This dialogue-free film about an execution describes what happens when the system becomes more important than human life. »

The CurseFatine has ventured far from the village to meet her older lover. When a small boy catches her, all she wants to do is go home. Black MetalAfter a career spent mining… »

Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink… »

The humdrum daily routine of a tram conductress is jolted when the vibrations and rhythm of the road turn her on and take her on an erotic and surrealistic fantasy journey. »

Since its North American debut at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, The Gatekeepers has inspired passionate debate. Its insider view of Israeli national security… »

Focusing attention on important causes and getting people to take action are not easy tasks in our media-saturated modern world. Creating social change in the future will… »

While he is attending Columbia University in 1944, the young Allen Ginsberg’s life is turned upside down when he sets eyes on Lucien Carr, an impossibly cool and boyishly… »

It’s the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. We have fundamentally changed the rules of the game and the rules of engagement.… »

In 2011, seemingly overnight, Occupy captured the imagination of our nation—and the world. The sweeping story of the birth of a movement, 99%—The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative… »

Scheduled Performances 9:30 Dustin O'Halloran 10:30 Emily Wells 11:30 Will Bates (of Fall On Your Sword) KCRW DJ Chris Douridas KCRW DJ Jason Bentley For the first time,… »

To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become iconic outlaws and the new models of fame and success. They represent a pathway… »

When Salma, a young Muslim girl in a south Indian village, was 13 years old, her family locked her up for 25 years, forbidding her to study and forcing her into marriage.… »

You know who you are—don’t ever doubt yourself.—Erma Hill to her daughter, AnitaOn October 11, 1991, a poised young law professor sent shock waves through the nation… »

Scheduled Performances 9:30 KCRW DJ Liza Richardson 10:30 KCRW DJ Mathieu Schreyer 11:30 KCRW DJ Jason Bentley) For the first time, KCRW DJs descend on Park City and take… »

The Blackhouse Foundation along with FOX Audience Strategy, Fox Searchlight, and FOX Broadcasting Company present a vibrant discussion about the dynamics and power of casting… »

Scheduled Performances 9:30 Lili Haydn 10:30 Andrew Bird KCRW DJ Dan WilcoxKCRW DJ Anne Litt Anne Litt For the first time, KCRW DJs descend on Park City and take part in… »

Rap artist Yung Jake is Net art incarnate, flowing lyrics about tweet culture, datamoshing, hashtags, and memes as he blows up on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, and Instagram. »

Just one year ago, Canon introduced the Cinema EOS line of professional digital cinema cameras, offering storytellers a new set of tools for capturing compelling visuals… »

Although K2 is only the second-highest peak in the world, it is renowned as the most dangerous and revered by mountaineers as their ultimate challenge. In August 2008, 18… »

FeralA solitary hunter finds a wild boy in the woods and brings him back to civilization. Alienated by his strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same… »

While O. J. Simpson stands trial and a big beef brews between Tupac and Biggie, Al Jolson’s great-great-grandson Jolie Jolson reaches for a dream he will never achieve.… »

On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When… »

Until the Quiet ComesShot in the Nickerson Gardens housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles, this film deals with themes of violence, camaraderie, and spirituality through… »

It all started on a family vacation. In 2006, the 25-year-old, vital, handsome, talented Jason DaSilva was on a beach with his family when, suddenly, he fell down and couldn’t… »

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 lifted a century-long ban on restricted corporate election spending, unleashing a new era of unbridled special-interest… »

Lovelorn and lonely Benjamin lives on the blurry borderline between fantasy and reality. »

Karaoke!On a night out in New York City, a young man tries to avoid his problems. The DateTino’s manhood is put to the test in front of two women when he has to host a… »

Oscar Grant was a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who loved his friends, was generous to strangers, and had a hard time telling the truth to the mother of his beautiful daughter.… »

Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.—Elie WieselIn 1963, the landmark Supreme Court decision Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed… »

Maya Beiser: Time LoopsMonday, January 219:00 p.m.–midnightFeaturing an opening performance by Yotam Silberstein. http://yotammusic.com/Music Café Maya Beiser, dubbed… »

