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Updated 1/20/22U.S. Dramatic Competition
blood Dual
English, Japanese, Icelandic, German After receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah
commissions a clone of herself to ease the
After the death of her husband, a young
loss for her friends and family. When she
woman travels to Japan where she finds
makes a miraculous recovery, her attempt to
solace in an old friend. But when comforting
have her clone decommissioned fails, and
turns to affection, she realizes she must give
leads to a court-mandated duel to the death.
herself permission before she can fall in
U.S. DRAMATIC
love again. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Riley Stearns
PRODUCERS: Nate Bolotin, Aram Tertzakian,
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Bradley Rust Gray Lee Kim, Riley Stearns, Nick Spicer, Maxime Cottray
COMPETITION
PRODUCERS: David Urrutia, Bradley Rust Gray,
So Yong Kim, Elika Portnoy, Alex Orlovsky, ONLINE PREMIERE:
Jonathon Komack Martin Sat. 1/22, 6:00 p.m.
ONLINE PREMIERE: SECOND SCREENING:
Mon. 1/24, 3:00 p.m. Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
892 Alice SECOND SCREENING:
window begins)
When Brian Brown-Easley’s disability check When a woman in servitude in 1800s Georgia Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
fails to materialize from Veterans Affairs, he escapes the 55-acre confines of her captor, Emergency
finds himself on the brink of homelessness she discovers the shocking reality that exists
Ready for a night of partying, a group of
and breaking his daughter’s heart. No other beyond the tree line… it’s 1973. Inspired by
Cha Cha Real Smooth Black and Latino college students must
options, he walks into a Wells Fargo Bank true events.
A directionless college graduate embarks weigh the pros and cons of calling the police
and says, “I’ve got a bomb.” DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Krystin Ver Linden
on a relationship with a young mom and when faced with an unusual emergency.
DIRECTOR: Abi Damaris Corbin PRODUCER: Peter Lawson
her teenage daughter, while learning the DIRECTOR: Carey Williams
PRODUCERS: Ashley Levinson, Salman Al-Rashid,
ONLINE PREMIERE: boundaries of his new bar mitzvah party- PRODUCERS: Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner,
Sam Frohman, Kevin Turen, Mackenzie Fargo
Sun. 1/23, 6:15 p.m. starting gig. John Fischer
ONLINE PREMIERE: SECOND SCREENING: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Cooper Raiff ONLINE PREMIERE:
Fri. 1/21, 11:30 a.m. Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand PRODUCERS: Dakota Johnson, Ro Donnelly, Thu. 1/20, 9:00 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING: window begins) Erik Feig, Jessica Switch, Cooper Raiff SECOND SCREENING:
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand SATELLITE SCREENINGS:
window begins) ONLINE PREMIERE: Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Fri. 1/28, 5:30 p.m., Winston-Salem, NC window begins)
Sun. 1/23, 2:45 p.m.
Fri. 1/28, 7:30 p.m., Baltimore, MD SATELLITE SCREENINGS:
SECOND SCREENING:
Fri. 1/28, 9:30 p.m., San Diego, CA Fri. 1/28, 9:30 p.m., Seattle, WA
Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Sat. 1/29, 3:00 p.m., Amherst, MA window begins) Sat. 1/29, 3:00 p.m., Winston-Salem, NC
Sat. 1/29, 6:30 p.m., Seattle, WA Sat. 1/29, 7:30 p.m., Baltimore, MD
Sun. 1/30, 8:00 p.m., Memphis, TN Sat. 1/29, 8:00 p.m., Memphis, TN
Sun. 1/30, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence, KS Sat. 1/29, 9:00 p.m., San Diego, CA
Sun. 1/30, 1:20 p.m., Lawrence, KS
Sun. 1/30, 6:00 p.m., Amherst, MA
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 2 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).U.S. Dramatic Competition
Master Palm Trees and Power Lines
Three women strive to find their place Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her
at an elite New England university. As summer aimlessly tanning with her best
the insidious specter of racism haunts friend, tiptoeing around her fragile mother,
the campus in increasingly supernatural and getting stoned with a group of boys
fashion, each fights to survive in this space from school. This monotony is disrupted
of privilege. by an encounter with Tom, a man twice her
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DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Mariama Diallo age, who promises an alternative to Lea’s
PRODUCERS: Joshua Astrachan, Brad Becker- unsatisfying adolescent life.
Parton, Andrea Roa DIRECTOR: Jamie Dack
COMPETITION
ONLINE PREMIERE: PRODUCERS: Leah Chen Baker, Jamie Dack
Fri. 1/21, 6:30 p.m. ONLINE PREMIERE:
SECOND SCREENING: Mon. 1/24, 12:15 p.m.
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand SECOND SCREENING:
window begins)
Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Aftershock The Exiles
window begins) Following the preventable deaths of their Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down
Nanny partners due to childbirth complications, three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen
two bereaved fathers galvanize activists, Square massacre in order to find closure
English, Wolof Watcher
birth workers, and physicians to reckon with on an abandoned film she began shooting
Aisha is an undocumented nanny working English, Romanian one of the most pressing American crises of in 1989.
for a privileged couple in New York City. A young woman moves into a new our time — the U.S. maternal health crisis. DIRECTORS: Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
As she prepares for the arrival of the apartment with her husband and is DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Paula Eiselt, Tonya PRODUCERS: Maria Chiu, Ben Klein,
son she left behind in Senegal, a violent tormented by the feeling that she is Lewis Lee Violet Columbus
supernatural presence invades her reality, being stalked by an unseen watcher in an ONLINE PREMIERE: ONLINE PREMIERE:
threatening the American dream she is adjacent building. Sun. 1/23, 3:45 p.m. Fri. 1/21, 3:30 p.m.
painstakingly piecing together. DIRECTOR: Chloe Okuno SECOND SCREENING: SECOND SCREENING:
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Nikyatu Jusu PRODUCERS: Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
PRODUCERS: Nikkia Moulterie, Derek Dauchy, John Finemore, Aaron Kaplan, window begins) window begins)
Daniela Taplin Lundberg Mason Novick, Sean Perrone
ONLINE PREMIERE: ONLINE PREMIERE:
Sat. 1/22, 11:45 a.m. Fri. 1/21, 9:00 p.m. Descendant Fire of Love
SECOND SCREENING: SECOND SCREENING: Clotilda, the last known ship carrying French, English
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand enslaved Africans to the United States, Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and
window begins) window begins) arrived in Alabama 40 years after African Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion
slave trading became a capital offense. doing the very thing that brought them
It was promptly burned and its existence together: unraveling the mysteries of
denied. After a century shrouded in secrecy volcanoes by capturing the most explosive
and speculation, descendants of the imagery ever recorded. A doomed love
Clotilda’s survivors are reclaiming their story. triangle between Katia, Maurice, and
DIRECTOR: Margaret Brown volcanoes, told through their archival
PRODUCERS: Kyle Martin, Essie Chambers, Margaret footage.
Brown
DIRECTOR: Sara Dosa
ONLINE PREMIERE: PRODUCERS: Shane Boris, Ina Fichman, Sara Dosa
Sat. 1/22, 11:30 a.m.
ONLINE PREMIERE:
SECOND SCREENING:
Thu. 1/20, 6:00 p.m.
