The Sundance Film Festival is contemplating a giant transfer for 2027, however the 2025 function movie and episodic applications discover the Robert Redford based gathering very a lot in its conventional wheelhouse with a mixture of big-name initiatives, politics, and what may simply be the subsequent huge factor.
See the total record of Sundance 2025 function movies (together with world premieres) and episodic initiatives beneath.
“The Sundance Film Festival stays steadfast in its dedication to elevating distinctive and pressing voices in unbiased storytelling,” the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star stated at present of the 41st iteration of the competition kicking off on January 23. “Audiences can anticipate a 2025 program that showcases different and vibrant filmmaking globally,” Redford added of the 87 options and 6 episodic initiatives chosen for screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and on-line subsequent month.
It wouldn’t be Sundance with out stars in plushy hooded ski coats, and so they’ll be aplenty with Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna within the function take of the Broadway musical and movie, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in Jimpa, Melanie Griffth and Juliette Lewis in By Design, Benedict Cumberbatch in The Thing With Feathers, Andre Holland in Love, Brooklyn; Felicity Jones, Joel Edgerton and Kerry Condon in Train Dreams, the return of Dylan O’Brien in Twinless, and Dave Franco (Together and Bubble & Squeak) and Chloë Sevigny (Atropia and Magic Farm) each doing double responsibility at this 12 months’s fest.
Politics, as effectively, are de rigueur within the ski slopes of Park City in late January with such titles because the Kim A. Snyder directed ITV doc, The Librarians, about librarians’ campaign to fend off guide banning in Texas and Florida, in addition to David Borenstein’s Mr. Nobody Against Putin which follows a Russian faculty instructor questioning this establishment’s penchant for propaganda and violence in the course of the Ukraine struggle. There’s additionally Prime Minister about former New Zealand chief Jacinda Ardern.
Also there may very well be some information concerning the snowy shindig itself. With Cincinatti, OH and Boulder, CO, in addition to Salt Lake City, UT vying to shift the competition from its Park City location, a call on the long run residence of Sundance is anticipated a while towards the tip of the 2025 fest.
While Sundance doesn’t program by theme, if there’s a motif working by means of this 12 months’s choice it’s “how private these movies are throughout fiction, throughout documentaries. Throughout this system there’s a form of intimacy and authenticity; a really robust creative voice all through all of those works that may communicate to audiences” per Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming.
More than 80% of this 12 months’s choice is up on the market. Some titles are arriving to Park City already spoken for by distributors, i.e. Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet (Bleecker Street) starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone, The Rose Byrne film If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24), the style film Opus starring Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich and Juliette Lewis (A24), The Legend of Ochi (A24) starring Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe; the Carey Mulligan title The Ballad of Wallis Island (Focus Features); the Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim documentary Deaf President Now! (Apple TV+) amongst many others.
“There is resilience within the competition world and the arthouse market,” exclaimed Eugene Hernandez, Director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming pointing towards the promising ticket gross sales for the upcoming version. “There is a resilience to the viewers, and they’re coming again. If there was a collapse that occurred out of the early days of the pandemic, we obtained by means of that, and festivals and arthouses have been constructing again.”
Thirty-six of the 87 function titles are repped by first-time function filmmakers with many returning Sundance alums together with Summer of Soul Oscar winner Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson with the Hulu documentary SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), Forty Shades of Blue Ira Sachs with Peter Hujar’s Day, Gods and Monsters’ Bill Condon with Kiss of the Spider Woman; Better Luck Tomorrow‘s Justin Lin with Last Days; and West of Memphis filmmaker Amy Berg with the docu It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley concerning the late Nineteen Nineties different rock musician.
This 12 months the movie and episodic slate contains 89 (or 96%) world premieres. The annual fundraising gala, Celebrating Sundance Institute, which honors artists and artwork supporters, will happen on Friday, January 24, on the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Utah.
Of the 85 function titles, 40 (47%) have been directed by a number of filmmakers who establish as ladies; 3 (4%) have been directed by a number of filmmakers who establish as nonbinary people; 38 (45%) have been directed by a number of filmmakers who establish as folks of colour; 25 (29%) have been directed by a number of filmmakers who establish as LGBTQ+; 2 (2%) have been helmed by a number of filmmakers who establish as transgender; 7 (8%) have been directed by a number of filmmakers who establish as an individual with a incapacity.
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 23 – February 2, 2025.
As at all times, Deadline shall be on the scene, within the screenings and on the streets of Park City and Salt Lake City subsequent month with our protection of SFF 2025. So, keep tuned.
Also, Sundance’s Short Film Program and schedule is popping out on December 16. Until then, see the total record of the Sundance 2025 Feature Film and Episodic lineup right here:
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
The U.S. Dramatic Competition gives Festivalgoers a primary have a look at the world premieres of groundbreaking new voices in American unbiased movie. Films which have premiered on this class in recent times embody Dìdi (弟弟), A Real Pain, In The Summers, Nanny, CODA, Minari, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Farewell, Clemency, Eighth Grade, and Sorry to Bother You.
