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Sundance Film Festival 2024

In addition to the line-up below, there will be additional shorts and a surprise film.

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Never Look Away Never Look Away
Never Look Away and Sasquatch Sunset
Dìdi (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sean Wang; Writer: Sean Wang; Stars: Joan Chen, Izaac Wang, Shirley Chen, Joziah Lagonoy)
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
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Fiction
Girls Will Be Girls (Country: India; Year: 2024; Director: Shuchi Talati; Writer: Shuchi Talati; Stars: Kani Kusruti, Jitin Gulati, Kesav Binoy Kiron, Preeti Panigrahi)
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
Full Review See: Shuchi Talati on rebellion and relationships in Girls Will Be Girls
Fiction
Good Boy (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Tom Stuart; Writer: Tom Stuart; Stars: Marion Bailey, Ben Whishaw, Dino Fetscher, Paul Chahidi, Mark Monero, Bettrys Jones, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Tommy Belshaw, Ephraim Sampson)
A man's plans go awry thanks to his mum.
Full Review See: Tom Stuart on Good Boy, 'a love letter' to his mum
Short
Handling The Undead (Håndtering Av Udøde) (Country: Sweden, Norway, Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Thea Hvistendahl; Writer: Thea Hvistendahl, John Ajvide Lindqvist; Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjørn Sundquist, Bahar Pars, Bente Børsum, Olga Damani, Jan Hrynkiewicz, Inesa Dauksta, Kian Hansen)
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the newly dead awaken. Three families faced with loss try to figure out what this resurrection means and if their loved ones really are back.
Full Review See: 'I wanted it to be meditative and poetic' - Thea Hvistendahl
, Peter Raeburn on collaboration and framing in his award-winning Handling The Undead Score
Fiction
I Saw the TV Glow (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jane Schoenbrun; Writer: Jane Schoenbrun; Stars: Justice Smith, Michael C. Maronna, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Amber Benson, Danny Tamberelli, Conner O'Malley, Danielle Deadwyler, Emma Portner, Helena Howard, Will Fitz, Ben Heineman, Ian Foreman, Timothy Griffin Allan, Michael Twaine, Michelle Santiago)
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show - a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
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Fiction
Kneecap Kneecap
Kneecap and My Old Ass
Kneecap (Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Rich Peppiatt; Writer: Rich Peppiatt; Stars: Michael Fassbender, Simone Kirby, Jessica Reynolds, Josie Walker, Cliodhna McCorley, Mo Chara, Cathal Mercer, Móglaí Bap, Emer Casey, DJ Próvai, Arlene Martine Morris, Donagh Deeney, Saorlaoith Brady, Paul Murphy, Paul P. McCrystal)
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
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Fiction
My Old Ass (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Megan Park; Writer: Megan Park; Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Maddie Ziegler, Percy Hynes White, Maisy Stella, Seth Isaac Johnson, Kerrice Brooks, Carter Trozzolo, Remington Schneider)
The summer before college, bright-yet-irreverent Elliott comes face-to-face with her older self during a mushroom trip. The encounter spurs a funny and heartfelt journey of self-discovery and first love as Elliott prepares to leave her childhood home.
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Fiction
Never Look Away (Country: New Zealand; Year: 2024; Director: Lucy Lawless; Writer: Tom Blackwell, Matthew Metcalfe; Stars: Margaret Moth)
New Zealand–born groundbreaking CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth risks it all to show the reality of war from inside the conflict, staring down danger and confronting those who perpetuate it.
Full Review See: Interview with Lucy Lawless about Never Look Away
Documentary
Rob Peace (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor; Writer: Chiwetel Ejiofor; Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Camila Cabello, Michael Kelly, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Mary J. Blige, Jay Will, Juan Castano, Lori Hammel, Will Fitz, Alicia Pilgrim, Tyler Bourke, Jolly Swag, Fred Inkley, Andrew Dolan, Kevin D. Benton)
Robert Peace grew up in an impoverished section of Newark and later graduated from Yale with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry while on scholarship. Peace led a dual life in academia and research while also earning six figures selling marijuana. Based on Jeff Hobbs’ bestselling biography.
Fiction
Sasquatch Sunset (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner; Writer: David Zellner; Stars: Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Nathan Zellner, Christophe Zajac-Denek)
A year in the life of a singular family.
Full Review See: Bigfoot challenge - David and Nathan Zellner on turning a myth into a reality for Sasquatch Sunset
Fiction
Girls Will Be Girls Girls Will Be Girls
Girls Will Be Girls and Your Monster
Skywalkers: A Love Story (Year: 2024; Director: Jeff Zimbalist; Writer: Jeff Zimbalist)
To save their career and relationship, a daredevil couple journey across the globe to climb the world’s last super skyscraper and perform a bold acrobatic stunt on the spire.
Documentary
Your Monster (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Caroline Lindy; Writer: Caroline Lindy; Stars: Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Brandon Victor Dixon, Lana Young, Taylor Trensch, Kayla Foster, Kasey Bella Suarez, Matthew Lamb, Woody Fu, Brian McCarthy, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Sequoia Shayvonne, Sophie Silnicki, Silken Kelly)
After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming, monster living in her closet.
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