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) SECOND SCREENING:
Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 3 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Free Chol Soo Lee The Janes NAVALNY
English, Korean In the spring of 1972, police raided an In August 2020 while on a plane traveling from
apartment on Chicago’s South Side. Seven Siberia to Moscow, Russian opposition leader
After a Korean immigrant is wrongly
women were arrested. The accused were Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok,
convicted of a 1973 San Francisco
part of a clandestine network. Using code a nerve agent implicated in attacks on other
Chinatown gang murder, Asian Americans
names, blindfolds, and safe houses, they opponents of the Russian government.
unite as never before to free Chol Soo Lee.
built an underground service for women Navalny partnered with journalists and
A former street hustler becomes the symbol
seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions. international news organizations to investigate
for a landmark movement. But once out, he
They called themselves “Jane.” his attempted assassination and find proof of
self-destructs, threatening the movement’s
DIRECTORS: Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes the Kremlin’s involvement.
legacy and the man himself.
PRODUCERS: Emma Pildes, Daniel Arcana, DIRECTOR: Daniel Roher
DIRECTORS: Julie Ha, Eugene Yi Jessica Levin PRODUCERS: Odessa Rae, Diane Becker,
PRODUCERS: Su Kim, Jean Tsien, Sona Jo, Julie Ha,
Melanie Miller, Shane Boris
Eugene Yi ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 5:45 p.m. Tue.. 1/25, 6:00 p.m.
ONLINE PREMIERE:
SECOND SCREENING: Thurs. 1/27, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand window
Fri. 1/21, 9:30 p.m. begins)
Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
SECOND SCREENING: window begins)
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) TikTok, Boom.
SATELLITE SCREENINGS: Jihad Rehab With TikTok now crowned the world’s most
Sat. 1/29, 1:00 p.m., Memphis, TN downloaded app, these are the personal
Arabic, English
Sat. 1/29, 1:30 p.m., Baltimore, MD stories of a cultural phenomenon, told
Sun. 1/30, 11:00 a.m., Winston-Salem, NC Twenty years after the Guantanamo Bay
through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives,
Sun. 1/30, 11:00 a.m., Lawrence, KS detention camp was established by the
journalists, and experts alike. This film
Sun. 1/30, 3:00 p.m., Amherst, MA
U.S. military in the wake of 9/11, its legacy
seeks to answer, “why is an app best known
continues to cast a long shadow. This
Sun. 1/30, 5:00 p.m., San Diego, CA for people dancing the target of so much
film focuses on several men — detained
Sun. 1/30, 6:30 p.m., Seattle, WA controversy?”
in Guantanamo for years without charge
by the United States — after they are DIRECTOR: Shalini Kantayya
PRODUCERS: Ross M. Dinerstein, Shalini Kantayya,
I Didn’t See You There placed in what’s billed as the world’s first
Danni Mynard
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus rehabilitation center for extremists. There,
they undergo the center’s “deradicalization” Sun. 1/23, 6:45 p.m.
tent that goes up outside his Oakland
program, which includes therapy sessions Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand window
apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches begins)
into an unflinching meditation on and life skills classes, before they are
freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of permitted to be released into an unfamiliar
individual agency. society where they will face new challenges.
In the process, the four men illuminate their
DIRECTOR: Reid Davenport
individual understanding of what the term
PRODUCER: Keith Wilson
“jihad” has meant in their own lives, and
ONLINE PREMIERE: express the anguish and complexities of
Mon. 1/24, 11:45 a.m. their personal journeys.
SECOND SCREENING: DIRECTOR: Meg Smaker
Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand PRODUCERS: Meg Smaker, Bryan Storkel
window begins)
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Sat. 1/22, 5:45 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 4 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).WORLD CINEMA
DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Girl Picture Leonor Will Never Die
Finland Philippines
Finnish, French Filipino, English
Mimmi, Emma, and Rönkkö are girls at the Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a
WORLD CINEMA
cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a
own contours. On three consecutive Fridays, television lands on her head, compelling her
two of them experience the earth-moving to become the action hero of her unfinished
DRAMATIC
effects of falling in love, while the third goes screenplay.
on a quest to find something she’s never DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER:
experienced before: pleasure.
COMPETITION
Martika Ramirez Escobar
DIRECTOR: Alli Haapasalo PRODUCERS: Monster Jimenez, Mario Cornejo
PRODUCERS: Leila Lyytikäinen, Elina Pohjola ONLINE PREMIERE:
ONLINE PREMIERE: Fri. 1/21, 9:45 p.m.
Mon. 1/24, 2:30 p.m. SECOND SCREENING:
Brian and Charles Dos Estaciones Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
SECOND SCREENING:
United Kingdom Mexico Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
A story of friendship, love, and letting go. Spanish window begins)
And a 7-foot-tall robot that eats cabbages. In the bucolic hills of Mexico’s Jalisco Marte Um (Mars One)
A comedy shot in documentary format. highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria
DIRECTOR: Jim Archer Garcia fights the impending collapse of her
KLONDIKE Brazil
PRODUCER: Rupert Majendie Ukraine/Turkey Portuguese
tequila factory.
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Ukrainian, Russian, Chechen, Dutch In Brazil, a lower-middle-class Black family
DIRECTOR: Juan Pablo González
Sun. 1/23, 11:00 a.m. PRODUCERS: Jamie Gonçalves, Ilana Coleman, The story of a Ukrainian family living on the of four tries to keep their spirits up and their
SECOND SCREENING: Bruna Haddad, Makena Buchanan border of Russia-Ukraine during the start of dreams going in the months that follow the
Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand ONLINE PREMIERE: war. Irka refuses to leave her house even as election of a right-wing president, a man who
window begins) the village gets captured by armed forces. represents everything they are not.
Mon. 1/24, noon
SECOND SCREENING: Shortly after, they find themselves at the DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Gabriel Martins
center of an air crash catastrophe on PRODUCERS: Thiago Macêdo Correia,
The Cow Who Sang A Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) July 17, 2014. André Novais Oliveira, Gabriel Martins,
Song Into The Future DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Maryna Er Gorbach
Maurilio Martins
Chile/France/United States/Germany PRODUCERS: Maryna Er Gorbach, ONLINE PREMIERE:
Spanish Gentle Mehmet Bahadir Er, Sviatoslav Bulakovsky Thu. 1/20, 9:30 p.m.
Cecilia and her children travel to her aging Hungary ONLINE PREMIERE: SECOND SCREENING:
father’s dairy farm after he has a heart Hungarian Fri. 1/21, 12:15 p.m. Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia Edina, a female bodybuilder, is ready to SECOND SCREENING:
SATELLITE SCREENINGS:
is met by her mother, a woman dead for sacrifice everything for the dream she Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) Fri. 1/28, 3:00 p.m., Amherst, MA
many years, whose presence brings to life a shares with Adam, her partner and trainer: to
Sat. 1/29, 3:50 p.m., Lawrence, KS
painful past chorused by the natural world win the world championship. The odd love
Sat. 1/29, 9:00 p.m., Seattle, WA
around them. she finds on her way there makes her see
Sun. 1/30, 11:00 a.m., Baltimore, MD
DIRECTOR: Francisca Alegría the difference between her dreams and her
Sun. 1/30, noon, Memphis, TN
PRODUCERS: Tom Dercourt, Alejandra García true self.
