Her nuanced performance embodies toughness, loneliness, a yearning for love, and an ignitable rage that brings the character fully alive and infinitely fascinating to follow.. Sundance Film Festival 2022 to Require Vaccinations for Attendees Everything is under control until David returns - that is - carrying with him the horrors of Margaret's past. Margaret's life is in order. In 1970s San Francisco, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is wrongly convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. Photographer: Sundance, Producer Yesenia Tlahuel, Jacks Haupt, Doris Munoz, director Isabel Castro, and producer Tabs Breese attend the premiere of 'Mija.' Photographer: Aftershock, Simon Lereng Wilmont accepts the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary for 'A House Made of Splinters.' Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Changewas presented toAftershock// U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee) Following the preventable deaths of their partners due to childbirth complications, two bereaved fathers galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time the U.S. maternal health crisis. Director: Francisca Alegria | Stars: Ma Maestro, Enzo Ferrada Rosati, Benjamin Soto, Leonor Varela. JurorGarrett Bradleysaid, We would like to recognize a film which brings to light an issue both historical and ever present which weaves together a critical and lesser known history alongside the urgency of today.. Documentary),Utama(World Cinema Dramatic),andAll That Breathes(World Cinema Documentary). This pristine and highly emotional film embraces the childrens universe within a harsh reality.. Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision , U.S. Photographer: Sundance, Elizabeth Banks, Wunmi Mosaku, Sigourney Weaver and director Phyllis Nagy, attend the Q&A at the virtual Premiere of 'Call Jane' during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Feature film award winners in previous years include:Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), CODA, Flee, Hive, Minari, Boys State, Epicentro, Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness, Clemency,One Child Nation, Honeyland, The Souvenir,The Miseducation of Cameron Post,I dont feel at home in this world anymore., Weiner,Whiplash, Fruitvale Station, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twenty Feet from Stardom, Searching for Sugarman, The Square, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Cartel Land, The Wolf Pack, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Dope, Dear White People, The CoveandMan on Wire. Cast: Lily McInerny, Jonathan Tucker, Gretchen Mol. 2nd Chance Credit: Sundance Film Festival Innovation meets American gun culture in this outrageous documentary. Follows Doris Muoz, who began a career in music talent management and met Jacks Haupt, an auspicious young singer, and both share the ever-present guilt of being the first American-born members of their undocumented families. Documentary for 'I Didn't See You There.' PG-13 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller. Selected by audience votes from the 84 features screened at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the Festival Favorite Award was presented toNavalny/ U.S.A. (Director: Daniel Roher, Producers: Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, Shane Boris) Shot as the story unfolded, a fly-on-the-wall documentary thriller about anti-authoritarian Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This actress delivers the complexity of a factory owner bearing the weight of a family business under threat. Director: Sierra Pettengill | Stars: Charlene Modeste, Lyndon B. Johnson, Otto Kerner, Edward P. Morgan. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake things up. Photographer: Sundance, Director Jim Archer and screenwriters Chris Hayward and David Earl attend the Q&A for the virtual premiere of 'Brian and Charles.' Sundance Film Festival tickets are on sale and industry members with passes can start reserving seats to virtual screenings. AWorld Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Innovative Spiritwas presented forLeonor Will Never Die/ Philippines (Director and Screenwriter: Martika Ramirez Escobar, Producers: Monster Jimenez, Mario Cornejo) Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, falls into a coma after a television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay. When a college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences. Updated on January 31, 2022 at 2:49 p.m. For maintaining its suspenseful tension when portraying the interior struggles of its characters and the contradictions in spirituality and materialism they confront, we present the [World Cinema] Grand Jury Prize toAll That Breathes.. Director: Phyllis Nagy | Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara. Dramatic, Presented by Acura was awarded toCha Cha Real Smooth/ U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Cooper Raiff, Producers: Dakota Johnson, Ro Donnelly, Erik Feig, Jessica Switch, Cooper Raiff) A directionless college graduate embarks on a relationship with a young mom and her teenage daughter while learning the boundaries of his new bar mitzvah party-starting gig. Photographer: Amherst Cinema, Karim Ahmad, Andria Wilson Mirza, Yasmin Dunn, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Tony Patrick, and Brenda Coughlin attend the 'Restoring the Future' panel discussion. Recovering in Berlin after nearly being poisoned to death with the nerve agent Novichok, Navalny makes shocking discoveries about his assassination attempt and bravely decides to return home whatever the consequences. 2022 Sundance Film Festival: Asia Photographer: Utama, Director Rachel Lears, producer Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Alexandra Rojas, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and Varshini Prakash attend the Q&A of the virtual premiere of 'To the End.' Director: Juan Pablo Gonzlez | Stars: Rafaela Fuentes, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Teresa Snchez, Tatn Vera, Edina, a female bodybuilder is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer Adam: to win the Miss Olympia. A young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter. Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite. Sundance Film Festival 2022 Sets Hybrid Format - The Hollywood Reporter Photographer: I Didn't See You There, Alli Haapasalo accepts the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic for 'Girl Picture.' JurorDawn Portersaid, This revealing film is a reminder of the exquisite power of cinema verit filmmaking. With TikTok crowned the world's most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists and experts alike. Recovering in Berlin after nearly being poisoned to death with the nerve agent Novichok, Navalny makes shocking discoveries about his assassination attempt and bravely decides to return home whatever the consequences. The filmmakers received a $20,000 cash award from Sundance Institute with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Rita's work has been supported by Sundance, Tribeca, Netflix, HBO, IDA and . Photographer: mama.film, Satellite screen Digital Gym Cinema in San Diego, CA prepares for screenings during the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. For this captivating tableau that reminds us of the beauty of the unseen, the Directing Award goes to Reid Davenport forI Didnt See You There.. Photographer: Master, (back, L-R) Thiago Macedo Correia, Rejane Faria, Carlos Francisco, (front, L-R) Maurilio Martins, Cicero Lucas, and director Gabriel Martins attend the premiere Q&A of 'Marte Um (Mars One).' 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AWorld Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence In Verit Filmmakingwas presented toMidwives/ Myanmar (Director: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, Producers: Bob Moore, Ulla Lehman, Mila Aung-Thwin, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing) Two midwives work side-by-side in a makeshift clinic in Myanmar. TheWorld Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramaticwas presented to Alejandro Loayza Grisi forUtama/ Bolivia/Uruguay/France (Director and Screenwriter: Alejandro Loayza Grisi, Producers: Santiago Loayza Grisi, Federico Moreira, Marcos Loayza, Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maitre) In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. Photographer: Sundance, Director Alejandro Loayza Grisi, Eduardo Calla, and Maite Tarilonte attend the virtual premiere of 'Utama.' Photographer: Sundance, Rose Veda Tunstall, director/producer Margaret Brown, Joycelyn Davis and Kamau Sadiki attend a Q&A moderated by programmer Basil Tsiokos and Festival Director Tabitha Jackson following the virtual premiere of 'Descendant.' Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister.