Sundance Film Festival · 2011
This year’s 12 films were selected from 796 international documentary submissions.
11 films · 11 reviews
The documentary is well balanced and never presents either party in a more favourable light than the other.
(Country: Switzerland, US, Ghana; Year: 2011; Director: Jarreth J Merz, Kevin Merz; Writer: Shari Yantra Marcacci, Erika Tasini) , Official site
North American Premiere
Rajesh is a real life private detective, the founder of Always Investigatings and Security Concern, and he runs it as if he learned everything he needed to know from Seventies TV shows.
(Country: India, US, UK; Year: 2011; Director: Phil Cox; Stars: Rajesh Ji, Minnie Ji, Betu Ji) , Official site
World Premiere
Despite the fantastic image this family first presents, the film's best trick is to reveal the ways in which it resembles any other.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2011; Director: Julia Ivanova) , Official site
World Premiere
Sington has found a range of economists and experts who explain in clear language the roots of the crisis.
(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: David Sington) , Official site , Trailer
North American Premiere
Ali Samadi Ahadi paints a poetic and heartfelt portrait of a nation oppressed.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2010; Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi) , Official site
North American Premiere
The photography is sumptuous throughout - we often forget that this is a documentary, such is the quality of the footage.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2011; Director: Danfung Dennis) , Official site , Trailer
World Premiere
Palmer successfully captures the abundant passion, charisma and loyalty of those involved, yet inescapably through the prism of the community shows a wider, bleaker picture.
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2011; Director: Ian Palmer; Stars: James Quinn McDonagh, Michael Quinn McDonagh, Joe Joyce, Michael Joyce, Ditsy Nevin, Curly Paddy) , Official site
World Premiere
The family are captivating subject matter, the strong personalities frequently tugging in different directions, so that the film is never short of drama.
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich) , Official site
International Premiere
A thorough and provocative portrait.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: James Marsh; Stars: Nim) , Official site , Trailer
World Premiere
The movie also has much to say about this none-too-subtle take on voyeurism, and the nature of unexpurgated creativity uninhibited by copyright.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2011; Director: Matthew Bate; Writer: Matthew Bate; Stars: Mike Mitchell, Daniel Clowes, Henry S. Rosenthal, Mitchell Deprey, Eddie Guerriero, Ivan Brunetti, Peter Haskett, Raymond Huffman) , Official site
World Premiere
The film’s undoubtedly a dream ride for any boy racer.
(Country: UK, France, US; Year: 2010; Director: Asif Kapadia; Writer: Manish Pandey; Stars: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams, Ron Dennis, Viviane Senna, Milton da Silva, Neide Senna, Jackie Stewart, Sid Watkins, Galvão Bueno, Reginaldo Leme, Gerhard Berger, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Jean-Marie Balestre) , Official site
North American Premiere
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