Writer/director Hubert Davis (Oscar-nominee Hardwood) and star A.J. Saudin on the set of Aruba, one of six Canadian shorts screening at this month’s Sundance Film Festival. Aruba – about the fantasy life of a tormented young boy – screens alongside the drama Le Rouge au sol, the doc Smudge, the animated shorts At the Quinte Hotel and Half a Man, and the experimental The Bleeding Heart of It.

Aruba is Davis’s first dramatic film and he produces along with David Miller and Sam McLaren. Sundance is also screening the Julia Kwan feature Eve & the Fire Horse.