

(Director and Screenwriter: Mariama Diallo, Producers: Joshua Astrachan, Brad Becker-Parton, Andrea Roa) - Three women strive to find their place at an elite New England university. Cast: Karen Gillan, Aaron Paul, Beulah Koale. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempt to have her clone decommissioned fails, and leads to a court-mandated duel to the death. (Director and Screenwriter: Riley Stearns, Producers: Nate Bolotin, Aram Tertzakian, Lee Kim, Riley Stearns, Nick Spicer, Maxime Cottray) - After receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah commissions a clone of herself to ease the loss for her friends and family. Cast: Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles. (Director and Screenwriter: Krystin Ver Linden, Producer: Peter Lawson) - When a woman in servitude in 1800s Georgia escapes the 55-acre confines of her captor, she discovers the shocking reality that exists beyond the treeline…it’s 1973. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include CODA, Passing, Minari, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Farewell, Clemency, Eighth Grade and Sorry to Bother You.Īlice / U.S.A. Presenting the world premieres of fiction feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. Cast: Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch, Fedja van Huêt, Karina Smulders, Liva Forsberg, Marius Damslev. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness. Speak No Evil / Denmark (Director and Screenwriter: Christian Tafdrup, Screenwriter: Mads Tafdrup, Producer: Jacob Jarek) - A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. Sara knows more than she’s saying and must decide between speaking up and saving the girls or saying nothing to protect the strange man who spared her. But it comes to an end when a stranger kidnaps her tormentors. PIGGY / Spain (Director and Screenwriter: Carlota Pereda, Producers: Merry Colomer, David Atlan-Jackson) - Sara deals with constant teasing from girls in her small town. Cast: Jani Volanen, Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, Reino Nordin, Oiva Ollila. She tucks it away and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks everyone. Hatching / Finland (Director: Hanna Bergholm, Screenwriter: Ilja Rautsi, Producers: Mika Ritalahti, Nico Ritalahtit) - While desperately trying to please her demanding mother, a young gymnast discovers a strange egg. Gibbs, Charlotte Le Bon, Andrea Bang, Dayo Okeniyi. Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. (Director: Mimi Cave, Screenwriter: Lauryn Kahn, Producers: Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, Maeve Cullinane) - The horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites.

Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Hereditary, Mandy, Relic, Assassination Nation, and The Babadook.įRESH / U.S.A. Which of the following will be next year’s breakout?!įrom horror and comedy to works that defy genre classification, these films will keep you wide awake, even at the most arduous hour. Highlights include V/H/S/94 filmmaker Chloe Okuno‘s feature debut Watcher (hail Raatma!), which stars It Follows and The Guest‘s Maika Monroe Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, the duo behind V/H/S Viral, Synchronicity, Spring, Resolution, and Endless, return with Something in the Dirt Prometheus and Lamb‘s Noomi Rapace appears in You Won’t Be Alone by Goran Stolevski and The Night House star Rebecca Hall can be seen in Resurrection from Andrew Semans. This year’s program is straight-up bonkers. Sundance is the premiere film festival in the United States and has previously shined a light on hundreds of horror classics from Hereditary to Relic, The Night House, The Witch, The Babadook, Blair Witch Project, Possessor, Get Out, The Lodge, Mandy, SAW, and many, many more. In what’s said to be one of the most jam-packed programs in years, the Sundance Film Festival has unloaded its lineup of films for the 2022 event returning to Park City Utah from January 20-30.
