Don’t miss our special Sundance episodes of the Film Comment Podcast starting with a preview episode available tomorrow morning, and check back over the next week and a half for informed discussions of festival highlights and ahead-of-the-curve coverage from Utah from our correspondents.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Hannah Pearl Utt, Before You Know It Cast: Alec Baldwin, Mandy Patinkin, Judith Light Jason Orley, Big Time Adolescence Cast: Colson Baker, Jon Cryer, Pete Davidson
Paul Downs Colaizzo, Brittany Runs a Marathon Cast: Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins, Lil Rel Howery Chinonye Chukwu, Clemency Cast: Alfre Woodard, Wendell Pierce Lulu Wang, The Farewell Cast: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma
Minhal Baig, Hala Cast: Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Anna Chlumsky Alma Har’el, Honey Boy Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Maika Monroe Debra Eisenstadt, Imaginary Order Cast: Wendi McLendon-Covey
Joe Talbot, The Last Black Man in San Francisco Website Cast: Danny Glover, Tichina Arnold, Thora Birch, Mike Epps, Finn Wittrock Julius Onah, Luce Cast: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Justin Chon, Ms. Purple Cast: Jake Choi Rashid Johnson, Native Son Cast: Ashton Sanders
Pippa Bianco, Share Cast: Charlie Plummer Michael Tyburski, The Sound of Silence Cast: Rashida Jones, Peter Sarsgaard, Toni Revolori
Britt Poulton & Dan Madison Savage, Them That Follow Cast: Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Walt0n Goggins Martha Stephens, To the Stars Cast: Malin Akerman, Shea Whigham, Kara Hayward
U.S. Documentary Competition
Jacqueline Olive, Always in Season Website Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert, American Factory
Todd Douglas Miller, APOLLO 11 Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, Bedlam Website
A.J. Eaton, David Crosby: Remember My Name Penny Lane, Hail Satan? Website
Liza Mandelup, Jawline Website Rachel Lears, Knock Down the House Website
Luke Lorentzen, Midnight Family Avi Belkin, Mike Wallace Is Here Irene Taylor Brodsky, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang, One Child Nation Website Ivete Lucas & Patrick Bresnan, Pahokee Website
Ross Kauffman, TIGERLAND Website Ben Berman, Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Matt Tyrnauer, Where’s My Roy Cohn? Website
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Sacha Polak, Dirty God Gabriel Mascaro, Divine Love Jacek Borcuch, Dolce Fine Giornata
Mirrah Foulkes, Judy & Punch Cast: Mia Wasikowska Johannes Nyholm, Koko-di Koko-da Shola Amoo, The Last Tree Alejandro Landes, Monos
May el-Toukhy, Queen of Hearts Cast: Trine Dyrholm Lucía Garibaldi, The Sharks
Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir Cast: Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Honor Swinton Byrne Hari Sama, This is not Berlin
Makoto Nagahisa, WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaïche, Advocate Mads Brügger, Cold Case Hammarskjöld Beniamino Barrese, The Disappearance of My Mother Petra Costa, The Edge of Democracy Website
Garry Keane & Andrew McConnell, Gaza Ljubomir Stefanov & Tamara Kotevska, Honeyland
Juan Pablo Polanco & César Alejandro Jaimes, Lapü
Tonislav Hristov, The Magic Life of V Hassan Fazili, Midnight Traveler Richard Ladkani, Sea of Shadows Kim Longinotto, Shooting the Mafia Henrik Georgsson, Stieg Larsson – The Man Who Played with Fire
Premieres
Bart Freundlich, After the Wedding Cast: Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup
Sophie Hyde, Animals Cast: Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee
Gurinder Chadha, Blinded by the Light Website Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Noma Dumezweni Joe Berlinger, Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile Cast: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment Grant Sputore, I Am Mother Cast: Rose Byrne, Hilary Swank
Nisha Ganatra, Late Night Cast: Emma Thompson, Amy Ryan, John Lithgow
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, The Mustang Website Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Connie Britton, Jason Mitchell Gavin Hood, Official Secrets Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes
Alex Lehman, Paddleton Cast: Mark Duplass, Ray Romano, Christine Woods Ritesh Batra, Photograph
Jacob Estes, Relive Cast: David Oyelowo, Storm Reid Scott Z. Burns, The Report Cast: Jon Hamm, Annette Bening, Adam Driver, Maura Tierney, Tim Blake Nelson
Anne Sewitsky, Sonja – The White Swan
David Wnendt, The Sunlit Night Cast: Jenny Slate, Gillian Anderson, Zach Galifianakis Noble Jones, The Tomorrow Man Cast: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner
Wayne Blair, Top End Wedding Cast: Kerry Fox, Gwilym Lee Bert & Bertie, Troop Zero Cast: Alison Janney, Viola Davis, Mike Epps, Jim Gaffigan
Dan Gilroy, Velvet Buzzsaw Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Daveed Diggs
Documentary Premieres
Ryan White, Ask Dr. Ruth Alison Klayman, The Brink Karim Amer & Jehane Noujaim, The Great Hack Frédéric Tcheng, Halston
Alex Gibney, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Garret Price, Love, Antosha Nick Broomfield, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
Hepi Mita, MERATA: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Stanley Nelson, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Janice Engel, Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins Trailer Website Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Ursula Macfarlane, Untouchable
Jeffrey Palmer, Words from a Bear Website
Spotlight
Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier & Edward Burtynsky, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Website John Chester, The Biggest Little Farm
Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra, Birds of Passage Alex Holmes, Maiden
Rick Alverson, The Mountain Cast: Tye Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum, Denis Lavant, Udo Kier, Hannah Gross
Jennifer Kent, The Nightingale Cast: Aisling Franciosi
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Rhys Ernst, Adam Cast: Margaret Qualley Daniel Scheinert, The Death of Dick Long
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Kirill Mikhanovsky, Give Me Liberty Alex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra, The Infiltrators Paul Harrill, Light From Light Cast: Marin Ireland, Jim Gaffigan
Alice Waddington, Paradise Hills Cast: Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Milla Jovovich, Awkwafina Rashaad Ernesto Green, Premature Tayarisha Poe, Selah and the Spades
Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann, Sister Aimee Cast: Amy Hargreaves, Macon Blair
Alistair Banks Griffin, The Wolf Hour Cast: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Emory Cohen
Midnight
Patrick Brice, Corporate Animals Cast: Ed Helms, Jessica Williams, Demi Moore
Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe, Greener Grass
Lee Cronin, The Hole in the Ground Abe Forsythe, Little Monsters Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, The Lodge Cast: Riley Keough, Richard Armitage, Alicia Silverstone Alexandre O. Philippe, MEMORY—The Origins of Alien
Lucas Heyne, Mope JD Dillard, Sweetheart Cast: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen
Babak Anvari, Wounds Cast: Dakota Johnson, Armie Hammer, Zazie Beats
From the Collection
Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, The Blair Witch Project
Christopher Munch, The Hours and Times
