Sundance Film Festival<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\tU.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION<\/p>\n
\n\tThe U.S. Documentary Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at world premieres of nonfiction American films illuminating the ideas, people, and events that shape the present day. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include The Perfect Neighbor, Selena y Los Dinos, Daughters, Sugarcane, Porcelain War, Navalny, Fire of Love, Summer of Soul (\u2026Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Boys State, Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, One Child Nation, American Factory, and On Her Shoulders.<\/p>\n
\n\tAmerican Doctor \/ U.S.A., State of Palestine, Malaysia, Qatar (Director and Producer: Poh Si Teng, Producers: Kirstine Barfod, Reem Haddad) \u2013\u2013 When three American doctors \u2014 Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian \u2014 enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tAmerican Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez \/ U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: David Alvarado, Producers: Lauren DeFilippo, Everett Katigbak, Amanda Pollak) \u2013\u2013 Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot Suit and La Bamba, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America\u2019s story. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tBarbara Forever \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Brydie O\u2019Connor, Producer: Elijah Stevens) \u2013\u2013 An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tJoybubbles \/ U.S.A. (Director: Rachael J. Morrison, Producer: Sarah Winshall) \u2013\u2013 Joybubbles discovers he can manipulate the telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession unwittingly lays the groundwork for a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Lake \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Abby Ellis, Producer: Fletcher Keyes) \u2013\u2013 An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race the clock to save their home from unprecedented catastrophe. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tNuisance Bear \/ U.S.A., Canada (Directors: Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman, Producers: Michael Code, Will N. Miller, Teddy Leifer) \u2013\u2013 A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tPublic Access \/ U.S.A. (Director: David Shadrack Smith, Producers: Sara Crow, Anne-Marcelle Ngabirano) \u2013\u2013 An unprecedented look inside one of the greatest media experiments to hijack American screens. Rare archives from New York\u2019s underground capture a world of creators who shattered rules, defied censors, and transformed our televisions into a free-speech battleground where anyone could be a star. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tSeized \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Sharon Liese, Producers: Sasha Alpert, Paul Matyasovsky) \u2013\u2013 When the small town of Marion, Kansas, is thrust into the international spotlight after a police raid on the Marion County Record and the death of its 98-year-old co-owner, a fierce debate ignites about the abuse of power, journalistic ethics, local journalism, and the United States Constitution. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tSoul Patrol \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: J.M. Harper, Producers: Sam Bisbee, Danielle Massie, Nasir Jones, Peter Bittenbender) \u2013\u2013 From deep behind enemy lines, a hidden chapter of American military history is uncovered, prompting the question of whether reckoning with the past can bring peace to those who lived it. The Vietnam War\u2019s first Black special operations team reunites to tell their story. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tWho Killed Alex Odeh? \/ U.S.A. (Directors: Jason Osder, William Lafi Youmans, Producer: Dawne Langford, William Lafi Youmans, Jason Osder, Daniel J. Chalfen) \u2013\u2013 The assassination of a beloved Palestinian American activist in Southern California ignites a 40-year quest for justice, revealing the roots of a dangerous political movement that thrives today. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tWORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION<\/p>\n
\n\tThese nonfiction feature films from emerging talent around the world showcase some of the most courageous and extraordinary filmmaking today. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Prime Minister, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, 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.<\/p>\n
\n\tAll About the Money \/ Ireland (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Shea, Producers: Claire McCabe, Harry Vaughn, Katie Holly, Sigrid Dyekj\u00e6r) \u2013\u2013 A son of one of America\u2019s wealthiest families creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts as a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in but has now come to despise. It\u2019s the starting point of an astonishing journey. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tBirds of War \/ U.K., Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon (Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak, Producer: Sonja Henrici) \u2013\u2013 The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tClosure \/ Poland (Director and Producer: Micha\u0142 Marczak, Producers: Monika Braid, R\u00e9mi Grellety, Katarzyna Szczerba, Karolina Marczak) \u2013\u2013 After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tEverybody To Kenmure Street \/ U.K. (Director and Producer: Felipe Bustos Sierra, Producer: Ciara Barry) \u2013\u2013 In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland\u2019s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tHanging by a Wire \/ U.S.A., U.K., Pakistan (Director and Producer: Mohammed Ali Naqvi, Producer: Bilal Sami) \u2013\u2013 A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable car\u2019s wire snaps, leaving eight passengers \u2014 including six schoolboys \u2014 dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tKikuyu Land \/ Kenya (Directors and Producers: Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu, Producers: Moses Bwayo, Mike Morrisroe, Joseph Njenga) \u2013\u2013 As a Nairobi journalist probes a land battle entangling the local government and a powerful multinational corporation, covered wounds are revealed and family secrets are exposed. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tOne In A Million \/ U.K. (Directors: Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes, Producers: Raney Aronson-Rath, Will Anderson, James Bluemel, Andrew Palmer) \u2013\u2013 Filmed over 10 years, one girl\u2019s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tSentient \/ Australia (Director and Screenwriter: Tony Jones, Screenwriter: Rachel Grierson-Johns, Producer: Ivan O\u2019Mahoney) \u2013\u2013 An investigation into laboratory research on animals exposes a hidden world in which it\u2019s not just the animals getting hurt. The story of Dr. Lisa Jones Engel, a primatologist turned animal welfare advocate, asks whether harming animals and ourselves in science\u2019s name is justified. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tSilenced \/ Australia (Director: Selina Miles, Producer: Blayke Hoffman) \u2013\u2013 After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gender violence, international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights against the weaponization of defamation laws to silence survivors. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tTo Hold a Mountain \/ Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia (Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazi\u0107, Producers: Quentin Laurent, Rok Bi\u010dek) \u2013\u2013In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family. World Premiere. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tNEXT<\/p>\n
\n\tPure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling populate this program. Unfettered creativity promises that the films in this section will shape the greater next wave in global cinema. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include East of Wall, Little Death, Seeking Mavis Beacon, KOKOMO CITY, A Love Song, RIOTSVILLE, USA, Searching, Skate Kitchen, A Ghost Story, and Tangerine.NEXT is presented by Adobe.<\/p>\n
\n\tAanikoobijigan [ancestor\/great-grandparent\/great-grandchild] \/ U.S.A., Denmark (Directors and Producers: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Producers: Steve Holmgren, Grace Remington, Jacque Clark, Franny Alfano) \u2014 Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place. World Premiere. Documentary. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tGhost in the Machine \/ U.S.A.(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Valerie Veatch) \u2014 The untold origins of artificial intelligence lie not in machines but in power, revealing the fantasies behind the hype that got us here and where we go next. World Premiere. Documentary. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tJaripeo \/ Mexico, U.S.A., France (Directors: Efra\u00edn Mojica, Rebecca Zweig, Producer: Sarah Strunin) \u2014 A journey to Michoac\u00e1n\u2019s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind. World Premiere. Documentary. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tThey Dream \/U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: William David Caballero, Screenwriters and Producers: Erin Ploss-Campoamor, Elaine del Valle, Producer: Brad Jones) \u2014 After 20 years of chronicling his Puerto Rican family, a director and his mother face devastating losses. Through tears and laughter, they craft animations that bring their loved ones back to life, discovering that every act of creation is also an act of letting go. World Premiere. Documentary. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tPREMIERES<\/p>\n
\n\tThis showcase of world premieres presents highly anticipated films on a variety of subjects in both fiction and nonfiction. Fiction films that have screened in Premieres include Train Dreams, A Different Man, Past Lives, Passages, Promising Young Woman, Kajillionaire, The Report, The Big Sick, and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Past documentary films include Come See Me in the Good Light, Will & Harper, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Invisible Beauty, The Dissident, Lucy and Desi, and Miss Americana.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist \/ U.S.A. (Directors: Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell, Producers: Daniel Kwan, Jonathan Wang, Shane Boris, Diane Becker, Ted Tremper)\u2014 A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity, exploring the existential dangers and stunning promise of this technology that humanity has created. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
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\n\tAntiheroine \/ U.K., U.S.A. (Directors: Edward Lovelace, James Hall, Producers: Julia Nottingham, Melanie Archer, Hattie Bridges Webb, Jon Lullo)\u2014 Singer, songwriter, and actor Courtney Love has long had an impact on rock and pop culture. Now sober and set to release new music for the first time in over a decade, Courtney is ready to reveal her story, unfiltered and unapologetic. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Brittney Griner Story \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Alexandria Stapleton, Producers: Stacy Scripter, Funmi Akinyode, Megan Goedewaagen, Carolyn Hepburn)\u2014 Explores the circumstances that led to Brittney Griner playing basketball outside the U.S. despite being one of the best players in the sport, including her harrowing detainment, unwavering determination to secure her freedom, and her advocacy for the release of other wrongful detainees. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tTHE DISCIPLE \/ U.S.A, U.K. (Director and Producer: Joanna Natasegara, Producers: Abigail Anketell-Jones, Lauren Dark, Vanessa Kirby)\u2014 An outsider fueled by relentless determination works his way into the inner circle of the Wu-Tang Clan, where his ambition and creativity converge in the making of an album poised to ignite global controversy. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tGive Me the Ball! \/ U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff, Producers: Dominic Crossley-Holland, Dan Cogan, Chris James, Gentry Kirby)\u2014 World champion tennis trailblazer Billie Jean King has had a game-changing impact on culture and sports. Rare archive and candid interviews with Billie Jean and those closest to her reveal how one woman put changing the world ahead of saving herself. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe History of Concrete \/ U.S.A. (Director: John Wilson, Producers: Clark Filio, Shirel Kozak, Allie Viti) \u2014 After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tJane Elliott Against the World \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Judd Ehrlich, Producers: Max Powers, Elena Gaby)\u2014 A rural Iowa schoolteacher becomes a national voice against racism after leading a controversial 1968 lesson in discrimination with her all-white third-grade class. Now nearly 90, she refuses to hold back amid today\u2019s fights about race, history, and power after a lifetime of speaking out. World Premiere. Documentary. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tKnife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Alex Gibney, Producers: Erin Edeiken, Sruthi Pinnamaneni)\u2014 Previously unseen footage captured by Salman Rushdie\u2019s wife, Rachel Elizabeth Griffiths, documents his journey. Following not just his physical rehabilitation, but also the restoration of his spirit and optimism. Inspired by Rushdie\u2019s memoir Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Last First: Winter K2 \/ U.S.A., U.K. (Director: Amir Bar-Lev, Producers: John Battsek, Sean Richard, Sarah Thomson, Howard T. Owens, Ben Silverman)\u2014 The race to grab the last great prize in mountaineering, K2 in winter, left five dead. It exposed deep fault lines in alpinism today: pressures from commercialization, toxic effects of social media, and long-brewing tensions between those who\u2019ve been marginalized and those who\u2019ve always basked in the sport\u2019s glory. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Oldest Person in the World \/ U.S.A. (Director: Sam Green, Producers: Alison Byrne Fields, Josh Penn)\u2014 A decade-long global journey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive. World Premiere. Documentary. <\/p>\n
\n\tOnce Upon A Time In Harlem \/ U.S.A. (Directors: William Greaves, David Greaves, Producers: Liani Greaves, Anne de Mare) \u2014 A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tParalyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story \/ U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Judd Apatow, Neil Berkeley, Producers: Amanda Rohlke, David Heiman)\u2014 Blurring the line between performance and personal crisis, comedian Maria Bamford turns her mental health journey into material that\u2019s riotously funny and ultimately inspiring. What emerges is a portrait of an artist transforming vulnerability into creative strength through honesty. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tQueen of Chess \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Rory Kennedy, Screenwriters and Producers: Mark Bailey, Keven McAlester) \u2014A Hungarian girl dreams of conquering international men\u2019s chess. After a 15-year battle against world champion Garry Kasparov and her domineering father, Judit Polg\u00e1r revolutionizes the sport\u2019s patriarchal culture to become one of the greatest chess prodigies in history and the greatest woman chess player of all time. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tTime and Water \/ U.S.A., Iceland (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Sara Dosa, Screenwriters: Jocelyne Chaput, Erin Casper, Andri Sn\u00e6r Magnason, Producers: Shane Boris, Elijah Stevens, Jameka Autry) \u2014 Facing the death of his country\u2019s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Sn\u00e6r Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away \u2014 family, memory, time, and water. World Premiere. Documentary. Available online for public.<\/p>\n
\n\tTroublemaker \/ South Africa, U.S.A., U.K. (Director and Producer: Antoine Fuqua, Screenwriter: Michael Toomey Mann, Producers: Mac Maharaj, Arthur Landon, Kevin Mann, Mark Bauch, Thabang Lehobye)\u2014 The struggle against apartheid is recounted through Nelson Mandela\u2019s own voice, drawn from recordings he made while writing his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen A Witness Recants \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Dawn Porter, Producers: Miriam Weintraub, Jennifer Oko)\u2014 In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates learned that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in his Baltimore middle school. Upon revisiting the case, he uncovers the truth: Three innocent teenagers were wrongfully convicted and spent 36 years in prison \u2014 creating a lasting impact on the accused, the witnesses, and their community. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tNonfiction Pilot Showcase:<\/p>\n
\n\tMurder 101 \/U.S.A. (Director: Stacey Lee, Executive Producers: Stephanie Lydecker, Dianne McGunigle, Jon Watts) \u2014 A case that haunted Tennessee\u2019s best detectives for decades is cracked wide open by the most unlikely of investigators: a high school sociology class. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Oligarch and the Art Dealer \/Denmark, France, U.S.A. (Director: Andreas Dalsgaard, Producers: Christoph J\u00f6rg, Miriam Norgaard) \u2014 Yves Bouvier brokers masterpieces, from da Vinci to Rothko, into the private collection of Dmitry Rybolovlev until Bouvier is accused of a billion-dollar betrayal. Rising ambitions, frayed relationships, and bruised egos fuel a decade-long all-out war between the Swiss art dealer and the elusive Russian oligarch. World Premiere. Documentary.<\/p>\n
\n\tFamily Matinee:<\/p>\n
\n\tCookie Queens \/ U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Alysa Nahmias, Producers: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw, Jennifer Sims) \u2014 It\u2019s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling \u201cCookie Queen,\u201d navigating an $800 million business in which childhood and ambition collide. World Premiere. Documentary. Salt Lake City Celebration Film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the biggest names in documentary film will be descending on Park City, Utah next month for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[171693,88,206,171694,98265],"class_list":["post-342453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-basil-tsiokos","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-sudeep-sharma","tag-sundance-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}