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Sundance is the daddy of all independent festivals. Run in conjunction with the Sundance Institute - set up by Robert Redford to support independent film - it has continued to develop its brief for more than two decades. It championed documentary which has resulted in a slew of factual films hitting the multiplex and has recently turned its attention to short film, recently announcing a mobile phone pilot project.
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View Films by Strand:
- Independent Feature Competition: Documentary
- Independent Feature Competition: Dramatic
- International Short Films: Animation
- International Short Films: Documentary
- International Short Films: Dramatic
- International Short Films: Experimental and Mixed Media
- New Frontier
- Park City At Midnight
- Premieres
- Spectrum: Documentary
- Spectrum: Dramatic Spotlight
- US Short Films: Animation
- US Short Films: Documentary
- US Short Films: Dramatic
- US Short Films: Experimental
- World Cinema Documentary Competition
- World Cinema Dramatic Competition
View previous years coverage of the Sundance Film Festival festival:
Sundance Latest Reviews
An emotionally frayed family find their lives torn apart in a small Mississippi Delta town.
Existential comedy told in four vignettes linked by a roadside cafe.
A man in mid-life crisis retreats to his parents' loft.
Two women enter an uneasy partnership to smuggle illegal immigrants from Canada to the US.
Personal story of a rap artist and her husband who lived through Hurricane Katrina.
Two sisters try to forge a career in crime scene clean-up.
A documentary tribute to the legendary creator of gonzo journalism.
Offbeat romance between a damaged young woman and exclusive interview with Marianna Palka and Jason Ritter.
A sex-addicted med school dropout pays his mum's hopital bills by running a restaurant scam... but with her memory fading fast, will he ever find out the truth about his dad?
The epic story of a family forced to emigrate from Laos after the chaos of the secret air war waged by the US during the Vietnam War.
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