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.

Struggling to find financial stability far from home, a freelance photographer meets an elderly woman who sells pinwheel toys and begins to reconsider his passion and the path he has chosen.
Of the 28 total films I watched, just six of them were queer or featured queer characters in some way.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is exactly as the title describes, yet unexpectedly so. It's like the Matrix, but with OCD and hallucinogens, plus a heart’s dose of mother-daughter intergenerational intercultural growing pains. Review and cast.
The story continues in 'Tall Girl 2' as Jodi finds herself playing the lead role in the school's musical production.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
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The beating heart of this film is the relationship between Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse.