Sundance Film Festival 2022

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Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul
Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Brian And Charles (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Jim Archer; Writer: David Earl, Chris Hayward; Stars: David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, Jamie Michie, Lynn Hunter, Lowri Izzard, Mari Izzard, Cara Chase, Nicholas Asbury, Sunil Patel, Vivienne Soan, Nina Sosanya, Rishi Nair, Morgan Adler, Carys Ryan)
A story of friendship, love, and letting go. And a 7ft tall robot that eats cabbages. A comedy shot in documentary format.
Fire Of Love (Country: Canada, US; Year: 2022; Director: Sara Dosa; Writer: Shane Boris, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput; Stars: Miranda July, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft)
Intrepid 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. A doomed love triangle between Katia, Maurice and volcanoes, told through their archival footage.
Free Chol Soo Lee (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Julie Ha, Eugene Yi)
After a Korean immigrant is wrongly convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder, Asian Americans unite as never before to free Chol Soo Lee. A former street hustler becomes the symbol for a landmark movement. But once out, he self-destructs, threatening the movement's legacy and the man himself.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Sophie Hyde; Writer: Katy Brand; Stars: Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack, Isabella Laughland, Charlotte Ware)
Nancy Stokes, a retired school teacher, is yearning for some adventure, and some sex. Good sex. And she has a plan: she hires a young sex worker named Leo Grande.
Hatching (Country: Finland, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Hanna Bergholm; Writer: Ilja Rautsi; Stars: Jani Volanen, Saija Lentonen, Sophia Heikkilä, Reino Nordin, Stella Leppikorpi, Siiri Solalinna, Hertta Karen, Oiva Ollila, Jonna Aaltonen, Ida Määttänen, Aada Punakivi, Miroslava Agejeva, Hertta Nieminen)
While desperately trying to please her demanding mother, a young gymnast discovers a strange egg. She tucks it away and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks everyone.
Watcher Watcher
Watcher and Fire Of Love
Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Adamma Ebo; Writer: Adamma Ebo; Stars: Regina Hall, Sterling K Brown, Nicole Beharie, Austin Crute, Andrea Laing, Selah Kimbro Jones, Conphidance, Devere Rogers, Elle Young, Dhane Ross, Jerome Beazer, Bonita Elery, Robert Yatta, Kristen Kinder, Tairat Baoku)
In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist megachurch, attempts to help her pastor husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.
A Love Song (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Max Walker-Silverman; Writer: Max Walker-Silverman; Stars: Dale Dickey, Wes Studi, John Way, Michelle Wilson, Benja K. Thomas, Marty Grace Dennis, Felipe Jorge)
Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains. A love story for those who are alone.
The Princess (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Ed Perkins; Stars: Joey King)
Princess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. Turning the camera back on ourselves, it also illuminates the profound impact she had and how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is, shaped by these events.
Resurrection (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Andrew Semans; Writer: Andrew Semans; Stars: Rebecca Hall, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, Angela Wong Carbone, Jaime Zevallos, Patrick Klein, Rocco Palmieri)
Margaret's life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Soon, her teenage daughter, who Margaret raised by herself, will be going off to a fine university, just as Margaret had intended. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret's past.
Shallow Grave (Country: UK; Year: 1994; Director: Danny Boyle; Writer: John Hodge; Stars: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Keith Allen, Colin McCredie, Victoria Nairn, Gary Lewis, Jean Marie Coffey, Peter Mullan, Leonard O'Malley)
Thriller showing what happens when three flatmates find and keep a suitcase of money.
We Met In Virtual Reality We Met In Virtual Reality
We Met In Virtual Reality and Brian And Charles
Watcher (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Chloe Okuno; Writer: Zack Ford; Stars: Maika Monroe, Burn Gorman, Karl Glusman, Daniel Nuta, Ciubuciu Bogdan Alexandru)
A young woman moves into a new apartment with her fiancé and is tormented by the feeling that she is being stalked by an unseen watcher in an adjacent building.
We Met In Virtual Reality (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Joe Hunting; Writer: Joe Hunting)
Filmed entirely inside the world of VR, this vérité documentary captures the excitement and surprising intimacy of a burgeoning cultural movement, demonstrating the power of online connection in an isolated world.
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