Atropia / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Hailey Gates, Producers: Naima Abed, Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Lana Kim, Jett Steiger) — When an aspiring actress in a army role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier solid as an rebel, their unsimulated feelings threaten to derail the efficiency. Cast: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Bubble & Squeak / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Evan Twohy, Producers: Christina Oh, Steven Yeun) — Accused of smuggling cabbages right into a nation the place cabbages are banned, Declan and Delores should confront the fragility of their new marriage whereas on the run for his or her lives. Cast: Himesh Patel, Sarah Goldberg, Steven Yeun, Dave Franco, Matt Berry. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Bunnylovr / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Katarina Zhu, Producers: Tristan Scott-Behrends, Ani Schroeter, Rhianon Jones, Roger Mancusi, Rachel Sennott) — A drifting Chinese American cam woman struggles to navigate an more and more poisonous relationship with one in every of her purchasers whereas rekindling her relationship along with her dying estranged father. Cast: Katarina Zhu, Rachel Sennott, Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, Jack Kilmer. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Love, Brooklyn / U.S.A. (Director: Rachael Abigail Holder, Screenwriter: Paul Zimmerman, Producers: André Holland, Kate Sharp, Patrick Wengler, Maurice Anderson, Liza Zusman) — Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship towards the quickly altering panorama of their beloved metropolis. Cast: André Holland, Nicole Beharie, DeWanda Wise, Roy Wood Jr., Cassandra Freeman, Cadence Reese. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Omaha / U.S.A. (Director: Cole Webley, Screenwriter: Robert Machoian, Producer: Preston Lee) — After a household tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are unexpectedly woken up by their dad and brought on a journey throughout the nation, experiencing a world they’ve by no means seen earlier than. As their journey unfolds, Ella begins to know that issues won’t be what they appear. Cast: John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Plainclothes / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Carmen Emmi, Producers: Colby Cote, Arthur Landon, Eric Podwall, Vanessa Pantley) — A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest homosexual males defies orders when he falls in love with a goal. Cast: Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Amy Forsyth. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Ricky / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Rashad Frett, Screenwriter: Lin Que Ayoung, Producers: Pierre M. Coleman, Simon TaufiQue, Sterling Brim, Josh Peters, DC Wade, Cary Fukunaga) — Newly launched after being locked up in his teenagers, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the difficult realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the primary time as an grownup. Cast: Stephan James, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Titus Welliver, Maliq Johnson, Imani Lewis, Andrene Ward-Hammond. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Sorry, Baby / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Eva Victor, Producers: Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins) — Something dangerous occurred to Agnes. But life goes on… for everybody round her, a minimum of. Cast: Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Sierra Falconer, Producer: Grant Ellison) — Lives intertwine round Green Lake as a lady learns to sail, a boy fights for first chair, two sisters function a bed-and-breakfast, and a fisherman is after the catch of his life. Cast: Maren Heary, Jim Kaplan, Karsen Liotta, Dominic Bogart, Tenley Kellogg, Emily Hall. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Twinless / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: James Sweeney, Producer: David Permut) — Two younger males meet in a twin bereavement help group and type an unlikely bromance. Cast: Dylan O’Brien, James Sweeney, Lauren Graham, Aisling Franciosi, Tasha Smith, Chris Perfetti. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The U.S. Documentary Competition gives Festivalgoers a primary have a look at world premieres of nonfiction American movies illuminating the concepts, folks, and occasions that form the current day. Films which have premiered on this class in recent times embody Daughters, Sugarcane, Porcelain War, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, Navalny, Fire of Love, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Boys State, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, Knock Down the House, One Child Nation, American Factory, Three Identical Strangers, and On Her Shoulders.
Andre is an Idiot / U.S.A. (Director: Anthony Benna, Producers: Andre Ricciardi, Tory Tunnell, Joshua Altman, Stelio Kitrilakis, Ben Cotner) — Andre, an excellent fool, is dying as a result of he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering analysis, full irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, ship him on an sudden journey studying the best way to die fortunately and ridiculously with out dropping his humorousness. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Life After / U.S.A. (Director: Reid Davenport, Producer: Colleen Cassingham) — In 1983, a disabled Californian lady named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “proper to die,” igniting a nationwide debate about autonomy, dignity, and the worth of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport narrates this investigation of what occurred to Bouvia. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Shoshannah Stern, Producers: Robyn Kopp, Justine Nagan, Bonni Cohen) — In 1987, Marlee Matlin turned the primary Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the highlight at 21 years outdated. Reflecting on her life in her main language of American Sign Language, Marlee explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
The Perfect Neighbor / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Geeta Gandbhir, Producers: Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne, Sam Bisbee) — A seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida escalates into lethal violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the results of Florida’s “stand your floor” legal guidelines. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Predators / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: David Osit, Producers: Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn) — To Catch a Predator was a well-liked tv present designed to seek out youngster predators and lure them to a movie set, the place they might be interviewed and ultimately arrested. An exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the present and the world it helped create. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Seeds / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Brittany Shyne, Producer: Danielle Varga) — An exploration of Black generational farmers within the American South reveals the fragility of legacy and the importance of proudly owning land. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Selena y Los Dinos / U.S.A. (Director: Isabel Castro, Producers: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, J. Daniel Torres, David Blackman, Simran Singh) — Selena Quintanilla — the “Queen of Tejano Music” — and her household band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from acting at quinceañeras to promoting out stadium excursions. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled by means of never-before-seen footage from the household’s private archive. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Speak. / U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman, Producer: Pamela Griner) — Five top-ranked highschool oratory college students spend a 12 months crafting spellbinding spoken phrase performances with the dream of profitable one of many world’s largest and most intense public talking competitions. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Sugar Babies / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Rachel Fleit, Producers: Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon, Mehrdod Heydari) — Autumn is an enterprising school scholarship recipient and burgeoning TikTookay influencer. Part of a detailed circle of buddies rising up poor in rural Louisiana, she is decided to beat the struggles and boundaries defining them. Faced with restricted minimal wage job choices, Autumn devises a web-based sugar child operation. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Third Act / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Tadashi Nakamura, Producer: Eurie Chung) — Generations of artists name Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” however filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s analysis of Parkinson’s illness results in an exploration of artwork, activism, grief, and fatherhood. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
These narrative function movies from rising expertise all over the world provide contemporary views and ingenious types. Films which have premiered on this class in recent times embody Girls Will Be Girls, Sujo, Scrapper, Mami Wata, Hive, The Souvenir, The Guilty, Monos, Yardie, The Nile Hilton Incident, and Second Mother.
Brides / U.Ok. (Director: Nadia Fall, Screenwriter: Suhayla El-Bushra, Producers: Nicky Bentham, Marica Stocchi) — Two teenage women looking for freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their troubled lives with a misguided plan of touring to Syria. Cast: Ebada Hassan, Safiyya Ingar, Yusra Warsama, Cemre Ebuzziya, Aziz Capkurt. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
DJ Ahmet /North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia (Director and Screenwriter: Georgi M. Unkovski, Producers: Ivan Unkovski, Ivana Shekutkoska) — Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a distant Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music whereas navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative neighborhood, and his first expertise with love — a lady already promised to another person. Cast: Arif Jakup, Agush Agushev, Dora Akan Zlatanova, Aksel Mehmet, Selpin Kerim, Atila Klince. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
LUZ /Hong Kong, China (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Flora Lau, Producers: Yvette Tang, Joseph Sinn Gi Chan, Stephen Lam) —In the neon-lit streets of Chongqing, Wei desperately searches for his estranged daughter Fa, whereas Hong Kong gallerist Ren grapples along with her ailing stepmother Sabine in Paris. Their lives collide in a digital actuality world, the place a mystical deer reveals hidden truths, sparking a journey of discovery and connection. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Pinna, Xiao Dong Guo, Lu Huang, David Chiang, En Xi Deng. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) /India, U.Ok., Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, Producers: Neeraj Churi, Mohamed Khaki, Kaushik Ray, Hareesh Reddypalli, Naren Chandavarkar, Sidharth Meer) — Anand, a 30-something metropolis dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning interval for his father within the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a neighborhood farmer struggling to remain single. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand should determine the destiny of his relationship born beneath duress. Cast: Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Sauna /Denmark (Director and Screenwriter: Mathias Broe, Screenwriter: William Lippert, Producer: Mads-August Hertz) — Johan thrives as a homosexual man in Copenhagen, having fun with infinite bars, events, and informal flings. Everything adjustments when he meets William, a transgender man, and falls right into a deep love that defies societal norms round gender, identification, and relationships. Cast: Magnus Juhl Andersen, Nina Rask, Dilan Amin, Klaus Tange. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Sukkwan Island / France (Director and Screenwriter: Vladimir de Fontenay, Producers: Carole Scotta, Eliott Khayat, Caroline Benjo) — On the distant Sukkwan Island, 13-year-old Roy agrees to spend a formative 12 months of journey together with his father deep within the Norwegian fjords. What begins as an opportunity to reconnect descends right into a check of survival as they face the tough realities of their surroundings and confront their unresolved turmoil. Cast: Swann Arlaud, Woody Norman, Alma Pöysti, Ruaridh Mollica, Tuppence Middleton. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
The Things You Kill /Turkey, France, Poland, Canada (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Alireza Khatami, Producers: Elisa Sepulveda Ruddoff, Cyriac Auriol, Mariusz Włodarski, Michael Solomon) — Haunted by the suspicious demise of his ailing mom, a college professor coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. Cast: Ekin Koç, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Hazar Ergüçlü, Ercan Kesal. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Two Women / Canada (Director: Chloé Robichaud, Screenwriter and Producer: Catherine Léger Producer: Martin Paul-Hus) — Violette is having a tough maternity depart. Florence is coping with melancholy. Despite their careers and households, they really feel like failures. Florence’s first infidelity is a revelation. When having enjoyable is much down the record of priorities, sleeping with a supply man may very well be revolutionary. Cast: Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Laurence Leboeuf, Félix Moati, Mani Soleymanlou, Sophie Nelisse, Juliette Gariépy. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
The Virgin of Quarry Lake /Argentina, Spain, Mexico (Director: Laura Casabé, Screenwriter: Benjamin Naishtat, Producers: Tomas Eloy Muñoz, Valeria Bistagnino, Alejandro Israel, David Matamoros, Angeles Hernandez, Diego Martinez Ulanosky) — In 2001, three youngsters from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all fall in love with Diego. Natalia has at all times had essentially the most chemistry with him, however when it appears inevitable that their friendship will flip into one thing extra, the older and extra skilled Silvia seems and shortly captures Diego’s consideration. Cast: Dolores Oliverio, Luisa Merelas, Fernanda Echevarría, Dady Brieva, Agustín Sosa. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Where the Wind Comes From / Tunisia, France, Qatar (Director and Screenwriter: Amel Guellaty, Producers: Asma Chihoub, Karim Aitouna) — Alyssa, a rebellious 19-year-old woman, and her pal Mehdi, an introverted 23-year-old man, use their creativeness to flee their unpromising actuality. When they uncover a contest within the south of Tunisia that will enable them to flee, they undertake a highway journey whatever the obstacles of their method. Cast: Eya Bellagha, Slim Baccar. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
These nonfiction function movies from rising expertise all over the world showcase a number of the most brave and extraordinary filmmaking at present. Films which have premiered on this class in recent times embody A New Kind of Wilderness, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, The Eternal Memory, 20 Days in Mariupol, All That Breathes, Flee, Honeyland, Sea of Shadows, Shirkers, and Last Men in Aleppo.
2000 Meters to Andriivka / Ukraine (Director and Producer: Mstyslav Chernov, Producers: Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath) — Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of closely fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance by means of their destroyed homeland, the extra they understand that this struggle could by no means finish. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Coexistence, My Ass! / U.S.A., France(Director and Producer: Amber Fares, Screenwriters: Rachel Leah Jones, Rabab Haj Yahya, Producer: Rachel Leah Jones, Valérie Montmartin) –– Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a private and political one-woman present concerning the battle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working towards begins sounding like a foul joke, she challenges her audiences with exhausting truths which might be no laughing matter. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) / Iran, Germany, U.S.A., Netherlands, Qatar, Chile, Canada (Directors and Producers: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni) — As the primary elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi goals to interrupt long-held patriarchal traditions by coaching teenage women to journey bikes and stopping youngster marriages. When accusations come up questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the women, her identification is put in turmoil. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
The Dating Game / U.S.A., U.Ok., Norway (Director and Producer: Violet Du Feng, Producers: Joanna Natasegara, James Costa, Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas) –– In a rustic the place eligible males significantly outnumber ladies, three perpetual bachelors be part of an intensive seven-day courting camp led by one in every of China’s most sought-after courting coaches in what could also be their last-ditch effort to seek out love. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Endless Cookie /Canada (Directors and Screenwriters: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver, Producers: Daniel Bekerman, Chris Yurkovich, Alex Ordanis, Jason Ryle, Seth Scriver) — Exploring the advanced bond between two half brothers — one Indigenous, one white — touring from the current in remoted Shamattawa to bustling Nineteen Eighties Toronto. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
GEN_ / France, Italy, Switzerland (Director and Screenwriter: Gianluca Matarrese, Screenwriter: Donatella Della Ratta, Producers: Dominique Barneaud, Donatella Palermo, Alexandre Iordachescu) — At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr. Bini leads a daring mission overseeing aspiring dad and mom present process in vitro fertilization and the journeys of people reconciling their our bodies with their gender identities. He navigates the constraints set by a conservative authorities and an aggressive market desirous to commodify our bodies. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
How to Build a Library / Kenya (Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Maia Lekow, Christopher King, Screenwriter: Ricardo Acosta) — Two intrepid Nairobi ladies determine to remodel what was once a whites-only library till 1958 right into a vibrant cultural hub. Along the way in which, they need to navigate native politics, elevate thousands and thousands for the rebuild, and confront the lingering ghosts of Kenya’s colonial previous. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Khartoum /Sudan, U.Ok., Germany, Qatar(Directors: Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox, Screenwriter: Phil Cox, Producers: Giovanna Stopponi, Talal Afifi) –– Forced to go away Sudan for East Africa following the outbreak of struggle, 5 residents of Khartoum — a civil servant, a tea woman, a resistance committee volunteer, and two younger bottle collectors — reenact their tales of survival and freedom by means of goals, revolution, and civil struggle. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin /Denmark, Czech Republic (Director and Screenwriter: David Borenstein, Producer: Helle Faber) — As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, main faculties throughout Russia’s hinterlands are reworked into recruitment phases for the struggle. Facing the moral dilemma of working in a system outlined by propaganda and violence, a courageous instructor goes undercover to movie what’s actually occurring in his personal faculty. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
Prime Minister / U.S.A. (Directors: Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz, Producers: Cass Avery, Leon Kirkbeck, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane, Katie Peck) — A view contained in the lifetime of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, capturing her by means of 5 tumultuous years in energy and past as she redefined management on the world stage. World Premiere. Available on-line for Public.
NEXT
Pure, daring works distinguished by an revolutionary, forward-thinking method to storytelling populate this program. Unfettered creativity guarantees that the movies on this part will form the larger subsequent wave in international cinema. Films which have premiered on this class in recent times embody Little Death, Seeking Mavis Beacon, KOKOMO CITY, A Love Song, RIOTSVILLE, USA, Searching, Skate Kitchen, A Ghost Story, and Tangerine.NEXT is offered by Adobe.
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Kahlil Joseph, Screenwriters: Saidiya Hartman, Irvin Hunt, Producers: Onye Anyanwu, Amy Greenleaf, Nic Gonda) –– Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the center of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist right into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time. Cast: Shaunette Renée Wilson, Kaneza Schaal, Hope Giselle, Peter Hernandez, Penny Johnson Jerald, Zora Casebere. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
By Design / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Amanda Kramer, Producers: Miranda Bailey, Sarah Winshall, Natalie Whalen, Jacob Agger) –– A lady swaps our bodies with a chair, and everybody likes her higher as a chair. Cast: Juliette Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Melanie Griffith, Samantha Mathis, Robin Tunney, Udo Kier. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
East of Wall / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Kate Beecroft, Producers: Lila Yacoub, Melanie Ramsayer, Shannon Moss) –– After the demise of her husband, Tabatha — a younger, tattooed, rebellious horse coach — wrestles with monetary insecurity and unresolved grief whereas offering refuge for a bunch of wayward youngsters on her broken-down ranch within the Badlands. Cast: Tabatha Zimiga, Porshia Zimiga, Scoot McNairy, Jennifer Ehle. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Joel Alfonso Vargas, Producer: Paolo Maria Pedullà) –– Rico’s summer season is a mixture of chasing women and hustling do-it-yourself cocktails out of a cooler on Orchard Beach, the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place together with his household, it’s solely a matter of time earlier than his carefree days come spiraling down. Cast: Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
OBEX / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Albert Birney, Screenwriter and Producer: Pete Ohs, Producers: Emma Hannaway, James Belfer) –– Conor Marsh lives a secluded life together with his canine, Sandy, till someday he begins enjoying OBEX, a brand new, state-of-the-art laptop sport. When Sandy goes lacking, the road between actuality and sport blurs and Conor should enterprise into the unusual world of OBEX to deliver her residence. Cast: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
Rains Over Babel / Colombia, U.S.A., Spain (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Gala del Sol, Producers: H.A Hermida, Ana Cristina Gutiérrez, Andrés Hermida, Natalia Rendón Rodríguez) –– A bunch of misfits converges at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as purgatory, the place La Flaca — the town’s Grim Reaper — presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives along with her, daring to outwit Death herself. Cast: Saray Rebolledo, Felipe Aguilar Rodríguez, John Alex Castillo, William Hurtado, Santiago Pineda, Celina Biurrun. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
Serious People /U.S.A. (Directors and Screenwriters: Pasqual Gutierrez, Ben Mullinkosson, Producers: Ryan Hahn, Teddy Lee, Laurel Thomson) –– A profitable music video director and expectant father pushes his work-life stability to the acute as he hires a doppelgänger to work in his stead. Cast: Pasqual Gutierrez, Christine Yuan, Miguel Huerta, Raul Sanchez. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
Zodiac Killer Project / U.S.A., U.Ok. (Director and Producer: Charlie Shackleton, Producers: Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing) –– Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking heaps, abandoned courthouses, and empty suburban properties — the acquainted areas of true crime, stripped of all motion and spectacle — a filmmaker describes his deserted Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the internal workings of a style at saturation level. World Premiere. Documentary. Available on-line for Public.
PREMIERES
This showcase of world premieres presents extremely anticipated movies on a wide range of topics in each fiction and nonfiction. Fiction movies which have screened in Premieres embody A Different Man, Past Lives, Passages, Promising Young Woman, Kajillionaire, The Report, The Big Sick, and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Past documentary movies embody Will & Harper, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Invisible Beauty, The Dissident, Lucy and Desi, and Miss Americana.
All That’s Left of You (اللي باقي منك) / Germany, Cyprus (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Cherien Dabis, Producers: Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel, Karim Amer) –– After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli troopers at a West Bank protest, his mom recounts the collection of occasions that led him to that fateful second, beginning together with his grandfather’s pressured displacement. Cast: Cherien Dabis, Saleh Bakri, Adam Bakri, Mohammad Bakri, Maria Zreik, Muhammad Abed Elrahman. World Premiere. Fiction.
April & Amanda / U.S.A. (Director: Zackary Drucker, Producers: Madison Passarelli, Douglas Banker, Alex Garinger, Noah Levy, Donovan Lovell, Stephen B. Strout) –– Two legends contested their identities as ladies within the court docket of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender historical past; and Amanda Lear, who has consciously denied and obfuscated her historical past for many years. Their divergent paths reveal disparate however intertwined legacies. World Premiere. Documentary.
The Ballad of Wallis Island / U.Ok. (Director: James Griffiths, Screenwriters: Tom Basden, Tim Key, Producer: Rupert Majendie) –– Eccentric lottery winner, Charles, goals of getting his favourite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer, again collectively. His fantasy turns into actuality when the bandmates and former lovers settle for his invitation to play a non-public present at his residence on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig. Cast: Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Carey Mulligan. World Premiere. Fiction.
Come See Me within the Good Light / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Ryan White, Producers: Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen) –– Two poets, one incurable most cancers analysis. Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley go on an unexpectedly humorous and poignant journey by means of love, life, and mortality. World Premiere. Documentary.
Deaf President Now! / U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim, Producers: Jonathan King, Amanda Rohlke, Michael Harte) –– During eight tumultuous days in 1988 on the world’s solely Deaf college, 4 college students should discover a option to lead an offended mob — and alter the course of historical past. World Premiere. Documentary. Available on-line for Public.
FOLKTALES / U.S.A., Norway (Directors and Producers: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) –– On the precipice of maturity, youngsters converge at a conventional folks highschool in Arctic Norway. Dropped on the fringe of the world, they need to depend on solely themselves, each other, and a loyal pack of sled canine as all of them develop in sudden instructions. World Premiere. Documentary.
Free Leonard Peltier / U.S.A. (Director: Jesse Short Bull, Director and Producer: David France, Producers: Jhane Myers, Paul McGuire) –– Leonard Peltier, one of many surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in jail for 50 years following a contentious conviction. A brand new technology of Native activists is dedicated to profitable his freedom earlier than he dies. World Premiere. Documentary.
Heightened Scrutiny / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Sam Feder, Producers: Amy Scholder, Paola Mendoza) –– Amid the surge in anti-trans laws that Chase Strangio battles within the courtroom, he should additionally struggle towards media bias, exposing how the narratives within the press affect public notion and the struggle for transgender rights. World Premiere. Documentary. Available on-line for Public.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Mary Bronstein, Producers: Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Richie Doyle) –– With her life crashing down round her, Linda makes an attempt to navigate her youngster’s mysterious sickness, her absent husband, a lacking particular person, and an more and more hostile relationship along with her therapist. Cast: Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Ivy Wolk, Daniel Zolghadri. World Premiere. Fiction.
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Amy Berg, Producers: Ryan Heller, Christine Connor, Mandy Chang, Jennie Bedusa, Matthew Roozen) –– Rising musician Jeff Buckley had solely launched one album when he died abruptly in 1997. Now, never-before-seen footage, unique voice messages, and accounts from these closest to him provide a portrait of the charming singer. World Premiere. Documentary.
Jimpa / Australia, Netherlands, Finland (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Sophie Hyde, Screenwriter: Matthew Cormack, Producers: Liam Heyen, Bryan Mason, Marleen Slot)––Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to go to their homosexual grandfather, Jim — lovingly referred to as Jimpa. But Frances’ need to remain overseas with Jimpa for a 12 months means Hannah is pressured to rethink her beliefs about parenting and eventually confront outdated tales concerning the previous. Cast: Olivia Colman, John Lithgow, Aud Mason-Hyde. World Premiere. Fiction.
Kiss of the Spider Woman / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Bill Condon, Producers: Barry Josephson, Tom Kirdahy, Greg Yolen) –– Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two type an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favourite silver display diva, Ingrid Luna. Cast: Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, Jennifer Lopez, Bruno Bichir, Josefina Scaglione, Aline Mayagoitia. World Premiere. Fiction.
Last Days / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Justin Lin, Screenwriter: Ben Ripley, Producers: Clayton Townsend, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, Salvador Gatdula, Andrew Schneider) –– Determined to meet his life’s mission, 26-year-old John Allen Chau embarks on a harmful journey throughout the globe to transform the uncontacted tribe of North Sentinel Island to Christianity, whereas a detective from the Andaman Islands races to cease him earlier than he does hurt to himself or the tribe. Cast: Sky Yang, Radhika Apte, Naveen Andrews, Ken Leung, Toby Wallace, Ciara Bravo. World Premiere. Fiction.
The Librarians / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Kim A. Snyder, Producers: Janique L. Robillard, Maria Cuomo Cole, Jana Edelbaum) –– As an unprecedented wave of guide banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and past, librarians beneath siege be part of forces as unlikely defenders combating for mental freedom on the entrance strains of democracy. World Premiere. Documentary.
Lurker / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Alex Russell, Producers: Alex Orlovsky, Duncan Montgomery, Galen Core, Charlie McDowell, Archie Madekwe) –– A retail worker infiltrates the internal circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he will get nearer to the budding music star, entry and proximity develop into a matter of life and demise. Cast: Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Havana Rose Liu, Sunny Suljic, Zach Fox, Daniel Zolghadri. World Premiere. Fiction.
Magic Farm / Argentina, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Amalia Ulman, Producers: Alex Hughes, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Riccardo Maddalosso) –– A movie crew working for an edgy media firm travels to Argentina to profile a neighborhood musician, however their ineptitude leads them into the incorrect nation. As the crew collaborates with locals to manufacture a development, sudden connections blossom whereas a pervasive well being disaster looms unacknowledged within the background. Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff, Joe Apollonio, Camila del Campo, Simon Rex. World Premiere. Fiction.
Middletown / U.S.A. (Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine, Producers: Teddy Leifer, Florrie Priest, Danny Breen) –– Inspired by an unconventional instructor, a bunch of youngsters in upstate New York within the early Nineteen Nineties made a scholar movie that uncovered an unlimited conspiracy involving poisonous waste that was poisoning their neighborhood. Thirty years later, they revisit their movie and confront the legacy of this transformative expertise. World Premiere. Documentary.
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Elegance Bratton, Producer: Chester Algernal Gordon) –– Out of the underground dance golf equipment on the South Side of Chicago, a bunch of buddies flip a brand new sound into a worldwide motion. World Premiere. Documentary.
Oh, Hi! / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Sophie Brooks, Producers: David Brooks, Dan Clifton, Julie Waters, Molly Gordon) –– Iris and Isaac’s first romantic weekend getaway goes awry. Cast: Molly Gordon, Logan Lerman, Geraldine Viswanathan, John Reynolds. World Premiere. Fiction.
Peter Hujar’s Day / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Ira Sachs, Producers: Jordan Drake, Jonah Disend) –– A just lately found dialog between photographer Peter Hujar and his pal Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown artwork scene and the private struggles and epiphanies that outline an artist’s life. Cast: Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall. World Premiere. Fiction.
Rebuilding / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Max Walker-Silverman, Producers: Jesse Hope, Dan Janvey, Paul Mezey) –– After a wildfire takes the household farm, a rancher seeks a method ahead. Cast: Josh O’Connor, Lily LaTorre, Meghann Fahy, Kali Reis, Amy Madigan. World Premiere. Fiction.
SALLY / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Cristina Costantini, Screenwriter: Tom Maroney, Producers: Lauren Cioffi, Dan Cogan, Jon Bardin) –– Sally Ride turned the primary American lady to blast off into house, however beneath her unflappable composure was a secret. Sally’s life associate, Tam O’Shaughnessy, reveals their hidden romance and the sacrifices that accompanied their 27 years collectively. World Premiere. Documentary. Available on-line for Public. 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Winner.
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) / U.S.A. (Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Producers: Joseph Patel, Derik Murray) –– An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout whereas shedding mild on the unseen burden that comes with success for Black artists in America. World Premiere. Documentary.
The Thing with Feathers / U.Ok. (Director and Screenwriter: Dylan Southern, Producers: Andrea Cornwell, Leah Clarke, Adam Ackland) –– Struggling to course of the sudden and sudden demise of his spouse, a younger father loses his maintain on actuality as a seemingly malign presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the residence he shares together with his two younger sons. Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Eric Lampaert, Vinette Robinson, Sam Spruell. World Premiere. Fiction.
Train Dreams / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Clint Bentley, Screenwriter: Greg Kwedar, Producers: Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer, Michael Heimler) –– Robert Grainier is a day laborer constructing America’s railroads at first of the twentieth century as he experiences profound love, stunning defeat, and a world irrevocably remodeling earlier than his very eyes. Cast: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy. World Premiere. Fiction. Salt Lake Celebration Film.
The Wedding Banquet / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Andrew Ahn, Screenwriter and Producer: James Schamus, Producers: Anita Gou, Joe Pirro, Caroline Clark) –– Frustrated together with his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris, and out of time, Min makes a proposal: a inexperienced card marriage together with his pal Angela in change for costly in vitro fertilization remedies for her associate, Lee. Plans change when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an elaborate Korean marriage ceremony banquet. Cast: Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-jung. World Premiere. Fiction.
MIDNIGHT
From horror flicks and wild comedies to chilling thrillers and works that defy any style, these movies will preserve you wide-awake and on the sting of your seat. Films which have premiered on this class in recent times embody I Saw the TV Glow, Love Lies Bleeding, Infinity Pool, Talk to Me, FRESH, Hereditary, Mandy, Relic,and The Babadook.
Dead Lover / Canada (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Grace Glowicki, Screenwriter and Producer: Ben Petrie, Producer: Yona Strauss) –– A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses lastly meets her dream man, however their whirlwind affair is lower brief when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him by means of madcap scientific experiments, leading to grave penalties and unlikely love. Cast: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Leah Doz, Lowen Morrow. World Premiere. Fiction.
Didn’t Die / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Meera Menon, Screenwriter and Producer: Paul Gleason, Producers: Erica Fishman, Joe Camerota, Luke Patton) –– A podcast host desperately clings to an ever-shrinking viewers within the zombie apocalypse. Cast: Kiran Deol, George Basil, Samrat Chakrabarti, Katie McCuen, Vishal Vijayakumar. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
Opus / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Mark Anthony Green, Producers: Collin Creighton, Brad Weston, Poppy Hanks, Jelani Johnson, Josh Bachove)–– A younger author is invited to the distant compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared 30 years in the past. Surrounded by the star’s cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the midst of his twisted plan. Cast: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder. World Premiere. Fiction.
Rabbit Trap / U.Ok. (Director and Screenwriter: Bryn Chainey, Producers: Daniel Noah, Lawrence Inglee, Elijah Wood, Elisa Lleras, Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz) –– When a musician and her husband transfer to a distant home in Wales, the music they make disturbs native historic folks magic, bringing a anonymous youngster to their door who’s intent on infiltrating their lives. Cast: Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot. World Premiere. Fiction.
Together / Australia, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Michael Shanks, Producers: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Mike Cowap, Andrew Mittman, Erik Feig, Max Silva) –– With a transfer to the countryside already testing the boundaries of a pair’s relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an excessive transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh. Cast: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Damon Herriman. World Premiere. Fiction.
Touch Me / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Addison Heimann, Producers: John Humber, David Lawson Jr.) –– Two codependent finest buddies develop into hooked on the heroin-like contact of an alien narcissist who could or will not be attempting to take over the world. Cast: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Marlene Forte, Paget Brewster. World Premiere. Fiction.
The Ugly Stepsister / Norway (Director and Screenwriter: Emilie Blichfeldt, Producer:
Maria Ekerhovd) –– In a fairy-tale kingdom the place magnificence is a brutal enterprise, Elvira battles to compete along with her extremely stunning stepsister, and she’s going to go to any size to catch the prince’s eye. Cast: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger. World Premiere. Fiction.
EPISODIC
Our Episodic part was created particularly for daring tales advised in a number of episodes, with an emphasis on unbiased views and revolutionary storytelling. Past initiatives which have premiered inside this class embody Penelope, LOLLA: THE STORY OF LOLLAPALOOZA, Willie Nelson and Family, OJ: Made in America, Wild Wild Country, The Jinx, Work in Progress, State of the Union, Gentefied, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, and Quarter Life Poetry.
Bucks County, USA / U.S.A. (Directors and Executive Producers: Barry Levinson, Robert May, Executive Producer: Jason Sosnoff) –– Evi and Vanessa, two 14-year-olds dwelling in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, are finest buddies regardless of their opposing political opinions. As nationwide disputes over public training explode into vitriol and division of their hometown, the women and others locally struggle to find the humanity in “the opposite aspect.” World Premiere. Documentary. Five-part docu-series, screening episodes one and two.
Hal & Harper / U.S.A. (Director and Executive Producer: Cooper Raiff, Executive Producers: Clementine Quittner, Lili Reinhart, Daniel Lewis, Addison Timlin) –– Hal and Harper and Dad chart the evolution of their household. Cast: Lili Reinhart, Mark Ruffalo, Betty Gilpin, Havana Rose Liu, Addison Timlin, Alyah Chanelle Scott. World Premiere. Fiction. Available Online for Public. Eight-episode season, screening first 4 episodes in particular person and full season on-line.
Pee-wee as Himself / U.S.A. (Director: Matt Wolf, Producer: Emma Tillinger Koskoff) –– A chronicle of the lifetime of artist and performer Paul Reubens and his alter ego Pee-wee Herman. Prior to his latest demise, Reubens spoke in-depth about his inventive influences, and the private struggles he confronted to persevere as an artist. World Premiere. Documentary. Two-part documentary, screening in its entirety.
Episodic Pilot Showcase:
BULLDOZER /U.S.A. (Writer and Executive Producer: Joanna Leeds, Director and Executive Producer: Andrew Leeds, Executive Producers: Rhett Reese, Caleb Reese) –– An undermedicated, chronically impassioned younger lady lurches from disaster to disaster of her personal making. Cast: Joanna Leeds, Mary Steenburgen, Nat Faxon, Harvey Guillen, Allen Leech, Kate Burton. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
Chasers /U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Erin Brown Thomas, Screenwriter: Ciarra Krohne, Producers: Elle Shaw, Olivia Haller, Beth Napoli, Hayden Greiwe) –– At a Los Angeles home celebration, an aspiring musician pursues her crush by means of a crowd of hopeful dreamers chasing empty guarantees. Cast: Ciarra Krohne, Louie Chapman, Keana Marie, Shannon Gisela, Brooke Maroon, Xan Churchwell. World Premiere. Fiction. Available on-line for Public.
Never Get Busted! /Australia (Showrunners: David Anthony Ngo, Erin Williams-Weir, Executive Producers: John Battsek, Chris Smith) –– Barry Cooper was a extremely embellished Texas narcotics officer — till he turned on the police drive by busting crooked cops and instructing drug customers the best way to disguise their stash. World Premiere. Documentary.
SPOTLIGHT
The Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love, presenting movies which have performed all through the world. Films which have performed on this class in recent times embody Hit Man, Joyland, The Worst Person within the World, The Biggest Little Farm, The Rider, Ida, and The Lobster.Spotlight is offered by Audible.
April / Georgia (Director and Screenwriter: Dea Kulumbegashvili, Producers: Luca Guadagnino, David Zerat, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Archil Gelovani, Gabriele Moratti, Alexandra Rossi) –– Nina is an obstetrician at a maternity hospital in Eastern Georgia. After a tough supply, an toddler dies and the daddy calls for an inquiry into her strategies. The scrutiny threatens to reveal Nina’s secret aspect job — visiting village properties of pregnant women and girls to supply unsanctioned abortions. Cast: Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili. Fiction.
One to One: John & Yoko / U.Ok. (Director and Producer: Kevin Macdonald, Producers: Peter Worsley, Alice Webb) –– An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one in every of music’s most well-known {couples} — John Lennon and Yoko Ono — spent dwelling in Greenwich Village, New York City, within the early Nineteen Seventies. Documentary.
FAMILY MATINEE
For over a decade, the Family Matinee part of the Festival (previously referred to as KIDS) has been constructed for audiences of all ages, however particularly for our youngest unbiased movie followers. Films which have performed on this class in recent times embody Out of My Mind, Blueback, The Elephant Queen, Science Fair, The Eagle Huntress, and Shaun the Sheep.
The Legend of Ochi / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Isaiah Saxon, Producers: Richard Peete, Traci Carlson, Jonathan Wang) — In a distant village on the island of Carpathia, a farm woman named Yuri is raised to worry an animal species referred to as Ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded child Ochi has been left behind, she escapes on an journey to deliver him residence. Cast: Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe. World Premiere. Fiction.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
One-of-a-kind moments spotlight new unbiased works that add to the distinctive Festival expertise.
The Six Billion Dollar Man / U.S.A. (Director: Eugene Jarecki, Producer: Kathleen Fournier) — Julian Assange confronted a doable 175 years in jail for exposing U.S. struggle crimes till occasions took a flip on this landmark case. World Premiere. Documentary. Available on-line for Public.
