Category Archives: Sundance

THE DATING GAME
In a country where eligible men greatly outnumber women, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in what may be their last-ditch effort to find love.

Director:
Violet Du Feng

Producers:
Joanna Natasegara, James Costa, Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Violet Du Feng

Country of Origin:
USA/UK/Norway

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS ((اوزاک یوللار)
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.

Directors/Producers:
Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni

Country of Origin:
Iran/Germany/USA/Netherlands/Qatar/Chile/Canada

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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COEXISTENCE, MY ASS!
Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter. 

Director:
Amber Fares

Producers:
Amber Fares, Rachel Leah Jones, Valérie Montmartin

Country of Origin:
USA/France

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.

Director:
Mstyslav Chernov

Producers:
Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson-Rath

Country of Origin:
Ukraine

Festival Section:
World Cinema Documentary Competition

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Chernov debuted his previous film, 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, at the Festival, which went on to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

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THIRD ACT
Generations of artists call Robert A Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease leads to an exploration of art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.

Director:
Tadashi Nakamura

Producers:
Eurie Chung, Tadashi Nakamura

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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Nakamura previously was included in the Sundance lineup with his short film PILGRIMAGE.

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SUGAR BABIES
Autumn is an enterprising college scholarship recipient and burgeoning TikTok influencer. Part of a close circle of friends growing up poor in rural Louisiana, she is determined to overcome the struggles and barriers defining them. Faced with limited minimum wage job options, Autumn devises an online sugar baby operation.

Director:
Rachel Fleit

Producers:
Mickey Liddell, Pete Shilaimon, Mehrdod Heydari, Rachel Fleit

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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SPEAK.
Five top-ranked high school oratory students spend a year crafting spellbinding spoken word performances with the dream of winning one of the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competitions.

Directors:
Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman

Producers:
Pamela Griner, Guy Mossman, Jennifer Tiexiera

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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SELENA Y LOS DINOS
Selena Quintanilla — the “Queen of Tejano Music” — and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.

Director:
Isabel Castro

Producers:
Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, J Daniel Torres, David Blackman, Simran Singh

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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Castro previously debuted MIJA at Sundance.

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SEEDS
An exploration of Black generational farmers in the American South reveals the fragility of legacy and the significance of owning land.

Director:
Brittany Shyne

Producers:
Danielle Varga, Brittany Shyne, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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PREDATORS
TO CATCH A PREDATOR was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. An exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show and the world it helped create.

Director:
David Osit

Producers:
Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn, David Osit

Festival Section:
US Documentary Competition

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