Organizatorzy przyszłorocznego festiwalu Sundance ogłosili listę tytułów, które zostaną zaprezentowane w sekcjach konkursowych dotyczących fabularnych i dokumentalnych filmów z USA i ze świata. Jest tutaj wiele bardzo oczekiwanych produkcji.
Selekcjonerzy Sundance wybrali 113 filmów fabularnych
reprezentujących 31 krajów wśród których znalazły się 36 pierwsze filmy, w tym
19 w sekcjach konkursowych. W sumie do udziału w festiwalu zgłoszono 13782
filmów, w tym 4068 fabularnych i 8985 krótkometrażowych.
Przyszłoroczna edycja festiwalu odbędzie się w dniach 19-29
stycznia 2017 w Park Utah.
Lista filmów zakwalifikowanych do udziału w Sundance (w oryginale):
U.S.
DRAMATIC COMPETITION
All films
are US nationality and are world premieres unless stated otherwise.
Band Aid
Zoe
Lister-Jones
A couple
who can’t stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage:
turning their fights into songs and starting a band.
Cast: Zoe
Lister-Jones, Adam Pally, Fred Armisen, Susie Essman, Hannah Simone, Ravi
Patel.
Beach Rats
Eliza
Hittman
Frankie
wastes his summer snorting oxy and playing handball with his neighborhood boys,
while stringing on a girl he meets at Coney Island. After a family tragedy,
Frankie initiates his first gay encounters on a cruising beach. Struggling to
reconcile competing desires, his decisions leave him hurtling toward powerful
consequences.
Cast:
Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge, Neal Huff.
Brigsby
Bear
Dave McCary
Brigsby
Bear Adventures is a children’s TV show produced for an audience of one: James.
When the show abruptly ends, James’s life changes forever, and he sets out to
finish the story himself.
Cast: Kyle
Mooney, Claire Danes, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins.
Burning
Sands
Gerard
McMurray
Deep into a
fraternity’s Hell Week, a favoured pledge is torn between honouring a code of
silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Cast:
Trevor Jackson, Alfre Woodard, Steve Harris, Tosin Cole, DeRon Horton, Trevante
Rhodes.
Crown
Heights
Matt Ruskin
When Colin
Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend, Carl King, devotes
his life to proving Colin’s innocence. Adapted from This American Life, this is
the incredible true story of their harrowing quest for justice.
Cast: Keith
Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Natalie Paul, Bill Camp, Nestor Carbonell, Amari
Cheatom.
Golden
Exits
Alex Ross
Perry
The arrival
of a young foreign girl disrupts the lives and emotional balances of two
Brooklyn families.
Cast: Emily
Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman,
Chloë Sevigny.
The Hero
Brett Haley
Lee, a
former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden
voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime
achievement award and unexpected news, Lee re-examines his past, while a chance
meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.
Cast: Sam
Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman, Katherine Ross.
I Don’t
Feel At Home In This World Anymore
Macon Blair
When a
depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking
down the thieves, alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find
themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate
criminals.
Cast:
Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, David Yow, Jane Levy, Devon Graye.
DAY ONE
Ingrid Goes
West
Matt Spicer
A young
woman becomes obsessed with an Instagram lifestyle blogger and moves to Los
Angeles to try and befriend her in real life.
Cast:
Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Wyatt Russell, Billy
Magnussen.
Landline
Gillian
Robespierre
Two sisters
come of age in ‘90s New York when they discover their dad’s affair – and it
turns out he’s not the only cheater in the family. Everyone still smokes
inside, no-one has a cell phone and the Jacobs finally connect through lying,
cheating and hibachi.
Cast: Jenny
Slate, John Turturro, Edie Falco, Abby Quinn, Jay Duplass, Finn Wittrock.
Novitiate
Maggie
Betts
In the
early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun
struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
Cast:
Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Julianne Nicholson, Dianna Agron, Morgan Saylor.
