2024 Sundance Film Festival
Location | Park City, Utah |
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Founded | 1978 |
Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
Festival date | January 18 to 28, 2024 |
Language | English |
Website | festival |
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to 28, 2024. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 6, 2023.[1][2][3][4]
Among the highlighted events included the premiere of a documentary about the 1980s rock band Devo.[5]
Films
U.S. Dramatic Competition
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Between the Temples | Nathan Silver | United States | |
Dìdi | 弟弟 | Sean Wang | |
Exhibiting Forgiveness | Titus Kaphar | ||
Good One | India Donaldson | ||
In the Summers | Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio | ||
Love Me | Sam Zuchero, Andy Zuchero | ||
Ponyboi | Esteban Arango | ||
A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg | ||
Stress Positions | Theda Hammel | ||
Suncoast | Laura Chinn |
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Jianjie Lin | China, France, Denmark, Qatar |
Girls Will Be Girls | Shuchi Talati | India, France, United States, Norway | |
Handling the Undead | Thea Hvistendahl | Norway | |
In the Land of Brothers | در سرزمین برادر | Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli | Iran, France, Netherlands |
Layla | Amrou Al-Kadhi | United Kingdom | |
Malu | Pedro Freire | Brazil | |
Reinas | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland, Peru, Spain | |
Sebastian | Mikko Mäkelä | United Kingdom, Finland, Belgium | |
Sujo | Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez | Mexico, United States, France | |
Veni Vidi Vici | Daniel Hoesl | Austria |
U.S. Documentary Competition
Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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As We Speak | J.M. Harper | United States |
Daughters | Angela Patton, Natalie Rae | |
Every Little Thing | Sally Aitken | Australia |
Frida | Carla Gutiérrez | United States, Mexico |
Gaucho Gaucho | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | United States, Argentina |
Love Machina | Peter Sillen | United States |
Porcelain War | Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev | United States, Ukraine |
Skywalkers: A Love Story | Jeff Zimbalist, Maria Bukhonina | United States |
Sugarcane | Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie | United States, Canada |
Union | Stephen Maing, Brett Story | United States |
World Documentary Competition
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Agent of Happiness | Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Bhutan, Hungary | |
The Battle for Laikipia | Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi | Kenya, United States | |
Black Box Diaries | Shiori Itō | Japan, United States, United Kingdom | |
Eternal You | Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck | Germany, United States | |
Ibelin | Benjamin Ree | Norway | |
IGUALADA | Juan Mejía Botero | Colombia, United States, Mexico | |
Never Look Away | Lucy Lawless | New Zealand | |
A New Kind of Wilderness | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen | Norway | |
Nocturnes | Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan | India | |
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat | Johan Grimonprez | Belgium, France, Netherlands |
Premieres
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The American Society of Magical Negroes | Kobi Libii | United States | |
And So It Begins | Ramona Diaz | United States, Philippines | |
DEVO | Chris Smith | United Kingdom, United States | |
A Different Man | Aaron Schimberg | United States | |
Freaky Tales | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | ||
Ghostlight | Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson | ||
Girls State | Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss | ||
Look into My Eyes | Lana Wilson | ||
Luther: Never Too Much | Dawn Porter | ||
My Old Ass | Megan Park | ||
The Outrun | Nora Fingscheidt | United Kingdom, Germany | |
Power | Yance Ford | United States | |
Presence | Steven Soderbergh | ||
Rob Peace | Chiwetel Ejiofor | ||
Sasquatch Sunset | David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | ||
Sue Bird: In The Clutch | Sarah Dowland | ||
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui | United Kingdom, United States | |
Thelma | Josh Margolin | United States | |
Will & Harper | Josh Greenbaum | ||
Winner | Susanna Fogel | United States, Canada |
Next
English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Desire Lines | Jules Rosskam | United States |
Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland, United Kingdom |
Little Death | Jack Begert | United States |
Realm of Satan | Scott Cummings | |
Seeking Mavis Beacon | Jazmin Renée Jones | |
