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.

When out drinking with her friends, Ayaka meets Hiro and they start a relationship. While they get along great and do a lot of sex, they both start receiving threatening text messages and soon discover they are being stalked by a crazy woman who loves iguanas.
Of the 28 total films I watched, just six of them were queer or featured queer characters in some way.
As legal dramas go, we rarely see an African-American actor in the lead role. "The Burial" has several.
The film seems like an extreme interpretation of the conspiracy theorists that exist in real life. And then, there’s the twist.
It’s hard to capture the emotions and thoughts of a character just from a few shots, but Oscar-nominee composer Micachu's haunting melodies prove otherwise in 'Jackie'.
Overall, Altered Carbon: Resleeved is pretty “meh.” It’s cool and all that it takes a different approach from the TV show to make it animated rather than live action, but it doesn’t help that the animation looks like something from a video game.
Two movies that do a fantastic job in conveying the ongoing struggle for racial justice are Selma (2014) and Just Mercy (2019).