The 2006 Sundance Film Festival has selected a lineup of 73 short films from 4,327 submissions that will screen during the upcoming festival as part of its Short Film program.
The fest runs Jan. 19-29 in Park City.
The same short films, as well as festival highlights, also will be will be available at the Sundance Film Festival Online (www.sundance.org) from Jan. 19-June 19.
A total of 42 films are from the U.S. and 31 are international, representing 17 countries.
"As the tools required to create films have become more accessible, new voices have emerged, and short films are a place to discover some of the most creative and challenging work being done today," Sundance Film Festival director of programming John Cooper said.
A jury will award prizes based on outstanding achievement and merit in American and international short filmmaking less than 30 minutes.
A complete list of shorts follows:
U.S. dramatic shorts: "Bugcrush," director Carter Smith; "Common Practice," Marcos Efron; "Dealbreaker," Gwyneth Paltrow and Mary Wigmore; "The Debt," Levan Koguashvili; "Divorce Lemonade," Justin Hayward; "First Date," Gary Huggins; "Fourteen," Nicole Barnette; "Gesture Down/I Don't Sing," Cedar Sherbert; "Ha Ha Ha America," Jon Daniel Ligon; "Hello, Thanks," Andrew Blubaugh; "Hold Up," Madeleine Olnek; "La Muerte Es Pequena," Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa; "Lighten Up," John Viener; "Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf," Susan Youssef; "Max and Josh," Kathryn Ann Busby; "Momma's Boy," John Bryant; "One Sung Hero," Samantha Kurtzman-Counter; "The Pity Card," Bob Odenkirk; "Redemptitude," David Zellner; "Robin's Big Date," James Duffy; "Transaction," Jacques Thelemaque; "You Turned Back and Held My Hand," Gabriela Tollman; "Your Dark Hair Ihsan," Tala Hadid
U.S. documentary shorts: "The Aluminum Fowl," James S. Clauer; "Beyond Iraq," Annalisa Hodgkins; "A Conversation With Basquiat," Tamra Davis; "Losing Lusk," Vance Malone; "Lot 63, Grave C," Sam Green; "Mind Over Matter," Scott Gerow; "No Umbrella -- Election Day in the City," Laura Paglin; "Preacher With an Unknown God," Rob VanAlkemade; "Range," Bill Basquin; "Through the Ice," Jennie Livingston; "The Tribe," Tiffany Shlain; "True Story," Stephanie Via; "What I Love About Dying," Silas Howard
U.S. animated shorts: "Fable," Daniel Sousa; "Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot," David Chai; "Gopher Broke," Jeff Fowler; "Hadacol Christmas," Brent Green; "Los ABCs: Que Vivan los Muertos!" John Jota Leanos; "The Wraith of Cobble Hill," Adam Parrish King
International dramatic shorts: "Antonio's Breakfast," Daniel Mulloy; "Aruba," Hubert Davis; "Bawke," Hisham Zaman; "The Beginning of the End," Gustavo Spolidoro; "Be Quiet," Sameh Zoabi; "Before Dawn," Balint Kenyeres; "Desejo," Anne Pinheiro Guimaraes; "Exoticore," Nicolas Provost; "Le Rouge au Sol," Maxime Giroux; "Monsieur Etienne," Yann Chayia; "The Natural Route," Alex Pastor; "A Supermarket Love Song," Daniel Outram
International documentary shorts: "Rape for Who I Am," Lovinsa Kavuma; "Smudge," Gail Maurice; "Undressing My Mother,"Ken Wardrop
International animated shorts: "At the Quinte Hotel," Bruce Alcock; "Bob Log III's Electric Fence Story," Stock 'n' Wolf; "Clara," Van Sowerwine; "Flesh," Edouard Salier; "A Half Man," Firas Momani; "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello," Anthony Lucas; "Yesterday, I Think," Becalelis Brodskis
Frontier short films: "The Bleeding Heart of It," Louise Bourque; "Fantome Afrique," Isaac Julien; "High Plains Winter," Cindy Stillwell; "Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine," Peter Tscherkassky; "Quimera," Eryk Rocha; "Site Specific -- Las Vegas '05," Olivo Barbieri; "True North," Isaac Julien; "Uten tittel," Anja Breien; "Viscera," Leighton Pierce
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Gregg Kilday writes for The Hollywood Reporter.
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