On a night out in New York City, a young man tries to avoid his problems. »

Chad Hartigan’s moving second feature has an air of simplicity but proves a subtle meditation on friendship, faith, and human connection.In his fifties, Martin Bonner leaves… »

A personal crisis sends Augusta, a young Italian woman, far from home on a search for faith and meaning in her life. True to her devout Catholic background, she decides to… »

On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, America’s public enemy number one, was killed by Navy SEALs in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The raid, a watershed moment that gripped… »

David has it all figured out. His plan—more a Steinbeckian dream—is to spend his summer working on an apple farm in Oregon with his best friend, Jennifer. When she bails… »

Three immigrant window cleaners risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers. Paraíso reveals the danger of their job and what they see… »

In 1996, the development of antiretroviral drug therapies may not have cured AIDS, but the breakthrough made the disease treatable—if patients could afford the hefty price… »

Provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, this juried award is presented to the writer and director of an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as… »

In 1976, college dropout Steve Jobs heralded a revolution within the confines of his parents’ garage. Jobs, along with friend and technical wizard Steve Wozniak, unleashed… »

A man in prison, a wife carrying on a new life, a mother getting older: three lives connected and warped by a single event. As fortysomething Pierre is serving a 14-year… »

Multitalented musician Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and Nirvana fronts a mission to resurrect the rapidly vanishing human touch behind the creation of music. When Sound… »

The goal of accumulating all human knowledge in one repository has been a dream since ancient times. Only recently, however, has that dream become a reality. Quietly and… »

Blue Caprice is inspired by the Beltway sniper attacks during which two men, John Muhammed and Lee Malvo, conducted a siege of terror on the Washington, D.C., area. Their… »

Life is a constant struggle for a husband and wife. She is suffering from stomach pain, and the doctor has no clue about a cure. Meanwhile, her husband is on his own journey… »

A most unusual love story unravels when the objects in a young man's pockets come to life. »

Carter has spent much of his life mediating fights between his acrimoniously divorced, ill-behaved mother and father and taking on the role of designated authority figure… »

Big Sur focuses on a moment in Jack Kerouac’s life when, overwhelmed by the success of his opus On the Road and struggling with alcoholism, he retreats to his publisher… »

Jim White is an average American family man, mostly content to exist within his humdrum reality. At the tail end of a theme park vacation with his loving wife and two beautiful… »

Set during the 1948 Jeju Massacre in Korea, Jiseul tells the story of some 120 villagers who hid in a cave for 60 days from soldiers who were under shoot-to-kill orders.… »

On the outskirts of Lima, a young prostitute tends to his father, a fallen-from-grace artisan. However, the young man feels that his efforts are never enough. He tries to… »

Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking… »

May has it all—a celebrated book, a sophisticated New York life, and a terrific fiancé to match. But when she heads to Amman, Jordan, to arrange her wedding, she lands… »

Saturday, January 19, 3:00 p.m.Egyptian Theatre, Park City#PowerofStoryTicket requiredEdgy stories, complex characters, distinctive voices, and formal freedom…these were… »

Rap artist Yung Jake is Net art incarnate, flowing lyrics about tweet culture, datamoshing, hashtags, and memes as he blows up on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, and Instagram… »

A comedic, satirical, sci-fi pop musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists, #PostModem is the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with technological… »

Circles unfolds as a triptych, exploring the moral convolutions and complex story strands that emerge from one fateful moment.Marco, a Serbian soldier on leave during the… »

Audience Awards are bestowed upon films based on the results of ballots cast by Festivalgoers at the theatres after screenings. Audience Awards are presented to films in… »

BMI invites you to an intimate evening of music featuring some of its most celebrated singer/songwriters. Historically this music event has partnered inspiring up-and-comers… »

AntiVJ artists Yannick Jacquet, Mandril, and Thomas Vaquiée blend painting with light projection to transform the walls of New Frontier into a luminous, three-dimensional… »

Sutter Keely lives in the now. It’s a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he’s the life of the party, loves his job at a men’s clothing… »

