Sundance Film Festival 2023

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Joyland Joyland
Joyland and The Eight Mountains
The Eight Mountains (Country: Italy, Belgium, France; Year: 2022; Director: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch; Writer: Paolo Cognetti, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen; Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Luca Marinelli, Filippo Timi, Elena Lietti)
The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home.
Fiction
Joyland (Country: Pakistan; Year: 2022; Director: Saim Sadiq; Writer: Saim Sadiq; Stars: Sana Jafri, Ali Junejo)
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
Fiction
L'immensità (Country: Italy, France; Year: 2022; Director: Emanuele Crialese; Writer: Emanuele Crialese, Francesca Manieri, Vittorio Moroni; Stars: Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni)
The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.
North American premiere. Fiction. Day One
Other People's Children (Les Enfants Des Autres) (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Rebecca Zlotowski; Writer: Rebecca Zlotowski; Stars: Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira)
A childless woman forms a deep bond with her boyfriend's young daughter.
US premiere. Fiction
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Anton Corbijn)
An inside look at the studio responsible for some of the most iconic and recognizable album covers of all time - from Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon to Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy.
Documentary
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