Shorts are where Sundance actually discovers people, and this touring program is the only practical way to see the year's winners without going to Park City - six films, roughly a hundred minutes, spanning fiction, documentary and animation from several countries. The jury picks make the case: Crisis Actor took US Fiction, The Boys and the Bees took Nonfiction, Living with a Visionary took Animation. The most ideas per hour this weekend.
What to expect
A single continuous program of six shorts screened back to back with no intermission, running about 100 minutes. The tone shifts hard between films - satire into documentary into animation - which is the point of the format. IFC Center's Greenwich Village theaters are small, so the midday shows tend to be the calmer ones.
Good to know
- A/B/C/D/E/F/M to West 4th Street puts you a block from the door
- The Saturday and Sunday morning screenings are presented with open captions
- Buy ahead online for the evening shows - IFC's houses are compact and sell out
- It is one program, not separate tickets per short; plan for about an hour and forty minutes
- Assistive listening devices are available at the box office
- The morning screenings are the quietest if you want a good seat without queueing
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Common questions
How many films are in the program and how long is it?
Six shorts, screened as one continuous program running roughly 100 minutes with no intermission.
Which screenings have open captions?
The 11:30am shows on Saturday and Sunday are open-captioned, with the captions displayed on screen for all viewers.
Do I need to have seen anything from Sundance first?
No. Each short stands alone, and the program is curated as an introduction to the festival's shorts slate.
