Sundance 2019 Cheat Sheet
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival opens tomorrow! To preview the festival, we’ve put together a “cheat sheet” to the key feature films screening in Park City—a survey of titles (and some trailers) to provide a look at what’s on offer at this year’s edition.
Don’t miss our special Sundance episodes of the Film Comment Podcast starting with a preview episode available tomorrow morning, and check back over the next week and a half for informed discussions of festival highlights and ahead-of-the-curve coverage from Utah from our correspondents.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Hannah Pearl Utt, Before You Know It
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Mandy Patinkin, Judith Light
Jason Orley, Big Time Adolescence
Cast: Colson Baker, Jon Cryer, Pete Davidson
Paul Downs Colaizzo, Brittany Runs a Marathon
Cast: Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins, Lil Rel Howery
Chinonye Chukwu, Clemency
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Wendell Pierce
Lulu Wang, The Farewell
Cast: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma
Minhal Baig, Hala
Cast: Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Anna Chlumsky
Alma Har’el, Honey Boy
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Maika Monroe
Debra Eisenstadt, Imaginary Order
Cast: Wendi McLendon-Covey
Joe Talbot, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Cast: Danny Glover, Tichina Arnold, Thora Birch, Mike Epps, Finn Wittrock
Julius Onah, Luce
Cast: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Justin Chon, Ms. Purple
Cast: Jake Choi
Rashid Johnson, Native Son
Cast: Ashton Sanders
Pippa Bianco, Share
Cast: Charlie Plummer
Michael Tyburski, The Sound of Silence
Cast: Rashida Jones, Peter Sarsgaard, Toni Revolori
Britt Poulton & Dan Madison Savage, Them That Follow
Cast: Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Walt0n Goggins
Martha Stephens, To the Stars
Cast: Malin Akerman, Shea Whigham, Kara Hayward
U.S. Documentary Competition
Jacqueline Olive, Always in Season
Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert, American Factory
Todd Douglas Miller, APOLLO 11
Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, Bedlam
A.J. Eaton, David Crosby: Remember My Name
Penny Lane, Hail Satan?
Liza Mandelup, Jawline
Rachel Lears, Knock Down the House
Luke Lorentzen, Midnight Family
Avi Belkin, Mike Wallace Is Here
Irene Taylor Brodsky, Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang, One Child Nation
Ivete Lucas & Patrick Bresnan, Pahokee
Ross Kauffman, TIGERLAND
Ben Berman, Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary
Matt Tyrnauer, Where’s My Roy Cohn?
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Sacha Polak, Dirty God
Gabriel Mascaro, Divine Love
Jacek Borcuch, Dolce Fine Giornata
Mirrah Foulkes, Judy & Punch
Cast: Mia Wasikowska
Johannes Nyholm, Koko-di Koko-da
Shola Amoo, The Last Tree
Alejandro Landes, Monos
May el-Toukhy, Queen of Hearts
Cast: Trine Dyrholm
Lucía Garibaldi, The Sharks
Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Honor Swinton Byrne
Hari Sama, This is not Berlin
Makoto Nagahisa, WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaïche, Advocate
Mads Brügger, Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Beniamino Barrese, The Disappearance of My Mother
Petra Costa, The Edge of Democracy
Garry Keane & Andrew McConnell, Gaza
Ljubomir Stefanov & Tamara Kotevska, Honeyland
Juan Pablo Polanco & César Alejandro Jaimes, Lapü
Tonislav Hristov, The Magic Life of V
Hassan Fazili, Midnight Traveler
Richard Ladkani, Sea of Shadows
Kim Longinotto, Shooting the Mafia
Henrik Georgsson, Stieg Larsson – The Man Who Played with Fire
Premieres
Bart Freundlich, After the Wedding
Cast: Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup
Sophie Hyde, Animals
Cast: Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee
Gurinder Chadha, Blinded by the Light
Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Noma Dumezweni
Joe Berlinger, Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil and Vile
Cast: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, John Malkovich, Haley Joel Osment
Grant Sputore, I Am Mother
Cast: Rose Byrne, Hilary Swank
Nisha Ganatra, Late Night
Cast: Emma Thompson, Amy Ryan, John Lithgow
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, The Mustang
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Connie Britton, Jason Mitchell
Gavin Hood, Official Secrets
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes
Alex Lehman, Paddleton
Cast: Mark Duplass, Ray Romano, Christine Woods
Ritesh Batra, Photograph
Jacob Estes, Relive
Cast: David Oyelowo, Storm Reid
Scott Z. Burns, The Report
Cast: Jon Hamm, Annette Bening, Adam Driver, Maura Tierney, Tim Blake Nelson
Anne Sewitsky, Sonja – The White Swan
David Wnendt, The Sunlit Night
Cast: Jenny Slate, Gillian Anderson, Zach Galifianakis
Noble Jones, The Tomorrow Man
Cast: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner
Wayne Blair, Top End Wedding
Cast: Kerry Fox, Gwilym Lee
Bert & Bertie, Troop Zero
Cast: Alison Janney, Viola Davis, Mike Epps, Jim Gaffigan
Dan Gilroy, Velvet Buzzsaw
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Daveed Diggs
Documentary Premieres
Ryan White, Ask Dr. Ruth
Alison Klayman, The Brink
Karim Amer & Jehane Noujaim, The Great Hack
Frédéric Tcheng, Halston
Alex Gibney, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Garret Price, Love, Antosha
Nick Broomfield, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
Hepi Mita, MERATA: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Stanley Nelson, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Janice Engel, Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Ursula Macfarlane, Untouchable
Jeffrey Palmer, Words from a Bear
Spotlight
Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier & Edward Burtynsky, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
John Chester, The Biggest Little Farm
Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra, Birds of Passage
Alex Holmes, Maiden
Rick Alverson, The Mountain
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum, Denis Lavant, Udo Kier, Hannah Gross
Jennifer Kent, The Nightingale
Cast: Aisling Franciosi
NEXT
Rhys Ernst, Adam
Cast: Margaret Qualley
Daniel Scheinert, The Death of Dick Long
Kirill Mikhanovsky, Give Me Liberty
Alex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra, The Infiltrators
Paul Harrill, Light From Light
Cast: Marin Ireland, Jim Gaffigan
Alice Waddington, Paradise Hills
Cast: Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Milla Jovovich, Awkwafina
Rashaad Ernesto Green, Premature
Tayarisha Poe, Selah and the Spades
Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann, Sister Aimee
Cast: Amy Hargreaves, Macon Blair
Alistair Banks Griffin, The Wolf Hour
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Emory Cohen
Midnight
Patrick Brice, Corporate Animals
Cast: Ed Helms, Jessica Williams, Demi Moore
Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe, Greener Grass
Lee Cronin, The Hole in the Ground
Abe Forsythe, Little Monsters
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad
Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, The Lodge
Cast: Riley Keough, Richard Armitage, Alicia Silverstone
Alexandre O. Philippe, MEMORY—The Origins of Alien
Lucas Heyne, Mope
JD Dillard, Sweetheart
Cast: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen
Babak Anvari, Wounds
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Armie Hammer, Zazie Beats
From the Collection
Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez, The Blair Witch Project
Christopher Munch, The Hours and Times
