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Sundance Film Festival

16 January – 26 January 2014

Robert Redford's independent festival notches up its third decade in 2014. This year, the festival has introduced a new Sundance Kids section for younger audiences. For the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 118 feature-length films were selected, representing 37 countries and 54 first-time filmmakers, including 34 in competition.

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  • Notes On Blindness
    Review preview for Notes On Blindness

    Hull's reflections touch on areas the sighted rarely stop to consider, such as the way that still photos are easier to remember than actual physical moments with loved ones.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Adaptation of John Hull's audio diary about the experience of losing his sight.
  • Infinitely Polar Bear
    Review preview for Infinitely Polar Bear

    Ruffalo is astonishing. He makes Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook look easy.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility for their two young daughters.
  • Living Stars
    Review preview for Living Stars

    It's a simple concept brilliantly realised and viewers may find that they've never had this much fun in a cinema before.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    Ordinary Argentinians get on down in their homes and workplaces and reveal their love of dancing.
  • Dawn
    Review preview for Dawn

    Strong on style and remarkably assured.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered life.
  • The Voices
    Review preview for The Voices

    For a while, at least, The Voices rattles along like a charming slasher comedy of errors.

    Andrew Robertson · 3 out of 5
    A disturbed factory worker dreams of romance... but will he take advice from his dog or his cat?
  • White Bird In A Blizzard
    Review preview for White Bird In A Blizzard

    Araki never digs deep enough, wasting the opportunity to expose her resentments.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    A teenager's life is thrown into turmoil when her mother disappears.
  • The Signal
    Review preview for The Signal

    The film gaily sets about asking a number of questions it has no intention of answering.

    Max Crawford · 3 out of 5
    Three college students disappear under mysterious circumstances while tracking a computer hacker through the Southwest.
  • Love Is Strange
    Review preview for Love Is Strange

    Courageous and uncompromising

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    The consequences of a gay marriage on family and friends.
  • Memphis
    Review preview for Memphis

    It's always difficult to tell a story about nothing happening, and director Tim Sutton is not entirely successful in doing so here.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A musician strives to find inspiration in a city with an overwhelming history.
  • 52 Tuesdays
    Review preview for 52 Tuesdays

    There is no effort to sanitise characters' lives in order to get a message across, and as a result the film never feels preachy.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Over the course of a year, a teenage girl adjusts to life as a woman while her mother adjusts to life as a man.

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