Sundance Film Festival 2022

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Alone Alone
Alone and Sister
575 Castro St (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Jenni Olson)
A light and motion study accompanying a tape recording by Harvey Milk to be played "in the event of my death by assassination".
Alone (Year: 2017; Director: Garrett Bradley)
An investigation into the layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern Black American family, seen through the eyes of a single mother in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Bestia (Country: Chile; Year: 2021; Director: Hugo Covarrubias; Writer: Hugo Covarrubias, Martín Erazo)
A trip into the psyche of a Chilean torturer.
Boneshaker (Director: Nuotama Frances Bodomo; Writer: Frances Bodomo)
An African family lost in America travel to a Louisiana church to find a cure for a problem child.
Brotherhood (Country: Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden; Year: 2018; Director: Meryam Joobeur; Writer: Meryam Joobeur; Stars: Kais Ayari, Mohamed Grayaâ, Mouldi Kriden)
Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife.
Huella Huella
Huella and On The Ice
The Burden (Min Börda) (Country: Sweden; Year: 2017; Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr; Writer: Niki Lindroth von Bahr), Official Site
The Burden is an animated and animal musical, enacted in a modern marketplace next to a large freeway.
Deerwoods Deathtrap (Country: United States; Year: 2022; Director: James P Gannon; Writer: James P Gannon; Stars: Elizabeth Gannon, John W Gannon)
The director's parents recollect the day they nearly died.
Huella (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Gabriela Ortega; Writer: Gabriela Ortega; Stars: Shakira Barrera, Denise Blasor, Carla Valentine, Gabriela Bonet, Magaly Castellanos, Franceli Chapman, Jannet Galdamez, Celeste Lanuza, Gloria Lanuza, Cynthia Morales, Sylvia Morales)
The death of her grandmother sees a woman take an unexpected dance with grief.
Night Bus (Country: Taiwan; Year: 2020; Director: Joe Hsieh; Writer: Joe Hsieh)
Trouble brews on a bus after a pearl necklace goes missing.
On The Ice (Sikumi) (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean; Writer: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean; Stars: Tony Bryant, Olemaun Rexford, Brad Weyiouanna), Official Site
An Inuit hunter inadvertantly witnesses a murder.
Deerwoods Deathtrap Deerwoods Deathtrap
Deerwoods Deathtrap and The Panola Project
The Panola Project (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Rachael DeCruz, Jeremy S Levine; Writer: Rachael DeCruz, Jeremy S. Levine; Stars: Dorothy Oliver)
Profile of Dorothy Oliver and her tireless work to get residents of the town of Panola vaccinated against Covid.
Sister (Country: China, US; Year: 2019; Director: Siqi Song; Writer: Siqi Song; Stars: Liu Bingyang)
A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in China in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently?
Spider (Country: Australia; Year: 2007; Director: Nash Edgerton; Writer: Nash Edgerton, David Michôd; Stars: Nash Edgerton, Mirrah Foulkes, Chum Ehelepola, Bruno Xavier)
When practical jokes go bad...
(Yak) Butter Lamp (Butter Lamp, La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak) (Country: France, China; Year: 2013; Director: Hu Wei; Writer: Hu Wei, Genden Punstock; Stars: Genden Punstock)
A young photographer takes pictures of Tibetan nomads.
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