Sundance Film Festival Favorites

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  • Slam
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    Slam

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    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!

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    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

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    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

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    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 Return

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    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 Reason I Jump

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    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 explorat...

  • Privilege

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    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

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    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

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    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 t...

  • Of Fathers and Sons

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    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...

  • The Mountain

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    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 ...

  • Momma's Man

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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...

  • Liar's Dice

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    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
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    Hive

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    Directed by Blerta Basholli • Arthouse • 2021 • Kosovo, Switzerland, Albania, North Macedonia • Albanian with English subtitles
    Starring Yilka Gashi, Cun Lajci, Aurita Agushi

    The first film in Sundance history to win all three main awards in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition and Kosovo's ent...

  • Framing Agnes

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    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

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

    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 confront federal dema...

  • Fire in the Mountains

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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...