The 41st Sundance Film Festival, one of the world's leading festivals for independent and documentary filmmakers, opens Thursday, with in-person screenings in Park City and Salt Lake City in Utah, and select films and events available to stream across the U.S.via Sundance's digital platform beginning January 30.
This year's lineup includes 88 feature films and seven episodic titles from around the world, most of which are international premieres, in additional to short film programs (narrative, documentary and animation).Nearly half are by first-time filmmakers.The festival runs through Feb.
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Rather than a gala opening night screening, the first day of Sundance showcases the premieres of 15 features and a short film program spread across four venues.Films include documentary debuts about actress Marlee Matlin, Ukraine's 2023 counteroffensive against Russia, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, dating in China, and comedian and performance artist Paul Reubens (a.k.a.
Pee-wee Herman), as well as dramas from Norway, Hong Kong, North Macedonia, Georgia, Australia, and the United States.On Friday, the festival expands to screens in Salt Lake City. FictionSome of the festival's narrative features include "Kiss of the Spider Woman," Bill Condon's film version of the Tony-winning musical (adapted from the Manuel Puig novel), starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiuh.
In "Omaha," John Magaro takes his two young children on a cross-country trek after a family tragedy.Based on the Max Porter novella "Grief Is the Thing with Feathers," "The Things With Feathers" stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a newly-widowed father of two boys.
"Killers of the Flower Moon" actress Lily Gladstone and SNL's Bowen Yang star in "The Wedding Banquet," a remake of Ang Lee's 1993 comedy.Juliette Lewis stars in "By Design," a quirky tale in which a young woman covets a chair so much that she becomes it.
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