Narrative
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| '71 |
'71
Director: Yann Demange
Cast: Jack O'Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer,
Sean Harris, Barry Keoghan, Martin McCann
Official Synopsis: ‘71 takes place over a
single night in the life of a young British soldier accidentally abandoned by
his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell
friend from foe, he must survive the night alone and find his way to safety.
Brooklyn
Director: John Crowley
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen,
Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent
Official Synopsis: 1950s Ireland: Eilis must confront
a terrible dilemma — a heartbreaking choice between two men and two countries,
between duty and true love.
Digging for Fire
Director: Joe Swanberg
Cast: Jake Johnson, Rosemarie Dewitt, Orlando Bloom,
Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick
Official Synopsis: The discovery of a bone and a gun
sends a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend.
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| 99 Homes |
99 Homes
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern,
Tim Guinee, Cullen Moss, J.D. Evermore
Official Synopsis: A father struggles to get back the
home that his family was evicted from by working for the greedy real-estate
broker who's the source of his frustration.
Eden
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Cast: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Greta
Gerwig, Brady Corbet, Arsinee Khanjian, Vincent Macaigne
Official Synopsis: Mia Hansen-Løve's
electronic-dance-music epic follows the rise and fall of a DJ (based on her
brother, Sven, a contemporary of Daft Punk) who gets into the rave scene in
1994 and spends the next 20 years navigating the French club scene.
End of the Tour
Director: James Ponsoldt
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel, Anna
Chlumsky, Joan Cusack, Mamie Gummer, Ron Livingston
Official Synopsis: This story of the five-day 1996
interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed
novelist David Foster Wallace explores the tenuous yet intense relationship
that develops between journalist and subject. The two men bob and weave,
sharing laughs and also concealing and revealing their hidden
vulnerabilities.
Mistress America
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke
Official Synopsis: Tracy, a lonely college freshman
in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke,
an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress
America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift
families, and cat-stealing.
Sleeping With Other People
Director: Leslye Headland
Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Adam Scott, Amanda
Peet, Jason Mantzoukas, Natasha Lyonne
Official Synopsis: Jake and Lainey impulsively lose
their virginity to each other in college. When their paths cross twelve years
later in NYC, they realize they both have become serial cheaters. Bonding over
their chronic infidelity, they form a platonic friendship to support each other
in their quests for healthy romantic relationships.
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| Wild Tales |
Wild Tales
Director: Damián Szifrón
Cast: Ricardo Darín, Julieta Zyberberg,
Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti, Erica Rivas, Oscar Martínez
Official Synopsis: Inequality, injustice, and the
demands of the world cause stress and depression for many people. Some of them,
however, explode. This is a movie about those people. Vulnerable in the face of
an unpredictable reality, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin
line dividing civilization and barbarism.
The Bronze
Director: Bryan Buckley
Cast: Melissa Rauch, Gary Cole, Thomas Middleditch,
Sebastian Stan, Haley Lu Richardson, Cecily Strong
Official Synopsis: In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became
an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics
team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and
embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising
young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.
Slow West
Director: John Maclean
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Rory
McCann, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooke Williams, Caren Pistorius
Official Synopsis: Set at the end of the nineteenth
century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish journeys across the American frontier in
search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas, a mysterious traveler, and
hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way.
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
Director: Nikole Beckwith
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cynthia Nixon, Jason Isaacs,
David Warshofsky
Official Synopsis: A young woman is returned home to
her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Strangerland
Director: Kim Farrant
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving,
Lisa Flanagan, Meyne Wyatt, Maddison Brown
Official Synopsis: When Catherine and Matthew
Parker's two teenage kids disappear into the remote Australian desert, the
couple's relationship is pushed to the brink as they confront the mystery of
their children's fate.
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| Z for Zachariah |
Z for Zachariah
Director: Craig Zobel
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie, Chris Pine
Official Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world, a
young woman who believes she is the last human on Earth meets a dying scientist
searching for survivors. Their relationship becomes tenuous when another
survivor appears. As the two men compete for the woman's affection, their
primal urges begin to reveal their true nature.
Documentary
3½ MINUTES
Director: Marc Silver
Official Synopsis: On November 23, 2012, unarmed
17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis was shot at a Jacksonville gas station by
Michael David Dunn. 3½ MINUTES explores the aftermath of Jordan's tragic
death, the latent and often unseen effects of racism, and the contradictions of
the American criminal justice system.
Finders Keepers
Director: Bryan Cranberry, Clay Tweel
Official Synopsis: Recovering addict and amputee John
Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified
leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he
bought at an auction and believes it to therefore be his rightful property.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Director: Alex Gibney
Official Synopsis: Going Clear intimately
profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on
how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of religion.
The Hunting Ground
Director: Kirby Dick
Official Synopsis: From the makers of The
Invisible War comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses,
their institutional cover-ups, and brutal social toll. Weaving together verite
footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they pursue
their education and justice — despite harsh retaliation, harassment, and
pushback.
Prophet's Prey
Director: Amy Berg
Official Synopsis: When Warren Jeffs rose to prophet
of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, he bridged
the gap between sister wives and ecclesiastically justified rape, befuddling
the moral compass of his entire congregation.
Racing Extinction
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Official Synopsis: Academy Award-winner Louie
Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a unique team to show the world
never-before-seen images that expose issues surrounding endangered species and
mass extinction. Whether infiltrating notorious black markets or exploring
humans' effect on the environment, Racing Extinction will change the way
you see the world.
You can see the rest of the program on Sundance's website.
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