2026 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour

August 28-August 30
Michigan

Film | Shorts | NR | 1h 36m | 2026

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a curated collection of six standout short films from this year’s Festival, including three Festival Award–winning titles. This 96-minute program offers a mix of stories that highlight bold perspectives and next-gen storytellers. The 2026 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour offers a mix of stories that highlight bold perspectives and next-gen storytellers, highlighting the depth of narrative possibilities explored in the short film format. This tour invites audiences across the world to experience a collection of resonant, provocative, tender, and human-centered fiction, nonfiction, and animated shorts that showcase truly dynamic independent storytelling.

The Festival’s Short Film Program has long been established as a place to discover talented directors, such as past alumni Andrea Arnold, Lake Bell, Damien Chazelle, Destin Daniel Cretton, Jay and Mark Duplass, Debra Granik, Rashaad Ernesto Green, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Todd Haynes, Sterlin Harjo, Don Hertzfeldt, Sky Hopinka, Shaka King, Lynne Ramsay, Dee Rees, Joey Soloway, Taika Waititi, and many others.

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is presented by Ketel One.

2026 Program

The Boys and the Bees / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Arielle C. Knight, Producer: Sean Weiner)

Living with a Visionary / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Stephen P. Neary, Producer: Mireia Vilanova)

Pankaja / U.S.A., India (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Anooya Swamy, Producers: Nakirekanti Swamy, Archana Swamy, Vindhya Gupta)

Crisis Actor / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Lily Platt, Producers: Sophie Seyd, Alex Bendo, Lexi Preiser)

Marga en el DF / Mexico, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Gabriela Ortega, Producers: Karla Luna Cantú, Natalia Gonzalez, Eugenio Valero, Carlos López Estrada, Valerie Bush, Stacy Perskie)

Sauna Sickness / Sweden (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Malin Barr)