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UPDATE: Because of the ongoing pandemic andOmicron wave,Sundance is going virtual after all.
Like 2021, the festival will take place online with a fewSatellite Screens in seven states.
Tickets for the festival, running January 20 to 30,are available online starting January 13.
Read the entire Sundance Film Festival 2022 lineup below, including two new special screenings.
Inspired by true events.Cast: Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles.
Documentary Competition
World-premiere American documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people, and events that shape the present day.
It was promptly burned, and its existence denied.
After a century shrouded in secrecy and speculation, descendants of theClotildas survivors are reclaiming their story.World Premiere.
A former street hustler becomes the symbol for a landmark movement.
But once out, he self-destructs, threatening the movements legacy and the man himself.World Premiere.
Seven women were arrested.
The accused were part of a clandestine online grid.
They called themselves JANE.World Premiere.
And a seven-foot-tall robot that eats cabbages.
Irka refuses to leave her house even as the village gets captured by armed forces.
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Ten documentaries by some of the boldest filmmakers working around the world today.
Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive.World Premiere.
Tantura /Israel (Director and Screenwriter: Alon Schwarz, Screenwriter and Producer: Shaul Schwarz.
Producer: Maiken Baird) In 1948, the State of Israel was established and civil war broke out.
Hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed with their inhabitants killed or exiled.
We Met in Virtual Reality /U.K.
Next
Pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling populate this program.
NEXT is presented by Adobe.
Every Day in Kaimuki/ U.S.A. (Director: Alika Tengan, Screenwriters: Naz Kawakami, Alika Tengan.
To prove that it worked, he shot himself 192 times.
He launched a multimillion-dollar company and became a cult figure among police.
But when Jane announces shes moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret.
Containing over 175 film clips, this will unalterably change the way we view and make movies.World Premiere.Documentary.
As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness.
Its 1993 and 16-year-old Brandon is the new kid in school.
Soon hes top of the class, acing exams and even taking the lead in the school musical.
Hes the model pupil, until hes unmasked …Cast: Alan Cumming.
She is capable, disciplined, and successful.
Everything is under control.
She just longs to be seen.
Should you even try?
Inspired by the book by Lizzy Goodman.World Premiere.
But it comes to an end when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors.
Spotlight
The Spotlight section is a tribute to the cinema we love from throughout the past year.
Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Haley Lu Richardson.
Anne is a bright student with a promising future.
But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to escape the constraints of her social background disappearing.
An examination of that film in color, random, full of life reveals historical and personal dimensions.
Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.Documentary.
Fiction.DAY ONE
Kids
This section of the Festival is especially for our youngest independent-film fans.
The film intimately charts her journey as she moves toward naming her infamous abuser for the first time.World Premiere.
Phoenix Rising is a two part documentary, part one will be premiering.
The Collection has grown to over 4,000 holdings representing nearly 2,300 titles.
Indie Episodic Program
A dedicated showcase for emerging creators of independently produced content for episodic platforms.
The Indie Episodic Program is presented by DoorDash.
The 2021 love child ofDa Ali G ShowandAnthony Bourdain: No Reservations.Cast: Andre Hyland.
She has asked her embittered old friend Charlie to house-sit while shes away.
Embody the childhood memories of two survivors as they reflect on their journeys across a divided homeland.World Premiere.
But what happens when those perspectives are delusional?
On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World)/U.K.
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