Sundance 2017: US Dramatic Competition in pictures

Adam Pally, Fred Armisen and Zoe Lister-Jones in Band Aid - A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.

Harris Dickinson, Frank Hakaj, David Ivanov and Anton Selyaninov in Beach Rats - an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.

Kyle Mooney in Brigsby Bear - Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.

Malik Bazille Trevor Jackson, Tosin Cole, Octavius J Johnson and DeRon Horton in Burning Sands - deep into a fraternity's Hell Week, a favoured pledge is torn between honouring a code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.

Keith Stanfield in Crown Heights - When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend, Carl King, devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence. Adapted from This American Life, this is the incredible true story of their harrowing quest for justice.

Emily Browning and Adam Horovitz in Golden Exits - the arrival of a young foreign girl disrupts the lives and emotional balances of two Brooklyn families.

Sam Elliot in The Hero - Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

Melanie Lyskey in I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore - when a depressed woman is burgled, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves, alongside her obnoxious neighbour. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

Ingrid Goes West - a young woman becomes obsessed with an Instagram lifestyle blogger and moves to Los Angeles to try to befriend her in real life.

Landline - two sisters come of age in ’90s New York when they discover their dad’s affair—and it turns out he’s not the only cheater in the family. Everyone still smokes inside, no one has a cell phone and the Jacobs finally connect through lying, cheating and hibachi.

Danielle Macdonald in Patti Cake$ - straight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, aka Killa P, aka Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.

Chante Adams in Roxanne Roxanne - the most feared battle emcee in early-'80s NYC was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At age 14, hustling the streets to provide for her family, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend.

Josh Wiggins and Matt Bomer in Walking Out - a father and son struggle to connect on any level until a brutal encounter with a predator in the heart of the wilderness leaves them both seriously injured. If they are to survive, the boy must carry his father to safety.

Alden Ehrenreich, Jack Huston and Tye Sheridan in Yellow Birds - two young men enlist in the army and are deployed to fight in the Gulf War. After an unthinkable tragedy, the surviving soldier struggles to balance his promise of silence with the truth and a mourning mother’s search for peace.

Lily Collins and Keanu Reeves in To The Bone - In a last-ditch effort to battle her severe anorexia, 20-year-old Ellen enters a group recovery home. With the help of an unconventional doctor, Ellen and the other residents go on a sometimes-funny, sometimes-harrowing journey that leads to the ultimate question — is life worth living?

Margaret Qualley in Novitiate - In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.