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Sundance Film Festival

19 January – 29 January 2023

The festival is returning for a hybrid edition in 2023, featuring physical screenings in Park City, Utah, alongside online screenings in the second week. It runs from January 19 to 29.

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  • Animalia
    Review preview for Animalia

    Pregnancy is often depicted as a state of enhanced vulnerability, and one which points the way to increased dependency. Here, Alaoui turns that around.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
  • Bad Behaviour
    Review preview for Bad Behaviour

    Englert’s script is an actor’s dream. Connelly, who has matured magnificently in recent years and now ranks among the best in her generation, gives it all she’s got.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
  • Sorcery
    Review preview for Sorcery

    Part fantasy, part western, the film is exquisitely shot, the humid atmosphere of the island creating a degree of visual uncertainty to confound viewers further.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    On the remote island of Chiloé in the late 19th century, an indigenous girl named Rosa lives and works with her father on a farm. When the foreman brutally turns on Rosa’s father, she sets out for justice, seeking help from the king of a powerful organisation of sorcerers.
  • Drift
    Review preview for Drift

    Anthony Chen's slow-burn character study is essentially a showcase for its star Cynthia Erivo

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Refugee Jacqueline, alone and penniless on a Greek island embarks on a friendship with a tour guide.
  • Shayda
    Review preview for Shayda

    What really drives the film is the quietly powerful central performance.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Shayda, an Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised.
  • The Persian Version
    Review preview for The Persian Version

    Describing itself as ‘a true story – sort of’, The Persian Version blends comedy and family drama to great effect, showing us a good deal more than its heroine and narrator intends us to see.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    When a large Iranian-American family gathers for the patriarch's heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past. Toggling between the United States and Iran over decades, mother and daughter discover they are more alike than they know.
  • 20 Days In Mariupol
    Review preview for 20 Days In Mariupol

    Oscar shortlisted for Best International Feature and Best Documentary, this is an intense film with little respite even when no bullets are being fired.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.
  • Eileen
    Review preview for Eileen

    There are so many shots through things, boundaries, borders, thresholds, that we are primed for other barriers crossed. Those transgressions are not light ones, but in them is an abject honesty.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counsellor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.
  • Scrapper
    Review preview for Scrapper

    Simultaneously bold, sweet and sometimes off-putting.

    Jeremy Mathews · 3 out of 5
    Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Out of nowhere, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
  • Passages
    Review preview for Passages

    One of the most subtle films of the ongoing year.

    Levan Tskhovrebadze · 3.5 out of 5
    A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.

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