On Wednesday, the Sundance Institute announced its roster of feature-lengthfilms selected to screen at the festival in Park City, Salt Lake City and theSundance Resort in Utah. (Last year’s festival was virtual-only due to thepandemic.)
The 2023 festival includes 101 feature films from 23 different countries, and32 of the 115 film directors whose work will screen at the festival are first-time feature filmmakers, according to a press release.
“Maintaining an essential place for artists to express themselves, take risks,and for visionary stories to endure and entertain is distinctly Sundance,”Robert Redford, Sundance Institute Founder and President, said in a statement.”The Festival continues to foster these values and connections throughindependent storytelling. We are honored to share the compelling selection ofwork at this year’s Festival from distinct perspectives and unique voices.”
“The program for this year’s Festival reiterates the relevancy of trailblazingwork serving as an irreplaceable source for original stories that resonate andfuel creativity and dialogue,” Sundance Film Festival Director of ProgrammingKim Yutani said in a statement. “In so many ways this year’s slate reflectsthe voices of communities around the world who are speaking out with urgencyand finally being heard.”
“Across our program, impactful storytelling by fearless artists continues toprovide space for the community to come together to be entertained, challengedand inspired,” Yutani added.
One notable movie scheduled to screen at the festival includes the worldpremiere of Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. The documentary tells “theimprobable tale” of Back to the Future actor Michael J. Fox, “who became thedarling of 1980s Hollywood — only to find the course of his life altered by astunning diagnosis,” according to an official logline.
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2023 Sundance Film Festival
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The festival will also include the premiere of Magazine Dreams from writer-director Elijah Bynum and stars Jonathan Majors, Haley Bennett, and TaylorPaige.
“An amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection as his relentlessdrive for recognition pushes him to the brink,” reads a logline for MagazineDreams.
Also scheduled to premiere on the festival’s first day is director-producerLisa Cortés’ Little Richard: I Am Everything a documentary centered on thelate Little Richard that promises to shed light on “the Black queer origins ofrock ‘n’ roll, finally exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music”via archival and performance footage.
Sometimes I Think About Dying which stars Daisy Ridley and features TheWhiteLotus Brittany O’Grady, is scheduled to premiere on the first day of thefestival.
“Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life,”reads a synopsis for the movie, directed by Rachel Lambert. “When she makesthe new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, aconversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.”
2023 Sundance Film Festival
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Ben Platt and fiancé Noah Galvin’s upcoming movie Theater Camp — about the”eccentric staff” of “a run-down theater camp in upstate New York” as it triesto keep the camp running when its founder falls into a coma with the help ofthe founder’s son — will also screen at Sundance. The movie also stars JimmyTatro, Patti Harrison and Ayo Edebiri.
Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg’s infinity pool starring AlexanderSkarsgard and Mia Goth, follows a couple on an “all-inclusive beach vacationwhen a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistictourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors,” according to a synopsis.
Drift starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat and directed by Anthony Chen,follows a young refugee named Jacqueline who “begins a friendship with arootless tour guide” after arriving “penniless on a Greek island where shetries to survive.”
The rest of the lineup can be found here. The 2023 Sundance Film Festival willrun from Jan. 19 to Jan. 29.