Sun. 1/30, 2:00 p.m., San Diego, CA
ONLINE PREMIERE: DIRECTORS: Anna Eszter Nemes, László Csuja
Sun. 1/30, 3:00 p.m., Winston-Salem, NC
PRODUCERS: András Muhi, Gábor Ferenczy
Sun. 1/23, 6:30 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING: ONLINE PREMIERE:
Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Fri. 1/21, 3:15 p.m.
window begins) SECOND SCREENING:
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 5 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).WORLD CINEMA
DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Utama You Won’t Be Alone
Bolivia/Uruguay/France Australia
Quechua, Spanish In an isolated mountain village in 19th-
century Macedonia, a young feral witch
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly
accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes
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Quechua couple has been living the same
the peasant’s shape to see what life is like in
daily life for years. When an uncommonly
her skin, igniting a deep-seated curiosity to
long drought threatens their entire way
DOCUMENTARY
experience life inside the bodies of others.
of life, Virginio and his wife, Sisa, face the
dilemma of resisting or being defeated by DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Goran Stolevski
the environment and time itself. PRODUCERS: Kristina Ceyton, Sam Jennings
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER:
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
PRODUCERS: Santiago Loayza Grisi,
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Sat. 1/22, 8:45 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
COMPETITION
Federico Moreira, Marcos Loayza, Jean-
Baptiste Bailly-Maitre Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) All That Breathes A House Made of Splinters
ONLINE PREMIERE:
India/United Kingdom Denmark
Sat. 1/22, 3:00 p.m. Hindi Ukrainian, Russian
SECOND SCREENING:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi’s In Eastern Ukraine, follow the daily lives of
window begins) apocalyptic air and escalating violence, children and staff in a special kind of home:
two brothers devote their lives to protecting an institution for children who have been
one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird removed from their homes while awaiting
known as the black kite. court custody decisions. Staff do their best
DIRECTOR: Shaunak Sen to make the time children have there safe
PRODUCERS: Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann, and supportive.
Teddy Leifer DIRECTOR: Simon Lereng Wilmont
ONLINE PREMIERE: PRODUCER: Monica Hellström
Fri. 1/21, 9:15 p.m. ONLINE PREMIERE:
SECOND SCREENING: Sun. 1/23, 11:30 a.m.
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand SECOND SCREENING:
window begins)
Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Calendar Girls
Sweden Midwives
A coming-of-golden-age look at Florida’s Myanmar
most dedicated dance team for women over Rohingya, Rakhine, Burmese
60. Shaking up the outdated image of “the
little old lady,” and calling for everyone to Two midwives work side by side in a
dance their hearts out, while they still can. makeshift clinic in Myanmar.
DIRECTOR: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: Maria Loohufvud,
Love Martinsen PRODUCERS: Bob Moore, Ulla Lehmann,
Mila Aung-Thwin, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
PRODUCERS: Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen
ONLINE PREMIERE:
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 11:00 a.m.
Sat. 1/22, noon.
SECOND SCREENING:
SECOND SCREENING:
Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 6 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).WORLD CINEMA WORLD CINEMA
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The Mission Sirens The Territory
Finland United States/Lebanon Brazil/Denmark/United States
English, Finnish Arabic, English Portuguese, Tupi-Kawahiva
A revelation of the inner lives of young LDS On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and Shery, When a network of Brazilian farmers seize
missionaries, as they leave their homes for co-founders and guitarists of the Middle a protected area of the Amazon rainforest,
the first time and embark upon the most East’s first all-woman metal band, wrestle a young Indigenous leader and his mentor
emotionally, physically, and psychologically with friendship, sexuality, and destruction must fight back in defense of the land and
challenging period of their lives. in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal an uncontacted group living deep within
DIRECTOR: Tania Anderson rock stars. the forest.
PRODUCERS: Isabella Karhu, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Rita Baghdadi DIRECTOR: Alex Pritz
Juho-Pekka Tanskanen PRODUCERS: Rita Baghdadi, Camilla Hall PRODUCERS: Will N. Miller, Sigrid Dyekjær,
Lizzie Gillett, Darren Aronofsky, Anonymous
ONLINE PREMIERE: ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 2:15 p.m. Sun. 1/23, 2:15 p.m. ONLINE PREMIERE:
SECOND SCREENING: SECOND SCREENING: Sat. 1/22, 6:15 p.m.
Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand SECOND SCREENING:
window begins) window begins) Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
SATELLITE SCREENINGS: window begins)
Fri. 1/28, 4:00 p.m., Baltimore, MD
Nothing Compares
Fri. 1/28, 5:30 p.m., Memphis, TN
Ireland/United Kingdom We Met in Virtual Reality
Fri. 1/28, 6:30 p.m., Winston-Salem, NC
The story of Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal United Kingdom
Fri. 1/28, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence, KS
rise to worldwide fame, and subsequent Filmed entirely inside the world of VR, this
Fri. 1/28, 7:00 p.m., Seattle, WA
exile from the pop mainstream. Focusing vérité documentary captures the excitement
Sat. 1/29, 6:00 p.m., Amherst, MA
on O’Connor’s prophetic words and deeds and surprising intimacy of a burgeoning
Sat. 1/29, 6:00 p.m., San Diego, CA
from 1987 to 1993, the film reflects on the cultural movement, demonstrating
legacy of this fearless trailblazer, through a the power of online connection in an
contemporary feminist lens. Tantura isolated world.
DIRECTOR: Kathryn Ferguson DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Joe Hunting
Israel
PRODUCERS: Eleanor Emptage, Michael Mallie PRODUCER: Joe Hunting
Hebrew, English, Arabic
ONLINE PREMIERE: ONLINE PREMIERE:
In 1948, the State of Israel was established
Fri. 1/21, 6:00 p.m. Fri. 1/21, 3:00 p.m.
and war broke out. Hundreds of Palestinian
SECOND SCREENING: SECOND SCREENING:
villages were destroyed with their
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand inhabitants killed or exiled. The film focuses Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) window begins)
on one village — Tantura — bringing to light
Israel’s founding myth and its society’s
inability to come to terms with its dark past.
DIRECTOR: Alon Schwarz
PRODUCERS: Shaul Schwarz, Maiken Baird
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Thu. 1/20, 7:00 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 7 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).PREMIERES
Call Jane Emily the Criminal
Fiction Fiction
Chicago, 1968. After having a life-saving Down on her luck and saddled with debt,
secret abortion, a suburban housewife Emily gets involved in a credit card scam
seeks to give women access to healthy and that pulls her into the criminal underworld
safe abortions through an underground of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly
collective of women known as “Jane.” consequences.
