A slew of eagerly awaited new films hailing from Europe have been announced for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival (24 January-3 February 2019), which has unveiled the line-ups for its competition sections, as well as its Premieres, Documentary Premieres, NEXT, Midnight, Spotlight and Kids selections.

As usual, the World Cinema Dramatic Competition will play host to a batch of European (co-)productions that have been generating quite a buzz in recent months. One of the highlights, The Souvenir [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by British filmmaker Joanna Hogg (Archipelago [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Brazil’s Gabriel Mascaro (Neon Bull [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Johannes Nyholm
scheda film] (which follows a couple on a trip who are lured into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick), the Netherlands’ Sacha Polak (Zurich [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (about a young mother forced to reconstruct her life after an acid attack leaves her severely burned), and Colombia’s Alejandro Landes (Porfirio [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (about eight kids with guns watching over a hostage on a faraway mountaintop). Dolce Fine Giornata [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jacek Borcuch
scheda film] by Poland’s Jacek Borcuch, The Last Tree [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Shola Amoo
scheda film] by the UK’s Shola Amoo, Queen of Hearts [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gustav Lindh
intervista: May el-Toukhy
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scheda film] by Uruguay’s Lucía Garibaldi round off the European presence in the section.

The World Cinema Documentary Competition will welcome the European titles Cold Case Hammarskjold​​ [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mads Brügger
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scheda film] by Denmark’s Mads Brügger, The Disappearance of My Mother [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]​​ by Italy’s Beniamino Barrese, Gaza [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Ireland’s Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell, Honeyland [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara …
intervista: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir …
scheda film] by Macedonia’s Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, The Magic Life of V [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]​​ by Bulgaria’s Tonislav Hristov, Sea of Shadows [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Austria’s Richard Ladkani, Shooting the Mafia [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]​​ by the UK’s Kim Longinotto and Stieg Larsson ​​– ​​The Man Who Played With Fire [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]​ by Sweden’s Henrik Georgsson, as well as the co-productions Advocate [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rachel Leah Jones, Lea Tse…
scheda film]​​ by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe ​Bellaïche, and Midnight Traveler​ [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Hassan Fazili.

The Premieres section is also peppered with films from the Continent. British (co-)productions such as the directorial debut by actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
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scheda film], and Germany’s David Wnendt, with the Norwegian co-production The Sunlit Night [+leggi anche:
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Lastly, there are a few surprises in store in the NEXT section, which has selected the Spanish-US title Paradise Hills [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Severin Fiala e Veronika …
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scheda film] by Ireland’s Lee Cronin.

Here is the full list of films selected in the international competition sections:

World Cinema Dramatic Competition 

Dirty God​ [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sacha Polak
scheda film] - Sacha Polak (Netherlands/UK/Belgium/Ireland)
Divine Love​ [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil/Uruguay/Denmark/Norway)
Dolce Fine Giornata​ [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jacek Borcuch
scheda film] - Jacek Borcuch (Poland)
Judy & Punch - Mirrah Foulkes (Australia)
Koko-di Koko-da​ [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Johannes Nyholm
scheda film] - Johannes Nyholm (Sweden/Denmark)
The Last Tree [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Shola Amoo
scheda film]​​ - Shola Amoo (UK)
Monos [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]​ - Alejandro Landes (Colombia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Sweden/Uruguay)
Queen of Hearts​​ [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gustav Lindh
intervista: May el-Toukhy
scheda film] - May el-Toukhy (Denmark)
The Sharks​​ [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Lucía Garibaldi (Uruguay/Argentina/Spain)
The Souvenir [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]​ - Joanna Hogg (UK)
This Is Not Berlin​​ – Hari Sama (Mexico)
We Are Little Zombies - Makoto Nagahisa (Japan) 

World Cinema Documentary Competition 

Advocate​​ [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rachel Leah Jones, Lea Tse…
scheda film] - Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe ​Bellaïche (Israel/Canada/Switzerland)
Cold Case Hammarskjold​​ [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mads Brügger
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scheda film] - Mads Brügger (Denmark)
Untitled Brazil Documentary​​ - Petra Costa (Brazil)
The Disappearance of My Mother​​ [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Beniamino Barrese (Italy)
Gaza [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] -​​ Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell (Ireland)
Honeyland [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara …
intervista: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir …
scheda film] - Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska (Macedonia)
Lapü​​ - Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes (Colombia)
The Magic Life of V​​ [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Tonislav Hristov (Finland/Denmark/Bulgaria)
Midnight Traveler​ [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Hassan Fazili (USA/Qatar/UK/Canada)
Sea of Shadows [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Richard Ladkani (Austria)
Shooting the Mafia [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]​​ - Kim Longinotto (Ireland)
Stieg Larsson ​​– ​​The Man Who Played With Fire [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]​ - Henrik Georgsson (Sweden)