Patti Cake$
Geremy
Jasper
Straight
out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, AKA Killa P, AKA Patti Cake$, an
aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an
unlikely quest for glory.
Cast:
Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy
Moriarty.
Roxanne
Roxanne
Michael
Larnell
The most
feared battle emcee in early ’80s NYC was a fierce teenager from the
Queensbridge projects with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At age 14,
hustling the streets to provide for her family, Roxanne Shanté was well on her
way to becoming a hip-hop legend.
Cast:
Chanté Adams, Mahershala Ali, Nia Long, Elvis Nolasco, Kevin Phillips, Shenell
Edmonds.
To The Bone
Marti Noxon
In a
last-ditch effort to battle her severe anorexia, 20-year-old Ellen enters a
group recovery home. With the help of an unconventional doctor, Ellen and the
other residents go on a sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing journey that leads
to the ultimate question – is life worth living?
Cast: Lily
Collins, Keanu Reeves, Carrie Preston, Lili Taylor, Alex Sharp, Liana Liberato.
Walking Out
Alex Smith,
Andrew Smith
A father
and son struggle to connect on any level until a brutal encounter with a
predator in the heart of the wilderness leaves them both seriously injured. If
they are to survive, the boy must carry his father to safety.
Cast: Matt
Bomer, Josh Wiggins, Bill Pullman, Alex Neustaedter, Lily Gladstone.
The Yellow
Birds
Alexandre
Moors
Two young
men enlist in the army and are deployed to fight in the Gulf War. After an
unthinkable tragedy, the surviving soldier struggles to balance his promise of
silence with the truth and a mourning mother’s search for peace.
Cast: Tye
Sheridan, Jack Huston, Alden Ehrenreich, Jason Patric, Toni Collette, Jennifer
Aniston.
U.S.
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
All films
are US nationality and are world premieres unless stated otherwise.
Casting
JonBenet (USA-Australia)
Kitty Green
The
unsolved death of six-year-old American beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey remains
the world’s most sensational child murder case. Over 15 months, responses,
reflections and performances were elicited from the Ramsey’s Colorado hometown
community, creating a bold work of art from the collective memories and
mythologies the crime inspired.
Chasing
Coral
Jeff
Orlowski
Coral reefs
around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers,
photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover
why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world
NEW CLIMATE
City Of
Ghosts
Matthew
Heineman
With
unprecedented access, this documentary follows the extraordinary journey of
“Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” – a group of anonymous citizen
journalists who banded together after their homeland was overtaken by ISIS – as
they risk their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the
world today.
Dina
Dan
Sickles, Antonio Santini
An
eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door- greeter navigate their evolving
relationship in this unconventional love story.
Dolores
Peter Bratt
Dolores
Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by co-founding the country’s first
farmworkers’ union. Wrestling with raising 11 children, gender bias, union
defeat and victory, and nearly dying after a San Francisco Police beating,
Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her newfound feminism with racial
and class justice.
The Force
Pete Nicks
This cinema
verité look at the long-troubled Oakland Police Department goes deep inside
their struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising
following events in Ferguson and an explosive scandal.
ICARUS
Bryan Fogel
When Bryan
Fogel sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting
with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a
geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death and Olympic Gold
– exposing the biggest scandal in sports history.
The New
Radical
Adam Bhala
Lough
Uncompromising
millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the
system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes
game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political
landscape.
NOBODY
SPEAK: Hulk Hogan, Gawker And Trials Of A Free Press
Brian
Knappenberger
The trial
between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media pitted privacy rights against freedom of
the press, and raised important questions about how big money can silence
media. This film is an examination of the perils and duties of the free press
in an age of inequality.
Quest
Jonathan
Olshefski
For over a
decade, this portrait of a North Philadelphia family and the creative sanctuary
offered by their home music studio was filmed with vérité intimacy. The
family’s 10-year journey is an illumination of race and class in America, and
it’s a testament to love, healing and hope.
