2019 Sundance Film Festival

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 24 to February 3, 2019. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 28, 2018.[1][2][3]

2019 Sundance Film Festival
LocationPark City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted bySundance Institute
Festival dateJanuary 24 to February 3, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Websitesundance.org/festival

Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

U.S. Documentary Competition
  • Always in Season by Jacqueline Olive
  • American Factory by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
  • Apollo 11 by Todd Douglas Miller
  • Bedlam by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
  • David Crosby: Remember My Name by A.J. Eaton
  • Hail Satan? by Penny Lane[4]
  • Jawline by Liza Mandelup
  • Knock Down the House by Rachel Lears
  • Midnight Family by Luke Lorentzen
  • Mike Wallace Is Here by Avi Belkin
  • Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements by Irene Taylor Brodsky
  • One Child Nation by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
  • Pahokee by Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan
  • TIGERLAND by Ross Kauffman
  • Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary by Ben Berman
  • Where’s My Roy Cohn? by Matt Tyrnauer

World Cinema Dramatic Competition
  • Dirty God by Sacha Polak
  • Divine Love by Gabriel Mascaro
  • Dolce Fine Giornata by Jacek Borcuch
  • Judy and Punch by Mirrah Foulkes
  • Koko-di Koko-da by Johannes Nyholm
  • The Last Tree by Shola Amoo
  • Monos by Alejandro Landes
  • Queen of Hearts by May el-Toukhy
  • The Sharks by Lucía Garibaldi
  • The Souvenir by Joanna Hogg
  • This is not Berlin by Hari Sama
  • We Are Little Zombies by Makoto Nagahisa

World Cinema Documentary Competition
  • Advocate by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche
  • Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Mads Brügger
  • The Edge of Democracy by Petra Costa
  • The Disappearance of My Mother by Beniamino Barrese
  • Gaza by Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell
  • Honeyland by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska
  • Lapü by Juan Pablo Polanco and César Alejandro Jaimes
  • The Magic Life of V by Tonislav Hristov
  • Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili
  • Sea of Shadows by Richard Ladkani
  • Shooting the Mafia by Kim Longinotto
  • Stieg Larsson – The Man Who Played With Fire by Henrik Georgsson

Premieres

Midnight
  • Greener Grass by Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe
  • Little Monsters by Abe Forsythe
  • Memory: The Origins of Alien by Alexandre O. Philippe
  • Mope by Lucas Heyne
  • Sweetheart by J. D. Dillard
  • The Hole in the Ground by Lee Cronin
  • The Lodge by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala

Documentary Premieres
  • Ask Dr. Ruth by Ryan White
  • Halston by Frédéric Tcheng
  • Love, Antosha by Garret Price
  • Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love by Nick Broomfield
  • MERATA: How Mum Decolonised The Screen by Heperi Mita
  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool by Stanley Nelson
  • Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins by Janice Engel
  • The Brink by Alison Klayman
  • The Great Hack by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim
  • The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley by Alex Gibney
  • Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
  • Untouchable by Ursula Macfarlane
  • Words from a Bear by Jeffrey Palmer

Special Events

Next

The following 10 films were selected for a world premiere in the Next program to highlight American cinema.[5]

  • Adam by Rhys Ernst
  • Give Me Liberty by Kirill Mikhanovsky
  • Light from Light by Paul Harrill
  • Paradise Hills by Alice Waddington
  • Premature by Rashaad Ernesto Green
  • Selah and the Spades by Tayarisha Poe
  • Sister Aimee by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann
  • The Death of Dick Long by Daniel Scheinert
  • The Infiltrators by Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra
  • The Wolf Hour by Alistair Banks Griffin

Awards

The winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Award was Clemency (2019), directed by Chinonye Chukwu.[6]

The winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Award was One Child Nation (2019), directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang.[6]

The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was The Souvenir (2019), directed by Joanna Hogg.[6]

The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was Honeyland (2019), directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov.[6]

The winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award was Monos (2019) directed by Alejandro Landes.[6]

Juries

Jury members for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, were announced on January 17, 2019.[7]

Acquisitions

Sources:[8][9]

References
  1. "Sundance Unveils Politics-Heavy Lineup Featuring Ocasio-Cortez Doc, Feinstein Drama". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  2. "Sundance 2019: Films by Dan Gilroy, Shia LaBeouf, Chiwetel Ejiofor & More Announced In First Wave Of Festival". The Playlist. November 28, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  3. D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 20, 2018). "Sundance Film Festival 2019 Last Minute Adds: Pics Starring Dakota Johnson, Demi Moore, Armie Hammer, Mark Duplass & More". Deadline. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  4. "Hail Satan?". Sundance Institute. Archived from the original on March 26, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  5. "NEXT". Sundance Film Festival. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  6. https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2019-sundance-film-festival-awards-announced
  7. "Sundance Film Festival: Juries, Awards Night Host Announced". Sundance Institute. January 17, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
  8. The Complete List of Movies Sold at Sundance 2019
  9. Nordine, Michael (January 18, 2019). "Sundance 2019 Deals: The Complete List of Festival Purchases So Far". IndieWire. Retrieved February 28, 2021.

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