important for the future.

When You Left Me On That Boulevard
Kayla Abuda Galang
USA
13 min
Drugs
Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at their auntie’s house in southeast San Diego in 2006. Fiction. Short Film Grand Jury Prize.

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 248 of Shorts Attack!