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Sundance Film Festival

24 January – 3 February 2019

The Souvenir
The Souvenir

This year's Sundance Film Festival ran from January 24 to February 3.

Day One films include Native Son and After The Wedding. Details of the winners, including Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir, can be found here.

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  • The Sound Of Silence
    Review preview for The Sound Of Silence

    This is a treat of a film.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
  • Dirty God
    Review preview for Dirty God

    Ever cursed to wear a half-sealed translucent franju-esque mask that makes her scars even more visible, Jade is a single mother and an acid attack survivor.

    Georgiana Musat · 4 out of 5
    Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
  • We Are Little Zombies
    Review preview for We Are Little Zombies

    Nagahisa...understands and embraces the complexity of early adolescence, when kids are finding their own way,

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Their parents are dead. They should be sad, but they can't cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is the story of four 13-year-olds in search of their emotions.
  • Judy And Punch
    Review preview for Judy And Punch

    There's layer upon layer of clever artifice here, yet the result is something that feels fresh and sexy.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to a inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
  • To The Stars
    Review preview for To The Stars

    Director Martha Stephens uses a palette full of soft browns and pastels designed to evoke nostalgia but shows us plenty of cruelty just under the surface.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
  • The Infiltrators
    Review preview for The Infiltrators

    By being specific, the filmmakers put relatable "faces" to the bigger picture, showing rather than telling us exactly how the system 'works' for those who become trapped in it.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention centre.
  • The Edge Of Democracy
    Review preview for The Edge Of Democracy

    There's a lot of ground to cover, but Costa keeps a strong grip on the material

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Consideration of post-dictatorship politics and the resurgent right in Brazil.
  • The Lodge
    Review preview for The Lodge

    The Lodge hinges on a powerhouse performance from Keough, who inhabits the troubled Grace so completely that we can stay with her even as her ability to distinguish what's real and what isn't breaks down.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young woman and her reticent new stepchildren find themselves isolated in the family’s remote winter cabin, locked away to dredge up the mysteries of her dark past.
  • American Factory
    Review preview for American Factory

    This consideration of multiple lives, rather than one constructed arc serves to underline the sense that each person is only a small cog turning in the bigger wheel of the machine.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring 2,000 blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
  • The Report
    Review preview for The Report

    The problem with The Report is that despite this ongoing relevance, its powerful subject matter, the capable cast and an impressive script, it never builds up the impetus it ought to have.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.

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