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The reigning queen of SXSW is feeling the 'pressure': 'Did they like that?'

As Parker Posey was to Sundance in the '90s and Greta Gerwig to SXSW in the mid-aughts, no one embodies the current sensibility of the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival quite like Rachel Sennott. With a persona that is ditzy but knowing, somehow earnestly cynical, tuned in but…

Los Angeles Times

'All That Breathes': The Indian documentary flying high at film festivals

After winning top prizes at Cannes and Sundance, "All That Breathes" is now shortlisted for an Academy Award for best documentary. Indian director Shaunak Sen tells us about this poetic exploration of kinship and environmental protection, as we follow Nadeem and Saud, two brothers saving the birds of prey falling…

France 24

Sundance 2023: Fiction Films of Note

In the third of a four-part survey, our film critic CJ Sheu reviews four more narrative films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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Hits, misses and deals: what can we learn from this year’s Sundance?

A return to in-person premieres for the Utah-based festival saw big money acquisitions and the start of some Oscar campaigns

The Guardian - US

For film lovers, Sundance matters as much as ever. Here are 19 (more) reasons why

PARK CITY, Utah — The 2023 Sundance Film Festival came to a close Sunday, capping the festival’s first in-person edition since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020. Los Angeles Times film reporter Mark Olsen and film critic Justin Chang sat down to discuss what they saw and liked…

Los Angeles Times

Sundance online: 'Fair Play' and other festival picks to watch at home

The Sundance Fim Festival is a mad dash of snow-covered sidewalks, last minute ticketing and buzzy theaters packed with hyped-up moviegoers, a rite of passage for any true film lover.

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Psychological thrillers 'Fair Play' and 'Magazine Dreams' jolt Sundance competition to life

PARK CITY, Utah — For the seasoned Sundance-goer, returning to this film festival for the first time since January 2020 can feel like a half-comforting, half-disorienting resumption of familiar rituals. Aside from the occasional masked face peeking out from the usual parka-and-beanie ensemble, you almost might be able to convince…

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Iranian Women Take Center Stage at Sundance Film Festival

Movies by and about Iranian women took center stage at the Sundance film festival this weekend, as diaspora filmmakers reflected on female-led protests and the deadly challenges of censorship and resistance in their ancestral home. "Joonam," a documentary about a three-generation family of Iranian women now living in Vermont, and…

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Brett Kavanaugh documentary reveals new witness testimony of alleged sexual assault

The new revelation is featured in the documentary Justice, which debuted on Friday at the Sundance Film Festival

The Independent UK

‘I hope this triggers outrage’: surprise Brett Kavanaugh documentary premieres at Sundance

Covertly-made Justice, from director Doug Liman, shows to sold-out audience and shines new light on allegations of sexual assault

The Guardian - US

Friendship lies behind Sundance comedy ‘Theater Camp’

There is quite a bit of history between the team behind “Theater Camp,” a loving satire of musical theater kids and their teachers that premieres Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival

The Independent UK

6 movies to make time for at this year's Sundance Film Festival

Three years have passed since some of us last set foot in Park City, Utah, where the Sundance Film Festival has been on COVID-mandated hiatus — at least as an in-person event — since January 2020. Not that the festival has exactly hibernated in the meantime: In 2021 and 2022,…

Los Angeles Times

Coming home to Detroit led filmmaker Qasim Basir back to Sundance

DETROIT — When he was in his 20s, Qasim Basir was running around Detroit making movies and selling them at local liquor stores.

Tribune News Service

Sundance Film Festival: Our selection of the festival’s most anticipated films

Here are the films to keep your eye on, as the major festival is just around the corner

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SXSW Film and TV Festival to take flight with ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’

With awards season kicking into high gear and Sundance about a week away, the South by Southwest Film and TV Festival released its initial program lineup on Wednesday. This year’s festival, running March 10 to 18, will open with “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” a fantasy-adventure tale, based on…

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Two SA films to be shown at prestigious Sundance Film Festival

South Australian-made Run Rabbit Run and Talk to Me are among four Australian films that will be shown at the prestigious festival.

The Guardian - US

Sundance 2023: Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus lead lineup

After cancelling in-person events for the 2022 edition, the Utah-based festival will return to physical premieres for the first time since 2020

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Birds fall to Earth from Delhi's toxic skies. Two brothers are there to save them

Named the best documentary at Sundance and Cannes, All That Breathes explores the mission of two Muslim brothers: saving a raptor cut down by smog and deadly kite strings.

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‘Flee’ didn’t win an Oscar, but its refugee story couldn’t be more timely

Embedded in every hand-drawn line of the animated documentary “Flee” is a poignantly unfiltered humanism that has galvanized viewers worldwide. Spotlighting a young Afghan man crossing borders to find a safe haven, this portrait based on a real-life story combats the superficial tropes around refugee stories with profound curiosity for…

The Independent UK

10 movies you'll want to see from the Sundance Film Festival

Dispatches from the Sundance Film Festival are usually accompanied by descriptions of the looming mountains, snowy premieres and frantic bus shuttles

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Nanny,’ ‘Exiles,’ ‘Navalny’ among Top Sundance Winners

A drama about an undocumented nanny in New York City, a documentary about three exiled dissidents from Tiananmen Square and another doc about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny won top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. Winners were announced Friday evening in a virtual ceremony. “Nanny,” from writer-director Nikyatu Jusu…

Los Angeles Times

Virtual Sundance. Weak box office. Is streaming the only hope for indie film?

LOS ANGELES — Film financier Jason Cloth has taken some gambles during his Hollywood career. For starters, he backed Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation."

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