Sundance 2020 Cheat Sheet

The 2020 Sundance Film Festival opens on January 23! To preview the festival, we’ve put together a “cheat sheet” to the key feature films screening in Park City—a survey of titles (and some trailers) to provide a look at what’s on offer at this year’s edition.

Don’t miss our special Sundance episodes of The Film Comment Podcast starting with a preview episode available on Wednesday, 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

Radha Blank, The 40-Year-Old Version

Cast: Radha Blank, Peter Y. Kim, Oswin Benjamin

Esteban Arango, Blast Beat

Cast: Diane Guerrero, Wilmer Valderrama, Daniel Dae Kim

Angel Manuel Soto, Charm City Kings

Cast: Teyonah Parris, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, William Catlett

Adam Rehmeier, Dinner in America

Cast: Kyle Gallner, Emily Skeggs, Lea Thompson

Braden King, The Evening Hour

Cast: Philip Ettinger, Stacy Martin, Cosmo Jarvis, Lili Taylor

Ekwa Msangi, Farewell Amor

Cast: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson

Lee Isaac Chung, Minari

Cast: Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Youn Yuh-jung

Channing Godfrey Peoples, Miss Juneteenth

Cast: Nicole Beharie, Alexis Chikaeze, Lori Hayes

Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Cast: Ryan Eggold, Théodore Pellerin, Sharon Van Etten

Edson Oda, Nine Days

Cast: Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård, Tony Hale

Max Barbakow, Palm Springs

Cast: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons

Alex Huston Fischer & Eleanor Wilson, Save Yourselves!

Cast: Sunita Mani, John Reynolds, Ben Sinclair

Josephine Decker, Shirley

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Logan Lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg

Eugene Ashe, Sylvie’s Love

Cast: Tessa Thompson, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Eva Longoria

Tara Miele, Wander Darkly

Cast: Sienna Miller, Diego Luna, Vanessa Bayer

Janicza Bravo, Zola

Cast: Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun

U.S. Documentary Competition

Ramona S. Diaz, A Thousand Cuts

Bao Nguyen, Be Water

Bill Ross & Turner Ross, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine, Boys State

Shalini Kantayya, Coded Bias

Mark Manning, The Cost of Silence

Nicole Newnham & Jim LeBrecht, Crip Camp

Kirsten Johnson, Dick Johnson Is Dead

Arthur Jones, Feels Good Man

Elyse Steinberg & Josh Kriegman & Eli Despres, The Fight

Cristina Costantini & Kareem Tabsch, Mucho Mucho Amor

Matt Wolf, Spaceship Earth

Garrett Bradley, Time

Kim A. Snyder, Us Kids

David France, Welcome to Chechnya

Matt Yoka, Whirlybird

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Amanda Kernell, Charter

Cast: Ane Dahl Torp, Troy Lundkvist, Tintin Poggats Sarri

Maïmouna Doucouré, Cuties

Cast: Fathia Youssouf, Médina El Aidi-Azouni, Maïmouna Gueye

Visar Morina, Exil

Cast: Mišel Matičević, Sandra Hüller

Cast: Gloria Carrá, Jorge Sesán, Cristian Salguero

Fernanda Valadez, Identifying Features

Cast: Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas

Zoé Wittock, Jumbo

Cast: Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot, Sam Louwyck

Zeina Durra, Luxor

Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Karim Saleh, Michael Landes

Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor

Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Tuppence Middleton, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson, Summer White

Cast: Adrián Rossi, Sophie Alexander-Katz, Fabián Corres

Aneil Karia, Surge

Cast: Ben Whishaw, Ellie Haddington, Ian Gelder, Jasmine Jobson

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection

Cast: Jerry Mofokeng Wa Makheta, Makhaola Ndebele, Tseko Monaheng, Siphiwe Nzima

Massoud Bakhshi, Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

Cast: Sadaf Asgari, Behnaz Jafari, Babak Karimi

World Cinema Documentary Competition

ACASĂ, MY HOME – un film de Radu Ciorniciuc

Acasă :: the film spune povestea unei familii care a trăit timp de 20 de ani în sălbăticia din Delta Văcărești, până când locul a căpătat statutul de zonă protejată – Parcul Natural Văcărești – primul parc natural urban din România. Timp de patru ani, regizorul Radu Ciorniciuc a urmărit marea aventură prin care a trecut familia Enache: de la o viață în completă armonie cu natura, la traiul plin de provocări din marea junglă urbană a capitalei.➡ http://proiectulacasa.ro/filmul/Selectat în competiția oficială World Cinema Documentary la Sundance Film Festival #Sundance2020#AcasaMyHome tells the story of a family that lived for 20 years in the wilderness of Văcărești Delta, until the place gained the status of a protected area – Văcărești Natural Park – the first urban natural park in Romania. For four years, the director Radu Ciorniciuc followed the great adventure through which the Enache family went: from a life in complete harmony with nature, to the challenging life in the great urban jungle of Romania's capital. ➡ http://proiectulacasa.ro/ the movie/To be presented in the official World Cinema Documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival # Sundance2020

