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Sundance Film Festival · 2015

Sundance Film Festival 2015

New Frontier

This programme also includes a series of installations.

Programme

6 films · 2 reviews

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The Forbidden Room

Review preview for The Forbidden Room

What is quite wonderful in all this flowing and "fade, fade, fade," fading is that the characters and their stories belong to no one specifically. They belong to a cinematic spirit world and maybe nobody even wanted them.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson; Writer: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Robert Kotyk, John Ashbery, Kim Morgan; Stars: Roy Dupuis, Clara Furey, Louis Negin, Udo Kier, Gregory Hlady, Mathieu Amalric, Noel Burton, Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Ahmarani, Caroline Dhavernas, Jacques Nolot, Slimane Dazi, Maria de Medeiros, Charlotte Rampling, Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon)

Full review

World premiere.

Liveforever

Driven by the music and dancing she finds along the way, a teenager leaves home willing to try anything her provocative and tolerant city has to offer, even if she burns out in the process. Inspired by the best-selling novel "Que viva la música" by Andres Caicedo.

(Country: Colombia, Mexico; Director: Carlos Moreno; Writer: Alberto Ferreras, Alonso Torres, Carlos Moreno)

World premiere.

The Royal Road

Review preview for The Royal Road

If you are willing to drift along Olson's stream of consciousness, there are pleasures along the way, but not all her meanderings make the connections she hopes for.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
Cinematic essay considering the history of California and the personal desires of the director.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jenni Olson; Writer: Jenni Olson, Jenni Olson; Stars: Tony Kushner, Jenni Olson)

Full review

World premiere.

Sam Klemke's Time Machine

Sam Klemke has filmed and narrated 50 years of his life, creating a strange and intimate portrait of what it means to be human.

(Country: US, Australia; Year: 2014; Director: Matthew Bate; Writer: Matthew Bate, Sandy Cameron; Stars: Sam Klemke)

World premiere.

Station To Station

Composed of 60 individual one-minute films featuring different artists, musicians, places, and perspectives, this film reveals a larger narrative about modern creativity.

(Country: Sweden; Year: 2014; Director: Davor Radic; Writer: Davor Radic; Stars: Jerker Cavallie Wase)

World premiere.

Things Of The Aimless Wanderer

A white man meets a black girl, then she disappears. The white man tries to understand what happened to her while also trying to finish a travelogue. Things of the Aimless Wanderer is a film about the sensitive topic of relations between “locals” and Westerners, about paranoia, mistrust, and misunderstandings.

(Country: Rwanda; Year: 2014; Director: Kivu Ruhorahoza; Writer: Kivu Ruhorahoza; Stars: Justin Mullikin, Grace Nikuze, Ramadhan Bizimana)

World premiere.