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![]() World Audience Award - Documentary Searching for Sugar ManRodriguez was the greatest ’70s U.S. rock icon who never was.… - Read more | ![]() SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Rodriguez was the greatest ’70s U.S. rock icon who never was. His albums were critically well-received,… - Read more | ![]() Shorts Program IV This is the program guaranteed to leave its audience soul searching. These seven unique and powerful… - Read more |
![]() L L begins with an ode to being a bear and ends with an ode to the sea. What happens in between… - Read more | ![]() THE PERCEPTION OF MOVING TARGETS In this haunting feature, director Weston Currie stages an intervention into habituated and supposedly… - Read more | ![]() Father's Chair Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband,… - Read more |
![]() Corpo Celeste Premiering at the 2011 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Corpo Celeste showcased the talents… - Read more | ![]() The Words Rory Jansen, a struggling writer, aspires to be the next great literary voice. When he discovers a lost… - Read more | ![]() Heart Stop Beating Two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute successfully replaced a dying man's heart with… - Read more |
![]() Odysseus' Gambit During his lifetime, each man plays cosmic chess against the devil. - Read more | ![]() 38–39°C A man enters an old bathhouse where, induced by the intense heat and steam, he relives a memory of his… - Read more | ![]() Dol (First Birthday) A gay Korean American man yearns for a family life that is just out of reach. - Read more |
![]() Rolling on the Floor Laughing Two grown brothers return home for their widowed mother's birthday, only to find themselves competing… - Read more | ![]() The Thing A woman, a transgendered man, and their cat travel toward a mysterious roadside attraction known as… - Read more | ![]() Song of the Spindle In this animated, humorous, and informative conversation between a sperm whale and a man, each tries… - Read more |
![]() The Fort On a rainy day, a young boy builds a fort in the woods when a man appears and offers to help. - Read more | ![]() Dr Breakfast One day at breakfast, a man's soul bursts out of his eyeball. While his soul roams the earth, eating… - Read more | ![]() The Black Balloon While moving 40 kids, all by himself, across six New York City blocks, a stressed man accidentally loses… - Read more |
![]() The Conquerors (Les Conquerants) At the dawn of time, a young man and woman set out to conquer an inhospitable land and transform it… - Read more | ![]() The Movement: One Man Joins an Uprising In 2004 Rick Finkelstein was paralyzed in a ski accident on Aspen Mountain. Six years and nine surgeries… - Read more | ![]() Music Showcase: BMI Snowball BMI invites you to an intimate evening featuring Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee…Donovan.… - Read more |
![]() NEXT Award Winner Sleepwalk With MeI’m going to tell you a story, and it’s true. . . . I always have… - Read more | ![]() Dramatic Audience Award The SurrogateThe quest for love appears insurmountable when a man confined to an iron lung… - Read more | ![]() Price Check Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away… - Read more |
![]() A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC IN FILM A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC IN FILMSaturday, January 21, 8:30 p.m.Sundance Music Café - Read more | ![]() GYPSY DAVY How does a white boy with Alabama roots become a flamenco guitarist in Andalusian boots, and what happens… - Read more | ![]() 2 Days in New York Marion and Mingus live cozily—perhaps too cozily—with their cat and two young children from previous… - Read more |
![]() Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie but squander every dime, and the sinister Schlaaang… - Read more | ![]() ME @THE ZOO_ ME @ THE ZOO tells the fascinating modern tale of Chris Crocker, a video blogger from a small… - Read more | ![]() The Last Elvis In the unique world of the Buenos Aires celebrity-impersonator scene, “Elvis” Gutiérrez is a star.… - Read more |
![]() Sleepwalk With Me I’m going to tell you a story, and it’s true. . . . I always have to tell people that. - Read more | ![]() Wish You Were Here Expectant parents Alice and Dave join Alice’s younger sister, Steph, and her new boyfriend, Jeremy,… - Read more | ![]() I AM NOT A HIPSTER Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd… - Read more |
![]() Love Free or Die In June 2003, the Episcopal Church in New Hampshire came under fire when it became the first to elect… - Read more | ![]() Teddy Bear In the opening moments of Teddy Bear, a colossal, laconic man tries and fails, over shrimp cocktail,… - Read more | ![]() Pursuit of Loneliness After an elderly hospital patient dies, a nurse tries unsuccessfully to contact the next of kin. Later,… - Read more |