Posted by Acasă :: the film on Monday, December 9, 2019

Radu Ciorniciuc, Acasa, My Home

Iryna Tsilyk, The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

Hubert Sauper, Epicentro

Diana Neille & Richard Poplak, Influence

Emma Sullivan, Into the Deep

Maite Alberdi, The Mole Agent

Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

Benjamin Ree, The Painter and the Thief

Jerry Rothwell, The Reason I Jump

Susanne Regina Meures, Saudi Runaway

Sam Soko, Softie

Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw, The Truffle Hunters

Danny Madden, Beast Beast

Cast: Shirley Chen, Will Madden, Jose Angeles

Lawrence Michael Levine, Black Bear

Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Gadon

Heidi Ewing, I Carry You With Me

Cast: Armando Espitia, Christian Vázquez, Michelle Rodríguez

Robert Machoian, The Killing of Two Lovers

Cast: Clayne Crawford, Sepideh Moafi, Chris Coy

Patricia Vidal Delgado, La Leyenda Negra

Cast: Monica Betancourt, Kailei Lopez, Irlanda Moreno

Cedric Cheung-Lau, The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me

Cast: Sanjaya Lama, Alice Cummins

Daniels & Hannah Fidell & Alexa Lim Haas & Lucas Leyva & Olivia Lloyd & Jillian Mayer & The Meza Brothers & Terence Nance & Brett Potter & Dylan Redford & Xander Robin & Julian Yuri Rodriguez & Celia Rowlson-Hall, Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia

Cast: Mel Rodriguez, Finn Wolfhard, Casey Wilson

Lance Oppenheim, Some Kind of Heaven

Cast: David Shayne, Loulwa Khoury

Eugene Kotlyarenko, Spree

Cast: Joe Keery, Sasheer Zamata, David Arquette

Carlos López Estrada, Summertime

Cast: 25 Get Lit Poets

Premieres (Fiction)

Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, Downhill

Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell

Euros Lyn, Dream Horse

Cast: Toni Collette, Damian Lewis

Viggo Mortensen, Falling

Cast: Lance Henriksen, Viggo Mortensen, Hannah Gross, Laura Linney

Florian Zeller, The Father

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss

Rodrigo Garcia, Four Good Days

Cast: Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Stephen Root, Joshua Leonard

Julie Taymor, The Glorias

Cast: Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Bette Midler, Janelle Monáe

Phyllida Lloyd, Herself

Cast: Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Conleth Hill

Jeff Baena, Horse Girl

Cast: Alison Brie, Debby Ryan, John Reynolds

Dominic Cooke, Ironbark

Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley

Miranda July, Kajillionaire

Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger

Andrew Cohn, The Last Shift

Cast: Richard Jenkins, Shane Paul McGhie, Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Dee Rees, The Last Thing He Wanted

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Rosie Perez

Liz Garbus, Lost Girls

Cast: Amy Ryan, Thomasin McKenzie, Lola Kirke

Sean Durkin, The Nest

Cast: Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Charlie Shotwell, Oona Roche

Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Laverne Cox

Greg Barker, Sergio

Cast: Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Garret Dillahunt

Michael Almereyda, Tesla

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Eve Hewson, Hannah Gross

Alan Ball, Uncle Frank

Cast: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi

Benh Zeitlin, Wendy

Cast: Devin France, Yashua Mack, Tommie Lynn Milazzo, Shay Walker

Sara Colangelo, Worth

Cast: Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, Amy Ryan

Premieres (Documentary)

Catherine Gund, Aggie

Ryan White, Assassins

Sam Feder, Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen

Bryan Fogel, The Dissident

James D. Stern & Fernando Villena, Giving Voice

Alison Ellwood, The Go-Go’s

Ron Cicero & Kimo Easterwood, Happy Happy Joy Joy – The Ren & Stimpy Story

Lana Wilson, Miss Americana

Laurent Bouzereau, Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

Jeff Orlowski, The Social Dilemma

Little predators in training…#Inferno #OkavangoPBS #OkavangoRiverofDreams Nature | PBS

Posted by Dereck and Beverly Joubert on Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Dereck Joubert & Beverly Joubert & Ivo Filatsch, Okavango: River of Dreams (Director’s Cut)