Short Films Review — Sundance 2022
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival has wrapped and the winners were announced. The top prize from U.S. Dramatic Competition went to horror debut feature "Nanny" from Sierra Leonean-American director Nikyatu Jusu while Violet Columbus and Ben Klein’s "The Exiles" won Grand Jury Prize from U.S. Documentary Competition, beating festival favorites such as "Afterschock" and "Fire of Love". Other major prize winners are "Cha Cha Real Smooth" starring Dakota Johnson, documentary "Navalny", "Utama" from Bolivia and "All That Breathes" from India. From the short films program, there are 59 films selected from 10,374 submissions. 4,701 were from the U.S., and 5,673 were International. The program represents work from 26 countries, from "Lika Liku Laki" / "Makassar is a City For Football Fans" (Khozy Rizal, Indonesia) to "Prin oras circula scurte povesti de dragoste" / "Love Stories o