STEP
Amanda
Lipitz
The senior
year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented,
as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls
strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in
their troubled city.
Strong
Island (USA-Denmark)
Yance Ford
Examining
the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that
allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and
racialised perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake,
challenging us to change.
Trophy
Shaul
Schwarz, co-director Christina Clusiau
This
in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and
wildlife conservation in the US and Africa unravels the complex consequences of
treating animals as commodities.
NEW CLIMATE
Unrest
Jennifer
Brea
When
Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her
bedridden, doctors tell her it’s “all in her head.” Determined to live, she
sets out on a virtual journey to document her story – and four other families’
stories – fighting a disease medicine forgot.
Water &
Power: A California Heist
Marina
Zenovich
In
California’s convoluted water system, notorious water barons find ways to
structure a state-engineered system to their own advantage. This examination
into their centres of power shows small farmers and everyday citizens facing
drought and a new, debilitating groundwater crisis.
NEW CLIMATE
Whose
Streets?
Sabaah
Jordan, co-director Damon Davis
A
nonfiction account of the Ferguson uprising told by the people who lived it,
this is an unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown
inspired a community to fight back – and sparked a global movement.
DAY ONE
WORLD
CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
All are
world premieres unless stated otherwise.
Axolotl
Overkill (Germany)
Helene
Hegemann
Mifti, age
16, lives in Berlin with a cast of characters including her half-siblings;
their rich, self-involved father; and her druggy friend Ophelia. As she mourns
her recently deceased mother, she begins to develop an obsession with Alice, an
enigmatic, and much older, white-collar criminal.
Cast: Jasna
Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, Mavie Hörbiger, Laura Tonke, Hans Löw, Bernhard
Schütz.
Berlin
Syndrome (Australia)
Cate
Shortland
A
passionate holiday romance takes an unexpected and sinister turn when an
Australian photographer wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable
to leave.
Cast:
Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt.
Carpinteros
(Woodpeckers) (Dominican Republic)
José María
Cabral
Julián
finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican
Republic’s Najayo Prison. His romance with fellow prisoner Yanelly must develop
through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.
Cast: Jean
Jean, Judith Rodriguez Perez, Ramón Emilio Candelario.
Don’t
Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! (Brazil- Netherlands-France-Paraguay)
Felipe
Bragança
In this
fable about love and memories, Joca is a 13-year-old Brazilian boy in love with
an indigenous Paraguayan girl. To conquer her love, he must face the violent
region’s war-torn past and the secrets of his elder brother, Fernando, a
motorcycle cowboy.
Cast: Cauã
Reymond, Eduardo Macedo, Adeli Gonzales, Zahy Guajajara, Claudia Assunção, Ney
Matogrosso.
Family Life
(Chile)
Alicia
Scherson, Cristián Jiménez
While
house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a
vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of
the single mother he has just met.
Cast: Jorge
Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, Blanca Lewin, Cristián Carvajal.
Free And
Easy (Hong Kong)
Jun Geng
When a
traveling soap salesman arrives in a desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, and
sets the strange residents against each other with tragi-comic results.
Cast: Gang
Xu, Zhiyong Zhang, Baohe Xue, Benshan Gu, Xun Zhang.
God’s Own
Country (UK)
Francis Lee
Springtime
in Yorkshire: isolated young sheep farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily
frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a
Romanian migrant worker, employed for the lambing season, ignites an intense
relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
Cast: Josh
O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Ian Hart, Gemma Jones.
My Happy
Family (Georgia)
Nana &
Simon
Tbilisi,
Georgia, 2016: In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with
three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana
decides to move out from her parents’ home and live alone. Without her family
and her husband, a journey into the unknown begins.
Cast: Ia
Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava, Tsisia Qumsishvili, Giorgi
Tabidze, Dimitri Oragvelidze.
