So hard! 24 films was the number of films we featured in June, a number that, as always, was whittled down from the immensely higher number of films our team watched. When you’re already picky, pruning your selections gets unbearably tough, but that’s the point of this series—to highlight some of the truly best of the best, can’t-miss shorts of the past month.

Performances were key this time out. In Seth, I claimed that actor Logan George and director Zach Lasry had birthed a comedic character better than anything to come out of Saturday Night Live in 10 years. Sequin Raze, a short film adapted by its creator into the excellent, and buzzed about TV show “UnREAL”,  invents a new kind of female anti-hero, challenging the gendered primacy of “difficult men” in a unique and remarkable way, and in Secrets of Foley, the mysterious, goofy, but creatively exhilarating worlds of foley sound artists are documented in a lovely, wordless, documentary portrait of two practitioners.