DIRECTOR: Phyllis Nagy DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: John Patton Ford
PRODUCERS: Robbie Brenner, David Wulf, PRODUCERS: Tyler Davidson, Aubrey Plaza,
Kevin McKeon Drew Sykes
PREMIERES ONLINE PREMIERE:
Fri. 1/21, 5:45 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 3:15 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
2nd Chance AM I OK? window begins) window begins)
Nonfiction Fiction
Bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis Lucy and Jane have been best friends for DOWNFALL: The Case God’s Country
invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. most of their lives and think they know Against Boeing Fiction
To prove that it worked, he shot himself 192 everything there is to know about each
Nonfiction When a grieving college professor confronts
times. He launched a multimillion-dollar other. But when Jane announces she’s
An investigation of the two Boeing 737 MAX two hunters she catches trespassing
company and became a cult figure among moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-
crashes that killed 346 people, exploring on her property, she’s drawn into an
police. Davis’s rise and fall reveals a man of held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their
both the root causes and the human cost. escalating battle of wills with catastrophic
contradictions and the nature of power and friendship is thrown into chaos.
At once a chilling portrait of a crumbling consequences.
impunity in America. DIRECTORS: Stephanie Allynne, Tig Notaro
corporate culture and a fierce indictment of DIRECTOR: Julian Higgins
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Ramin Bahrani PRODUCERS: Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell,
Erik Feig, Dakota Johnson, Ro Donnelly, Wall Street’s corrupting influence. PRODUCERS: Miranda Bailey, Halee Bernard,
PRODUCERS: Daniel Turcan, Johnny Galvin, Julian Higgins, Amanda Marshall
Charles Dorfman, Ramin Bahrani, Jacob Grodnik Lauren Pomerantz, Lucy Kitada, Stephanie Allynne, DIRECTOR: Rory Kennedy
Tig Notaro PRODUCERS: Rory Kennedy, Mark Bailey, ONLINE PREMIERE:
ONLINE PREMIERE: Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Keven McAlester,
ONLINE PREMIERE: Sun. 1/23, 9:00 p.m.
Sat. 1/22, 2:45 p.m. Amanda Rohlke
Mon. 1/24, 2:00 p.m. SECOND SCREENING:
SECOND SCREENING: ONLINE PREMIERE:
SECOND SCREENING: Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Fri. 1/21, 2:45 p.m. window begins)
window begins) Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) SECOND SCREENING:
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Nonfiction
Based on Nina Menkes’s acclaimed talk Sex
and Power: The Visual Language of Cinema,
a mesmerizing journey into how shot
design intersects with the twin epidemics
of sexual abuse/assault and employment
discrimination against women. Containing
over 175 film clips, the film will unalterably
change the way we view and make movies.
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Nina Menkes
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Sat. 1/22, 12:15 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 8 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).PREMIERES PREMIERES
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Living My Old School
Fiction Fiction Fiction Nonfiction
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie In 1952 London, veteran civil servant The astonishing true story of Scotland’s
yearning for some adventure and some sex. Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Williams has become a small cog in the most notorious impostor. It’s 1993 and
Good sex. And she has a plan: She hires a Baptist megachurch, attempts to help her bureaucracy of rebuilding England post- 16-year-old Brandon is the new kid in school.
young sex worker named Leo Grande. pastor husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild WWII. As endless paperwork piles up on his Soon he’s top of the class, acing exams, and
DIRECTOR: Sophie Hyde their congregation. desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus even taking the lead in the school musical.
PRODUCERS: Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Adamma Ebo begins his quest to find some meaning in his He’s the model pupil, until he’s unmasked…
PRODUCERS: Daniel Kaluuya, Adanne Ebo, life before it slips away. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Jono McLeod
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Rowan Riley, Amandla Crichlow, Jesse Burgum, DIRECTOR: Oliver Hermanus PRODUCERS: John Archer, Olivia Lichtenstein
Sat. 1/22, 3:00 p.m. Matthew Cooper
PRODUCERS: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen
SECOND SCREENING: ONLINE PREMIERE:
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand ONLINE PREMIERE: Sun. 1/23, 9:15 p.m.
window begins) Sun. 1/23, 11:45 a.m.
Fri. 1/21, noon SECOND SCREENING:
SECOND SCREENING:
SECOND SCREENING: Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand window begins)
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
La Guerra Civil window begins)
window begins)
Nonfiction SATELLITE SCREENINGS:
The epic rivalry between iconic boxers Fri. 1/28, 3:30 p.m., Lawrence, KS The Princess
Oscar De La Hoya and Julio César Chávez in Sun. 1/30, 9:00 a.m., Winston-Salem, NC Lucy and Desi Nonfiction
the 1990s sparked a cultural divide between Sun. 1/30, noon, Amherst, MA Nonfiction Princess Diana’s story is told exclusively
Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans. Sun. 1/30, 2:00 p.m., Baltimore, MD Lucille Ball had an immense influence through contemporaneous archive, creating
A chronicle of a battle that was more than a Sun. 1/30, 4:00 p.m., Memphis, TN on the creation of TV syndication, as she a bold and immersive narrative of her life
boxing rivalry, and examining a fascinating Sun. 1/30, 8:00 p.m., San Diego, CA rose to become a true entrepreneur and and death. Turning the camera back on
slice of the Latino experience in the process. Sun. 1/30, 8:30 p.m., Seattle, WA multifaceted mogul. Through interviews ourselves, it also illuminates the profound
DIRECTOR: Eva Longoria Bastón and archival footage, a tribute to one of impact she had and how the public’s attitude
PRODUCERS: Eva Longoria Bastón, Grant Best, the greatest trailblazers in comedy and toward the monarchy was, and still is,
Bernardo Ruiz, Ben Spector, Andrea Cordoba jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy entertainment. shaped by these events.
Nonfiction
ONLINE PREMIERE: DIRECTOR: Amy Poehler DIRECTOR: Ed Perkins
Kanye West in three acts. The story beyond PRODUCERS: Michael Rosenberg, Justin Wilkes, PRODUCERS: Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn
Thu. 1/20, 5:45 p.m.
the iconic music, an intimate and empathetic Nigel Sinclair, Jeanne Elfant Festa, Amy Poehler,
SECOND SCREENING: Mark Monroe ONLINE PREMIERE:
chronicle featuring never-before-seen
Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Thu. 1/20, 6:30 p.m.
window begins) footage from 21 years in the life of a ONLINE PREMIERE:
captivating figure. SECOND SCREENING:
SATELLITE SCREENINGS: Sat. 1/22, 9:00 p.m.
Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Fri. 1/28, 6:00 p.m., Amherst, MA DIRECTORS: Clarence “Coodie” Simmons, SECOND SCREENING: window begins)
Chike Ozah Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Fri. 1/28, 7:00 p.m., San Diego, CA
PRODUCERS: Clarence “Coodie” Simmons, window begins)
Sat. 1/29, 4:00 p.m., Seattle, WA Chike Ozah, Leah Natasha Thomas
Sat. 1/29, 5:00 p.m., Memphis, TN
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Sat. 1/29, 6:00 p.m., Winston-Salem, NC
Sun. 1/23, 6:00 p.m.
Sun. 1/30, 3:50 p.m., Lawrence, KS
SECOND SCREENING:
Sun. 1/30, 5:00 p.m., Baltimore, MD
Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 9 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).PREMIERES PREMIERES
Resurrection To the End When You Finish Saving the World
Fiction Nonfiction Fiction
Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, Stopping the climate crisis is a question of Evelyn and her oblivious son, Ziggy, seek
disciplined, and successful. Soon, her political courage, and the clock is ticking. out replacements for each other. As Evelyn
teenage daughter, whom Margaret raised by Over three years of turbulence and crisis, desperately tries to parent an unassuming
herself, will be going off to a fine university, four remarkable young women of color fight teenager at her shelter, Ziggy fumbles
just as Margaret intended. Everything for a Green New Deal, and ignite a historic through his pursuit of a brilliant young
is under control. That is, until David shift in U.S. climate politics. woman at school.
returns, carrying with him the horrors of DIRECTOR: Rachel Lears DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Jesse Eisenberg
Margaret’s past. PRODUCERS: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, PRODUCERS: Ali Herting, Dave McCary,
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Andrew Semans Rachel Lears, Robin Blotnic Emma Stone
PRODUCERS: Tory Lenosky, Alex Scharfman, ONLINE PREMIERE: ONLINE PREMIERE:
Drew Houpt, Lars Knudsen, Tim Headington,
Sun. 1/23, noon Thu. 1/20, 5:30 p.m.
Lia Buman
SECOND SCREENING: SECOND SCREENING:
ONLINE PREMIERE: Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Sat. 1/22, 8:00 p.m. window begins) window begins)
SECOND SCREENING:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) We Need To Talk About Cosby
Nonfiction
Can you separate the art from the artist?
Sharp Stick Should you even try? While there are many
Fiction
people about whom we could ask those
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on questions, none poses a tougher challenge
the fringes of Hollywood with her mother than Bill Cosby.
(longing for money) and sister (longing for DIRECTOR: W. Kamau Bell
exposure). She just longs to be seen. When PRODUCERS: Andrew Fried, Katie A. King,
she begins an affair with her older employer, Geraldine L. Porras, Dane Lillegard, Sarina Roma,
she is thrust into an education on sexuality, Jordan Wynn
loss, and power. ONLINE PREMIERE:
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Lena Dunham Sat. 1/22, 10:00 a.m.
PRODUCERS: Lena Dunham, Michael P. Cohen, SECOND SCREENING:
Kevin Turen, Katia Washington
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
ONLINE PREMIERE: window begins)
Sat. 1/22, 6:30 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 10 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).SPOTLIGHT
Three Minutes - A Lengthening
English, Polish, Yiddish, German
Nonfiction
Three minutes of footage are the only known
moving images of the Jewish inhabitants of
Nasielsk, Poland, from before the Holocaust.
An examination of that film — in color,
random, full of life — reveals historical and
personal dimensions. Narrated by Helena
Bonham Carter.
SPOTLIGHT DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Bianca Stigter
PRODUCER: Floor Onrust
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 8:30 a.m.
After Yang Neptune Frost
SECOND SCREENING:
Fiction Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Swahili, French, English Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
In the near future, a father and daughter try Fiction window begins)
to save the life of Yang, their beloved robotic In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp,
family member. a subversive hacking collective attempts The Worst Person in the World
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Kogonada a takeover of the authoritarian regime
PRODUCERS: Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan, exploiting the region’s natural resources — Norwegian
Paul Mezey, Theresa Park
and its people. When an intersex runaway Fiction
ONLINE PREMIERE: and an escaped coltan miner find each other Four years in the life of Julie, a young woman
Fri. 1/21, 11:45 a.m. through cosmic forces, their connection who navigates the troubled waters of her
SECOND SCREENING: sparks glitches within the greater divine love life and struggles to find her career
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand circuitry. path, leading her to take a realistic look at
window begins) who she really is.
DIRECTORS: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams
PRODUCERS: Ezra Miller, Stephen Hendel, DIRECTOR: Joachim Trier
Dave Guenette, Maria Judice
Happening PRODUCERS: Thomas Robsahm,
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
ONLINE PREMIERE:
French
Sun. 1/23, 12:30 p.m. ONLINE PREMIERE:
Fiction
SECOND SCREENING: Thu. 1/20, 9:45 p.m.
France, 1963. Anne is a bright student Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand SECOND SCREENING:
with a promising future. But when she window begins) Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
gets pregnant, she sees the opportunity window begins)
to escape the constraints of her social
background disappearing. With final exams
approaching and her belly growing, Anne
resolves to act, even if she must risk prison
to do so.
DIRECTOR: Audrey Diwan
PRODUCERS: Edouard Weil, Alice Girard
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Sat. 1/22, 9:15 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 11 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).NEXT
Mija Something In The Dirt
English, Spanish Fiction
Nonfiction When neighbors John and Levi witness
supernatural events in their Los Angeles
Doris Muñoz is a young, ambitious music
apartment building, they realize
manager whose undocumented family
documenting the paranormal could inject
depends on her ability to launch pop stars.
some fame and fortune into their wasted
When she loses her biggest client, Doris
lives. An ever-deeper, darker rabbit hole,
hustles to discover new talent and finds
their friendship frays as they uncover the
Jacks, another daughter of immigrants for
dangers of the phenomena, the city, and
whom “making it” isn’t just a dream: it’s a
NEXT
each other.
necessity.
DIRECTORS: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
DIRECTOR: Isabel Castro
PRODUCERS: David Lawson, Aaron Moorhead,
PRODUCERS: Tabs Breese, Isabel Castro,
Justin Benson
Yesenia Tlahuel
The Cathedral Framing Agnes ONLINE PREMIERE:
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Fiction Nonfiction Sun. 1/23, 12:15 p.m.
Fri. 1/21, 6:15 p.m.
An only child’s account of an American After discovering case files from a 1960s SECOND SCREENING:
SECOND SCREENING:
family’s rise and fall over two decades. gender clinic, a cast of transgender actors Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand window begins)
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Ricky D’Ambrose turn a talk show inside out to confront the window begins)
PRODUCER: Graham Swon legacy of a young trans woman forced to
choose between honesty and access.
ONLINE PREMIERE:
DIRECTOR: Chase Joynt
RIOTSVILLE, USA
Sat. 1/22, 3:30 p.m. Nonfiction
PRODUCERS: Samantha Curley, Shant Joshi,
SECOND SCREENING: Chase Joynt Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand by the U.S. military. Using footage shot by
window begins) ONLINE PREMIERE:
Sat. 1/22, 2:30 p.m.
the media and government, the film explores
the militarization of the police and the
SECOND SCREENING:
Every Day In Kaimukī Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
reaction of a nation to the uprisings of the
Fiction window begins) late ’60s, creating a counternarrative to a
critical moment in American history.
A young man is determined to give his life
meaning outside of Kaimukī, the small DIRECTOR: Sierra Pettengill
Hawaiian town where he grew up, even if it
A Love Song PRODUCERS: Sara Archambault, Jamila Wignot
Fiction
means leaving everything he’s ever known ONLINE PREMIERE:
and loved behind. Two childhood sweethearts, now both Fri. 1/21, noon
widowed, share a night by a lake in the SECOND SCREENING:
DIRECTOR: Alika Tengan
PRODUCERS: Jesy Odio, Chapin Hall, Alika Tengan,
mountains. A love story for those who
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Naz Kawakami are alone. window begins)
ONLINE PREMIERE: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Max Walker-
Silverman
Sun. 1/23, 5:00 p.m.
PRODUCERS: Dan Janvey, Jesse Hope,
SECOND SCREENING: Max Walker-Silverman
Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins) ONLINE PREMIERE:
SATELLITE SCREENINGS: Thu. 1/20, 9:15 p.m.
