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American indie showcase • Utah and London...Run by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute | |||
43rd Sundance Film Festival 23 JAN - 2 FEB 2020 in Park City, Utah
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2 0 2 0 A W A R D S | ||
D R A M A T I CGrand Jury Prize: MINARI Audience Award: MINARI Directing: Radha Blank (THE 40-YEAR-OLD VERSION) Screenwriting: Edson Oda (NINE DAYS) Ensemble: CHARM CITY KINGS Auteur Filmmaking: Josephine Decker (SHIRLEY) Neorealism: Elilza Hittman (NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS) W O R L D C I N E M A Grand Jury Prize: YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS Audience Award: IDENTIFYING FEATURES Directing: Maimouna Doucoure (CUTIES) Screenwriting: Fernanada Valadez & Astrid Rondero (IDENTIFYING FEATURES) Acting: Ben Whishaw (SURGE) Visionary Filmmaking: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION) S U N D A N C E I N S T I T U T E NHK Award: HIGHER Feature Producers: Huriyyah Muhammad (FAREWELL AMOR) Documentary Producer: Diane Becker & Melanie Miller (WHIRLYBIRD) |
D O C U M E N T A R YGrand Jury Prize: BOYS STATE Audience Award: CRIMP CAMP Directing: Garrett Bradley (TIME) Editing: Tyler H Walk (WELCOME TO CHECHNYA) Emerging Filmmaker: Arthur Jones (FEELS GOOD MAN) Social Impact Filmmaking: Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman & Eli Despres (THE FIGHT) Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling: Kirsten Johnson (DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD) W O R L D C I N E M A D O C U M E N T A R Y Grand Jury Prize: EPICENTRO Audience Award: THE REASON I JUMP Directing: Iryna Tsilyk (EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE) Cinematography: Mircea Topoleanu & Radu Ciorniciuc (ACASA, MY HOME) Editing: Mila Aung-Thwin, Sam Soko & Ryan Mullins (SOFTIE) Creative Storytelling: Benjamin Ree (THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF) Alfred P Sloan Prize: TESLA NEXT Audience Award: I CARRY YOU WITH ME NEXT Innovator: I CARRY YOU WITH ME | ||
| 2 0 2 0 F I L M S | |||
ACASA, MY HOME (Ciorniciuc, Rom)AGGIE (Gund, US) AMULET (Garai, UK) 
AND THEN WE DANCED (Akin, Geo)ASSASSINS (White, US)
THE ASSISTANT (Green, US)BAD HAIR (Simien, US) BE WATER (Bao, US) BEAST BEAST (Madden, US) BINTI (Migom, Bel) BLACK BEAR (Levine, US) BLAST BEAT (Arango, US) BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Ross/Ross, US) BOYS STATE (Moss/McBaine, US) CHARM CITY KINGS (Soto, US) CHARTER (Kernell, Swe) THE CLIMB (Covino, US) CODED BIAS (Kantayya, US) COLLECTIVE (Nanau, Rom) COME AWAY (Chapman, US) THE COST OF SILENCE (Manning,, US) CRIP CAMP (Newnham/LeBrecht, US) CUTIES (Doucoure, Fr) DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Johnson, US) DINNER IN AMERICA (Rehmeier, US) DISCLOSURE: TRANS LIVES ON SCREEN (Feder, US) THE DISSIDENT (Fogel, US) DOWNHILL (Faxon/Rash, US) * DREAM HORSE (Lyn, UK) THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE (Tsilyk, Ukr)
EMA (Larrain, Chl)EPICENTRO (Sauper, US) THE EVENING HOUR (King, US) EXIL (Morina, Kos) FALLING (Mortensen, Can) FAREWELL AMOR (Msangi, US) THE FATHER (Zeller, UK) FEELS GOOD MAN (Jones, US) THE FIGHT (Steinberg/Kriegman/Despres, US) THE 40-YEAR-OLD VERSION (Blank, US) FOUR GOOD DAYS (Garcia, US) GIVING VOICE (Stern, US) THE GLORIAS (Taymor, US) THE GO-GO'S (Ellwood, US) HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY: THE REN & STIMPY STORY (Cicero/Easterwood, US) HERSELF (Lloyd, Ire) HIGH TIDE (Chen, Arge) HIS HOUSE (Weekes, UK) HORSE GIRL (Baena, US) I CARRY YOU WITH ME (Ewing, US) IDENTIFYING FEATURES (Valadez, Mex) IMPETIGORE (Anwar, Ina) INFLUENCE (Neille/Poplak, SA) INTO THE DEEP (Sullivan, Den) IRONBARK (Cooke, UK) JUMBO (Wittock, Fr) KAJILLIONAIRE (July, US) THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS (Machoian, US) THE LAST SHIFT (Cohn, US) THE LAST THING HE WANTED (Rees, US) LA LEYENDA NEGRA (Delgado, US) LA LLORONA (Bustamante, Gua) |
