2026 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour

Name: 2026 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-07-04
Duration: 1 h 39 min

The Sundance Festival Short Film Tour returns to Images for our 4th of July tradition! Co-presented with support from the Williamstown Cultural District.Program The Boys and the Bees / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Arielle Knight, Producer: Sean Weiner) — On an idyllic farm in rural Georgia, Black beekeeping parents tenderly share their knowledge of life, love, and nature with their young sons while restoring their homestead. Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left: 35.970001220703125pt;margin-right: 0.15924072265625pt;text-indent: -0.30999755859375pt;margin-top:11.328033447265625pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.30999755859375pt;">Arielle Knight is an Emmy Award–winning producer and New York–based filmmaker whose work spans short and feature-length films centered on Black life and community. Supported by Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation, Catapult Film Fund, and others, she is developing hybrid projects that blur genre and reimagine form. Crisis Actor / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Lily Platt, Producers: Sophie Seyd, Alex Bendo, Lexi Preiser) — 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. Cast: Sarah Steele, Philip Ettinger. Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction Lily Platt is a filmmaker from New York City. Platt worked as a staff producer at Story Syndicate, where she made docu-series for HBO and Netflix. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Crisis Actor is her debut short. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left: 0.4199981689453125pt;margin-right: 4.5048828125pt;text-indent: -0.29000091552734375pt;margin-top:11.749359130859375pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.29000091552734375pt;">Living with a Visionary / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Stephen P. Neary, Producer: Mireia Vilanova) — After 50 years of marriage, John must care for his wife while learning to live alongsideher vivid hallucinations. Cast: James Cromwell, Katherine LaVictoire. Short Film Jury Award: Animation <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left: 36.30000305175781pt;margin-right: 2.02899169921875pt;text-indent: -0.029998779296875pt;margin-top:11.32806396484375pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.029998779296875pt;">Stephen P. Neary is a Los Angeles–based writer, director, and storyboard artist known for creating The Fungies! for Cartoon Network/HBO Max. His credits include KPop Demon Hunters, Clarence, two Ice Age films, and Rio. He teaches at CalArts and works as a story artist for Netflix, Illumination, Annapurna, and Sony. 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) — 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. Cast: Camila Santana, David Palacio, Xabiani Ponce de León, Andrea de Fátima. Gabriela Ortega is an award-winning filmmaker from the Dominican Republic. Her short film Huella premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, and its feature script participated in the Sundance Institute labs. She is developing a film for a major studio and is preparing her debut feature set in the Dominican Republic. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left: 0.36000823974609375pt;margin-right: 18.3707275390625pt;text-indent: -0.01999664306640625pt;margin-top:11.7493896484375pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.01999664306640625pt;">Pankaja / U.S.A., India (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Anooya Swamy, Producers: Nakirekanti Swamy, Archana Swamy, Vindhya Gupta) — Pankaja, along with her daughter, Lalli, searches for her missing husband through the city slums of Bangalore to bring him back home. Cast: Harshini Boyalla, Padmashree G. <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left: 35.970001220703125pt;margin-right: 10.29205322265625pt;text-indent: -0.3600006103515625pt;margin-top:11.749359130859375pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.3600006103515625pt;">Anooya Swamy is a New York–based Indian filmmaker born and raised in Bangalore, pursuing her MFA in film/TV production at Tisch School of the Arts, where she served as Spike Lee’s assistant. She is an Ang Lee Scholar, a BAFTA Scholar, and a Sundance Ignite x Adobe fellow. Sauna Sickness / Sweden (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Malin Barr) — Struggling to maintain the peace she mistakes for love, Cleo’s steamy New Year’s Eve plans fissure into a chilling nightmare. Cast: Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Adam Lundgren, Magnus Krepper, Sanna Krepper. Malin Barr is a Swedish writer, director, and actor working between Stockholm and Los Angeles. Her work focuses on women-driven stories, often blending dark humor with genre-bending storytelling. An alum of the Alma Löv Screenwriting Academy in Sweden and the Cine Qua Non Writers Lab, her previous short films have screened at festivals internationally. Sauna Sickness marks her Sundance Film Festival debut. DocumentaryPT1H39M2026-07-042026 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour"2026 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour"

Showtimes

July 4, 2:00 pm

July 4, 4:30 pm