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Sundance Film Festival Favorites

Sundance Film Festival Favorites

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Sundance Film Festival Favorites
  • The Disappearance of My Mother

    Directed by Beniamino Barrese • Documentary • 2019 • Italy • English, Italian with English subtitles
    Featuring Benedetta Barzini

    An iconic fashion model who was a muse to Warhol and Dalí in the 1960s, and a radical feminist in the 1970s, Benedetta Barzini is fed up with all the roles life has im...

  • Prey for Rock & Roll

    Directed by Alex Steyermark • Drama • 2003 • US • English • Mature Content
    Starring Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty

    This fist-pumping LGBTQ+ touchstone and rock and roll cult classic stars the electrifying Gina Gershon as Jacki, a rocker who worries she may never make it big. Along with...

  • Scrapper

    Directed by Charlotte Regan • Arthouse • 2023 • UK • English
    Starring Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson, Alin Uzun

    Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, this vibrant father-daughter comedy follows a resourceful 12-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in a London flat until her estranged father ...

  • Boy

    Directed by Taika Waititi • Comedy • 2010 • New Zealand • English
    Starring Taika Waititi, James Rollestone, Ricky Lee Waipuka-Russell

    An international hit from acclaimed director Taika Waititi ("Thor: Ragnarok"), this Berlin Film Festival winner is a hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale ab...

  • Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

    Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier • Documentary • 2019 • Canada • English, Russian, Italian, German, Mandarin, Cantonese with English subtitles
    Featuring Alicia Vikander

    Narrated by Alicia Vikander, this stunning sensory experience and cinematic meditation on h...

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    Directed by Johan Grimonprez • Documentary • 2024 • Belgium, France, Netherlands • English, French, Dutch, Russian with English subtitles
    Featuring Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie

    This 2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature and Sundance award winner tells the story of t...

  • Acasa, My Home

    Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc • Documentary • 2020 • Romania, Germany • Romanian with English subtitles
    Featuring Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache

    Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary follows a family with...

  • 52 Tuesdays

    Directed by Sophie Hyde • Drama • 2013 • Australia • English
    Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Del Herbert-Jane

    16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for a gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday a...

  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

    Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour • Horror • 2015 • US • Farsi with English subtitles
    Starring Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh

    Ana Lily Amirpour burst onto the scene with this black and white Iranian vampire Western, which premiered at Sundance and won a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Dir...

  • The Forbidden Room

    Directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson • Arthouse • 2015 • Canada • English
    Starring Roy Dupuis, Claire Furey, Louis Negin

    Selected for the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, "The Forbidden Room" is Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with ene...

  • Concerning Violence

    Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson • Documentary • 2014 • Sweden, US, Denmark, Finland • English, Swedish, French, Portuguese with English subtitles
    Featuring Lauryn Hill, Robert Mugabe, Tonderai Makoni

    Narrated by Lauryn Hill, this profound essay from the director of "The Black Power Mixtape" is a b...

  • It Felt Like Love

    Directed by Eliza Hittman • Drama • 2013 • US • English
    Starring Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein

    In this unflinchingly honest and refreshingly unsentimental coming-of-age story from Eliza Hittman ("Never Rarely Sometimes Always"), 14-year-old Lila spends a languid Brooklyn s...

  • Neptune Frost

    Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman • Sci-Fi • 2021 • US, Rwanda • English, Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
    Starring Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Diogene Ntarindwa

    In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime...

  • Poison

    Directed by Todd Haynes • Arthouse • 1991 • US • English
    Starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, John Leguizamo

    Winner of the Grand Jury Prizes at both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, "Poison", directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes ("Carol"), is a groundbreaking American indie f...

  • Songs My Brothers Taught Me

    Directed by Chloé Zhao • Arthouse • 2015 • US • English
    Starring John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard

    Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao's debut feature captures the subtleties of a marginalized existence. Johnny, a restless Lakota teen, and his little sister Jashaun live with their mother on...

  • Privilege

    Directed by Yvonne Rainer • Arthouse • 1990 • US • English
    Featuring Daniel Martin Berkey, Blaire Baron, Gabrielle Made

    One of Yvonne Rainer’s most narratively complex films shifts from a documentary about women going through the process of menopause to a deadpan and delightfully anarchic autobi...

  • The Price of Everything

    Directed by Nathaniel Kahn • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Jeff Koons, Jerry Saltz, Jeffrey Deitch

    "The Price of Everything" examines the role of art and passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. Featuring collectors, dealers, and a rich range of artists from Jeff Ko...

  • Pop Aye

    Directed by Kirsten Tan • Comedy • 2017 • Thailand • Thai with English subtitles
    Starring Penpak Sirikul, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Yukontorn Sukkijja

    A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew growing up. The two embark on a road trip to ...

  • Of Fathers and Sons

    Directed by Talal Derki • Documentary • 2018 • Syria, Germany, Lebanon • Arabic with English subtitles
    Featuring Tia Alkerdi, Yara Ibrahim, Abu Osama

    Academy Award Nominee and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, "Of Fathers and Sons" follows filmmaker Talal Derki as he travels to his hom...

  • Momma's Man

    Directed by Azazel Jacobs • Comedy • 2008 • US • English
    Starring Matt Boren, Ken Jacobs, Flo Jacobs

    Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles, Mikey returns to his childhood home, a cluttered, cocoon-like Manhattan loft presided over by his bohemian parents. Re-installed in a household saturated...

  • Manufactured Landscapes

    Directed by Jennifer Baichwal • Documentary • 2007 • Canada • English
    Featuring Edward Burtynsky

    Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civi...

  • Machines

    Directed by Rahul Jain • Documentary • 2017 • India, Finland, Germany • Hindi with English subtitles

    Marrying stunning visuals with social advocacy, Rahul Jain's debut documentary - winner of the Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival - takes audiences into the ...

  • Luzzu

    Directed by Alex Camilleri • Drama • 2021 • Malta • Maltese with English subtitles
    Starring Jesmark Scicluna, Michela Farrugia, David Scicluna

    Non-professional actor Jesmark Scicluna, a real-life Maltese fisherman, won a Sundance Jury Prize for his performance in Alex Camilleri's film about a ma...

  • Double Take

    Directed by Johan Grimonprez • Documentary • 2009 • Belgium, Germany, Netherlands • English
    Featuring Alfred Hitchcock, Ron Burrage, Mark Perry

    Johan Grimonprez uniquely combines 60's advertising, hysterical Red Menace newsreels, and Alfred Hitchcock into a black comedy journey through the globa...