EXCLUSIVE: James Franco, Spike Jonze Lead Sundance Shorts Lineup

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

Bus/Israel (Director and Screenwriter: Yasmine Novak)--An examination of those that live their lives amidst the complex rules, walls, soldiers, and permits that make up the Israel/Palestine bus system.

Glottal Opera/Australia (Director: John Fink; Screenwriters: John Fink and Sally Stevens)--Mesmerizing, disturbing, hilarious, disgusting, compelling, repelling.

Notes on the Other/Spain (Director: Sergio Oksman; Screenwriters: Carlos Mugiro and Sergio Oksman)--Each summer, a crowd of Ernest Hemingway doubles meet in Key West, Florida, to choose the authentic Hemingway after Hemingway's death. One day in 1924, the real Ernest Hemingway also wanted to be someone else. This film is the story of this hypothesis.

Photograph of Jesus/United Kingdom (Director: Laurie Hill)--Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.

Wagah/Germany (Directors: Supriyo Sen, Co-Director: Najaf Bilgrami )--A visual illustration that documents a single evening where 20,000 people dance and sing daily at the only checkpoint between India and Pakistan.

INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SHORTS

The Art of Drowning/Canada (Director: Diego Maclean, Screenwriter: Billy Collins)--A pondering of the possibilities that await us at the end of the line.

The Little Dragon/Switzerland (Director and Screenwriter: Bruno Collet) -- Thirty-five years after Bruce Lee's death, his soul reincarnates in a little doll. With self-confidence, the rubber-made toy leaves to discover the great-scaled world all around him.

Logorama/France (Directors/Screenwriters: François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain)--Spectacular car chases, an intense hostage crisis, and wild animals rampaging through the city, change a world constructed by heavy corporate sponsorship.

Madagascar, a Journey Diary/France (Director and Screenwriter: Bastien Dubois)--A visual travel journal demonstrating the importance of dance, death and traditional customs that are present and vibrant within the Malagasy society.

Old fangs/Ireland (Director and Screenwriter: Adrien Mergieau)--A young Wolf decides to confront his father, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child.

Please Say Something/Germany (Director and Screenwriter: David OReilly)--A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future.

Rains/Canada/France (Director and Screenwriter: David Coquard-Dassault)--A meditation on everyday life and our relationship with nature.

Runaway/Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Cordell Barker)--Happy passengers are having a great time on a crowded train, oblivious to the unknown fate that awaits them around the bend.

Vive la Rose/Canada (Director: Bruce Alcock)--When illness takes the woman he loves, a simple man raises his voice in melancholy song as a last farewell.

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