Sundance Film Festival Articles

Joel Edgerton, Wish You Were Here WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION 4 Suns / Czech Republic (Director/screenwriter: Bohdan Sláma) — Immature Fogi attempts to straighten up and accept his responsibilities as a new husband and father, as well as role model to his troubled son from a previous relationship, but finds himself unable to change his nature, leaving him to watch haplessly as his family begins [...]

Sam Pollard's Slavery by Another Name CHASING ICE, DETROPIA: Sundance 2012 U.S. Documentary Competition U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION (cont.) The Invisible War / U.S.A. (Director: Kirby Dick) — An investigative and powerfully emotional examination of the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the U.S. military, the institutions that cover up its existence and the profound personal and social consequences that arise from it. Marina Abramovi? The [...]

Jeff Orlowski's Chasing Ice U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION I The world premieres of 16 American documentary films. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry / U.S.A., China (Director: Alison Klayman) — Renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has garnered international attention as much for his ambitious artwork as his political provocations and increasingly public clashes with the Chinese government. The Atomic States of America / U.S.A. (Directors: Don [...]

Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass in Colin Trevorrow's Safety Not Guaranteed Sundance 2012 Movies: THE END OF LOVE, KEEP THE LIGHTS ON/U.S. Dramatic Competition U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION (Part II) Hello I Must Be Going / U.S.A. (Director: Todd Louiso, Screenwriter: Sarah Koskoff) — Divorced, childless, demoralized and condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35, Amy Minsky's prospects look bleak – [...]