Sardinia is a 2024 satirical drama short film written and directed by Paul Kowalski, about a serious man who tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.

The film is Executive Produced by Emmy-winner Patton Oswalt, and stars Philip Ettinger, Martha Plimpton, Olek Krupa and Breeda Wool.

Sardinia won Grand Prize Best Director at the 42nd Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival, after world premiering at the 2024 Indy Shorts film festival. In November 2024, Deadline named the film an Oscar contender for 2025 Best Live Action Short.

Patton Oswalt described the film "an effortlessly original piece of work" and "beyond timely”. Omeleto called Sardinia “beautifully crafted, intellectually irreverent and thought-provoking…a brilliant inversion of traditional dystopian tropes", likening it to "a modern Kafka fable for our times”.