Shorts Attack in August 2026

SUNDANCE Film Festival Short Film Tour 2026
6 films in 100 minutes – with German subtitles

About Sundance film festival:

The Program:

CRISIS ACTOR
Lily Platt
USA 2026
13 min
Live Action
Drama Queen
Fired from her day job, an impulsive actress crashes a support group and spirals into a chaotic night that forces her to face her addiction to drama.

THE BOYS AND THE BEES
Arielle Knight
USA 2025
19 min
Live Action
Education with bees
On an idyllic farm in rural Georgia, Black beekeeping parents tenderly share their knowledge of life, love, and nature with their young sons.

PANKAJA
Anooya Swamy
USA, India  2025
14 min
Live Action
Familienvatersuche
Pankaja, along with her daughter, Lalli, searches for her missing husband through the city slums of Bangalore to bring him back home.

SAUNA SICKNESS
Malin Barr
Sweden 2026
15 min
Live Action
Love test
Struggling to maintain the peace she mistakes for love, Cleo’s steamy New Year’s Eve plans fissure into a chilling nightmare.

LIVING WITH A VISIONARY
Stephen P. Neary
USA 2026
15 min
Animation
Sickness visions
After 50 years of marriage, John must care for his wife while learning to live alongside
her vivid hallucinations.

MARGA EN EL DF
Gabriela Ortega
Dominikanische Republik, Mexico, USA 2025
21 min
Live Action
Surprise!
In the wake of Selena Quintanilla’s murder, Marga’s life takes an unexpected turn at 21 weeks pregnant during a surprise visit to Mexico City.

Founded in 2002 and every month new: This is edition 284 of Shorts Attack!