Sat. 1/29, 10:00 a.m., Memphis, TN SECOND SCREENING:
Sat. 1/29, 11:00 a.m., Winston-Salem, NC Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Sat. 1/29, noon, Amherst, MA
Sat. 1/29, 3:00 p.m., San Diego, CA
Sat. 1/29, 4:30 p.m., Baltimore, MD
Sat. 1/29, 6:40 p.m., Lawrence, KS
Sun. 1/30, 3:15 p.m., Seattle, WA
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 12 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).MIDNIGHT
PIGGY
Spanish
Fiction
Sara deals with constant teasing from girls
in her small town. But it comes to an end
when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors.
Sara knows more than she’s saying and must
decide between speaking up and saving the
girls or saying nothing to protect the strange
man who spared her.
MIDNIGHT DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Carlota Pereda
PRODUCERS: Merry Colomer, David Atlan-Jackson
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 9:00 p.m.
Babysitter Hatching
SECOND SCREENING:
French Finnish Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Fiction Fiction window begins)
After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his While desperately trying to please her
job and embarks on a therapeutic journey demanding mother, a young gymnast Speak No Evil
to free himself from sexism and misogyny. discovers a strange egg. She tucks it away
His girlfriend, Nadine, is exasperated by his and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what Danish, Dutch, English
narcissistic introspection, until they hire a emerges shocks everyone. Fiction
mysterious and liberated babysitter to help DIRECTOR: Hanna Bergholm A Danish family visits a Dutch family they
shake things up. PRODUCERS: Mika Ritalahti, Nico Ritalahti met on a holiday. What was supposed to be
DIRECTOR: Monia Chokri an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling
ONLINE PREMIERE:
PRODUCERS: Martin Paul-Hus, Catherine Léger, as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of
Sat. 1/22, 11:55 p.m.
Pierre-Marcel Blanchot, Fabrice Lambot unpleasantness.
SECOND SCREENING:
ONLINE PREMIERE: Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
DIRECTOR: Christian Tafdrup
Sat. 1/22, 9:30 p.m. window begins) PRODUCER: Jacob Jarek
SECOND SCREENING: ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. Fri. 1/21, 11:55 p.m.
(24-hour on-demand window begins) Meet Me In The Bathroom
SECOND SCREENING:
Nonfiction
Sun. 1/23, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
An immersive journey through the New window begins)
FRESH York music scene of the early 2000s. Set
Fiction
against the backdrop of 9/11, the film tells the
The horrors of modern dating are seen story of how a new generation kickstarted
through one young woman’s defiant battle a musical rebirth for New York City that
to survive her new paramour’s unusual reverberated around the world. Inspired by
appetites. the book by Lizzy Goodman.
DIRECTOR: Mimi Cave DIRECTORS: Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace
PRODUCERS: Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, PRODUCERS: Vivienne Perry, Sam Bridger,
Maeve Cullinane Marisa Clifford, Thomas Benski, Danny Gabai,
Suroosh Alvi
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Thu. 1/20, 11:55 p.m. ONLINE PREMIERE:
SECOND SCREENING: Sun. 1/23, 11:55 p.m.
Sat. 1/22, 8:00 a.m. SECOND SCREENING:
(24-hour on-demand window begins) Tue. 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 13 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).SPECIAL FROM THE
SCREENINGS COLLECTION
The American Dream and Phoenix Rising Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
Other Fairy Tales Nonfiction Chantal has plans. She’s going places.
Nonfiction Actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood She’s on track to graduate early, go to
Abigail Disney looks at America’s takes her experience as a survivor of college, become a doctor, and get out of the
dysfunctional and unequal economy and domestic violence to pursue justice, heal Brooklyn projects where she’s grown up.
asks why the American dream has worked generational trauma, and reclaim her story DIRECTOR: Leslie Harris
for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people in a culture that instinctively blames women. PRODUCERS: Leslie Harris, Erwin Wilson
born with less. As a way to imagine a more The film intimately charts her journey as she
ONLINE PREMIERE:
equitable future, Disney uses her family’s moves toward naming her infamous abuser
Mon. 1/24, 5:30 p.m.
story to explore how this systemic injustice for the first time.
SECOND SCREENING:
took hold. DIRECTOR: Amy Berg
Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
DIRECTORS: Abigail E. Disney, Kathleen Hughes PRODUCERS: Grace Sin, Lesley Goldman, window begins)
Katie Doering
PRODUCER: Aideen Kane
ONLINE PREMIERE:
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon., 1/24, 5:00 p.m. Sun., 1/23, 7:45 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
SECOND SCREENING:
Tues., 1/25, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
Wed., 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
window begins)
LAST FLIGHT HOME
Nonfiction
An examination of Eli Timoner’s intentional
death and his family’s emotional turmoil as
they grapple with his decision to end his own
life. The family journeys back through Eli’s
remarkable, painful life to discover what true
love looks like and help him shed shame he’s
carried for 40 years.
DIRECTOR: Ondi Timoner
PRODUCERS: Ondi Timoner, David Turner
ONLINE PREMIERE:
Mon. 1/24, 5:15 p.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
Wed. 1/26, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Last updated 1/20/22. For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 14 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).INDIE EPISODIC
KIDS PROGRAM
Maika Summering Indie Episodic works are available on demand Jan. 20–30.
Vietnamese During their last days of summer and
childhood — the weekend before middle
After a meteor falls to Earth, 8-year-old
school begins — four girls struggle with the The Dark Heart Instant Life
Hung meets an alien girl from the planet
harsh truths of growing up and embark on a Sweden: In a mythological landscape, Destitute without electricity and running
Maika, searching for her lost friend. As Hung
mysterious adventure. search parties roam through forests of water, Yolanda Signorelli Von Braunhut
helps his otherworldly friend search, the
DIRECTOR: James Ponsoldt spruce, secret conversations are whispered has lost control of her late husband
alien inadvertently helps Hung make new
PRODUCERS: Peter Block, P. Jennifer Dana in open fields, and verbal duels are fought Harold’s iconic Amazing Live Sea Monkeys
friends and heal a broken heart. But danger
on narrow country roads. A story of family novelty. Yet she alone knows their secret
lurks everywhere… ONLINE PREMIERE: feuds, inheritances, and forbidden love. formula, and from her crumbling estate
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Ham Tran Sat. 1/22, 5:00 p.m. on the Potomac, Yolanda wages legal and
DIRECTOR: Gustav Möller
PRODUCERS: Jenni Trang Le, Duy Ho, Anderson Le, SECOND SCREENING: existential battles to fully win them back.
Bao Nguyen PRODUCERS: Anna Carlsten, Caroline Landerberg
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Mark Becker,
ONLINE PREMIERE: window begins)
Aaron Schock
Sat. 1/22, 9:00 a.m.
SECOND SCREENING:
Mon. 1/24, 8:00 a.m. (24-hour on-demand
window begins)
Indie Episodic Pilot Showcase
CHIQUI MY TRIP TO SPAIN
It’s 1987. Chiqui and Carlos emigrate from Alexis, a successful trans woman, is heading
Colombia to the United States to find a better life to Spain to get some cosmetic surgery. She
for themselves and their unborn son. Upon their has asked her embittered old friend Charlie to
arrival, they quickly realize that the American house-sit while she’s away. During the handoff,
dream is not as easy to achieve as they thought. he tries his best to convince her to cancel,
DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Carlos Cardona while simultaneously pursuing a sexual
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Daniel Fermín Pfeffer, liaison with her brooding gardener, Bruno.