LOST GIRLS (Garbus, US)LUXOR (Durra, Egy) MINARI (Chung, US) MISS JUNETEENTH (Peoples, US) THE MOLE AGENT (Alberdi, Chl) THE MOUNTAINS ARE A DREAM THAT CALL TO ME (Cheung-Lau, US)
MUCHO MUCHO AMOR (Costantini/Tabsch, US)NATALIE WOOD: WHAT REMAINS BEHIND (Bouzereau, US) THE NEST (Durkin, UK)
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (Hittman, US)THE NIGHT HOUSE (Bruckner, US) NINE DAYS (Oda, US) THE NOWHERE INN (Benz, US) OKAVANGO: RIVER OF DREAMS (Joubert/Joubert/Filatsch, Bot) OMNIBOAT: A FAST BOAT FANTASIA (The Daniels, et al, US)
ON THE RECORD (Dick/Ziering, US)ONCE UPON A TIME IN VENEZUELA (Rios, Ven) THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF (Ree, Nor) 
PALM SPRINGS (Barbakow, US)
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE (Mansour, KSA)POSSESSOR (Cronenberg, Can) PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Fennell, US) THE REASON I JUMP (Rothwell, UK) REBUILDING PARADISE (Howard, US) RELIC (James, Aus) RUN SWEETHEART RUN (Feste, US) SAUDI RUNAWAY (Meures, Swi) SAVE YOURSELVES! (Fischer/Wilson, US) SCARE ME (Ruben, US)
SERGIO (Barker, US)SHIRLEY (Decker, US) SOFTIE (Soko, Ken) SOME KIND OF HEAVEN (Oppenheim, US)
SPACESHIP EARTH (Wolf, US)SPREE (Kotlyarenko, US) SUMMER WHITE (Patterson, Mex) SUMMERTIME (Estrada, US) SURGE (Karia, UK) SYLVIE'S LOVE (Ashe, US) TAYLOR SWIFT: MISS AMERICANA (Wilson, US) TESLA (Almereyda, US) THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION (Mosese, Les) A THOUSAND CUTS (Diaz, US) TIME (Bradley, US) TIMMY FAILURE: MISTAKES WERE MADE (McCarthy, US) THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (Dweck/Kershaw, It) UNCLE FRANK (Ball, US) UNTITLED KIRBY DICK/AMY ZIERING FILM (Dick/Ziering, US) US KIDS (Snyder, US) VIVOS (Ai, Ger) WANDER DARKLY (Miele, US) WELCOME TO CHECHNYA (France, US) * WENDY (Zeitlin, US) WHIRLYBIRD (Yoka, US) WORTH (Colangelo, US) YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS (Bakhshi, Irn) ZOLA (Bravo, US) | ||
42nd Sundance Film Festival 24 JAN - 3 FEB 2019 in Park City, Utah
| 2 0 1 9 A W A R D S | ||
D R A M A T I CGrand Jury Prize: CLEMENCY Audience Award: BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON Directing: Joe Talbot (THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO) Screenwriting: Pippa Bianco (SHARE) Acting: Rhianne Barreto (SHARE) Vision & Craft: HONEY BOY Creative Collaboration: THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO W O R L D C I N E M A Grand Jury Prize: THE SOUVENIR Audience Award: QUEEN OF HEARTS Directing: Lucia Garibaldi (THE SHARKS) Screenwriting: Julio Chavezmontes & Sebastian Hofmann (TIME SHARE) Acting: Krystyna Janda (DOLCE FINE GIORNATA) Originality: WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES Special Jury Award: MONOS Alfred P Sloan Prize: THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND NEXT Audience Award: THE INFILTRATORS NEXT Innovator: Alex Rivera & Christina Ibarra (THE INFILTRATORS) |
D O C U M E N T A R YGrand Jury Prize: ONE CHILD NATION Audience Award: KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE Directing: Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert (AMERICAN FACTORY) Editing: Todd Douglas Miller (APOLLO 11) Cinematography: Luke Lorentzen (MIDNIGHT FAMILY) Emerging Filmmaker: Liza Mandelup (JAWLINE) Moral Urgency: ALWAYS IN SEASON W O R L D C I N E M A D O C U M E N T A R Y Grand Jury Prize: HONEYLAND Audience Award: SEA OF SHADOWS Directing: Mads Brugger (COLD CASE HAMMARSKJOLD) Cinematography: Fejmi Daut & Samir Ljuma (HONEYLAND) No Borders: MIDNIGHT TRAVELER Impact for Change: HONEYLAND S U N D A N C E I N S T I T U T E NHK Award: PLANET KORSAKOV Feature Producers: Carly Hugo & Matt Parker Documentary Producer: Lori Cheatle | ||