Tendaberry | Haley Elizabeth Anderson |
Midnight
English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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In a Violent Nature | Chris Nash | Canada |
I Saw the TV Glow | Jane Schoenbrun | United States |
It's What's Inside | Greg Jardin | |
Kidnapping Inc. | Bruno Mourral | Haiti, France, Canada |
Krazy House | Steffen Haars, Flip van der Kuil | Netherlands |
Love Lies Bleeding | Rose Glass | United States, United Kingdom |
The Moogai | Jon Bell | Australia |
Your Monster | Caroline Lindy | United States |
Spotlight
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Àma Gloria | Marie Amachoukeli | France | |
Hit Man | Richard Linklater | United States | |
How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom | |
The Mother of All Lies | كذب أبيض | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar |
Special Screenings
English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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War Game | Jesse Moss, Tony Gerber | United States |
Family Matinee: 10 Lives | Christopher Jenkins | United Kingdom |
Family Matinee: Out of My Mind | Amber Sealey | United States |
New Frontier: Being (the Digital Griot) | Rashaad Newsome | United States |
New Frontier: Eno | Gary Hustwit | United States, United Kingdom |
Episodic
Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Fiction | ||
Me/We (episode 1) | Nzingha Stewart | United States |
La Mesías (episode 1) | Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi | Spain |
Penelope (episode 1) | Mel Eslyn, Mark Duplass | United States |
Non-Fiction | ||
Better Angels: The Gospel According To Tammy Faye (episodes 1 and 2) | Dana Adam Shapiro | United States |
Conbody vs Everybody (episodes 1 and 2) | Debra Granik | |
Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza (episodes 1 and 2) | Michael John Warren | |
God Save Texas (3 episodes) | Richard Linklater, Iliana Sosa, Alex Stapleton | |
The Synanon Fix (episode 1) | Rory Kennedy |
40th Anniversary Screenings
Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Babadook | Jennifer Kent | Australia |
Dig! XX | Ondi Timoner | United States |
Go Fish | Rose Troche | |
Mississippi Masala | Mira Nair | |
Napoleon Dynamite | Jared Hess | |
Pariah | Dee Rees | |
The Times of Harvey Milk | Rob Epstein | |
Three Seasons | Tony Bui | Vietnam, United States |
U.S. Fiction Short Films
Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Bay of Herons | Jared James Lank | United States |
Boi de Conchas (The Shell Covered Ox) | Daniel Barosa | |
Border Hopper | Nico Casavecchia | |
BUST | Angalis Field | |
Didn’t Think I’d See You Here | Dylan Guerra | |
Dream Creep | Carlos A.F. Lopez | |
Flail | Ben Gauthier | |
Grace | Natalie Jasmine Harris | |
guts | Margaux Susi | |
The Heart | Malia Ann | |
The Looming | Masha Ko | |
The Looming Cloud | Matthew Tyler | |
The Lost Season | Kelly Sears | |
Pasture Prime | Diffan Sina Norman | |
Pathological | Alison Rich | |
The Rainbow Bridge | Dimitri Simakis | |
Say Hi After You Die | Kate Jean Hollowell | |
SHÉ (SNAKE) | Renee Zhan | |
Thirstygirl | Alexandra Qin |
International Fiction Short Films
Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy | Khozy Rizal | Indonesia, United States |
Bold Eagle | Whammy Alcazaren | Philippines |
Bye Bye, Bowser | Jasmin Baumgartner | Austria |
Dreams like paper boats | Samuel Frantz Suffren | Haiti |
Essex Girls | Yero Timi-Biu | United Kingdom |
Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue | Vea Mafile’o | New Zealand |
The Masterpiece | Alex Lora Cercos | Spain |
Phoebe | Vaggelio Soumeli | Greece/Cyprus |
Pisko the Crab Child is in Love | Makoto Nagahisa | Japan |
Shalal | Amir Ali Sisipour | Iran |
The Stag | An Chu | Taiwan |
Terra Mater | Kantarama Gahigiri | Rwanda/Switzerland |
Viaje de Negocios | Gerardo Coello Escalante | Mexico |
Voice Ever | Céline Perreard | France |
Animated Short Films
Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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27 | Flóra Anna Buda | France/Hungary |
Lake Baikal (Baigal Nuur) | Alisi Telengut | Canada/Germany |
The Bleacher | Nicole Daddona, Adam Wilder | United States |
Bug Diner | Phoebe Jane Hart | United States |
Dona Beatriz Ñsîmba Vita | Catapreta | Brazil |
Drago | Daniel Zvereff | United States |
Larry | Takeshi Murata | United States |
Martyr’s Guidebook | Maks Rzontkowski | Poland |
Matta and Matto | Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp | Switzerland |
Miisufy | Liisi Grünberg | Estonia |
Nonfiction Short Films
Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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14 Paintings | Dongnan Chen | China |
ALOK | Alex Hedison | United States |
Bob’s Funeral | Jack Dunphy | United States |
Ekbeh | Mariah Hernandez-Fitch | United States |
