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Showcasing a wide variety of story and style, the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of eight short films from the 2016 edition of the January Festival

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Affections
This comedy about isolation and loneliness follows a young woman who is adrift and seeking intimacy in the most unlikely places.

Dirt
Some things must die to live.

A Reasonable Request
A desperate son reconnects with his estranged father to ask an unspeakable favor that will change both of their lives forever.

Territory
This warm and lyrical film follows a group of unruly monkeys in Gibraltar and the people employed to control them with peashooters.

Rate Me
A portrait of a teenage escort named Coco.

Dolfun
What begins as a love story becomes an existential crisis when filmmaker Sebastian Silva flies to Miami to fulfill his lifelong dream of swimming with a dolphin.

I Am Yup’ik
A 16-year-old Yup'ik Eskimo leaves his tiny village and travels across the frozen tundra to compete in an all-Yup'ik basketball tournament and bring pride to his village.

SECTION Shorts Program

RUN TIME 90 min

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