Sundance Short Films 2014

*WINNER* Short Film Audience Award, Presented by YouTube

U.S.A.

Director & Screenwriter: Matthew Lessner

Robin, a door-to-door salesman with nothing to sell, pays Levi Gold an unexpected visit. The ensuing encounter forces Levi to confront his true mystical calling and the nature of reality itself. A metaphysical comedy trip-out with Sun Araw.

Cast: Kris Park, David Henry Gerson, Bobby McGee, Cameron Stallones, Alina Aliluykina

*WINNER* Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction

U.S.A.

Director & Screenwriter: Janicza Bravo

A paraplegic man leaves home to be on his own.

Cast: Michael Cera, Sarah Burns, Brett Gelman, Anna Rose Hopkins

*WINNER* Short Film Special Jury Award for Non-Fiction

Russia

Director & Screenwriter: Sandhya Daisy Sundaram

Every year, through the endless winters, her love takes new shapes and forms.

*WINNER* Short Film Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting

United Kingdom/Norway

Director & Screenwriter: Magnus Mork

It's late night in a burger bar in Wales...

Cast: Matthew Ashford, Emily Barber, Charlotte Brimble, Mathew David, Barry Francis, Cherie Harewood

*WINNER* Short Film Special Jury Award for Unique Vision

U.S.A.

Director & Screenwriter: Todd Rohal

A Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator, hired to visit a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself performing the last rites at the boy's bedside.

Cast: Eddie Rouse, Steve Little, Margie Beegle

*WINNER* Short Film Jury Award: Animation

U.S.A.

Director & Screenwriter: Bernardo Britto

A man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet blows up.

*WINNER* Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction

Israel

Directors: Yuval Hameiri & Michal Vaknin
Screenwriter: Yuval Hameiri

A man with poor means recreates a lost memory of the last day with his mom. Objects come to life in a desperate struggle to produce a single moment that is gone.

*WINNER* Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction

Canada

Director & Screenwriter: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles

The Cut tells the story of a father and a daughter, whose relationship fluctuates between proximity and detachment, at the moment of a haircut.

Cast: Milya Corbeil-Gauvreau, Alain Houle

*WINNER* Short Film Grand Jury Prize

Syrian Arab Republic

Director & Screenwriter: Abounaddara Collective

A young, free Syrian soldier confesses to killing a man he knew was innocent. He promises to take vengeance on the God who led him to commit the murder.

Cast: Abounaddara Collective