![]() GOATS Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father means 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown… - Read more | ![]() Four Suns Jára lives in a cramped apartment with his wife, Jana, their toddler, and Véna, his teenage son from… - Read more | ![]() The Surrogate The quest for love appears insurmountable when a man confined to an iron lung determines, at age 38,… - Read more |
![]() LUV Woody, an adorable 11-year-old boy awaiting the return of his missing mother, lives with his grandmother… - Read more | ![]() Monsieur Lazhar We are thrilled to show the work of Québécois filmmaker Philippe Falardeau for the first time at… - Read more | ![]() Eastman Kodak Presents: Shooting S16 for Low Budget Features Stay on film and stay on budget. Join Kodak and independent filmmakers for a discussion about the beauty,… - Read more |
![]() Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Award We are pleased to announce two winners this year Robot… - Read more | ![]() UNA HORA POR FAVORA A woman hires a day laborer for an hour and gets more than she bargained for. - Read more | ![]() Shorts Program II Shorts Program II spotlights our basic human need for connection in all its forms. But don’t worry;… - Read more |
![]() Documentary Spotlight From troubled families to illnesses, from learning survival skills to climbing insurmountable peaks,… - Read more | ![]() Sundance Music Cafe: Night Sessions - FILM MUSIC REMIX FILM MUSIC REMIX Monday, January 23, 2012 8pm 751 Main St. A limited number… - Read more | ![]() Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Ai Weiwei is known for many things—great architecture, subversive in-your-face art, and political… - Read more |
![]() Shorts Award Winners Shorts Awards presented by Yahoo!Short Film Grand Jury Prize Fishing Without Nets - Read more | ![]() China Heavyweight In southwestern China, state athletic coaches scour the countryside to recruit poor, rural teenagers… - Read more | ![]() Robot & Frank Set sometime in the future, Robot & Frank is a delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and,… - Read more |
![]() It's All in the Story It is a common refrain that the Democratic Party has not been able to tell its story, or that the environmental… - Read more | ![]() California Solo Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular… - Read more | ![]() Power of Story: "In The Beginning . . ." Writers may not always have the last word, but they do have the first. Whether it’s theatre, film,… - Read more |
![]() Meet Mr. Toilet For those without access to a simple toilet, poop can be poison. Businessman-turned-sanitation-superhero… - Read more | ![]() West of Memphis For many people, the case of the West Memphis Three has become synonymous with wrongful conviction.… - Read more | ![]() Power of Story: How Docs Changed Change Over the course of the independent film movement, there’s been a major transformation in the landscape… - Read more |
![]() To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given Animator/artist Brent Green breathes three-dimensional life into his signature nervously sweet, line-drawn… - Read more | ![]() The Cloud of Unknowing The boundary between viewer and art dissolves in Ho Tzu Nyen’s sublime work, The Cloud of Unknowing.… - Read more | ![]() The House I Live In Eugene Jarecki’s seminal film Why We Fight dissected the underbelly of the American war machine.… - Read more |
![]() Documentary Grand Prize The House I Live InEugene Jarecki’s seminal film Why We Fight dissected the underbelly… - Read more | ![]() Late Night at New Frontier On Wednesday, January 25, the entire New Frontier exhibit of 3-D, interactive, and conceptual installations… - Read more | ![]() Frozen Stories (Opowieści z chłodni) The two worst employees of the supermarket are ordered to find a goal for their lives. - Read more |
![]() Reality Bites Lainie just graduated from college as valedictorian, but she’s already disenchanted with life. Only… - Read more | ![]() LAY THE FAVORITE Beth Raymer is a beautiful girl with a big heart who leaves her dancing job at a Florida strip club… - Read more | ![]() Sound Thinking Filmmakers routinely conceive of sound in limited terms—a supporting role in the visual medium, and… - Read more |
![]() Smashed Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… - Read more | ![]() My Brother the Devil Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes… - Read more | ![]() Beasts of the Southern Wild Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in “the Bathtub,” a southern… - Read more |
![]() Special Event: Social Hour For the first time ever, New Frontier hosts an open house with the artists/filmmakers. See their work,… - Read more | ![]() Dramatic Grand Prize Winner Beasts of the Southern WildHushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father,… - Read more | ![]() The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia skillfully explores the complex and often challenging world… - Read more |
![]() ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare Our healthcare system is broken. Potent forces fight to maintain the status quo in a medical industry… - Read more | ![]() Famous Person Talent Agency: Pearls of Asia Jackie Diamond is a luckless talent agent who never stops dreaming. He believes in show business, so… - Read more | ![]() The Law in These Parts “This film is not about the people who broke the law, but about those entrusted with the law,” says… - Read more |
![]() Barbie Blues When suburban teenager Mika finds a disturbing creature in her swimming pool, she asks her neighbor… - Read more | ![]() BONES BRIGADE: An Autobiography Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to… - Read more | ![]() For Ellen After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby (Paul Dano) has a special meeting—with lawyers and his… - Read more |
![]() Sundance Music Cafe: Night Sessions Introducing select evenings of official Festival music programming. A limited number of free tickets… - Read more | ![]() Indie Game: The Movie With the twenty-first century comes a new breed of struggling independent artist: the indie game designer.… - Read more | ![]() Hello I Must Be Going Divorced and demoralized Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with… - Read more |
![]() Can Loving Istanbul couple Ayşe and Cemal need only a child to complete their life together, but they cannot… - Read more | ![]() Shadow Dancer Growing up in a Republican family in 1970s Belfast, Collette McVeigh’s childhood is shattered, and… - Read more | ![]() Meaning of Robots Mike Sullivan has been shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his apartment for the past 10 years.… - Read more |
![]() Surveillant It's another quiet summer day in Park Dufresne. The neighborhood youth loiter until a new park monitor… - Read more | ![]() Excision Pauline isn’t your typical teen. She picks scabs, dissects road kill, and fantasizes about performing… - Read more | ![]() Valley of Saints Widely considered to be the crown jewel of Kashmir, Dal Lake is a sprawling aquatic community where… - Read more |
![]() Moving the Masses What is a movement made of? We live in an age when, for the first time in history, millions of people… - Read more | ![]() Daughters of the Dust Julie Dash’s vibrant tribute to her Gullah ancestors is a celebration of their unique traditions and… - Read more | ![]() The Wide World of Wit Comedy is king—and queen—at this year’s festival. A bumper crop of boundary-pushing indie comedies… - Read more |
![]() Safety Not Guaranteed Safety Not GuaranteedThree magazine employees are sent to investigate a personal advertisement… - Read more | ![]() Your Sister's Sister Lynn Shelton first came to the Festival in 2009 with Humpday. We are thrilled to show her… - Read more | ![]() Violeta Went to Heaven Like a Chilean Edith Piaf or Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra was a folksinger and pop culture icon whose songs,… - Read more |
![]() Nobody Walks Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the pool house of a family… - Read more | ![]() New Frontier Shorts The New Frontier short film program stretches the possibilities of moving pictures, providing a visceral… - Read more | ![]() The New Social Pollinators In the world of social media and content creation, innovation and authenticity have made audiences for… - Read more |
![]() Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe: Day 1 Friday, January 20–Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.751 Main St., Park City - Read more | ![]() Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe: Day 7 Friday, January 20-Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.751 Main St., Park City - Read more | ![]() Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe: Day 8 Friday, January 20-Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.751 Main St., Park City - Read more |
![]() Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe: Day 5 Friday, January 20-Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.751 Main St., Park City - Read more | ![]() Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe: Day 4 Friday, January 20-Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.751 Main St., Park City - Read more | ![]() Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe: Day 6 Friday, January 20-Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.751 Main St., Park City - Read more |
![]() Shorts Program V Welcome to the edge of cinema. Shorts Program V will make your jaw drop. Here you will find extreme… - Read more | ![]() Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe: Day 3 Friday, January 20-Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.751 Main St., Park CityThe… - Read more | ![]() Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe: Day 2 Friday, January 20-Friday, January 27, 1:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.751 Main St., Park CityThe… - Read more |
![]() Roundtable Discussion: Music and Film, the Creative Process Produced by BMIOpen to all Festival credential holders and the general public as space permits. - Read more | ![]() Control Factor Disaster scenarios in cinema go something like this: with scientific understanding comes the ability… - Read more | ![]() World Doc Jury Prize The Law in These Parts“This film is not about the people who broke the law, but about… - Read more |
