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Sundance Film Festival 2018

In addition to the films below, there will be a shorts programme, special events and a Surprise Film screening.

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The Tale The Tale
The Tale and Eighth Grade
An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Jim Hosking; Writer: Jim Hosking, David Wike; Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch, Craig Robinson, Maria Bamford, Matt Berry, Michael D. Cohen, Sky Elobar, Jacob Wysocki, Sam Dissanayake, John Kerry, Carl Solomon, Bettina Devin, Gil Gex, Kirsten Krieg)
Lulu Danger's unsatisfying marriage takes a fortunate turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called 'An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn For One Magical Night Only’.
UK premiere
Eighth Grade (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Bo Burnham; Writer: Bo Burnham; Stars: Elsie Fisher, Daniel Zolghadri, Frank Deal, Marguerite Stimpson, Greg Crowe, Deborah Unger, Natalie Carter, Jake Ryan, Jalesia Martinez, Catherine Oliviere, Phoebe Amirault, Kevin R. Free, Luke Prael, Faith Kelly, Dylan Vonderhorst)
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school - the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year - before she begins high school.
Full Review
International premiere
First Reformed (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: Paul Schrader; Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Ethan Hawke, Michael Gaston, Cedric the Entertainer, Philip Ettinger, Victoria Hill, Mahaleia Gray, Elanna White, Bill Hoag, Frank Rodriguez, Joseph Anthony Jerez, Michael Metta, Jake Alden-Falconer, Satchel Eden Bell, Delano Montgomery)
Thriller centring on an ex-military chaplain who has lost his son and a member of his church who is grieving for her husband.
Full Review
UK premiere
Generation Wealth (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Lauren Greenfield; Stars: Florian Homm)
A portrait of a materialistic, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously personal journey and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom–bust economy, the corrupted American Dream and the human costs of late stage capitalism, narcissism and greed.
UK premiere
Half The Picture (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Amy Adrion; Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Lena Dunham, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Penelope Spheeris, Jennifer Warren, Ava DuVernay, Mary Harron, Jill Soloway, Karyn Kusama, Catherine Hardwicke, Kasi Lemmons, Kimberly Peirce, Miranda July, Lynn Shelton, Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Successful women directors tell the stories of their art, lives and careers - and the inequalities that have held them back.
Full Review
International premiere
Skate Kitchen Skate Kitchen
Skate Kitchen and Half The Picture
Hereditary (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Ari Aster; Writer: Ari Aster; Stars: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, Mallory Bechtel, Zachary Arthur, Mark Blockovich, Jake Brown, Gabriel Monroe Eckert, John Forker, Gerry Garcia, Austin R. Grant, Rachelle Hardy, Brock McKinney)
After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family tries to escape the dark fate they've inherited.
Full Review
European premiere
Leave No Trace (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Debra Granik; Writer: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini; Stars: Ben Foster, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Jeff Korber, Dale Dickey)
A father and daughter find themselves searching for a place to call their own after their off-the-grid lives are discovered by the authorities.
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UK premiere
The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Desiree Akhavan; Writer: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele, Emily M Danforth; Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Jennifer Ehle, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher Jr, Quinn Shephard, Forrest Goodluck, Christopher Dylan White, Steven Hauck, Emily Skeggs, Dalton Harrod, McCabe Slye, Isaac Jin Solstein, Melanie Ehrlich, Alexandra Imbrosci-Viera, Seamus Boyle)
1993: after being caught having sex with the prom queen, a girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center.
Full Review
UK premiere
Never Goin' Back (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Augustine Frizzell; Writer: Augustine Frizzell; Stars: Maia Mitchell, Camila Morrone, Aristotle Abraham II, Joel Allen, Chris Challiot, Craig Cole, Liz Cardenas Franke, Atheena Frizzell, Max Hartman, Julian Hilliard, Matthew Holcomb, Luke Jacobs, Julian Sol Jordan, Marcus M. Mauldin, Kyle Mooney)
Jessie and Angela, high school dropout BFFs, are taking a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their house got robbed, rent’s due, they’re about to get fired and they’re broke.
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International premiere
Skate Kitchen (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Crystal Moselle; Writer: Crystal Moselle, Jen Silverman, Aslihan Unaldi; Stars: Jaden Smith, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Taylor Gray, Darlene Violette, Rachelle Vinberg, Thaddeus Daniels, John Palumbo, Judah Lang, Nina Moran, Kabrina Adams, Ardelia Lovelace, Jules Lorenzo)
Camille's life as a lonely suburban teenager changes dramatically when she befriends a group of girl skateboarders. As she journeys deeper into this raw New York City subculture, she begins to understand the true meaning of friendship as well as her inner self.
Full Review
UK premiere
Hereditary Hereditary
Hereditary and Leave No Trace
The Tale (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Jennifer Fox; Writer: Jennifer Fox; Stars: Elizabeth Debicki, Laura Dern, Jason Ritter, John Heard, Frances Conroy, Common, Ellen Burstyn, Laura Allen, Isabella Amara, Isabelle Nélisse, Chelsea Alden, Matthew Rauch, Jaqueline Fleming, Jodi Long, Tina Parker)
An investigation into one woman's memory as she’s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
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UK premiere
Yardie (Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Idris Elba; Writer: Brock Norman Brock, Martin Stellman, based on the novel by Victor Headley; Stars: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Creary, Mark Rhino Smith, Calvin Demba, Naomi Ackie, Frazer James, Akim Gazi, Jumayn Hunter)
Gang wars in Kingston in the Seventies are imported into Hackney in the Eighties affecting the life of a Jamaican boy who seeks vengeance for the murder of his brother
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UK premiere
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