“We even have a brisk first-time filmmaker you’re going to hear a lot about, James Schamus,” Groth quipped about “Indignation,” Schamus’ Philip Roth adaptation starring Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon.
Several of a titles in Premieres find their directors operative again with actors and/or characters from progressing work. Greta Gerwig, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn star in Solondz’s “Wiener-Dog,” a dog comedy that facilities characters from his 1996 Sundance grand jury prizewinner, “Welcome to a Dollhouse.” Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny, who formerly interconnected on Stillman’s “Last Days of Disco,” play 18th-century women in a director’s Jane Austen instrumentation “Love Friendship,” one of a few Premieres titles already acquired for placement (in this case, by Amazon Studios).
On a general side, Premieres will also unspool the WWI-era play “Ali Nino,” a lapse to account filmmaking by British helmer Asif Kapadia after his well-received documentaries “Amy” and “Senna” (a 2010 Sundance entry); “Hunt for a Wilderpeople,” another offbeat, regionally specific comedy from New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi after his Park City pics “Eagle vs. Shark,” “Boy” and “What We Do in a Shadows”; and “Agnus Dei,” a Poland-set WWII play from Anne Fontaine, who was during Sundance in 2013 with “Two Mothers,” after expelled as “Adore.”
Rounding out Premieres are “The Hollars,” Krasinski’s play starring himself and Anna Kendrick; “Sing Street,” an ’80s Dublin-set play from John Carney (“Once”); and “Sophie and a Rising Sun,” a tale of cross-cultural dispute during WWII from Greenwald (“Songcatcher”), which will accept a Salt Lake City gala.
The festival’s Documentary Premieres module is likewise packed with veterans and heavyweights, including Werner Herzog with his Web-focused “Lo and Behold, Reveries of a Connected World”; Spike Lee with “Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off a Wall”; Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady with “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You,” that will be one of 4 films to shade on a fest’s initial day; Liz Garbus’ “Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt Anderson Cooper”; and Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s “Unlocking a Cage.” Also in a brew are “Richard Linklater — Dream Is Destiny,” a mural of a Austin filmmaker, and Stephane Soechtig’s “Under a Gun,” a gun-control documentary that, like Kim A. Snyder’s “Newtown” (premiering in a U.S. thespian competition), centers around a Sandy Hook tragedy.
The festival’s best-of-fests Spotlight line-up includes Cannes premieres “Cemetery of Splendor,” “Embrace of a Serpent,” “Green Room,” “The Lobster” and “Rams”; Toronto titles “Land of Mine” and “Maggie’s Plan”; “Miles Ahead,” that done a premiere during a New York Film Festival; and “Viva,” that played during Telluride.
Special Events, introduced during a 2015 festival, is “an elaborating section” that this year includes episodic work, brief films and live post-screening discussions. In further to a aforementioned titles, a module includes a two-hour premiere of “11.22.63,” Kevin Macdonald’s nine-hour eventuality array about a time traveler perplexing to forestall a assassination of John F. Kennedy, and a initial dual hours of “The New Yorker Presents,” an Alex Gibney-produced docu array about a magazine.
The Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 21-31.
PREMIERES
“Agnus Dei” (France-Poland / Director: Anne Fontaine, Screenwriters: Sabrina N. Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer) — 1945 Poland: Mathilde, a immature French doctor, is on a goal to assistance World War II survivors. When a nun seeks her assistance in assisting several surpassing nuns in hiding, who are incompetent to determine their faith with their pregnancies, Mathilde becomes their usually hope. Cast: Lou de Laage, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Katarzyna Dabrowska.
“Ali Nino” (U.K. / Director: Asif Kapadia, Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton) — Muslim king Ali and Georgian nobleman Nino have grown adult in a Russian range of Azerbaijan. Their comfortless adore story sees a dispute of a First World War and a world’s onslaught for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they contingency select to quarrel for their country’s autonomy or for any other. Cast: Adam Bakri, Maria Valverde, Mandy Patinkin, Connie Nielsen, Riccardo Scamarcio, Homayoun Ershadi.
“Captain Fantastic” (Director and screenwriter: Matt Ross) — Deep in a forests of a Pacific Northwest, a father clinging to lifting his 6 kids with a severe earthy and egghead preparation is forced to leave his bliss and re-enter society, commencement a tour that hurdles his thought of what it means to be a parent. Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, George MacKay, Kathryn Hahn, Steve Zahn, Ann Dowd.
“Certain Women” (Director: Kelly Reichardt, Screenwriter: Kelly Reichardt formed on stories by Maile Meloy) — The lives of 3 lady join in parochial America, where any is imperfectly blazing a trail. Cast: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, James Le Gros, Jared Harris, Lily Gladstone.
“Complete Unknown” (Director: Joshua Marston, Screenwriters: Joshua Marston, Julian Sheppard) — When Tom and his mom horde a cooking celebration to applaud his birthday, one of their friends brings a date named Alice. Tom is assured he knows her, though she’s going by a opposite name and a opposite autobiography — and she’s not acknowledging that she knows him. Cast: Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates, Danny Glover.
“Frank Lola” (Director and screenwriter: Matthew Ross) — A psychosexual noir adore story — set in Las Vegas and Paris — about love, obsession, sex, betrayal, punish and, ultimately, a hunt for redemption. Cast: Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Michael Nyqvist, Justin Long, Emmanuelle Devos, Rosanna Arquette.
“The Fundamentals of Caring” (Director and screenwriter: Rob Burnett) — Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to acquire money. His initial client, Trevor, is a waggish 18-year-old with robust dystrophy. One inept emotionally, one inept physically, Ben and Trevor strike a road, anticipating hope, friendship, and Dot in this humorous and touching inspirational tale. Cast: Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, Selena Gomez, Jennifer Ehle, Megan Ferguson, Frederick Weller. (Closing-night film)
“The Hollars” (Director: John Krasinski, Screenwriter: Jim Strouse) — Aspiring New York City artist John Hollar earnings to his Middle America hometown on a eve of his mother’s mind surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, 8 months surpassing with their initial child, John is forced to navigate a crazy universe he left behind. Cast: John Krasinski, Anna Kendrick, Margo Martindale, Richard Jenkins, Sharlto Copley, Charlie Day.
“Hunt for a Wilderpeople” / New Zealand (Director and screenwriter: Taika Waititi) — Ricky is a adventurous immature city child who finds himself on a run with his churlish encourage uncle in a furious New Zealand bush. A inhabitant manhunt ensues, and a dual are forced to put aside their differences and work together to tarry in this heartwarming tour comedy. Cast: Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Oscar Kightley.
“Indignation” / Director and screenwriter: James Schamus) — It’s 1951, and among a new arrivals during Winesburg College in Ohio are a son of a kosher grocer from New Jersey and a beautiful, shining daughter of a distinguished alum. For a brief moment, their lives intersect in this emotionally mountainous film formed on a novel by Philip Roth. Cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Emond, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield.
“Little Men” (Director: Ira Sachs, Screenwriter: Mauricio Zacharias) — When 13-year-old Jake’s grandfather dies, his family moves behind into their aged Brooklyn home. There, Jake befriends Tony, whose singular Chilean mom runs a emporium downstairs. As their loyalty deepens, however, their families are driven detached by a dispute over rent, and a boys respond with a vouch of silence. Cast: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina Garcia, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri.
“Love Friendship” (Ireland-France-Netherlands / Director and screenwriter: Whit Stillman) — From Jane Austen’s novella, a pleasing and deceit Lady Susan Vernon visits a estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two immature men, large Reginald DeCourcy and abounding Sir James Martin, exceedingly mystify her plans. Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Tom Bennett, Stephen Fry.
“Manchester by a Sea” (Director and screenwriter: Kenneth Lonergan) — After his comparison hermit passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to lapse home to caring for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to understanding with a comfortless past that distant him from his family and a encampment where he was innate and raised. Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler.
“Mr. Pig” (Mexico / Director: Diego Luna, Screenwriters: Augusto Mendoza, Diego Luna) — On a goal to sell his final remaining esteem sow and reunite with aged friends, an aging rancher abandons his foreclosed plantation and journeys to Mexico. After bootlegging in a hog, his disloyal daughter shows up, forcing them to face their past and embark on an brave highway outing together. Cast: Danny Glover, Maya Rudolph, Jose Maria Yazpik, Joel Murray, Angelica Aragon, Gabriela Araujo.
“Sing Street” (Ireland / Director and screenwriter: John Carney) — A child flourishing adult in Dublin during a ’80s escapes his stretched family life and tough new propagandize by starting a rope to win a heart of a pleasing and puzzling girl. Cast: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Aidan Gillen, Mark McKenna.
“Sophie and a Rising Sun” (Director and screenwriter: Maggie Greenwald) — In a tiny Southern city in a autumn of 1941, Sophie’s waste life is remade when an Asian male arrives underneath puzzling circumstances. Their adore eventuality becomes a lightning rod for long-buried conflicts that explode in influence and assault with a dispute of World War ll. Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Margo Martindale, Lorraine Toussaint, Takashi Yamaguchi, Diane Ladd, Joel Murray. (Salt Lake City celebration film)
“Wiener-Dog” (Director and screenwriter: Todd Solondz) — This film tells several stories featuring people who find their life desirous or altered by one sold dachshund, who seems to be swelling comfort and joy. Cast: Greta Gerwig, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn, Julie Delpy, Zosia Mamet.
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES
“Eat That Question — Frank Zappa in His Own Words” (France-Germany / Director: Thorsten Schutte) — This interesting confront with a premier of sonic fashionable is acidic, fun-poking, and full of abounding and singular archival footage. This documentary bashes favorite Zappa targets and dashes a few misconceptions about a male himself.
“Film Hawk” (Directors: JJ Garvine, Tai Parquet) — Trace Bob Hawk’s early years as a immature happy child of a Methodist apportion to his stream career as a consultant on some of a many successful individualist films of a time.
“Lo and Behold, Reveries of a Connected World” (Director: Werner Herzog) — Does a Internet dream of itself? Explore a horizons of a connected world.
“Mapplethorpe: Look during a Pictures” (Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) — This hearing of Robert Mapplethorpe’s vast life is led by a artist himself, vocalization with heartless probity in a array of rediscovered interviews about his passions. Intimate revelations from friends, family, and lovers strew new light on this shameful artist who lighted a enlightenment quarrel that still rages on.
“Maya Angelou and Still we Rise” (Directors: Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack) — The conspicuous story of Maya Angelou — iconic writer, poet, singer and romantic whose life has intersected some of a many surpassing moments in new American history.
“Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off a Wall” (Director: Spike Lee) — Catapulted by a success of his initial vital solo project, Off a Wall, Michael Jackson went from child star to King of Pop. This film explores a seminal album, with singular archival footage and interviews from those who were there and those whose lives a success and bequest impacted.
“Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You” (Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady) — How did a bad Jewish child from Connecticut pierce us Archie Bunker and turn one of a many successful radio producers ever? Norman Lear brought provocative subjects like war, poverty, and influence into 120 million homes any week. He valid that amicable change was probable by an doubtful prism: laughter. World Premiere. (Day One film)
“Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt Anderson Cooper” (Director: Liz Garbus) — Gloria Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper any tell a story of their past and present, their loves and losses, and exhibit how some family stories have a bent to repeat themselves in a many astonishing ways.
“Resilience” (Director: James Redford) — This film chronicles a birth of a new transformation among pediatricians, therapists, educators, and communities regulating cutting-edge mind scholarship to interrupt cycles of violence, addiction, and disease. These professionals assistance mangle a cycles of adversity by adventurous to pronounce about a effects of divorce, abuse, and neglect.
“Richard Linklater — Dream Is Destiny” (Directors: Louis Black, Karen Bernstein) — This is an radical demeanour during a fiercely individualist character of filmmaking that arose in a 1990s from Austin, Texas, outward a studio system. The film blends singular archival footage with journals, disdainful interviews with Linklater on and off set, and clips from “Slacker,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Boyhood,” and more.
“Under a Gun” (Director: Stephanie Soechtig) — The Sandy Hook electrocute was deliberate a watershed impulse in a inhabitant discuss on gun control, though a physique count during a hands of gun assault has usually increased. Through a lens of a victims’ families, as good as pro-gun advocates, we inspect because a politicians have unsuccessful to act.
“Unlocking a Cage” (Directors: Chris Hegedus, Donn Alan Pennebaker) — Follow animal-rights counsel Steven Wise in his rare plea to mangle down a authorised wall that separates animals from humans. By filing a initial lawsuit of a kind, Wise seeks to renovate a chimpanzee from a “thing” with no rights to a “person” with simple authorised protection.
SPOTLIGHT
“Cemetery of Splendor” (Thailand / Director and screenwriter: Apichatpong Weerasethakul) — A secluded prime housewife tends to a infantryman with sleeping illness and falls into a ghost that triggers bizarre dreams, phantoms, and romance. Cast: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram.
“Embrace of a Serpent” (Colombia / Director: Ciro Guerra, Screenwriters: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal) — This blistering, elegant story is desirous by a strange journals of scientists Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, who accommodate sole survivor Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman. Over 40 years, they arise a loyalty while roving by a Colombian Amazon in hunt of a sacred, unusual yakruna plant. Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Antonio Bolivar, Nilbio Torres, Miguel Dionisio Ramos.
“Green Room” (Director and screenwriter: Jeremy Saulnier) — This wickedly fun horror-thriller tells a story about a owners of a neo-Nazi bar who squares off opposite an gullible though volatile immature punk rope after they declare a horrific act of violence. Cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Patrick Stewart.
“Land of Mine” (Denmark / Director and screenwriter: Martin Zandvliet) — At a finish of World War II, a organisation of immature German POWs prisoner by a Danish army are forced to defuse and transparent landmines from a Danish seashore with no training. Inspired by genuine events, a film exposes a infinite story of one comfortless impulse in Denmark’s history. Cast: Roland Møller, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Emil Belton, Oskar Belton. U.S. Premiere
“The Lobster” (Ireland-U.K.-Greece-France / Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, Screenwriters: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou) — In a dystopian nearby future, singular people are thankful to find a partner in 45 days or else be remade into an animal of their choice and be expelled into a woods. Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, Léa Seydoux, John C. Reilly, Olivia Colman.
“Maggie’s Plan” (Director: Rebecca Miller, Screenwriters: Rebecca Miller, formed on a story by Karen Rinaldi) — A immature woman’s integrity to have a child catapults her into a bold adore triangle with a heart-throb educational and his individualist critical-theorist wife. Cast: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Travis Fimmel.
“Miles Ahead” (Director: Don Cheadle, Screenwriters: Don Cheadle, Steven Baigelman) — Inspired by events in Miles Davis’s life, this is a extravagantly entertaining, impressionistic, no-holds-barred mural of one of twentieth-century music’s artistic geniuses. Cast: Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Lakeith Lee Stanfield, Michael Stuhlbarg.
“Rams” (Iceland / Director and screenwriter: Grimur Hakonarson) — In a remote Icelandic tillage valley, dual brothers who haven’t oral in 40 years have to come together to save what’s beloved to them—their sheep. Cast: Sigurdur Sigurjonsson, Theodor Juliusson.
“Viva” (Ireland / Director: Paddy Breathnach, Screenwriter: Mark O’Halloran) — In contemporary Cuba, a father and son onslaught to shun from any other’s expectations, duty, and a weight of past sins. Cast: Hector Medina, Jorge Perugorria, Luis Alberto Garcia.
SUNDANCE KIDS
“The Eagle Huntress” (Director: Otto Bell) — Step aside, Daenerys and Katniss — Aisholpan is a real-life purpose indication on an epic tour in a lost world. Follow this 13-year-old winding Mongolian lady as she battles to turn a initial womanlike to hunt with a golden eagle in 2,000 years of male-dominated history.
“Little Gangster” (Netherlands / Director: Arne Toonen, Screenwriter: Lotte Tabbers) — Rik Boskamp wants a life where he’s not constantly bullied. When he and his family move, a people in their new city consider his father is a Mafia boss, and everybody treats them with respect—until a brag from Rikkie’s past turns up. How prolonged can he keep adult his lie? Cast: Thor Braun, Henry Van Loon, Rene Van ‘T Hof, Meral Polat, Fedja Van Huêt, Maas Bronkhuyzen. (North American premiere)
“Snowtime!” (Canada / Directors: Jean-François Pouliot, François Brisson, Screenwriters: Normand Canac-Marquis, Paul Risacher) — To entertain themselves during their winter mangle from school, a kids in a tiny encampment have a large snowball fight. But what starts out as pristine childish fun and unrestrained deteriorates into a some-more critical dispute as a children learn a purpose that adore and loyalty play in their lives. Cast: Sandra Oh, Ross Lynch, Angela Gallupo, Lucinda Davis, Don Shepherd, Sonja Ball. (North American premiere)
SPECIAL EVENTS
“11.22.63” (Director: Kevin Macdonald, Screenwriter: Bridget Carpenter, Executive Producers: J.J. Abrams, Stephen King, Kevin Macdonald, Bridget Carpenter, Bryan Burk) — On Nov. 22, 1963, 3 shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy was killed, and a universe changed. What if we could change it back? Take a tour to find out in this genre-busting, epic new nine-hour eventuality series. The festival will entrance a two-hour premiere of a series, followed by an extended QA. Cast: James Franco, Sarah Gadon, Daniel Webber, George MacKay, Josh Duhamel, Chris Cooper.
“Behind a Scenes of Anomalisa” / U.S.A. (Directors: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman) — Michael Stone—husband, father and reputable author—is crippled by a mundanity of his life. On a business trip, he checks into a Fregoli Hotel. He’s vacant to learn a probable shun from his recklessness in an artless woman, who might or might not be a adore of his life. The festival will benefaction a screening of a film followed by a QA with a creators. Separately, they will pronounce on a festival row explaining their artistic routine and how they brought their unusual film to life. Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, David Thewlis.
“Chelsea Does” (Director: Eddie Schmidt) — This four-part documentary array facilities Chelsea Handler as she explores topics of personal and concept fascination: marriage, racism, Silicon Valley, and drugs. The fddddddestival will premiere one installment of a array with clips from a other 3 installments, followed by an extended QA with Chelsea Handler, ddirector Eddie Schmidt, and executive writer Morgan Neville.
“The Girlfriend Experience” (Directors and screenwriters: Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz, Executive Producers: Steven Soderbergh, Philip Fleishman, Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz, Gary Marcus, Jeff Cuban) — Law tyro Christine Reade is introduced to a universe of transactional relations in this strange anthology series. Providing “The Girlfriend Experience” (an romantic and passionate attribute offering during a high price) gives Christine a rush of control and intimacy, though she shortly finds herself sophistry dual really opposite lives. The Festival will premiere 4 episodes of a series, followed by an extended QA. Cast: Riley Keough, Paul Sparks, Mary Lynn Rajskub, James Gilbert, Kate Lyn Sheil.
“The New Yorker Presents” (Executive Producers: Alex Gibney, Kahane Cooperman, Showrunner: Kahane Cooperman) — A groundbreaking new array that brings America’s many award-winning magazine, a New Yorker, to a shade with documentaries, brief account films, comedy, poetry, animation, and cartoons from a hands of acclaimed filmmakers and artists. The festival will premiere a initial dual episodes of a series, followed by an extended QA.
“O.J.: Made in America” (Director: Ezra Edelman) — This is a story of O.J. Simpson, one of a many polarizing people of a 20th century, and a city in that he lived for most of his life, Los Angeles. The film explores Simpson’s arise and fall, centered around dual of America’s biggest fixations — competition and celebrity. The Festival will premiere a full 7.5-hour documentary, followed by an extended QA.
“The Skinny” (Director and screenwriter: Jessie Kahnweiler) — Follow feminist and wannabe YouTube star Jessie as she struggles to live, love, and get over her bulimia. The festival will premiere 6 10-minute episodes, followed by an extended QA with Kahnweiler. Cast: Jessie Kahnweiler, Illeana Douglas, Spencer Hill, Ryan Pinkston, Megan Ferguson, Sadie Calvano.
“United Shades of America” (Executive Producers: Jimmy Fox, W. Kamau Bell, Star Price) — Political comedian W. Kamau Bell explores a secular subcultures of America. In this strange array premiere, he uses amusement to plea Klansmen looking to rebrand their message. The screening will embody an extended QA.
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