Sophia de Baun DIRECTOR: Theda Hammel
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Allie Jane Compton,
CULTURE BEAT John Early
A show that investigates high-culture
institutions through the lowbrow lens of various BRING ON THE DANCING HORSES
characters. The 2021 love child of Da Ali G An assassin is out to complete her list of
Show and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. targets and exact her own brand of justice.
DIRECTORS: Andre Hyland, Kitao Sakurai DIRECTOR: Michael Polish
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Eric Andre, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Kate Bosworth, Michael Polish
Kitao Sakurai, Andre Hyland
For more info, see festival.sundance.org • #SUNDANCE 15 All times are in Mountain Standard Time (UTC-7).SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Short Film Program 2
EGÚNGÚN (MASQUERADE) WORK
English, Yoruba Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabi, a
In search of healing, a young woman returns queer Latina freelance editor, impulsively
home to her birthplace: Lagos, Nigeria. drops into an old job at an underground lap
dance party, where she unexpectedly runs into
DIRECTOR: Olive Nwosu
PRODUCER: Alex Polunin
a friend from her past.
DIRECTOR: April Maxey
F^¢K ’€M R!GHT B@¢K PRODUCER: Skylar Andrews
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
A queer Black aspiring Baltimore rapper must
outwit his vengeful day-job boss in order to IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME
avoid getting fired after accidentally eating Lil’ Ant is obsessed with Pegasus, the Greek
an edible. mythological character, since first learning
about him at school in Watts, California. He
DIRECTOR: Harris Doran
PRODUCERS: Doris Casap, Harris Doran,
begins to notice imaginary airplane people
Every short film in the 2022 Festival will be available to screen on demand Jan. 20-30. around his home, and yearns to fly with them.
James Burkhalter, Haley Geffen
DIRECTOR: Walter Thompson-Hernández
SATELLITE SCREENING: Baltimore, MD
PRODUCER: Stuart McIntyre
Short Film Program 1
MAIDENHOOD SANDSTORM/MULAQAT
PRECIOUS HAIR & BEAUTY SHARK Spanish, Zapoteco Urdu
English, Yoruba The continuing adventures of Jack, who loves
Catalina submits to the tradition of her people Zara, a teenage girl, shares a sensual dance
An ode to the mundanity and madness of the to prank. But in his latest relationship he may
to demonstrate her purity and worth as a video with her virtual boyfriend, who begins
high street, told through the window of an have finally met his match.
woman to her beloved, but her body betrays to blackmail her into meeting him in person.
African hair salon. DIRECTOR: Nash Edgerton her and she fails to demonstrate her chastity. Will Zara give in to this stranger’s increasing
DIRECTOR: John Ogunmuyiwa PRODUCERS: Michele Bennett, Lucia Nicolai,
DIRECTOR: Xóchitl Enríquez Mendoza demands or will she set herself free?
PRODUCERS: Sophia Gibber, Tony Longe, Marcello Paolillo
PRODUCER: Eréndira Hernández DIRECTOR: Seemab Gul
Lene Bausager
STRANGER THAN ROTTERDAM PRODUCERS: Abid Aziz Merchant, Seemab Gul
CLOSE TIES TO HOME COUNTRY
TRAINING WHEELS WITH SARA DRIVER
Millennial immigrant Akanksha waits for her
A socially inept woman rents one man to In 1982, the completion of Jim Jarmusch’s
sister’s visit from India — they haven’t seen
prepare for another. sophomore film, Stranger Than Paradise,
each other in nine years! Meanwhile, she’s
hinged on producer Sara Driver’s willingness
DIRECTOR: Alison Rich dogsitting the fancy Frenchie of Instagram
PRODUCERS: Olivia Aguilar, Bridgett Greenberg, and ability to smuggle one of the world’s
influencers India and Harry, who themselves
Laura Schwartz, Peter Principato rarest and most controversial films across the
are on a trip to India’s namesake.
Atlantic Ocean.
LONG LINE OF LADIES DIRECTOR: Akanksha Cruczynski
DIRECTORS: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster PRODUCER: Felicia Ferrara
A girl and her community prepare for her Ihuk,
the once dormant coming-of-age ceremony MAKASSAR IS A CITY FOR FOOTBALL FANS
of the Karuk and Yurok tribes of Northern Indonesian, Makassarese
California. In a city where men have to go crazy about
DIRECTORS: Rayka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome football, Akbar has to pretend to love the
PRODUCERS: Garrett Schiff, Pimm Tripp-Allen, game in order to prevent rejection from his new
Rayka Zehtabchi, Sam Davis, Dana Kurth college friends.
AU REVOIR JÉRÔME! DIRECTOR: Khozy Rizal
PRODUCERS: John Badalu, Bruno Smadja, Khozy Rizal
(GOODBYE JEROME!)
French
Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets
out to find his wife, Maryline. In the course of
his search, he sinks into a surreal and colorful
world in which no one seems to be able to
help him.
DIRECTORS: Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard,
Chloé Farr
PRODUCER: Moïra Marguin
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WARSHA DADDY’S GIRL HALLELUJAH CHAMP
Arabic A young woman’s charming but overbearing After being stuck with the guardianship of their After basketball practice one night, Genevieve
A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator father helps her move out of her wealthy, older annoying bookworm nephew, two brothers in reveals a dark secret about their coach to
in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of boyfriend’s apartment. Compton, California, have to decide if they are her teammates. Wielding strategy and grit off
the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to DIRECTOR: Lena Hudson willing to take on the responsibility of being the court, Genevieve works together with her
find his freedom. PRODUCERS: Clea DeCrane, Thomas Matthews, caretakers. teammates to find a way to retaliate.
Lena Hudson DIRECTOR: Victor Gabriel DIRECTOR: Hannah Peterson
DIRECTOR: Dania Bdeir
PRODUCER: Coralie Dias PRODUCER: Duran Jones PRODUCERS: Taylor Shung, Alex Coco
BUMP
YOU GO GIRL! A young man’s unwillingness to let go of a trivial RECKLESS THE HEADHUNTER’S DAUGHTER
Audrey, a New York City comedian who can encounter leads him to seek retribution. Swedish Ilokano
make a joke of any situation, faces a staggering DIRECTOR: Maziyar Khatam Stockholm, 2121: An underwater city is blasted Leaving her family behind, Lynn traverses the
challenge in the beautiful mountains of Oregon. PRODUCER: Anya Chirkova into the bedrock. In a society on the verge of harrowing roads of the Cordilleran highlands to
Can this city woman overcome her fears being crushed by mounting water pressure, try her luck in the city as a country singer.
and rise? A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE Nikki’s highest wish is to get back together with DIRECTOR: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
DIRECTOR: Shariffa Ali Portuguese her ex-boyfriend. PRODUCER: Hannah Schierbeek
PRODUCERS: Adrian Alea, Courtney Williams, Tired of loneliness, a middle-aged motorcyclist DIRECTOR: Pella Kågerman
Kamilah Long goes to a lesbian party for the first time. There PRODUCERS: Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå STARFUCKERS
she meets four young queers who share An intimate evening between a film director and
THE RIGHT WORDS their home and affections. An encounter of ORTHODONTICS an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.
