#SUNDANCE: “DUAL”
By Amanda Gilmore
After learning she has a terminal illness, Sarah (Karen Gillan) decides to participate in a futuristic cloning procedure to help ease her partner and family’s impending loss. Ten months later, she learns that she’s in remission and decides to decommission her clone. However, Sarah’s Double files a motion to live and they are set for a duel to the death.Writer/Director Riley Stearns’ third Feature is a dark Sci-Fi Comedy with a pair of powerful performances ...
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#SUNDANCE: “GIRL PICTURE”
By Amanda Gilmore
Best friends Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and Rönkkö (Eleonoora Kauhanen) spend their days working at a smoothie shop openly contemplating their sex and love lives. Meanwhile, Emma has given her whole life to figure skating with little time for a social life. Over the course of three Fridays, Mimmi and Emma experience first love and Rönkkö goes on a quest to find something she's never experienced before: ...
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#SUNDANCE: “AM I OK?”
By Amanda Gilmore
AM I OK? is a touching Comedy and an ode to female friendship.
The Film follows inseparable Los Angeles best friends Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and Jane (Sonoya Mizuno). When Jane’s new promotion requires her to move to London, Lucy confesses her long-held secret: She likes women. In the lead up to their impending separation, we follow as Jane prepares for her big move and Lucy searches for her first sexual experience with a woman.
What sets AM I OK? apart is that it ...
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#SUNDANCE: “WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD”
By David Baldwin
Ziggy (Finn Wolfhard) is a high school student who performs original Folk tunes online for his worldwide audience of 20,000 people. His overbearing mother Evelyn (Oscar-winner Julianne Moore) runs a shelter for domestic abuse survivors. Despite the greatness of their shared memories, they do not get along and only interact in passing. With Ziggy’s time taken-up trying to become more politically savvy to impress a girl, Evelyn takes to one of the shelter’s new residents ...
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#SUNDANCE: “THE MISSION”
By Amanda Gilmore
Each year, thousands of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, are sent across the world to preach their gospel. The Mission follows four American teens who leave their religious communities and journey to one of the most non-religious countries in Europe: Finland.Director Tania Anderson, in her first feature-length Documentary, brings us behind the nametags and into the lives of those who knock on our doors and stop us on ...
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#SUNDANCE: “AFTER YANG”
By David Baldwin
After premiering at Cannes this past July, celebrated Writer/Director Kogonada’s second feature AFTER YANG finally makes its North American debut. It takes place in the near future, where families live with sentient AI android helpers and companions. When Yang (Justin H. Min from The Umbrella Academy), the AI helper for Jake (Colin Farrell), Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) and young Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), malfunctions and breaks down, the family is distraught. Jake ...
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#SUNDANCE: “HAPPENING”
By Amanda Gilmore
Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s Memoir, Golden Lion Winner Happening is set in 1963 France and follows Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) a promising young university student who learns she’s pregnant. She wants to terminate but her doctor refuses because of the unsparing laws against abortion. As the week's pass, Anne seeks any means of ending the pregnancy in hopes of reclaiming her future.
Writer/Director Audrey Diwan brings us Anne’s harrowing journey with ...
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#SUNDANCE: “THE PRINCESS”
By David Baldwin
If you were alive in 1997, chances are you remember where and when you heard that Princess Diana died. Her life was cut short in a car accident in a Parisian tunnel and is the subject of the exhaustive Documentary THE PRINCESS. Academy Award nominee Ed Perkins has crafted a film that takes us through Diana’s life, from the moment the press found out the 19-year-old was being courted for marriage to Prince Charles (who was 12 years older), through their tumultuous marriage ...
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#SUNDANCE: “SPEAK NO EVIL”
By Amanda Gilmore
While on holiday in Tuscany, a Danish family becomes friends with a fellow travelling family from the Netherlands. Months later, the Dutch family invites the Danes to visit their countryside home. Once there, the hosts increasingly test the limits of their houseguests. However, the Danes continue to stay out of politeness but will that become their downfall?Speak No Evil is one of the most twisted films at Sundance '22. Writer-Director Christian Tafdrup serves-up a ...
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#SUNDANCE: “ALICE”
By Mr. Will Wong
Those of you who saw 2020's Slavery Horror Antebellum, saw a nightmare realized right at the end as Janelle Monae's Veronica Henley escapes what she realizes was a Civil War re-enactment park where she was held captive as a slave. Writer/Director Krystin Ver Linden's directorial debut ALICE debuts at Sundance and was actually in development before Antebellum saw its release, though this Film begins where the imagined Antebellum, ends if you need a point of ...
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