The Nile
Hilton Incident (Sweden)
Tarik Saleh
In Cairo,
weeks before the 2011 revolution, Police detective Noredin is working in the
infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station when he is handed the case of a murdered
singer. He soon realises that the investigation concerns the power elite, close
to the president’s inner circle.
Cast: Fares
Fares, Mari Malek, Mohamed Yousry, Yasser Ali Maher, Ahmed Selim, Hania Amar.
Pop Aye
(Singapore-Thailand)
Kirsten Tan
On a chance
encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the
streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand
in search of the farm where they grew up together.
Cast:
Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Penpak Sirikul, Bong.
DAY ONE
Sueño En
Otro Idioma (I Dream In Another Language)(Mexico)
Ernesto
Contreras
The last
two speakers of a millennia-old language haven’t spoken in 50 years, when a
young linguist tries to bring them together. Yet hidden in the past, in the
heart of the jungle, lies a secret concerning the fate of the Zikril language.
Cast:
Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, Eligio Meléndez, Manuel Poncelis, Fátima Molina, Juan
Pablo de Santiago, Hoze Meléndez.
The Wound
(South Africa)
John
Trengove
Xolani, a
lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his
community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood. When a defiant
initiate from the city discovers his best-kept secret, a forbidden love, Xolani’s
entire existence begins to unravel.
Cast:
Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay Ncoyini.
WORLD
CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
All are
world premieres unless stated otherwise.
The Good
Postman (Finland-Bulgaria)
Tonislav
Hristov
In a small
Bulgarian village troubled by the ongoing refugee crisis, a local postman runs
for mayor – and learns that even minor deeds can outweigh good intentions.
North
American premiere
In Loco
Parentis (Ireland-Spain)
Neasa Ní
Chianáin, David Rane
John and
Amanda teach Latin, English and guitar at a fantastical stately
home-turned-school. Nearly 50-year careers are drawing to a close for the pair
who have become legends with the mantra: “Reading! ’Rithmetic! Rock ’n’ roll!”
But for pupil and teacher alike, leaving is the hardest lesson.
North
American premiere
It’s Not
Yet Dark (Ireland)
Frankie
Fenton
This is the
incredible story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a young filmmaker who becomes completely
paralysed from motor neurone disease but goes on to direct an award-winning
feature film through the use of his eyes.
International
premiere
Joshua:
Teenager vs. Superpower (USA)
Joe
Piscatella
When the
Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong,
teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to
skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong
Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.
Last Men In
Aleppo (Denmark)
Feras
Fayyad, Steen Johannessen
After five
years of war in Syria, Aleppo’s remaining residents prepare themselves for a
siege. Khalid, Subhi and Mahmoud, founding members of The White Helmets, have
remained in the city to help their fellow citizens – and experience daily life,
death, struggle and triumph in a city under fire.
Machines
(India-Germany-Finland)
Rahul Jain
This
intimate, observant portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic
textile factory in Gujarat, India, moves through the corridors and bowels of
the enormously disorienting structure – taking the viewer on a journey of
dehumanizing physical labour and intense hardship.
North
American premiere.
NEW CLIMATE
Motherland
(USA- Philippines)
Ramona Diaz
The
planet’s busiest maternity hospital is located in one of its poorest and most
populous countries: the Philippines. There, poor women face devastating
consequences as their country struggles with reproductive health policy and the
politics of conservative Catholic ideologies.
Plastic
China (China)
Jiu-liang
Wang
Yi-Jie, an
11-year-old girl, works alongside her parents in a recycling facility while
dreaming of attending school. Kun, the facility’s ambitious foreman, dreams of
a better life. Through the eyes and hands of those who handle its refuse, comes
an examination of global consumption and culture.
International
premiere.
