Category Archives: Sundance

The World Cinema Documentary Competition heads to Romania next with UK/Romanian/German co-production CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM, Ilinca Calugareanu’s look at the secret role the VCR played in the fall of the Iron Curtain. Continue reading →

China is the next country represented in the World Cinema Documentary Competition with THE CHINESE MAYOR, Hao Zhou’s inside look at a local official’s radical plan to bring prosperity to his city. Continue reading →

The second title in this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition finishes up today’s Sundance profiles: From Israel/Germany, CENSORED VOICES, Mor Loushy’s unearthing of candid reflections on war by Israeli soldiers in 1967. Continue reading →

Next up is the 2015 World Cinema Documentary Competition, which begins with Canada’s THE AMINA PROFILE, Sophie Deraspe’s unraveling of the strange case of a Syrian woman’s disappearance. Continue reading →

Today’s profiles kick off with the final entry in the US Documentary Competition: Crystal Moselle’s THE WOLFPACK, about an isolated family whose only connection to the outside world is through movies. Continue reading →

The penultimate film in the US Documentary Competition brings today’s profiles to an end: Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ WESTERN, in which towns on both sides of the Rio Grande face the threat of drug cartels. Continue reading →

The US Documentary Competition heads into the homestretch with Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K Walker’s WELCOME TO LEITH, the story of a small town facing a hostile takeover. Continue reading →

My 2015 Sundance US Documentary Competition profiles begin this week with Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe’s (T)ERROR, an inside look at how an FBI counterterrorism informant operates. Continue reading →

Closing out this week’s US Documentary Competition profiles: Louie Psihoyos’ RACING EXTINCTION, a wake-up call to the dangers of mass extinction on our planet. Continue reading →