![]() Question Bridge: Black Males Dissolving the distinctions among subject, audience, and author, the visionary transmedia project Question… - Read more | ![]() Celebrating Stories of Change Global issues demand innovative solutions, and documentary film is increasingly showcasing the unprecedented… - Read more | ![]() Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award Three magazine employees are sent to investigate a personal advertisement placed in the newspaper: guy… - Read more |
![]() ½ REVOLUTION January 2011—downtown Cairo—a close-knit group of activist friends struggle to stay alive and stick… - Read more | ![]() ABACUS Riding the wave of TED talk fanaticism and armed with the latest wizardry in media technology and data… - Read more | ![]() World Audience Award - Dramatic Valley of SaintsWidely considered to be the crown jewel of Kashmir, Dal Lake is a sprawling… - Read more |
![]() Hunger in Los Angeles Former Newsweek correspondent Nonny de la Peña is developing a groundbreaking brand of journalism… - Read more | ![]() World Dramatic Grand Prize Violeta Went to HeavenLike a Chilean Edith Piaf or Bob Dylan, Violeta Parra was a folksinger… - Read more | ![]() The Other Dream Team In 1992 the United States sent the Dream Team to the Olympic Games in Barcelona. Considered the greatest… - Read more |
![]() The End of Love Mark is a struggling actor stuck between the life he once knew and the one waiting for him. When the… - Read more | ![]() The First Time Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey,… - Read more | ![]() Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramović has been redefining performance art for nearly… - Read more |
![]() Chasing Ice When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate… - Read more | ![]() 5 Broken Cameras Five broken cameras—and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains… - Read more | ![]() That's What She Said Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is… - Read more |
![]() 28 HOTEL ROOMS While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find… - Read more | ![]() ETHEL It would have satisfied even the most voracious history buffs if Rory Kennedy, youngest child of Robert… - Read more | ![]() Under African Skies Paul Simon’s historic Graceland album sold millions of copies and united cultures, yet divided… - Read more |
![]() Madrid, 1987 On a hot summer day in Madrid during a significant year of social and political transition in Spain,… - Read more | ![]() The Comedy Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson has been insulated his… - Read more | ![]() The Atomic States of America Based on Kelly McMasters’s memoir about growing up in a nuclear-reactor community, this stirring film… - Read more |
![]() KID-THING On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and… - Read more | ![]() BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* In April 2009, Swedish filmmakers Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangård learned that the world premiere… - Read more | ![]() An Oversimplification of Her Beauty You've just arrived home after a bad day. You're broke and lonely, even though you live in the biggest… - Read more |
![]() Liberal Arts Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him.… - Read more | ![]() How to Survive a Plague Faced with their own mortality, an improbable group of mostly HIV-positive young men and women broke… - Read more | ![]() Young & Wild Daniela is a petite, pretty teenager raised in the bosom of a strict and well-to-do evangelical family… - Read more |
![]() Filly Brown “Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who spits from the… - Read more | ![]() About the Pink Sky Izumi, a headstrong high-school girl with a cheerfully cynical outlook—she routinely “rates” the… - Read more | ![]() We're Not Broke With the United States in the grip of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression and an… - Read more |
![]() V/H/S When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage… - Read more | ![]() Finding North America has lost its way in taking care of its own. The shocking fact is that one in six Americans doesn’t… - Read more | ![]() The Invisible War Casualties of war rage beyond the battlefield. As ranks of women in the American military swell, so… - Read more |
![]() Oslo, August 31st We are pleased to welcome back Joachim Trier to the Festival. His first feature, Reprise,… - Read more | ![]() The Raid Gareth Huw Evans first introduced the electrifying Indonesian martial art of silat to audiences… - Read more | ![]() For A Good Time, Call . . . College ‟frenemies” Lauren and Katie move in together after losing a relationship and rent control,… - Read more |
![]() Predisposed Piano prodigy Eli Smith has talent to burn, but he is constantly derailed by his troubled mother, whose… - Read more |








































































































