| R E V I E W E D 2 0 1 9 F I L M S | |||
ADAM (Ernst, US)
AFTER THE WEDDING (Freundlich, US)
THE AMAZING JOHNATHAN DOCUMENTARY (Berman, US)
AMERICAN FACTORY (Bognar/Reichert, US)
APOLLO 11 (Miller, US)
BIRDS OF PASSAGE (Gallego/Guerra, Col)
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT (Chadha, UK)
THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND (Ejiofor, UK)
BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON (Colaizzo, US)
CLEMENCY (Chukwu, US)
THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY (Costa, Br)
EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE (Berlinger, US)
THE FAREWELL (Wang, US)
FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (Merchant, UK)
GIVE ME LIBERTY (Mikhanovsky, US)
THE GREAT HACK (Amer/Noujaim, US)
GREENER GRASS (DeBoer/Luebbe, US)
HAIL SATAN? (Lane, US)
HALSTON (Tcheng, US)
THE HOLE IN THE GROUND (Cronin, Ire)
HONEY BOY (Har'el, US)
HONEYLAND (Stefanov/Kotevska, Mac)
JUDY & PUNCH (Foulkes, Aus)
KOKO-DI KOKO-DA (Nyholm, Swe)
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO (Talbot, US) |
THE LAST TREE (Amoo, UK)
LATE NIGHT (Ganatra, US)
LEAVING NEVERLAND (Reed, US)
LITTLE MONSTERS (Forsythe, Aus)
THE LODGE (Franz/Fiala, UK)
LUCE (Onah, US)
MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE (Broomfield, US)
MEMORY (Philippe, US)
MONOS (Landes, Col)
THE MOUNTAIN (Alverson, US)
THE MUSTANG (Clermont-Tonnerre, US)
THE NIGHTINGALE (Kent, Aus)
OFFICIAL SECRETS (Hood, UK)
PHOTOGRAPH (Batra, Ind)
THE REPORT (Burns, US)
SEA OF SHADOWS (Ladkani, Aut)
THE SOUND OF SILENCE (Tyburski, US)
THE SOUVENIR (Hogg, UK)
THE SUNLIT NIGHT (Wnendt, Nor)
THEM THAT FOLLOW (Poulton/Savage, US)
THIS IS NOT BERLIN (Sama, Mex)
WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES (Nagahisa, Jpn)
THE WOLF HOUR (Griffin, US)
WOUNDS (Anvari, US)* review coming | ||
Sundance Film Festival: London | |||
 8th Sundance Film Festival: London 7 - 9 AUGUST 2020 at Picturehouse Central 2019 Audience Award: THE FAREWELL
2018 Audience Award: | 2 0 2 0 F I L M S | ||
Features:BOYS STATE (Moss/McBaine, US) LUXOR (Durra, US) UNCLE FRANK (Ball, Egy) Events: |
Shorts:* BEYOND THE NORTH WINDS (Cubides-Brady, UK) * THE DEVIL'S HARMONY (Williams, UK) JUNIOR BANGERS (Lee) NO, I DON'T WANT TO DANCE (Vinciguerra) * POMPEII (Lighton/Alessi/Morgan, UK) SLUG LIFE (Gate) WHITE GIRL (Latif) WOOD CHILD & HIDDEN FOREST MOTHER (Irwin) | 2 0 1 9 F I L M S | |
AFTER THE WEDDING (Freundlich, US)ANIMALS (Hyde, UK)
APOLLO 11 (Miller, US)ASK DR RUTH (White, US) THE BRINK (Klayman, US) CORPORATE ANIMALS (Brice, US) THE DEATH OF DICK LONG (Scheinert, US) |
THE FAREWELL (Wang, US)
GREENER GRASS (DeBoer/Luebbe, US)
HAIL SATAN? (Lane, US)
THE LAST TREE (Amoo, UK)
LATE NIGHT (Ganatra, US)
THE NIGHTINGALE (Kent, Aus) | 2 0 1 8 F I L M S | |
AMERICAN ANIMALS (Layton, US)
EIGHTH GRADE (Burnham, US)
FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, US)
AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN (Hosking, UK)
GENERATION WEALTH (Greenfield, US)
GIRLHOOD (Sciamma, 14/Fr)HALF THE PICTURE (Adrion, US)
HEREDITARY (Aster, US)
LEAVE NO TRACE (Granik, US)
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST (Akhavan, US) |
MORVERN CALLAR (Ramsay, 02/UK)NEVER GOIN' BACK (Frizzell, US)
SKATE KITCHEN (Moselle, US)THE TALE (Fox, US)
TARNATION (Caouette, 04/US)
YARDIE (Elba, UK)
See also: | ||
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BEATRIZ AT DINNER (Arteta, US)
THE BIG SICK (Showalter, US)
BITCH (Palka, US)
BUSHWICK (Murnion/Milott, US)CHASING CORAL (Orlowski, US)
CROWN HEIGHTS (Ruskin, US)DINA (Sickles/Santini, US)
A GHOST STORY (Lowery, US) |
ICARUS (Fogel, US)
THE INCREDIBLE JESSICA JAMES (Strouse, US)
MARJORIE PRIME (Almereyda, US)
PATTI CAKE$
WALKING OUT (Smith/Smith, US)
WILSON (Johnson, US)* reviews coming | ||
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