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Sundance Film Festival · 2024

Sundance Film Festival 2024

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6 films · 3 reviews

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Desire Lines

Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jules Rosskam; Writer: Nate Gualtieri; Stars: Theo Germaine, Aden Hakimi, Grant Carriker, Larry Dane, Chevon Dortch, Mike Geraghty, Emilie Modaff, Brandon Rivera, Emj Saab, Steve Silver, Diego Torrado)

Documentary. World premiere

Kneecap

Review preview for Kneecap

It's got the musicality that proper swearing should.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Rich Peppiatt; Writer: Rich Peppiatt; Stars: Michael Fassbender, Simone Kirby, Jessica Reynolds, Josie Walker, Cliodhna McCorley, Mo Chara, Cathal Mercer, Móglaí Bap, Emer Casey, DJ Próvai, Arlene Martine Morris, Donagh Deeney, Saorlaoith Brady, Paul Murphy, Paul P. McCrystal)

Full review

Fiction. World premiere

Little Death

A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jack Begert; Writer: Jack Begert, Dani Goffstein; Stars: Jena Malone, Gaby Hoffmann, David Schwimmer, Angela Sarafyan, Talia Ryder, Karl Glusman, Chase Sui Wonders, Fred Melamed, Dominic Fike, Caitlin Reilly, Gino Vento, Cissy Wellman, Travis Bennett, Spenser Granese, Derrius Logan)

Fiction. World premiere

Realm Of Satan

Review preview for Realm Of Satan

The Devil, you might say, is in the details.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
An experiential portrait depicting Satanists in both the everyday and in the extraordinary as they fight to preserve their lifestyle: magic, mystery, and misanthropy.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Scott Cummings; Writer: Scott Cummings)

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Documentary. World premiere

Seeking Mavis Beacon

Review preview for Seeking Mavis Beacon

Jones and Ross are both strong personalities and the personal aspect of the film is one of its strongest suits.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Launched in the late Eighties, educational software Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the program's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY investigators search for the unsung cultural icon, while questioning notions of digital security, AI, and Black representation in the digital realm.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jazmin Renée Jones; Writer: Jazmin Renée Jones; Stars: Jazmin Renée Jones, Olivia McKayla Ross)

Full review

Documentary. World premiere

Tendaberry

When her boyfriend goes back to Ukraine to be with his ailing father, 23-year-old Dakota anxiously navigates her precarious new reality, surviving on her own in New York City.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Haley Elizabeth Anderson; Writer: Haley Elizabeth Anderson; Stars: Yuri Pleskun, Kota Johan)

Fiction. World premiere