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Sundance 2024


27 articles available in total starting from 07/12/2023. Last article published on 18/10/2024.

Review: Handling the Undead

Review: Handling the Undead

Thea Hvistendahl’s debut feature boasts a peculiar, eerie atmosphere and demonstrates her solid directing skills, but its last third destroys all the promise shown in the first two  

26/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Benjamin Ree • Director of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Interview: Benjamin Ree • Director of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

“I wanted people to know the gaming world can be inclusive”

The Norwegian director enters the virtual world and finds real emotions there  

25/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Review: Brief History of a Family

Review: Brief History of a Family

Everybody’s looking for something in the meticulously realised debut feature by Chinese director Jianjie Lin  

24/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Nora Fingscheidt • Director of The Outrun

Interview: Nora Fingscheidt • Director of The Outrun

“It becomes a massive responsibility to make a film about a real person’s life”

The German filmmaker touched upon the movie’s adaptation process and her work with actress Saoirse Ronan  

24/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | Premieres

Review: Kidnapping Inc.

Review: Kidnapping Inc.

Haitian director Bruno Mourral's first feature is a hyper-kinetic comedy-thriller that follows two hapless anti-heroes in a story that also touches upon political and social issues  

24/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | Midnight

Review: Girls Will Be Girls

Review: Girls Will Be Girls

Debuting director Shuchi Talati explores the intricacies of female adolescence against a backdrop of male-dominated societal norms  

24/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Klaudia Reynicke • Director of Reinas

Interview: Klaudia Reynicke • Director of Reinas

“There’s a little bit of me in this film, too”

The Swiss-Peruvian director chatted with us about the genesis of her latest feature film, the importance of re-examining memories through the filter of the present, and the evocative power of music  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: In the Land of Brothers

Review: In the Land of Brothers

The debut feature from Iranian filmmakers Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi skilfully weaves together an edifying fiction in three parts, about Afghan refugees in dramatic circumstances  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Johan Grimonprez • Director of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Interview: Johan Grimonprez • Director of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

“I used to be fascinated by Khrushchev’s shoe-banging incident, yet I never realised it had to do with the politics of my own country”

In the Belgian director’s new documentary, music meets politics – and the results are explosive  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

Review: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Review: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Mid-century American jazz soundtracks anti-colonial struggles in Johan Grimonprez’s study of the Congo Crisis and Patrice Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Documentary Competition

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