2016: 6. SUNDANCE
My shortlist from Sundance 2016.
* EXCLUDING: Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Independent Spirits, Critics' Choice, SAG, HFA, BIFA and LCCFA 2016 nominees.
(Complete Sundance 2016 lists in my public lists:
«2016: 6.01» to «2016: 6.12»)
* EXCLUDING: Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Independent Spirits, Critics' Choice, SAG, HFA, BIFA and LCCFA 2016 nominees.
(Complete Sundance 2016 lists in my public lists:
«2016: 6.01» to «2016: 6.12»)
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- DirectorMatt RossStarsViggo MortensenGeorge MacKaySamantha IslerIn the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorJohn CarneyStarsFerdia Walsh-PeeloAidan GillenMaria Doyle KennedyA young lad notices a beautiful girl who begins to occupy his thoughts. While struggling with poverty, personal relationships and life's woes, he starts a band, hoping to catch her attention.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorKenneth LonerganStarsCasey AffleckMichelle WilliamsKyle ChandlerA depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsSam NeillJulian DennisonRima Te WiataA national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorJohn KrasinskiStarsSharlto CopleyCharlie DayRichard JenkinsA man returns to his small hometown after learning that his mother has fallen ill and is about to undergo surgery.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorJames SchamusStarsLogan LermanSarah GadonTijuana RicksIn 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorWhit StillmanStarsKate BeckinsaleChloë SevignyXavier SamuelLady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica--and herself too, naturally.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsMichelle WilliamsKristen StewartLaura DernThe lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorIra SachsStarsGreg KinnearJennifer EhlePaulina GarcíaA new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsAdam BakriMaría ValverdeMandy PatinkinLove story of a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku from 1918 to 1920.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorRob BurnettStarsCraig RobertsPaul RuddSelena GomezA man suffering a family loss enrolls in a class about care-giving that changes his perspective on life.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorAnne FontaineStarsLou de LaâgeAgata BuzekAgata Kulesza1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsMichael ShannonRachel WeiszHansel TanAs a man contemplates moving to a new state with his wife for her graduate program, an old flame - a woman who often changes identities - reenters his life at a birthday dinner party.Sundance 2016: Premieres
- DirectorJeremy SaulnierStarsAnton YelchinImogen PootsAlia ShawkatA punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.Sundance 2016: Spotlight
- DirectorMartin ZandvlietStarsRoland MøllerLouis HofmannJoel BasmanIn post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.Sundance 2016: Spotlight
- DirectorRebecca MillerStarsGreta GerwigEthan HawkeJulianne MooreMaggie wants to have a baby, raising him on her own, but when she gets romantically involved with John, a married man, things get complicated and all the balance of Maggie's plans may collapse.Sundance 2016: Spotlight
- DirectorDon CheadleStarsDon CheadleEmayatzy CorinealdiEwan McGregorAn exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.Sundance 2016: Spotlight
- DirectorNate ParkerStarsNate ParkerArmie HammerPenelope Ann MillerNat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic
- Audience Award - Dramatic
- DirectorDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsPaul DanoDaniel RadcliffeMary Elizabeth WinsteadA hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Directing Award - Dramatic
- DirectorAndrew NeelStarsBen SchnetzerNick JonasGus HalperReeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there in the name of "brotherhood" tests him and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- DirectorMiles Joris-PeyrafitteStarsOwen CampbellCharlie HeatonAmandla StenbergSet in the early 1990s, the telling and retelling of a friendship between three teenagers, as a police investigation prompts disparate memories.Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - Dramatic
- DirectorClea DuVallStarsMelanie LynskeyJason RitterSkylar BernonA weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - Dramatic - Individual Performance
- DirectorChad HartiganStarsMarkees ChristmasCraig RobinsonCarla JuriThe romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
- Special Jury Award - Dramatic - Individual Performance
- DirectorElite ZexerStarsLamis AmmarRuba BlalHitham OmariWhen their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Dramatic
- DirectorFelix van GroeningenStarsStef AertsTom VermeirStefaan De WinterThe drama follows two brothers who start a bar and get swept up in its success in the midst of Belgium's nightlife scene.Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Directing Award - World Cinema Dramatic
- DirectorManolo CruzCarlos del CastilloStarsJorge CaoManolo CruzVicky HernándezA man yearns to go in to the ocean across the street from his house, but suffers from an illness that prevents hims from doing so.Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Audience Award - World Cinema Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - World Cinema Dramatic - Acting
- DirectorAna KatzStarsJulieta ZylberbergAndrés MilicichMirella PascualRunning away from a bar without paying the bill is just the first adventure for Liz (mother to newborn Nicanor) and Rosa (supposed mother to newborn Clarisa). This budding friendship between nursing mothers starts with the promise of liberation but soon ends up being a dangerous business.Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - World Cinema Dramatic - Screenwriting
- DirectorAgnieszka SmoczynskaStarsMarta MazurekMichalina OlszanskaKinga PreisIn Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - World Cinema Dramatic - Unique Vision & Design
- DirectorKerem SangaStarsDylan GelulaBrianna HildebrandMateo AriasSeventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her LA public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend Clifton - who has always harbored a secret crush - he does his best to get in the way.Sundance 2016: Next
- Audience Award: Best of Next.
- DirectorMatt JohnsonStarsMatt JohnsonOwen WilliamsAndrew AppelleIn 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.Sundance 2016: Next
- DirectorBabak AnvariStarsNarges RashidiAvin ManshadiBobby NaderiAs a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.Sundance 2016: Midnight
- DirectorKevin SmithStarsLily-Rose DeppHarley Quinn SmithJohnny DeppTwo teenage yoga enthusiasts must do battle with an evil presence that is threatening to rise from its underground lair and endanger their major party plans.Sundance 2016: Midnight
- DirectorJean-François PouliotFrançois BrissonStarsAngela GaluppoMariloup WolfeLucinda DavisWhen winter break arrives, a boy and his friends are joined by the new girl in town for a prolonged snowball fight.Sundance 2016: Sundance Kids
- DirectorRoger Ross WilliamsStarsOwen SuskindCornelia SuskindRon SuskindA coming-of-age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.Sundance 2016: U.S. Documentary
- Directing Award - Documentary
Tribeca 2016: Spotlight - DirectorJosh KriegmanElyse SteinbergStarsAnthony WeinerHuma AbedinJordan Zain WeinerAn examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign and today's political landscape.Sundance 2016: U.S. Documentary
- Grand Jury Prize - Documentary
- DirectorRokhsareh GhaemmaghamiStarsSonita AlizadehLatifah AlizadehFadia AlizadehAfter her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions.Sundance 2016: World Cinema Documentary
- Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Documentary
- Audience Award - World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorMichal MarczakStarsKrzysztof BaginskiMichal HuszczaEva LebuefA new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city's streets in search of living forever inside the beautiful moment. Never content with answers, they push each experience to its breaking point, testing what it might mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep.Sundance 2016: World Cinema Documentary
- Directing Award - World Cinema Documentary
- DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsJason LondonWiley WigginsMatthew McConaugheyThe adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.Sundance 2016: Special Events