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Sundance Film Festival · 2017

Sundance Film Festival 2017

Kids

Family viewing.

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3 films · 1 review

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The Mars Generation

Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey to Mars is closer than you think.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Barnett)

World premiere. Salt Lake City opening night film

My Life As A Courgette (Ma Vie De Courgette)

Review preview for My Life As A Courgette

The script has a heartfelt carefulness but it is never preachy, with 'naughty' conversations about the home's teacher's willy exploding likely to have pre-adolescents (and adults who well remember these sorts of conversations) hooting with laughter.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Stop-motion story of a boy, who is sent to a group home for orphans after the death of his mum.

(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2016; Director: Claude Barras; Writer: Gilles Paris, Morgan Navarro, Céline Sciamma, Germano Zullo; Stars: Voices of: Michel Vuillermoz, Natacha Koutchoumov, Paulin Jaccoud, Brigitte Rosset, Adrien Barazzone, Véronique Montel, Monica Budde, Anne-Laure Brasey, Estelle Hennard, Jean-Claude Issenmann, Sixtine Murat, Raul Ribera, Elliot Sanchez, Gaspard Schlatter, Lou Wick)

Full review See: Interview with Claude Barras about My Life As A Courgette

Red Dog: True Blue

When 11-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Australia’s remote Pilbara, he prepares himself for a life of dull hardship but instead finds myth, adventure and a friendship with a scrappy, one-of-a-kind pup that will change his life forever.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2016; Director: Kriv Stenders; Writer: Daniel Taplitz; Stars: Jason Isaacs, Levi Miller, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Bryan Brown, Thomas Cocquerel, Justine Clarke, Steve Le Marquand, Winta McGrath, Zen McGrath, Kee Chan, Syd Brisbane, Kelton Pell, Calen Tassone, Igor Sas, Caitlin Berestford-Ord)

North American premiere