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Sundance Film Festival Favorites

Sundance Film Festival Favorites

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Sundance Film Festival Favorites
  • Liar's Dice

    Directed by Geethu Mohandas • Drama • 2013 • India • Hindi with English subtitles
    Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Geetanjali Thapa, Manya Gupta

    An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, "Liar's Dice" is a deeply affecting road movie set in picturesque mountains on the Tibetan border to ...

  • Hive

    Directed by Blerta Basholli • Arthouse • 2021 • Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania, North Macedonia • Albanian w/ English subtitles
    Starring Yilka Gashi, Cun Lajci, Aurita Agushi, Adriana Matishi, Kumrije Hoxha

    The first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards in the World Cinema Dramati...

  • Framing Agnes

    Directed by Chase Joynt • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
    Featuring Zachary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Silas Howard

    Winner of the NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award at the Sundance, "Framing Agnes" is the story of the pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender study co...

  • The Force

    Directed by Peter Nicks • Documentary • 2015 • US • English
    Featuring Sean Whent, Cat Brooks, Officer Jonathan Cairo, Ben McBride

    Winner of the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival "The Force" is a cinema vérité look inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to ...

  • Fire in the Mountains

    Directed by Ajitpal Singh • Drama • 2022 • India • Hindi with English subtitles
    Starring Vinamrata Rai, Chandan Bisht, Sonal Jha

    In a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community, a mother toils to save money to build a road in a Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiothera...

  • Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

    Directed by Nina Menkes • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
    Featuring Julie Dash, Penelope Spheeris, Rosanna Arquette

    This eye-opening documentary from the Sundance Film Festival explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design and its connections to the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assau...

  • Epicentro

    Directed by Hubert Sauper • Documentary • 2020 • Austria, France • English, Spanish with English subtitles
    Featuring Oona Chaplin, Fena LeChuck, Juan Pedron

    Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, "Epicentro" is an immersive and metaphorical portrai...

  • Chef Flynn

    Directed by Cameron Yates • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry

    While many of his peers were still playing with toys, Flynn McGarry was creating remarkable gastronomic delights. Enjoying unwavering support from his artist mother Meg, he devoted himself entirely...

  • Boatman

    Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 1993 • Italy • English, Hindi, Italian with English subtitles

    Academy Award Nominee Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the liv...

  • The Wound

    Directed by John Trengove • Drama • 2017 • South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France • Xhosa with English subtitles
    Starring Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan Heldenbergh

    Shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "The Wound" is an exploration of tradition and sexuali...

  • Web Junkie

    Directed by Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam • Documentary • 2014 • Israel, US • Mandarin with English subtitles
    Featuring Ran Tao

    China is the first country to label internet addiction a clinical disorder. “Web Junkie” exposes a Beijing rehab center where teenagers are being "deprogrammed" and forced...

  • Utama

    Directed by Alejandro Loayza Grisi • Arthouse • 2022 • Bolivia, Uruguay, France • Quechua, Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque

    In the starkly beautiful Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple lives a tranquil life herding llamas. When an uncomm...

  • Trouble the Water

    Directed by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
    Featuring Brian Nobles, Wink Rivers, Kimberly Rivers Roberts

    Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. “Trouble the Water” takes you inside ...

  • The Cow Who Sang a Song into the Future

    Directed by Francisca Alegría • Arthouse • 2023 • Chile • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Leonor Varela, Mía Maestro, Alfredo Castro

    Singing cows, fish, and bees introduce a world of magical realism in this stunning Sundance hit. Long-dead Magdalena (Mia Maestro) surfaces in a polluted r...

  • Studio 54

    Directed by Matt Tyrnauer • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Ian Schrager Steve Rubell, Norma Kamali

    A haven of hedonism, glitz, and glamour, the infamous New York nightclub Studio 54 was the ultimate escapist fantasy until it imploded in financial scandal. With unprecedented access a...

  • Slam

    Directed by Marc Levin • Drama • 1988 • US • English
    Starring Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone

    Winner of a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and a Caméra d'Or for Best First Feature at Cannes, "Slam" stars Saul Williams as a young Black performance poet who is imprisoned for a petty marijuana c...

  • Sembene!

    Directed by Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman • Documentary • 2015 • US, Senegal • English, French, Wolof with English subtitles
    Featuring Ousmane Sembene, Mbissine Therese Diop, Samba Gadjigo

    In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible ...

  • Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

    Directed by Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana • Documentary • 2017 • Canada • English
    Featuring Robbie Robertson, Martin Scorsese, Jackson Browne

    Filmmakers Stevie Salas, Catherine Bainbridge, and Alfonso Maiorana examine the musical contributions of indigenous artists and their influence o...

  • Rhythm Thief

    Directed by Matthew Harrison • Independent, Drama • 1995 • US • English
    Starring Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Kevin Corrigan

    Director Matthew Harrison, one of the most exciting American independent filmmaking talents to emerge in the 1990's, was awarded a Special Jury Recognition for Directing ...

  • The Reason I Jump

    Directed by Jerry Rothwell • Documentary • 2021 • US,UK • English
    Featuring Jordan O'Donegan, Jeremy Dear, David Mitchell

    Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida and winner of the Audience Award at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, "The Reason I Jump" is an immersive cinematic explorati...

  • The Return

    Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev • Drama • 2004 • Russia • Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko

    Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice and nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, this brilliant mix of psychological thrill...

  • The Mountain

    Directed by Rick Alverson • Drama • 2019 • US • English
    Starring Jeff Goldblum, Tye Sheridan, Udo Kier

    Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan star in this psychosurgical odyssey set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy. Sheridan plays a photographer who joins a renowned lobotomist ...

  • Computer Chess

    Directed by Andrew Bujalski • Comedy • 2013 • US • English
    Starring Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins, Myles Paige

    Set over the course of a weekend tournament for software programmers in the 1980s, this Sundance winner transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and...

  • Kaddish

    Directed by Steve Brand • Documentary • 1984 • US • English
    Featuring Yossi Klein, Zoltan Klein, Breindy Klein

    The story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust's devastation of Hungarian Jewry by ...