NEW CLIMATE
RUMBLE: The
Indians Who Rocked The World (Canada)
Catherine
Bainbridge
This
powerful documentary about the role of Native Americans in contemporary music
history – featuring some of the greatest music stars of our time – exposes a
critical missing chapter, revealing how indigenous musicians helped shape the
soundtracks of our lives and, through their contributions, influenced popular
culture.
Tokyo Idols
(UK-Canada)
Kyoko
Miyake
This
exploration of Japan’s fascination with girl bands and their music follows an
aspiring pop singer and her fans, delving into the cultural obsession with
young female sexuality and the growing disconnect between men and women in
hypermodern societies.
WINNIE
(France)
Pascale
Lamche
While her
husband served a life sentence, paradoxically kept safe and morally
uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw violence of apartheid, fighting on
the front line and underground. This is the untold story of the mysterious
forces that combined to take her down, labelling him a saint, her, a sinner.
The Workers
Cup (UK)
Adam Sobel
Inside
Qatar’s labour camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities
of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own.
DAY ONE
NEXT
Presented
by Adobe. All films are US nationality and are world premieres unless stated
otherwise.
Columbus
Kogonada
Casey lives
with her mother in a little-known Midwestern town haunted by the promise of
modernism. Jin, a visitor from the other side of the world, attends to his
dying father. Burdened by the future, they find respite in one another and the
architecture that surrounds them.
Cast: John
Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, Michelle Forbes.
Dayveon
Amman
Abbasi
In the wake
of his older brother’s death, 13-year-old Dayveon spends the sweltering summer
days roaming his rural Arkansas town. When he falls in with a local gang, he
becomes drawn to the camaraderie and violence of their world.
Cast: Devin
Blackmon, Kordell “KD” Johnson, Dontrell Bright, Chasity Moore, Lachion
Buckingham, Marquell Manning.
DAY ONE
Deidra
& Laney Rob A Train
Sydney
Freeland
Two teenage
sisters start robbing trains to make ends meet after their single mother’s
emotional meltdown in an electronics store lands her in jail. Cast: Ashleigh
Murray, Rachel Crow, Tim Blake Nelson, David Sullivan, Danielle Nicolet, Sasheer
Zamata.
A Ghost
Story
David
Lowery
This is the
story of a ghost and the house he haunts.
Cast: Casey
Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham, Sonia Acevedo, Rob Zabrecky, Liz Franke.
Gook
Justin Chon
Eli and
Daniel, two Korean-American brothers who own a struggling women’s shoe store,
have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the
1992 LA riots, the trio must defend their store – and contemplate the meaning
of family, their personal dreams and the future.
Cast:
Justin Chon, Simone Baker, David So, Curtiss Cook Jr., Sang Chon, Ben Munoz.
L.A. Times
Michelle
Morgan
In this
classically styled comedy of manners set in Los Angeles, sophisticated
thirtysomethings try to determine whether ideal happiness exists in coupledom
or if the perfectly suited couple is actually just an urban myth.
Cast:
Michelle Morgan, Dree Hemingway, Jorma Taccone, Kentucker Audley, Margarita
Levieva, Adam Shapiro.
Lemon
Janicza
Bravo
A man
watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.
Cast: Brett
Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Nia Long, Shiri Appleby, Fred Melamed.
Menashe
Joshua Z
Weinstein
Within
Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of
his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately
explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
Cast:
Menashe Lustig.
Person To
Person
Dustin Guy
Defa
A record
collector hustles for a big score while his heartbroken roommate tries to erase
a terrible mistake, a teenager bears witness to her best friend’s new
relationship and a rookie reporter, alongside her demanding supervisor, chases
the clues of a murder case involving a life-weary clock shop owner.
Cast: Abbi
Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Philip Baker Hall, Bene Coopersmith,
George Sample III.
Thoroughbred
Cory Finley
Two teenage
girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of
growing apart. In the process, they learn that neither is what she seems to be
– and that a murder might solve both of their problems.
Cast:
Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks, Francie Swift, Kaili
Vernoff.
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