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TheSundance Film Festivalis back.
On Wednesday, theSundance Instituteannounced its roster of feature-length films selected to screen at the festival in Park City, Salt Lake City and the Sundance Resort in Utah. (Last year’s festival was virtual-only due to the pandemic.)
The 2023 festival includes 101 feature films from 23 different countries, and 32 of the 115 film directors whose work will screen at the festival are first-time feature filmmakers, according to a press release.
“Maintaining an essential place for artists to express themselves, take risks, and for visionary stories to endure and entertain is distinctly Sundance,” Robert Redford, Sundance Institute Founder and President, said in a statement. “The Festival continues to foster these values and connections through independent storytelling. We are honored to share the compelling selection of work at this year’s Festival from distinct perspectives and unique voices.”
“The program for this year’s Festival reiterates the relevancy of trailblazing work serving as an irreplaceable source for original stories that resonate and fuel creativity and dialogue,” Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming Kim Yutani said in a statement. “In so many ways this year’s slate reflects the voices of communities around the world who are speaking out with urgency and finally being heard.”
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The festival will also include the premiere ofMagazine Dreams, from writer-director Elijah Bynum and starsJonathan Majors,Haley Bennett, andTaylour Paige.
“An amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection as his relentless drive for recognition pushes him to the brink,” reads a logline forMagazine Dreams.
Also scheduled to premiere on the festival’s first day is director-producer Lisa Cortés’Little Richard: I Am Everything, a documentary centered on the lateLittle Richardthat promises to shed light on “the Black queer origins of rock ‘n’ roll, finally exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music” via archival and performance footage.
Sometimes I Think About Dying, which starsDaisy Ridleyand featuresThe White Lotus’Brittany O’Grady, is scheduled to premiere on the first day of the festival.
Ben Plattand fiancéNoah Galvin’s upcoming movieTheater Camp— about the “eccentric staff” of “a run-down theater camp in upstate New York” as it tries to keep the camp running when its founder falls into a coma with the help of the founder’s son — will also screen at Sundance. The film also starsJimmy Tatro,Patti HarrisonandAyo Edebiri.
Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg’sInfinity Pool, starringAlexander SkarsgardandMia Goth, follows a couple on an “all-inclusive beach vacation when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors,” according to a synopsis.
The rest of the lineup can be foundhere. The 2023 Sundance Film Festival will run from Jan. 19 to Jan. 29.
source: people.com
