Sundance Film Festival 2018

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Our New President Our New President
Our New President and Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
Anote's Ark (Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Matthieu Rytz)
A documentary looking at the impact of climate change on the island nation of Kiribati.
World premiere. The New Climate
The Cleaners (Country: Germany, Brazil; Year: 2018; Director: Moritz Riesewieck, Hans Block; Stars: Moritz Riesewieck, Hans Block, Georg Tschurtschenthaler)
When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning, where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn't like: violence, pornography and political content. Who is controlling what we see...and what we think?
World premiere
Genesis 2.0 (Country: US, Russia, South Korea, China, Switzerland; Year: 2018; Director: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev; Writer: Christian Frei)
On the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search for tusks of extinct mammoths. When they discover a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass, its resurrection will be the first manifestation of the next great technological revolution: genetics. It may well turn our world upside down.
World premiere
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (Country: US, UK; Year: 2018; Director: Stephen Loveridge; Stars: M.I.A.)
Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.
World premiere
Of Fathers And Sons (Country: Germany, Syria, Lebanon; Year: 2017; Director: Talal Derki)
The director embeds himself with a radical Islamic family in Syria to ask what the future holds for their kids.
North American premiere
Of Fathers And Sons Of Fathers And Sons
Of Fathers And Sons and Anote's Ark
The Oslo Diaries (Country: Israel, Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan; Writer: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan)
In 1992, Israeli-Palestinian relations reached an all-time low. In an attempt to stop the bloodshed, a group of Israelis and Palestinians met illegally in Oslo. These meetings were never officially sanctioned and held in complete secrecy. They changed the Middle East forever.
World premiere
Our New President (Country: US, Russia; Year: 2017; Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin; Writer: Maxim Pozdorovkin)
Collage film showing Russian propaganda surrounding the US presidential election of Donald Trump.
World premiere. Day One
A Polar Year (Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Samuel Collardey; Writer: Samuel Collardey, Catherine Paillé; Stars: Anders Hvidegaard, Asser Boassen, Julius B. Nielsen, Tobias Ignatiussen, Thomasine Jonathansen, Gert Jonathansen)
Anders leaves his native Denmark for a teaching position in rural Greenland. As soon as he arrives, he finds himself at odds with tightly-knit locals. Only through a clumsy and playful trial of errors can Anders shake his Euro-centric assumptions and embrace their snow-covered way of life.
World premiere
Shirkers (Country: US, Singapore; Year: 2018; Director: Sandi Tan)
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
World premiere
This is Home (This Is Home: A Refugee Story) (Country: Syria, Jordan; Year: 2018; Director: Alexandra Shiva)
Documentary following Syrian refugees as they try to start new lives in the US.
World premiere
This is Home This is Home
This is Home and The Cleaners
Westwood (Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Lorna Tucker; Stars: Vivienne Westwood)
Dame Vivienne Westwood: punk, icon, provocateur and one of the most influential originators in recent history. This is the first film to encompass the remarkable story of one of the true icons of our time, as she fights to maintain her brand’s integrity, her principles – and her legacy.
World premiere
A Woman Captured (Country: Hungary; Year: 2017; Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter; Writer: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter)
A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years – one of over 45 million victims of modern-day slavery. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.
North American premiere
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