Sundance Film Festival 2023

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Past Lives and Talk to Me
The Doom Generation (Country: US, France; Year: 1995; Director: Gregg Araki; Writer: Gregg Araki; Stars: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech, Cress Williams, Skinny Puppy, Dustin Nguyen, Margaret Cho, Lauren Tewes, Christopher Knight, Nicky Katt, Johanna Went, Perry Farrell, Amanda Bearse, Parker Posey, Salvator Xuereb), Trailer
A trio go on a crime spree.
Fairyland (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Andrew Durham; Writer: Andrew Durham, based on the novel by Alysia Abbott; Stars: Scoot McNairy, Emilia Jones, Geena Davis, Cody Fern, Adam Lambert, Maria Bakalova)
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene in the Seventies and Eighties, chronicling a father-daughter relationship as it evolves from an era of bohemian decadence to the heartbreaking AIDS crisis.
Invisible Beauty (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Bethann Hardison, Frédéric Tcheng)
Fashion revolutionary Bethann Hardison looks back on her journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent, and activist, shining a light on an untold chapter in the fight for racial diversity.
Mysterious Skin (Country: USA, Netherlands; Year: 2004; Director: Gregg Araki; Writer: Scott Heim, Gregg Araki; Stars: Chase Ellison, George Webster, Rachael Nastassja Kraft, Lisa Long, Chris Mulkey, Elisabeth Shue, David Lee Smith, Bill Sage, Riley McGuire, Ryan Stenzel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
The wrenching childhood mystery of two indivisually despearte teens.
Passages (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos)
A married man cheats on his husband with a woman... then tells him about it.
Passages Passages
Passages and The Doom Generation
Past Lives (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Celine Song; Writer: Celine Song; Stars: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro)
Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are separated from each other when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York where Nora now lives with her American husband.
Scrapper (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Charlotte Regan; Writer: Charlotte Regan; Stars: Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun, Ambreen Razia, Olivia Brady, Aylin Tezel)
Georgie is a dreamy 12-year-old girl who lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Out of nowhere, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Anton Corbijn)
An inside look at the studio responsible for some of the most iconic and recognizable album covers of all time - from Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon to Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy.
Talk to Me (Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou; Writer: Danny Philippou, Bill Hinzman; Stars: Sophie Wilde, Miranda Otto, Alexandra Jensen, Joe Bird, Zoe Terakes, Otis Dhanji)
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an ancient embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill. Until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world.
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