Sundance Film Festival

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  Pussy

  Review preview for Pussy

  Sometimes intensely erotic, sometimes side-splittingly funny, Gasiorowska's film is beautifully observed.

  Alone at home one evening, a woman decides to have a solo pleasure session — but not everything goes according to plan.
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  Thoroughbreds

  Review preview for Thoroughbreds

  The weirdness thrives on understatement

  Two rich girls contemplate murder in Connecticut
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  Icarus

  Review preview for Icarus

  Icarus is a multi-layered and compelling piece of work.

  A documentarian investigating doping in cycling accidentally uncovers an international Olympic scandal.
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  Strong Island

  Review preview for Strong Island

  Goes against the grain of modern crime documentaries.

  The filmmaker investigates the shooting of his brother.
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  Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World

  Review preview for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World

  Densely packed with information, this is a film that continually finds new things to say and new ways to say them.

  The role of Native Americans in contemporary music history.
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  Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman

  Review preview for Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman

  The film is stunningly beautiful.

  A look inside the quiet revolution being led by ordinary people working the land and sea in the US.
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  Mudbound

  Review preview for Mudbound

  Both Hedlund and Mitchell deliver strong performances and balance well against one another.

  Two families clash when Mississippi youths return from the Second World War with new perspectives on race relations.
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  Dolores

  Review preview for Dolores

  Significant both in raising the profile of a woman too long overlooked and - crucially - in giving her back control over her own story.

  A documentary portrait of the woman who started America's first farm worker's union and fought for economic, racial and gender justice.
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  Dina

  Review preview for Dina

  What emerges is a warm profile of two people who love each other, working a damned sight harder than many neurotypical couples to get over the humps in the road.

  An unconventional love story.
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  Walking Out

  Review preview for Walking Out

  Walking Out treads a familiar path but harks back to ideas that have been forgotten in many modern hunting myths.

  A teenager must summon all his strength so that he and his father can survive after an accident in the wilderness.

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Features

• World of difference
  Writer/producer Alex Lipschultz on the challenges of making Menashe
• Dressing the decades
  Luca Guadagnino on Call Me By Your Name and the art of costuming
• An education
  Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane on School Life
• Landscape of love
  Director Francis Lee talks about authenticity and emotion in God's Own Country.
• Pastures new
  Alec Secareanu and Josh O'Connor on preparing for God's Own Country.
• Portrait of a Lady
  William Oldroyd on austerity and colour-blind casting in his debut Lady Macbeth.
• Train of thought
  Craig Johnson and Daniel Clowes on tattoos, Wilson, and being the voice of a dog.
• Taking the lead
  Judy Greer on working with dogs in Wilson.
• A man who speaks his mind
  Woody Harrelson on truth tellers and Wilson.
• With the workers
  Adam Sobel on his portrait of the Qatar migrant labour force The Workers Cup.
• Making The Wound
  John Trengove talks about the challenges of his coming-of-age drama.
• Cate Blanchett on stage and screens
  Taking on The Present and speaking out in Manifesto.

News

• Films added to Sundance London line-up
  Festival favourites play in 'Redford Recommends' strand.
• UK director among 13 selected for Sundance Labs
  Aleem Khan to develop After Love.
• Sundance London titles announced
  Festival's 14 features include The Big Sick and A Ghost Story.
• Beatriz At Dinner to open Sundance: London
  Salma Hayek satire kicks off festival on June 1.
• Sundance announces award winners
  Top prizes go to I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore and The Nile Hilton Incident.
• Marjorie Prime wins Sloan Award
  Winners of Sundance commissioning, episodic storytelling grants and lab fellowship also revealed.
• Redford: I think the election will galvanize people
  Sundance founder on staying out of politics but getting involved with the environment at opening press conference.
• Sundance announces 2017 Premieres, Midnight, Spotlight selections
  The Incredible Jessica James will close festival.
• Sundance reveals New Frontier programme
  Live performances and augmented reality feature in line-up.
• Sundance announces competition titles and NEXT
  Festival to highlight theme of climate change.
• Sundance London announces 2017 dates
  Festival returns to Picturehouse from June 1 to 4.

Galleries

• Sundance 2017: World Cinema Dramatic Competition in pictures
  Images from the 12 competing films
• Sundance 2017: World Cinema Documentary Competition in pictures
  Images from the 12 competition films
• Sundance 2017: US Dramatic Competition in pictures
  Stills from the competing films
• Sundance 2017: US Documentary Competition
  Images from the competition films
• Sundance 2017: NEXT in pictures
  Stills from the 10 titles
• Sundance 2017: Midnight in pictures
  Stills for the dead of night selection
• Sundance 2017: Premieres and Documentary Premieres in pictures
  Images from the non-competition sections