Audience Awards are bestowed upon films based on the results of ballots cast by Festivalgoers at the theatres after screenings. Audience Awards are presented to films in… »

Audience Awards are bestowed upon films based on the results of ballots cast by Festivalgoers at the theatres after screenings. Audience Awards are presented to films in… »

This eye-popping, yet intimate, story of U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce uses years of vérité footage to expose the excitement and appeal, as well as the high stakes,… »

Audience Awards are bestowed upon films based on the results of ballots cast by Festivalgoers at the theatres after screenings. Audience Awards are presented to films in… »

Rap artist Yung Jake is Net art incarnate, flowing lyrics about tweet culture, datamoshing, hashtags, and memes as he blows up on Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, and Instagram… »

A veteran of the inaugural 2007 edition of New Frontier, Ricardo Rivera and the Klip Collective return to Sundance to transform the entire front of the New Frontier venue… »

#TakeAStand, 550 Main St., 2nd FloorBehavioral research tells us that people who are called upon to act are less inclined to do so if they are part of a large group. But… »

The increasing demand for in-home theatre-quality viewing requires technology that can meet the power and performance needed to deliver on filmmakers' visions. During this… »

#WomenWorkforce, 550 Main St. - 2nd FloorIf women comprise 50 percent of the labor force, why are only 2 to 5 percent of directors helming top Hollywood movies female? This… »

#Digillusion When a digital version of Tupac Shakur did a surprise performance at Coachella, people lost their minds…then rushed to tweet about it (of course). Digital… »

#NeedToKnow, 550 Main St. - 2nd FloorWhether covering ground wars, drug wars, or a war on terror, journalists undertake enormous risks to uphold Americans’ right to know… »

#OutOfTheBox, 550 Main St. - 2nd FloorIt’s hard to depict the dawn of the digital era without some nostalgia or even loss of innocence. That watershed moment unleashed… »

#LifeArtImitation, 550 Main St., 2nd FloorIn fiction and documentary, filmmakers wrestle with the means of expressing truth, often the truths that derive from real life,… »

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s beautifully resonant interactive media installation swaths the central lounge of New Frontier with images of the warm, breathing flesh of its visitors.… »

Presented by Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan FoundationTuesday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City#SloanTicket requiredEver since Méliès shot… »

North of South, West of East enhances narrative storytelling by wrapping the film around the entire room. Presented in a 20-seat theatre with swivel chairs, Meredith Danluck’s… »

Friday, January 25, 3:00 p.m.Egyptian Theatre#PowerofStoryTicket requiredCinema history without music is unimaginable. Even during the silent era, movie theatres were hardly… »

Julian Assange. Bradley Manning. Collateral murder. Cablegate. WikiLeaks. These people and terms have exploded into public consciousness by fundamentally changing the way… »

A person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a particular region, nation, or state. Stuart Hall, one of the most preeminent… »

In her feature directorial debut, Kalyanee Mam, the cinematographer for the Academy Award–winning documentary Inside Job, explores the damage rapid development has wrought… »

This captivating epic premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight program. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyup has created a roller coaster of brutal intensity… »

Abby is a fortysomething, wealthy, married, lesbian housewife who—after getting smacked in the head by her son’s baseball—walks around every corner of her suburban… »

The 2008 earthquake in China utterly destroyed not only physical structures but also human lives in mountain cities like Beichuan. Through the gracefully interwoven stories… »

Heralding a bold new voice in British genre filmmaking, Ben Wheatley’s third feature continues his recent tear of pitch-black comedies full of violent repercussions (Kill… »

Against the backdrop of the American Old West, newlyweds Miguel and Sarah struggle to make a living cultivating their small patch of land. Soon a much bigger struggle arises… »

In the winter of 2011, after a controversial election, Vladimir Putin was reinstalled as president of Russia. In response, hundreds of thousands of citizens rose up all over… »

We meet Celine and Jesse nine years after their last rendezvous. Almost two decades have passed since their first encounter on a train bound for Vienna, and we now find them… »

Lyle and Nina are in love—with each other and with getting high, but not necessarily in that order. Wafting through aimless days in New York smoking weed whenever possible,… »

Someone is attacking big corporate CEOs and forcing them to consume harmful products they manufacture. An elite private intelligence firm is called into action and contracts… »

A gripping tale of love, lust, and the power of friendship, Two Mothers charts the unconventional and passionate affairs embarked upon by two lifelong friends, Lil and Roz,… »

Twenty-three years after screening her first feature, Sweetie, in Park City, Jane Campion returns to the Sundance Film Festival with Top of the Lake, a chilling six-hour… »

Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank’s, attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for… »

Kris is derailed from her life when she is drugged by a small-time thief. But something bigger is going on. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that… »

Jon Martello objectifies everything in his life: his apartment, his car, his family, his church, and, of course, women. His buddies even call him Don Jon because of his ability… »

The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting youth to audition for her film. Facing the camera, the hopefuls confess their… »

Actor/director Sarah Polley previously attended the Sundance Film Festival as a filmmaker with her shorts Don’t Think Twice and I Shout Love and her first feature film,… »

In Jeremy Lovering’s chilling debut, a young couple fights to survive one night-turned-nightmare. Driving to a music festival, Tom and Lucy have plans to stay at a countryside… »

A sarcastic, self-aware character in a video game, Sgt. Books, becomes frustrated by the screwy logic of his universe: the pointless battles, superpowerful bosses, and an… »

Upon release from prison, a solitary man known only as “the Rambler” embarks on a mysterious journey en route to reconnecting with his long-lost brother. Traversing treacherous… »

Direct from the Cannes Film Festival, consummate storyteller Jeff Nichols, whose Take Shelter premiered to great acclaim at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, returns to Park… »

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they… »

Diana, a young, attractive teacher at a suburban Texas high school, is well-liked by her students and colleagues. Her life seems to be following the status quo, but in reality… »

Hailed as one of the most distinguished families in American literature, the Hemingways have always exposed both their bright brilliance and their harrowing secrets. Two-time… »

Expectant couple Jack and Vanessa move into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans—a house with a deadly demonic curse. When things soon spiral out of control, it’ll… »

Obeying the last wish of his deceased mother, young American Charlie travels to Eastern Europe with no plans. He lands in a truly unknown place—wilder, weirder, and more… »

When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, Maryland, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems… »

August 3, 2010, Pima County, Arizona—Deep in the sun-blistered Sonora desert beneath a cicada tree, border police discover a decomposing male body. Lifting a tattered T-shirt,… »

Leigh, a whip-smart former valedictorian on the verge of 30, is living a seemingly perfect life in New York. When her work aspirations and love life suddenly come crashing… »

Kate and Chloe have been best friends since childhood, when they both tied for dead last in their hometown beauty pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York… »

The WhistleMarcin, a lowest-leagues football referee who lives in a small town near Krakow, dreams of better times. At his mother’s urging, he decides to change his life… »

A seemingly wholesome and benevolent family, the Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank rules the roost with a… »

In February 2012, an entire nation of basketball fans unexpectedly went “Linsane.” Stuck in the mire of a disappointing season, the New York Knicks did what no other… »

Photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was always searching for the humanity within wartime conflict, as evidenced in his award-winning body of work. When he and… »

Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto… »

Even though the walls are crumbling around Fanni’s opulent lifestyle, one could never tell due to her poker face and unflappable etiquette. No longer moved by the beautiful… »

Emanuel, an acerbic but sensitive teen, lives with her father and stepmother. She’s on the verge of another birthday—a day she has never cared for since her mother died… »

During a sweltering summer in New York City, 14-year-old Mister’s hard-living mother is apprehended by the police, leaving the boy and nine-year-old Pete alone to forage… »

Pablo Larrain is at the forefront of a growing wave of thrilling Chilean directors. His latest film, No, wowed festivalgoers at Cannes, Toronto, and New York and establishes… »

When her parents die in a car accident, adolescent Bianca’s universe is upended. Staying alone in the family’s Rome apartment and entrusted with the care of her younger… »

Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although… »

From storyboard to distribution, the proliferation of digital technology is changing the way filmmakers create high-quality productions, redefining how movies are made. This… »