Sundance 2022 Movie Guide
Sundance 2022 Movie Guide
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- DirectorAbi Damaris CorbinStarsJohn BoyegaNicole BeharieSelenis LeyvaA Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate into civilian life.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorKrystin Ver LindenStarsKeke PalmerCommonJonny Lee MillerA slave in the antebellum South escapes her secluded plantation only to discover a shocking reality that lies beyond the tree line.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorBradley Rust GrayStarsCarla JuriTakashi UenoSachiko OhshimaAfter the death of her husband, a young woman travels to Japan where she finds solace in an old friend, but, when his comforting turns to affection, she realizes she must give herself permission before she can fall in love again.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorCooper RaiffStarsCooper RaiffDakota JohnsonEvan AssanteA young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorRiley StearnsStarsKaren GillanAaron PaulBeulah KoaleA woman opts for a cloning procedure after she receives a terminal diagnosis but when she recovers her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail, leading to a court-mandated duel to the death.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorCarey WilliamsStarsRJ CylerDonald Elise WatkinsSebastian ChaconReady for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorMariama DialloStarsRegina HallZoe ReneeJulia NightingaleThree women strive to find their place at an elite Northeastern university. When anonymous racist attacks target a Black freshman, who insists she is being haunted by ghosts, each woman must determine where the real menace lies.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorNikyatu JusuStarsAnna DiopMichelle MonaghanSinqua WallsPiecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, immigrant nanny Aisha is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorJamie DackStarsLily McInernyGretchen MolEmily JacksonA disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorChloe OkunoStarsMaika MonroeKarl GlusmanBurn GormanA young American actress moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from an apartment window may be a serial killer.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorPaula EiseltTonya Lewis LeeStarsHelena GrantTwila MilesNeel ShahFollowing the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorMargaret BrownStarsTheodore ArthurGary AutreyChris DavisFollows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorSara DosaStarsMiranda JulyKatia KrafftMaurice KrafftIntrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorJulie HaEugene YiStarsChol Soo LeeJeff AdachiK.W. LeeIn 1970s San Francisco, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is wrongly convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, journalist K.W. Lee takes an interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social movement.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorReid DavenportStarsReid DavenportSpurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot entirely from director Reid Davenport's physical perspective - mounted to his wheelchair or handheld - the film serves as an unequivocal rebuke to the norm of disabled people being seen and not heard. I Didn't See You There expands on the tradition of point-of-view cinema by incorporating a disabled aesthetic generated through Davenport's own embodiment.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorMeg SmakerGuantanamo detainees are released into a year long program of de-radicalization in Saudi Arabia, with the eventual goal of finding jobs and starting families.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorViolet ColumbusBen KleinStarsChristine ChoyTodd PhillipsRonald GrayDocumentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorTia LessinEmma PildesStarsAbbyJudith ArcanaHeather BoothPolice arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorShalini KantayyaStarsRichard Cannon IIIJon 'TheBlondeJon' MadridJonathan MadridWith TikTok crowned the world's most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists and experts alike.Category: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorJim ArcherStarsDavid EarlChris HaywardLouise BrealeyAfter a particularly harsh winter Brian goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to, Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation. He builds a robot.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorJuan Pablo GonzálezStarsTeresa SánchezRafaela FuentesTatín VeraIn the bucolic hills of Mexico's Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorLászló CsujaAnna NemesStarsEszter CsonkaGyörgy TurósCsaba KrisztikEdina, a female bodybuilder is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer Adam: to win the Miss Olympia. The odd love she finds on her way makes her see the difference between her dreams and her true self.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorAlli HaapasaloStarsAamu MilonoffEleonoora KauhanenLinnea LeinoThree young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorMaryna Er GorbachStarsOksana CherkashynaSergey ShadrinOleg ShcherbinaAfter flight MH17 crashes in eastern Ukraine, violent tensions disrupt the lives of an expecting couple living in Donetsk.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorMartika Ramirez EscobarStarsSheila FranciscoBong CabreraRocky SalumbidesFiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorGabriel MartinsStarsCícero LucasCarlos FranciscoCamilla DamiãoA lower middle class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorFrancisca AlegriaStarsMía MaestroEnzo Ferrada RosatiBenjamin SotoCecilia travels to her father's farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her long-deceased mother whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorAlejandro Loayza GrisiStarsJosé CalcinaLuisa QuispeCandelaria QuispeIn the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorGoran StolevskiStarsNoomi RapaceAlice EnglertAnamaria MarincaIn an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit.Category: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsMarharyta BurlutskaAnjelika StolyarovaOlga TronovaChildren and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorShaunak SenStarsSalik RehmanMohammad SaudNadeem ShehzadAmidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorMaria LoohufvudLove MartinsenFlorida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorHnin Ei HlaingTwo midwives, one Buddhist and one Muslim, defy strict ethnic divisions to work side by side in a makeshift clinic in western Myanmar, providing medical services to the Rohingya of Rakhine State.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorKathryn FergusonStarsSinéad O'ConnorGay ByrneJohn O'ConnorFollowing the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorRita BaghdadiStarsAlaa AlnawaShery BecharaTatyana BoughabaLilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorAlon SchwarzStarsAvigdor FeldmanYoav GelberTeddy KatzIn the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorTania AndersonA revelation of the inner lives of young LDS missionaries, as they leave their homes for the first time and embark upon the most emotionally, physically and psychologically challenging period of their life.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorAlex PritzStarsNeidinha BandeiraBitaté Uru Eu Wau WauWhen a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorJoe HuntingStarsDust BunnyDragonHeartDylanPFilmed entirely inside the world of VR, this documentary captures the excitement and surprising intimacy of a burgeoning cultural movement, demonstrating the power of online connection in an isolated world.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorMax Walker-SilvermanStarsDale DickeyWes StudiMichelle WilsonAt a campground in the rural West, a woman waits alone for an old flame from her past to arrive, uncertain of his intentions while bashful about her own.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorAlika TenganStarsReanna BarbozaJordan ChengJoshua CoA young man is determined to give his life meaning outside of Kaimuki, the small Hawaiian town where he grew up, even if it means leaving everything he's ever known and loved behind.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorChase JoyntStarsCarmen CarreraKatie CouricLaverne CoxFRAMING AGNES turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorIsabel CastroStarsJacks HauptRaúl MascorroCarlos MuñozFollows Doris Muñoz, who began a career in music talent management and met Jacks Haupt, an auspicious young singer. Both share the ever-present guilt of being the first American-born members of their undocumented families.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorSierra PettengillStarsCharlene ModesteLyndon B. JohnsonOtto KernerWelcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation's reaction to the uprisings of the late '60s.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorJustin BensonAaron MoorheadStarsAaron MoorheadJustin BensonSarah Adina SmithMaverick filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead offer up a twisted reflection of our paranoid times in this inventive mix of buddy comedy and sci-fi thriller.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorRicky D'AmbroseStarsMonica BarbaroBrian d'Arcy JamesGeraldine SingerAn only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.Category: World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorRamin BahraniStarsRichard DavisAn exploration of Richard Davis, the inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself at least 192 times to prove his product worked.Category: Premieres
- DirectorStephanie AllynneTig NotaroStarsDakota JohnsonSonoya MizunoJermaine FowlerLucy and Jane have been best friends their entire lives. Only when Lucy embarks on a personal journey, will she face a test of her friendship, and her sense of self, on a path she may not be entirely ready to take.Category: Premieres
- DirectorNina MenkesStarsRhiannon AaronsKathleen AntoniaRosanna ArquetteInvestigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 175 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.Category: Premieres
- DirectorPhyllis NagyStarsElizabeth BanksSigourney WeaverChris MessinaA married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.Category: Premieres
- DirectorRory KennedyStarsDonald TrumpMaria BartiromoLester HoltExamining the months since the tragedies, which caused global panic in March 2019 after two new aircrafts crashed within five months, killing 346 people.Category: Premieres
- DirectorJohn Patton FordStarsAubrey PlazaTheo RossiBernardo BadilloDown on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.Category: Premieres
- DirectorMichel HazanaviciusStarsRomain DurisBérénice BejoGrégory GadeboisThings go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.Category: Premieres
- DirectorJulian HigginsStarsThandiwe NewtonJoris JarskyJefferson WhiteWhen a college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.Category: Premieres
- DirectorSophie HydeStarsEmma ThompsonDaryl McCormackIsabella LaughlandNancy Stokes, a retired school teacher, is yearning for some adventure, and some sex. And she has a plan, which involves hiring a young sex worker named Leo Grande.Category: Premieres
- DirectorAdamma EboStarsRegina HallSterling K. BrownNicole BeharieIn the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist Mega Church, attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.Category: Premieres
- StarsYeNaeem GhefariKid CudiFollows the life of Kanye West, in an intimate portrait as he builds his way from singer to businessman and becomes a global brand.Category: Premieres
