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That’s a wrap! Our unofficial 2023 jury awards at Sundance Film Festival

We came, we saw, we curated. Check out our favorite shorts from 2023's Sundance Film Festival.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "Dekalb Elementary" by Reed Van Dyck

Based on a 911 call that made national news in 2013, this week’s Staff Pick Premiere is “Dekalb Elementary,” a gripping Oscar-nominated short.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "West by God" by Scott Lazer

In this week's Staff Pick Premiere, "West by God," Vimeo Best of the Year recipient Scott Lazer details an intimate power struggle, aka a first date.

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Staff Pick Award at Palm Springs ShortFest 2022: “Meantime” by Michael T Workman

A deeply personal exploration of memory, guilt, the toxicity of capitalism and the attempt to preserve the fleeting.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "The Tunnel" by Arash Ashtiani

Three refugees run the race of their lives from Calais to Dover through the Euro Tunnel in Arash Ashtiani's "The Tunnel."

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Staff Pick Premiere: "Genius Loci" by Adrien Merigeau

Adrien Merigeau's Oscar-nominated short "Genius Loci" takes viewers on a bonafide fever dream.

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Staff Pick Premiere: “Ghost Dogs” by Joe Cappa

Joe Cappa's "Ghost dogs" is a Staff Pick Premiere! These ghosts are part dog, part human, but fully dead. You've never seen anything like this.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "Charlotte" by Zach Dorn

In this week’s Staff Pick Premiere, forgotten folk singer Lena Black discovers her fifty-year-old song “Charlotte” has been remade into a hit pop song.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "The Kites" by Seyed Payam Hosseini

"The Kites" is a poignant story from the POV of a kid, situated on the war-torn border between Iran and Iraq.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "The Journey" by Ève Saint-Louis

A father and daughter travel along a chaotic path, where their inability to find each other will unveil a complicated relationship.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves" by Chintis Lundgren

Anthropomorphic wolf gigolos, BDSM, and sleazy films are on hilarious display in Chintis Lundgren's "Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves."

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Staff Pick Premiere: "You've Never Been Completely Honest" by Joey Izzo

This hybrid-doc brings to life a never-before-heard interview recounting the harrowing torture and brainwashing at a secretive leadership seminar in 1970.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "O Black Hole!" by Renee Zhan

If you love something, resist eating it: “O Black Hole!” is an epically original lesson in accepting the ephemeral.

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Staff Pick Premiere: "2002 (YEAR OF THE HORSE)" by Matias & Mathias

Even in the year of 2022, “2002” stands out as an instant Staff Pick comedy classic.