French generations, a tribute to those who brought Persian DIRECTOR: Antonio Marziale
Kenza and her little brother Mahdi regularly us here. Teenage girl Amitis, who always has headgear PRODUCER: Eli Raskin
humiliate each other on social media in cruel DIRECTOR: Érica Sarmet as part of orthodontic treatment, suddenly
ways. As they travel by bus, Kenza puts her PRODUCERS: Lívia Perez, Silvia Sobral, Érica does something strange to her friend, Sarah. LOVE STORIES ON THE MOVE
brother to the test: professing his feelings for Sarmet Romanian
DIRECTOR: Mohammadreza Mayghani
Jada, the girl he loves. PRODUCERS: Mohammadreza Mayghani, Lili, a taxi driver, is trying to save her marriage
DIRECTOR: Adrian Moyse Dullin Baran Sarmad with Dani, an amateur fisherman. Her fares
PRODUCER: Lucas Tothe expose Lili to several love stories really
different from her own.
HUELLA
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER:
English, Spanish
Carina Gabriela Dașoveanu
When the death of her grandmother unleashes
a generational curse, a disenchanted flamenco
dancer resigned to a desk job is forced to
experience the five stages of grief through a Short Film Program 5
visit from her female ancestors.
MOTORCYCLIST’S HAPPINESS ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (WHAT THEY’VE BEEN TAUGHT)
DIRECTOR: Gabriela Ortega
PRODUCERS: Helena Sardinha, Rafael Thomaseto WON’T FIT INTO HIS SUIT English, Tsalagi
Spanish This film explores expressions of reciprocity in
There he sits, proudly on his beautiful the Cherokee world, brought to life through a
motorbike, which he would never loan to story told by an elder and first language speaker.
anyone. He is certain that he alone can explore DIRECTOR: Brit Hensel
the jungle. A playful role-reversal reenactment, PRODUCERS: Taylor Hensel, Adam Mazo, Kavi
taking aim at the hubris of colonial conquerors. Pillay, Tracy Rector
DIRECTOR: Gabriel Herrera SHOWS AT ALL SATELLITE SCREENS
PRODUCER: Susana Bernal
SWEET NOTHING
Rosa is sunbathing in her garden while the
gardener is working next door. She watches the
gardener, increasingly intoxicated by the tender
way he handles the flowers.
DIRECTORS: Joana Fischer, Marie-Christine Kenov
PRODUCERS: Lucerne School of Art and Design/
BA Animation, Jürgen Haas
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BESTIA MEAL ON THE PLATE DISPLACED KICKING THE CLOUDS
The life of a secret police agent during the You are what you eat. In a world where people Albanese, Turkish An experimental documentary, Kicking
Chilean military dictatorship. Her relationship start to look like the thing they eat the most In postwar Kosovo, driven to keep their beloved the Clouds is centered on a 50-year-old
with her dog, her body, her fears and of, you can take this quite literally. When a sport of table tennis alive, two local players cassette tape of a Pechanga language lesson
frustrations all reveal grim fractures in her mind newcomer prefers different eating habits, wander from one obscure location to another, between the director’s grandmother and
and in the country. the visible consequences turn the world carrying with them their club’s only possession: great-grandmother, and contextualized by
DIRECTOR: Hugo Covarrubias upside down. their tables. an interview with his mother in his Pacific
PRODUCERS: Tevo Díaz, Hugo Covarrubias DIRECTOR: Chenglin Xie Northwest hometown.
DIRECTOR: Samir Karahoda
PRODUCERS: Chenglin Xie, Michelle Yu Du PRODUCER: Eroll Bilibani DIRECTOR: Sky Hopinka
THE HORK
THE FOURTH WALL SHOWS AT MOST SATELLITE SCREENS
In an alternate dimension, the stoic god of LISTEN TO THE BEAT OF OUR IMAGES
Power-Unrecognized waits for unrelenting Persian French
Greed to come and consume her power. YOU’VE NEVER BEEN
In THE FOURTH WALL, home and family, Sixty years ago, France decided to establish
relationships, desires, and wishes are all COMPLETELY HONEST
DIRECTOR: Nicole Elizabeth Stafford its space center in French Guiana. Six hundred
captured in a kitchen. The stuttering boy is Guianan people were expropriated to allow Through animation and reenactment, You’ve
SATELLITE SCREENING: Seattle, WA alone there, playing with his imagination. Never Been Completely Honest brings to life
France to realize its dream of space conquest.
Listen to the Beat of Our Images gives a voice to Gene Church’s original, never-before-heard
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Mahboobeh Kalaee
WE ARE HERE a silenced population interview recounting the harrowing physical
What is it like to walk this land in the shoes of ZOON made invisible. torture and brainwashing he endured at
an immigrant under 30? We Are Here offers a secretive, four-day business seminar in
Residing in a dark swamp at the bottom DIRECTORS: Audrey Jean-Baptiste, Maxime California in 1970.
reflections of people who immigrated to the of a nocturnal forest, a group of gleaming Jean-Baptiste
U.S. as children, and a reminder to look beyond axolotls pursue lustful games. The creatures PRODUCER: Gérard Azoulay DIRECTOR: Joey Izzo
citizenship. relish nuzzling one another and nibbling their PRODUCERS: Andy Ruse, Jesy Odio
DIRECTORS/PRODUCERS: Doménica Castro, companions’ limbs. THE PANOLA PROJECT
Constanza Castro Highlighting the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver
SUB ELEVEN SECONDS
DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Jonatan Schwenk A rumination on time, loss, and hope, and a
SATELLITE SCREENING: San Diego, CA to keep her small town of Panola, Alabama,
safe from COVID-19, The Panola Project poetic imagining of the quest of Sha’Carri
NIGHT BUS Richardson — a young track and field athlete
chronicles how an often-overlooked rural Black
SOFT ANIMALS Taiwanese, Mandarin Chinese
community came together in creative ways to — to achieve her dream of qualifying for the
Two ex-lovers cross paths in a train station. On a late-night bus, a panic scream shatters survive. Olympic Games.
Their animal instincts take over as they the night’s calm, a necklace is stolen, followed DIRECTOR: Bafic
by a tragic and fatal road accident. The series DIRECTORS: Rachael DeCruz, Jeremy S. Levine
reminisce. PRODUCERS: Chloe Sultan, Mahfuz Sultan,
PRODUCERS: Jeremy S. Levine, Rachael DeCruz
DIRECTOR: Renee Zhan
of intriguing events that follows reveals love, Virgil Abloh
PRODUCER: Jesse Romain hatred, and vengeance.
DIRECTOR: Joe Hsieh
SWALLOW THE UNIVERSE PRODUCERS: Wan Lin Lee, Joe Hsieh, Joe Chan
Japanese
A blood-and-thunder saga of a young
child lost in Manchuria’s deep jungles. His
sudden presence creates complete anarchy in
the fauna’s primitive world, which was until then
perfectly organized.
DIRECTOR: Nieto
PRODUCER: Nicolas Schmerkin
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