- DirectorEva LongoriaThe epic rivalry between iconic boxers Oscar De La Hoya and Julio César Chávez in the 1990s sparked a cultural divide between Mexican nationals and Mexican-Americans.Category: Premieres
- DirectorOliver HermanusStarsBill NighyAimee Lou WoodAlex SharpIn 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.Category: Premieres
- DirectorAmy PoehlerStarsLucie ArnazBette MidlerCarol BurnettThis film will explore the rise of comedian icon Lucille Ball, her relationship with Desi Arnaz, and how their groundbreaking sitcom I Love Lucy forever changed Hollywood, cementing her legacy long after her death in 1989.Category: Premieres
- DirectorJono McLeodStarsAlan CummingBrandon LeeDawn SteeleIn 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years became the stuff of legend.Category: Premieres
- DirectorAndrew SemansStarsRebecca HallTim RothGrace KaufmanMargaret's life is in order. She is capable, disciplined and successful. Everything is under control until David returns - that is - carrying with him the horrors of Margaret's past.Category: Premieres
- DirectorLena DunhamStarsKristine FrosethJon BernthalLuka SabbatSarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.Category: Premieres
- DirectorLe-Van KietStarsJoey KingOlga KurylenkoAntoni DavidovWhen a strong-willed princess refuses to wed the cruel sociopath, she is kidnapped and locked in a remote tower of her father’s castle. With her vindictive suitor intent on taking her father’s throne, the princess must save the kingdom.Category: Premieres
- DirectorRachel LearsStarsRhiana Gunn-WrightAlexandria Ocasio-CortezVarshini PrakashStopping the climate crisis is a question of political courage, and the clock is ticking. Over three years of turbulence and crisis, four young women fight for a Green New Deal, and ignite a historic shift in U.S. climate politics.Category: Premieres
- StarsW. Kamau BellJelani CobbDoug E. DougWriter/director W. Kamau Bell's exploration of Bill Cosby's descent from "America's Dad" to convicted sexual predator. Comedians, journalists and survivors have a candid, first of its kind conversation about the man, his career and crimes.Category: Premieres
- DirectorJesse EisenbergStarsJulianne MooreFinn WolfhardBilly BrykEvelyn and her oblivious son Ziggy seek out replacements for each other as Evelyn desperately tries to parent an unassuming teenager at her shelter, while Ziggy fumbles through his pursuit of a brilliant young woman at school.Category: Premieres
- DirectorMonia ChokriStarsPatrick HivonMonia ChokriNadia TereszkiewiczAfter a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake things up.Category: Midnight
- DirectorMimi CaveStarsDaisy Edgar-JonesSebastian StanJojo T. GibbsAfter quitting dating apps, a woman meets the supposedly perfect man and accepts his invitation to a romantic weekend getaway, only to find that her new paramour has been hiding some unusual appetites.Category: Midnight
- DirectorHanna BergholmStarsSiiri SolalinnaSophia HeikkiläJani VolanenA young gymnast, who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all.Category: Midnight
- DirectorWill LovelaceDylan SouthernAndrew CrossStarsRyan AdamsJulian CasablancasBrian ChaseAn immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s. A new generation kick-started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.Category: Midnight
- DirectorCarlota PeredaStarsLaura GalánRichard HolmesCarmen MachiAn overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village. The long walk home will change the rest of her life.Category: Midnight
- DirectorChristian TafdrupStarsMorten BurianSidsel Siem KochFedja van HuêtA Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.Category: Midnight
- DirectorKogonadaStarsColin FarrellJodie Turner-SmithMalea Emma TjandrawidjajaIn a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.Category: Midnight
- DirectorAudrey DiwanStarsAnamaria VartolomeiKacey Mottet KleinLuàna BajramiAn adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.Category: Midnight
- DirectorAnisia UzeymanSaul WilliamsStarsCheryl IshejaElvis NgaboDiogène NtarindwaAn intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.Category: Midnight
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsRenate ReinsveAnders Danielsen LieHerbert NordrumThe chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.Category: Midnight
- DirectorBianca StigterStarsHelena Bonham CarterGlenn KurtzMoszek TuchendlerA snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.Category: Midnight
- DirectorOndi TimonerStarsMorgan DoctorRachel MaddowDavid TimonerIn his final days, we discover Eli Timoner and an extraordinary life of wild achievements, tragic loss and most of all, enduring love. LAST FLIGHT HOME shares a stunning verité account of a courageous family confronting life and death.Category: Special Screenings
- StarsKate BosworthJasper PolishAvenlie BleuAn assassin is out to complete her list of targets and exact her own brand of justice.Category: Indie Series
- DirectorCarlos CardonaStarsBrigitte SilvaSebastián BeltraniniCatherine FrenchIt's 1987. Chiqui and Carlos immigrate from Colombia to New Jersey to find a better life for themselves and their unborn son. Upon their arrival, they quickly realize that the American dream is not as easy to achieve as they thought.Category: Indie Series
- TV SeriesStarsAndre HylandInvestigates high culture institutions through the lowbrow lens of various characters.Category: Indie Series
- StarsEvan Rachel WoodSara WoodIra David Wood IVActress and activist Evan Rachel Wood's experience as a survivor of domestic abuse and her pursuit of justiceCategory: Special Screenings
- DirectorAbigail DisneyKathleen HughesFilmmaker Abigail Disney examines income inequality at her family's company, asking why the American dream seems so out of reach for so many.Category: Special Screenings