Merman | Sterling Hampton IV | United States |
Object 817 | Olga Lucovnicova | Belgium |
Salone Love | Tajana Tokyo | United States/United Kingdom/Sierra Leone |
The Smallest Power | Andy Sarjahani | Iran |
To Be Invisible | Myah Overstreet | United States |
Winding Path | Alexandra Lazarowich, Ross Kauffman | United States |
Awards
The following awards were given out:[6]
Grand Jury Prizes
- U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza)
- U.S. Documentary – Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev)
- World Cinema Dramatic – Sujo (Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez)
- World Cinema Documentary – A New Kind of Wilderness (Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó)
- Short Film – The Masterpiece (Alex Lora Cercos)
Audience Awards
- Festival Favorite – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
- U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang)
- U.S. Documentary – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
- World Cinema Dramatic – Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati)
- World Cinema Documentary – Ibelin (Benjamin Ree)
- NEXT – Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)
Directing, Screenwriting and Editing
- U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
- U.S. Documentary – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane
- World Cinema Dramatic – Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers
- World Cinema Documentary – Benjamin Ree for Ibelin
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Carla Gutiérrez for Frida
- NEXT Innovator Prize – Little Death
Special Jury Prizes
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Dìdi (弟弟)
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance – Nico Parker for Suncoast
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Art of Change – Union (Stephen Maing and Brett Story)
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Sound – Gaucho Gaucho
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Original Music – Peter Raeburn for Handling the Undead
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematic Innovation – Johan Grimonprez for Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Craft – Nocturnes
- NEXT Special Jury Award – Desire Lines
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Masha Ko for The Looming
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Makoto Nagahisa for Pisko the Crab Child is in Love
Short Film Jury Awards
- U.S. Fiction: Say Hi After You Die (Kate Jean Hollowell)
- International Fiction: The Stag (An Chu)
- Nonfiction: Bob's Funeral (Jack Dunphy)
- Animation: Bug Diner (Phoebe Jane Hart)
Sundance Institute Awards
- NHK Award: Saim Sadiq for We Are Never Going to Die
- Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Pamela Martin
- Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Kristina Motwani
- Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Brad Becker-Parton for Stress Positions
- Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Toni Kamau for The Battle for Laikipia
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Love Me
Acquisitions
- Kneecap: Sony Pictures Classics[7]
- Ibelin: Netflix[8]
- A Real Pain: Searchlight Pictures[9]
- It's What's Inside: Netflix[10]
- Presence: Neon[11]
- Ghostlight: IFC Films and Sapan Studios[12]
- My Old Ass: Amazon MGM Studios[13]
- Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: Warner Bros. Discovery (under DC Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO, CNN Films and Max)[14][15]
- Skywalkers: A Love Story: Netflix[16]
- Thelma: Magnolia Pictures[17]
- Dìdi: Focus Features[18]
- Daughters: Netflix[19]
- Will & Harper: Netflix[20]
- Between the Temples: Sony Pictures Classics[21]
- Good One: Metrograph Pictures[22]
- Sugarcane: National Geographic Documentary Films[23]
- Sebastian: Kino Lorber[24]
- Your Monster: Vertical[25]
- Girls Will Be Girls: Juno Films[26]
- Never Look Away: Greenwich Entertainment[27]
- Exhibiting Forgiveness: Roadside Attractions[28]
- Winner: Vertical[29]
- Black Box Diaries: MTV Documentary Films[30]
- Love Me: Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures[31]
- Luther: Never Too Much: CNN Films and Oprah Winfrey Network[32]
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Kino Lorber[33]
- Agent of Happiness: Film Movement[34]
- Rob Peace: Republic Pictures[35]
- In the Summers: Music Box Films[36]
- The Outrun: Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films[37]
Gallery
- The Marquis
- Filmmaker Lodge
- Library Center Theatre
- Cast and crew of the Devo documentary
- Film writer and producer Jonathan Nolan interviewed by astrophysics professor Janna Levin
- Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, at the opening press conference
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