The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>July 1
Streaming: Criterion Channel
32 SOUNDS
Sundance 2022
Director:
Sam Green
About:
An immersive documentary and sensory film experience that explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us. The film will be presented in its “live cinema” form, featuring live music and live narration.
>July 8
On TV: POV
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
Sundance 2023
Director:
Ella Glendining
About:
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
>July 12
In Theatres/IMAX
SKYWALKERS: A LOVE STORY
Sundance 2024
Director:
Jeff Zimbalist
About:
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.
>July 12
In Theatres
ENO
Sundance 2024
Director:
Gary Hustwit
About:
Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that’s different every time it’s shown.
>July 12
On VOD
TWICE COLONIZED
Sundance 2023
Director:
Lin Alluna
About:
Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has long fought for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. But can she both change the world and mend her own wounds?
>July 12
Streaming: Netflix
IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL
Sundance 2023
Director:
Alexandria Bombach
About:
Blending 40 years of home movies, film archives, and intimate present-day vérité, a poignant reflection from Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of iconic folk rock duo Indigo Girls. A timely look into the obstacles, activism, and life lessons of two queer friends who never expected to make it big.
>July 19
Streaming: Netflix
SKYWALKERS: A LOVE STORY
Sundance 2024
Director:
Jeff Zimbalist
About:
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.
>July 19
Streaming: MUBI
A STILL SMALL VOICE
Sundance 2023
Director:
Luke Lorentzen
About:
An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.
>July 29
On TV: POV
AGAINST THE TIDE
Sundance 2023
Director:
Sarvnik Kaur
About:
Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship begins to fracture as they take very different paths to provide for their struggling families.
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