Skip to main content

Sundance Film Festival · 2017

Sundance Film Festival 2017

NEXT

Programme

10 films · 4 reviews

Jump to a film

Columbus

Review preview for Columbus

The sense of poise created, as people move through spaces or talk back and forth, objects often leaving the frame in one direction as another enters from the opposite side, achieves a soothing rhythm.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Two people meet by chance and forge a connection.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kogonada; Writer: Kogonada; Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, Rory Culkin, Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes, Jim Dougherty, William Willet, Wynn Reichert)

Full review

World premiere

Davyeon

In the wake of his older brother’s death, 13-year-old Dayveon spends the sweltering summer days roaming his rural Arkansas town. When he falls in with a local gang, he becomes drawn to the camaraderie and violence of their world.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Amman Abbasi; Writer: Amman Abbasi, Steven Reneau ; Stars: Devin Blackmon, Kordell "KD" Johnson, Dontrell Bright, Chasity Moore, Lachion Buckingham, Marquell Manning. )

World premiere. Day One film

Deidra & Laney Rob A Train

Two teenage sisters start robbing trains to make ends meet after their single mother's emotional meltdown in an electronics store lands her in jail.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Sydney Freeland; Writer: Shelby Farrell; Stars: Danielle Nicolet, Missi Pyle, Tim Blake Nelson, Sharon Lawrence, Sasheer Zamata, Arturo Castro, Rachel Crow, David Sullivan, Myko Olivier, Kinna McInroe, Brooke Markham, Monica Moore Smith, Ashleigh Murray, Tua Kealoha, Chad Wright)

World premiere

A Ghost Story

Review preview for A Ghost Story

Reveals just enough in the sparse dialogue and long silences to keep us intrigued.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
This is the story of a ghost and the house he haunts.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: David Lowery; Writer: David Lowery; Stars: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Rob Zabrecky, Will Oldham, Liz Franke, Sonia Acevedo)

Full review See: Interview with Casey Affleck about A Ghost Story

World premiere

Gook

Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers who own a struggling women's shoe store, have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the 1992 LA riots, the trio must defend their store — and contemplate the meaning of family, their personal dreams and the future.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Justin Chon; Writer: Justin Chon; Stars: Simone Baker, Justin Chon, Curtiss Cook Jr., David So, Jeff Corbett, Cesar Garcia, Chris Jai Alex, Natalie Sutherland, Saadiqa Muhammad, Ben Munoz, Isaiah Jarel, Aida Lembo, Terence Dickson, Omono Okojie, Trinecia Moore-Pernell)

World premiere

Lemon

A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Janicza Bravo; Writer: Janicza Bravo, Brett Gelman; Stars: Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Nia Long, Gillian Jacobs, Rhea Perlman, Fred Melamed, Shiri Appleby, Martin Starr, David Paymer, Megan Mullally, Jeff Garlin, Marla Gibbs, Elizabeth De Razzo, Aries Spears)

World premiere

Menashe

Review preview for Menashe

Rather than pick apart rituals... Weinstein simply lets us see them in action as part of the natural fabric of his life

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A man faces losing custody of his son after the death of his wife.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Joshua Z Weinstein; Writer: Joshua Z Weinstein, Alex Lipschultz, Musa Syeed; Stars: Menashe Lustig, Ruben Niborski, Yoel Weisshaus) , Trailer

Full review See: Menashe co-writer/producer Alex Lipschultz on the challenges of making the film

World premiere

Person To Person

A record collector hustles for a big score while his heartbroken roommate tries to erase a terrible mistake, a teenager bears witness to her best friend’s new relationship and a rookie reporter, alongside her demanding supervisor, chases the clues of a murder case involving a life-weary clock shop owner.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Dustin Guy Defa; Writer: Dustin Guy Defa; Stars: Michael Cera, Abbi Jacobson, Philip Baker Hall, Michaela Watkins, Tavi Gevinson, Olivia Luccardi, Craig Butta, Ben Rosenfield, Hunter Zimny, Bene Coopersmith, George Sample III, Buddy Duress, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Eleonore Hendricks, Frank Mosley)

World premiere

LA Times

In this classically styled comedy of manners set in Los Angeles, sophisticated thirtysomethings try to determine whether ideal happiness exists in coupledom or if the perfectly suited couple is actually just an urban myth.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Michelle Morgan; Writer: Michelle Morgan; Stars: Michelle Morgan, Jorma Taccone, Dree Hemingway, Kentucker Audley, Margarita Levieva, Adam Shapiro, Angela Trimbur, Robert Schwartzman, Nora Zehetner, Tate Donovan, Andre Hyland, James Ransone, Antonio Cupo, Allison Lanier, Julie Mintz)

World premiere

Thoroughbreds

Review preview for Thoroughbreds

The weirdness thrives on understatement

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
Two rich girls contemplate murder in Connecticut

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Cory Finley; Writer: Cory Finley; Stars: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Kaili Vernoff, Paul Sparks)

Full review

World premiere