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Sundance’s 2025 Short Film Program Unveiled


Sundance's short film program for 2025 was unveiled on Monday morning.

Somebody Cares/ U.S.A. (Director: Julien Lasseur, Screenwriter: Brian Groh, Producer: Patrick Koitzsch) — After being taken hostage by a clumsy hit man at a cabin in the woods, Barry — a lonely middle-aged deadbeat — must convince his estranged sister to wire him his dead uncle’s inheritance before fate comes to collect. People & Things/ Poland (Director and Screenwriter: Damian Kosowski, Producers: Jerzy Kapuściński, Ewa Jastrzębska, Magdalena Tomanek) — Olena arrives with her daughter, Kira, and boyfriend, Timur, in a small town in eastern Ukraine to receive the results of a DNA test confirming that her husband, Ilya, who disappeared during the war, is dead. Jesus 2/ U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Jesse Moynihan, Producers: Aron Fromm, Casey Rupp) — In a future where no one can die and no one wants to live anymore, two space pirate brothers must destroy an evil messiah to break the curse of immortality and deliver humanity to its final resting place.

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