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The Game Changers and Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Bad Reputation
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Kevin Kerslake; Writer: Joel Marcus)
World premiere
A look at the life of Joan Jett, from her early years as the founder of The Runaways and first meeting collaborator Kenny Laguna in 1980 to her enduring presence in pop culture as a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer.
Believer
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Don Argott; Stars: Dan Reynolds, Aja Volkman, Ben McKee, Daniel Platzman, Wayne Sermon, Tyler Glenn)
World premiere
Imagine Dragons’ Mormon frontman Dan Reynolds is taking on a new mission to explore how the church treats its LGBTQ members. With the rising suicide rate amongst teens in the state of Utah, his concern with the church’s policies sends him on an unexpected path for acceptance and change.
Chef Flynn
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Cameron Yates; Stars: Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry, Paris McGarry)
A documentary following a talented child chef who is determined to make it to the top of his chosen profession.
World premiere
Generation Wealth
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Lauren Greenfield; Stars: Florian Homm)
World premiere. Day One
A portrait of a materialistic, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously personal journey and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom–bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of late stage capitalism, narcissism and greed.
The Game Changers
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Louie Psihoyos; Writer: Shannon Kornelsen, Mark Monroe, Joseph Pace; Stars: James Wilks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patrik Baboumian, Dotsie Bausch, Tia Blanco, Nimai Delgado, Rip Esselstyn, Kendrick Farris, Mischa Janiec, Bryant Jennings, Scott Jurek, Damien Mander, Morgan Mitchell, Lucious Smith, Griff Whalen)
James Wilks, an elite special forces trainer and winner of The Ultimate Fighter, embarks on a quest for the truth in nutrition and uncovers the world's most dangerous myth.
World premiere
Chef Flynn and Half The Picture
Half The Picture
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Amy Adrion; Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Lena Dunham, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Penelope Spheeris, Jennifer Warren, Ava DuVernay, Mary Harron, Jill Soloway, Karyn Kusama, Catherine Hardwicke, Kasi Lemmons, Kimberly Peirce, Miranda July, Lynn Shelton, Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Successful women directors tell the stories of their art, lives and careers - and the inequalities that have held them back.
World premiere
Jane Fonda In Five Acts
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Susan Lacy)
World premiere
Girl nextdoor, activist, so-called traitor, fitness tycoon, Oscar winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life of controversy, tragedy and transformation – and she's done it all in the public eye. An intimate look at one woman's singular journey.
King In The Wilderness
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Peter W Kunhardt)
World premiere
From the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. remained a man with an unshakeable commitment to nonviolence in the face of an increasingly unstable country. A portrait of the last years of his life.
Quiet Heroes
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Jenny Mackenzie)
World premiere
In Salt Lake City, Utah, the socially conservative religious monoculture complicated the AIDS crisis, where patients in the entire state and intermountain region relied on only one doctor. This is the story of her fight to save a maligned population everyone else seemed willing to just let die.
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Marina Zenovich)
World premiere
This intimate portrait examines one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians. Told largely through Robin’s own voice and using a wealth of never-before-seen archive, the film takes us through his extraordinary life and career and reveals the spark of madness that drove him.
RBG and Generation Wealth
RBG
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Julie Cohen, Betsy West; Stars: Bill Clinton, Sharron Frontiero, Jane C Ginsburg, Martin D. Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Orrin Hatch, Lilly Ledbetter, Rush Limbaugh)
An intimate portrait of an unlikely rock star: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
World premiere
Studio 54
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Matt Tyrnauer)
World premiere
Studio 54 was the pulsating epicentre of 1970s hedonism: a disco hothouse of beautiful people, drugs, and sex. The journeys of Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell - two best friends from Brooklyn who conquered New York City - frame this history of the "greatest club of all time".
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Morgan Neville; Stars: Fred Rogers)
Documentary about the US public TV children's show host who had a lasting influence.
World premiere. Salt Lake City opening night
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