The 6 Queer Short Films at Sundance 2026
Of the 28 total films I watched, just six of them were queer or featured queer characters in some way.

After a devastating heartbreak, an aspiring musician escapes to Australia. She agrees to a no-strings romance with a billionaire winemaker, but when she falls in love she must choose to walk away or risk her heart on a man afraid to love.
Of the 28 total films I watched, just six of them were queer or featured queer characters in some way.
The Forge is a moving story about a young man’s search for purpose. Through mentorship, discipline, and faith in God, his life is transformed from confusion into clarity, reminding us that true greatness is shaped in the fire of surrender and growth.
Dead Poets Society brilliantly combines defeat and optimism, rejection and love, craziness and daring, fear and freedom.
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
Ultimately, Wicked is a story about the cost of being othered, the pain of being misnamed, and the quiet revolution of standing in your truth.
This young adult movie focuses on relationships in this high school reunion.