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EXCLUSIVE: The lineup for nan 2026 version of HollyShorts features a big of large names successful beforehand of and down nan camera including Renée Zellweger, whose directorial debut They is successful nan lineup, alongside projects featuring Judi Dench, Michael Keaton, Martin Freeman, Alexandra Shipp, Vincent Cassel, Jordan Peele and Michael Caine.
High-profile exec producers connected this year’s films astatine HollyShorts see Zoe Saldaña, Margot Robbie, Barry Keoghan, Idris and Sabrina Elba and Serena Williams.
There are 430 short films successful each successful this year’s program. As good arsenic Zellweger’s 2D animated short They, location is Martin Freeman-starrer Little Bug, nan communicative of Laika, nan first canine to orbit Earth aboard a Soviet abstraction mission. Also screening is Sean Douglas-penned Sweetwater, directed by and starring Michael Keaton other Kyra Sedgwick and exploring nan intersection of grief, nostalgia and tech.
Jordan Peele-produced scary Spilled Milk, directed by Jared Leaf and starring J. Alphonse Nicholson and Kid Cudi, is successful nan lineup. Elsewhere, Vincent Cassel leads sports play The Colosseum, and Michael Caine lends his sound to nan wartime play Bobby.
There are respective notable British entries including Joke, directed by Bob Cryer, boy of precocious English comedian Barry Cryer, and starring Judi Dench, Stephen Fry and Alison Steadman. There is besides Pippa Lore Feldberg Collins’ Gobstopper, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce and Annabel Scholey, which is executive produced by Barry Keoghan, and BRUVVAS, directed by Katie McGuinness, who besides stars alongside Ben Whishaw.
It’s Complicated, executive produced by Zoe Saldaña and written by and starring Iman Karram, is besides successful nan HollyShorts lineup. Margot Robbie is among nan exec producers connected Get Her Back!, starring Lana Condor, Owen Teague and Kaia Gerber and written by playwright Leah Nanako Winkler.
Other notable selections see Selah, Lara Everly’s comedy-drama starring Milana Vayntrub and Sophia Meloni’s Chop Cheese, starring Michael Gandolfini and Christopher Meloni. We had an exclusive first look at this 1 earlier this year.
HollyShorts runs August 13–23. The 22nd version of nan Oscar-qualifying show takes spot astatine nan TCL Chinese Theatre and astatine nan Ovation Hollywood intermezo analyzable successful L.A.
