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The 2020 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 23 to February 2, 2020. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 4, 2019. [1] [2] The opening night film was Miss Americana directed by Lana Wilson and produced by Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, and Christine O'Malley .
- January 23 to February 2, 2020
- Sundance Institute
- English
- U.S. Dramatic Competition
- U.S. Documentary Competition
- World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- World Cinema Documentary Competition
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- Premieres
- Documentary Premieres
- Midnight
- Spotlight
- Kids
Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include The Farewell, Honey Boy, Clemency, Eighth Grade, Sorry to Bother You and The Miseducation of Cameron Po...
Sixteen world-premiere American documentaries that illuminate the ideas, people and events that shape the present day. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include APOLLO 11, Knock Down The House, One Child Nation, American Factory, Three Identical Strangers and On Her Shoulders. 45% of the directors in this year’s U.S. Docume...
Twelve films from emerging filmmaking talents around the world offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include The Souvenir, The Guilty, Monos, Yardie, The Nile Hilton Incident and Second Mother. Charter / Sweden (Director and screenwriter: Amanda Kernell, Producers: Lars G. Lindströ...
Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary international filmmakers working today. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Honeyland, Sea of Shadows, Shirkers,This is Home, Last Men in Aleppo and Hooligan Sparrow. Acasa, My Home / Romania, Germany, Finland (Director: Radu Ciorniciuc, Screenwrite...
Pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling populate this program. Digital technology paired with unfettered creativity promises that the films in this section will shape a “greater” next wave in American cinema. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include The Infiltrators, Searc...
A showcase of world premieres of some of the most highly anticipated narrative films of the coming year. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include The Report, Late Night, The Big Sick and Call Me By Your Name. Downhill / U.S.A. (Directors: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Producers: ...
Renowned filmmakers and films about far-reaching subjects comprise this section highlighting our ongoing commitment to documentaries. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Ask Dr. Ruth, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, RBG, An Inconvenient Sequel and The Hunting Ground. Aggie / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Catherine Gun...
From horror and comedy to works that defy genre classification, these films will keep you wide awake, even at the most arduous hour. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Greener Grass, Hereditary, Assassination Nation, The Little Hours and The Babadook. Amulet / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Romola Garai, ...
The Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love from throughout the past year. Films that have played in this category in recent years include The Biggest Little Farm, The Death of Stalin, The Rider, Ida and The Lobster. And Then We Danced / Sweden, Georgia, France (Director and screenwriter: Levan Akin, Producers: Mathilde Dedye, Ketie Da...
This section of the Festival is especially for our youngest independent film fans. Programmed in cooperation with Utah Film Center, which presents the annual Tumbleweeds Film Festival, Utah’s premiere film festival for children and youth. Films that have played in this category in recent years include The Elephant Queen, Science Fair, My Life as a ...
Feb 2, 2020 · See the full list of winners from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, including top prizes for "Minari" and "Boys State". The awards ceremony also featured speeches from directors who confronted discrimination, innovation in nonfiction storytelling, and a new director announcement.
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Feb 2, 2020 · Breakout drama "Minari" won two top prizes at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where fellow A24 title "Boys State" claimed the documentary crown and Netflix had multiple winners.
- “The Dissident” Bryan Fogel, director of the Oscar-winning Russian-doping documentary “Icarus,” has now made a gripping investigation into the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian Washington Post journalist whose gruesome murder, on October 2, 2018, was in all likelihood conceived and ordered by the highest levels of the Saudi monarchy.
- “The Father” Anthony Hopkins, in a brilliant, mercurial, and deeply touching performance, plays 80-year-old Anthony, who is charming and cantankerous and sliding into dementia.
- “The Glorias“ In Julie Taymor’s pinpoint-timely yet rousingly old-fashioned biopic about the life and times of Gloria Steinem, the legendary feminist leader is portrayed by four different actresses at four different stages of her life.
- “Herself“ When the patriarchy fails, sometimes a woman has to take matters into her own hands, as “Mamma Mia!” director Phyllida Lloyd demonstrates in this timely, empowering Irish movie about a battered wife (Clare Dunne) who builds her own house, and the decent folks who come to her aid in that endeavor.
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Feb 1, 2020 · Park City, UT — After 10 days and 128 feature films, the 2020 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, with jurors presenting 28 prizes for feature filmmaking. Honorees, named in total below, represent new achievements in global independent storytelling. Bold, intimate, and humanizing stories prevailed across categories ...
Feb 1, 2020 · The Festival’s executive director, Keri Putnam, took the stage to announce the winners of a series of awards handed out earlier this week: Awards went to Higher, Whirlybird, Farewell Amor, Carla Guttierez, and Affonso Gonçalves (fiction), and the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Michael Almereyda for Tesla .
