Sundance Film Festival 2022

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The 38th Sundance Film Festival will take place on January 20-30, 2022. Alongside long and short films, episodic works will also be shown at the eleven-day festival. The program was presented on December 9, 2021.

particularities

In May 2021, it was announced that the 38th edition of the Sundance Film Festival was to take place in hybrid form and that face-to-face events were planned in Salt Lake City and seven other arthouse cinemas in the USA. At the beginning of January 2022, the organizers announced that due to the COVID-19 situation, the event would be held completely digitally.

Film program (selection)

US Dramatic Competition

US Documentary Competition

  • Aftershock by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee
  • Descendant by Margaret Brown
  • The Exiles by Ben Klein and Violet Columbus,
  • Fire Of Love by Sara Dosa
  • Free Chol Soo Lee by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi
  • I Didn't See You There by Reid Davenport
  • The Janes by Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes
  • Jihad Rehab by Meg Smaker
  • TikTok, boom. by Shalini Kantayya

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

  • Brian and Charles by Jim Archer
  • The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future by Francisca Alegria
  • Dos Estaciones by Juan Pablo Gonzalez
  • Gentle by Anna Eszter Menes and László Csuja
  • Girl Picture by Alli Haapasalo
  • Klondike by Maryna Er Gorbach
  • Leonor Will Never Die by Martika Ramirez Escobar
  • Marte Um by Gabriel Martins
  • Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi
  • You Won't Be Alone by Goran Stolevski

World Cinema Documentary Competition

  • All That Breathes by Shaunak Sen
  • Calendar Girls by Maria Loohufvud and Love Martinsen
  • A House Made of Splinters by Simon Lereng Wilmont
  • Midwives by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
  • The Mission by Tania Anderson
  • Nothing Compares by Kathryn Ferguson
  • Sirens by Rita Baghdadi
  • Tantura by Alon Schwarz
  • The Territory by Alex Pritz
  • We Met in Virtual Reality by Joe Hunting

More firsts

Next

  • The Cathedral by Ricky D'Ambrose
  • Every Day In Kaimukī by Alika Tengan
  • Framing Agnes by Chase Joynt
  • A Love Song by Max Walker Silverman
  • Mija by Isabel Castro
  • Riotsville by Sierra Pettengill
  • Something In The Dirt by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

midnight

  • Babysitter from Monia Chokri
  • Cerdita (Piggy) by Carlota Pereda
  • Fresh by Mimi Cave
  • Pahanhautoja ( Hatching ) by Hanna Bergholm
  • Meet Me in the Bathroom by Will Lovelace
  • Speak No Evil by Christian Tafdrup

spotlight

children

  • Maika by Ham Tran
  • Summering by James Ponsoldt

special screenings

  • The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales by Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes
  • Last Flight Home by Ondi Timoner
  • Phoenix Rising by Amy Berg

Indie Episodic Program

  • Bring on the dancing horses
  • Chiqui
  • Culture beat
  • The Dark Heart
  • Instant Life
  • My Trip to Spain

jury members

US Documentary Jury

World Cinema Documentary Jury

US Dramatic Jury

World Cinema Dramatic Jury

Alfred P Sloan Prize Jury

web links

itemizations

  1. https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2021/12/09/sundance-film-festival/
  2. Jochen Müller: Concept for Sundance Film Festival 2022 ready. In: Focus: Film, September 29, 2021.
  3. Matt Donnelly: Sundance Cancels In-Person Program, Film Festival to Go Virtual. In: Variety, January 5, 2022.