Of the Festival’s 82 upcoming features discover the French films and coproductions here:<\/p>\n
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WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Cow Who Sang A Song Into the Future\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Chile\/France\/U.S.A\/Germany\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Director and Screenwriter: Francisca Alegr\u00eda<\/em><\/p>\n Screenwriters: Fernanda Urrejola, Manuela Infante<\/em><\/p>\n Producers: Tom Dercourt, Alejandra Garc\u00eda<\/em><\/p>\n Cast: Leonor Varela, Mia Maestro, Alfredo Castro, Marcial Tagle, Enzo Ferrada, Luis Dubo\u00ec<\/em><\/p>\n World Premiere<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n Cecilia and her children travel to her aging father\u2019s dairy farm after he has a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, Cecilia is met by her mother, a woman dead for many years, whose presence brings to life a painful past chorused by the natural world around them.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Utama\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Bolivia\/Uruguay\/France<\/em><\/p>\n Director and Screenwriter: Alejandro Loayza Grisi<\/em><\/p>\n Producers: Santiago Loayza Grisi, Federico Moreira, Marcos Loayza, Jean-Baptiste\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Cast: Jose Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque<\/em><\/p>\n World Premiere<\/em><\/p>\n In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. When an uncommon long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and his wife Sisa face the dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the environment and time itself.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SPOTLIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Happening\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France<\/em><\/p>\n Director and Screenwriter: Audrey Diwan, Screenwriter: Alice Girard<\/em><\/p>\n Producers: Edouard Weil, Alice Girard<\/em><\/p>\n Cast: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet-Klein, Luana Bajrami, Louise Chevillotte, Pio Marmai.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n France, 1963. Anne is a bright student with a promising future. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With final exams approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she must risk prison to do so.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n MIDNIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Babysitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France \/ Canada<\/em><\/p>\n Director: Monia Chokri<\/em><\/p>\n Screenwriter: Catherine L\u00e9ger<\/em><\/p>\n Producers: Phase 4 Productions and Am\u00e9rique Films Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n Cast: Patrick Hivon, Steve Laplante, Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Monia Chokri<\/em><\/p>\n After a sexist joke goes viral, C\u00e9dric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfriend hire a mysterious and liberated babysitter to help shake things up.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SHORT – NEW FRONTIER<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Seven Grams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Lead Artist: Karim Ben Khelifa<\/em><\/p>\n Key Collaborators: TT Hernandez, Quentin Noirfalisse<\/em><\/p>\n North American Premiere.<\/em><\/p>\n An entirely new way for people to understand the human cost that went into producing their smartphones. This project brings the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s tragic mining industry straight to the smartphone that its mineral resources helped make, via an app on both IOS and Android systems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n They Dream in My Bones – Insemnopedy II\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Lead Artist: Faye Formisano<\/em><\/p>\n Key Collaborators: Ludovic De Oliveira, Lilou-Magali Robert, Cindy Coutant<\/em><\/p>\n North American Premiere.<\/em><\/p>\n Immersed on virtual veils, this VR360 experience tells the story of Roderick Norman, a researcher in onirogenetics, the science he founded, which makes it possible to extract dreams from an unidentified skeleton at the frontier of gender and the human.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n On the Morning you Wake (To the End of the World)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France \/ England<\/em><\/p>\n Directors: Mike Brett, Arnaud Colinart, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz<\/em><\/p>\n Screenwriters: Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio<\/em><\/p>\n Producers\u00a0: Atlas V, Archer\u2019s Mark<\/em><\/p>\n On a regular Saturday morning in January 2018, as Hawaiian citizens went about their daily routines, the entire State population received an SMS from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, which read: \u00a0<\/p>\n SHORT – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Goodbye Jerome!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France<\/em><\/p>\n Directors and screenwriters:\u00a0 Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, Chlo\u00e9 Farr.<\/em><\/p>\n Producer: Mo\u00efra Marguin<\/em><\/p>\n Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colorful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n $75,000<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France<\/em><\/p>\n Director and Screenwriter: Mo\u00efse Togo<\/em><\/p>\n Producer: Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains<\/em><\/p>\n Cast: Bassirou Sissoko, Mohamed Ti\u00e9coura Coulibaly<\/em><\/p>\n $75,000\u00a0<\/em>highlights the biological aspect of albinism, which is a genetic and hereditary abnormality that affects not only pigmentation, but also and above all the physical and moral conditions of people with albinism. These people are victims of discrimination, mutilation and ritual crimes in Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Listen to the Beat of Our Images <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France<\/em><\/p>\n Dictors and screenwriters: Audrey Jean-Baptiste and Maxime Jean-Baptiste <\/em><\/p>\n Producer: G\u00e9rard Azoulay (Observatoire de l\u2019Espace du CNES)<\/em><\/p>\n Cast: Rose Martine (voice-over)<\/em><\/p>\n Based on audiovisual archives from the National Center for Space Studies (CNES),\u00a0Listen to the Beat of our Images<\/em>, is a film by Audrey and Maxime Jean-Baptiste which deals with the establishment of the Guyanese Space Center (Kourou, French Guiana), wishing to bring out the Guyanese population, a real out-of-frame of this space adventure. Combining field investigation and video-editing processes on archives, the film is a fictionnal documentary around a narrator, representative of a generation of Guianese who experienced as a spectator the transformation of their territory.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The Right Words<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France<\/em><\/p>\n Director and screenwriter: Adrian Moyse Dullin<\/em><\/p>\n Screenwriter: Emma Benestan<\/em><\/p>\n Producers: Lucas Tothe and Sylvain Lagrill\u00e8re (Punchline Cin\u00e9ma) <\/em><\/p>\n Cast: Yasser Osmani, Aya Halal, Ramatoulaye N\u2019dongo et Sanya Salhi<\/em><\/p>\n Fifteen-year-old Kenza and her thirteen-year-old brother Mahdi regularly act out an escalation of petty cruelties and humiliations inspired by social networks. Today, during a bus ride, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: he must make a declaration of love right now to Jada; a girl Mahdi loves but who doesn’t know him. Pressured by his sister, Mahdi finally sets out about it.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Swallow the Universe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France<\/em><\/p>\n Director and screenwriter: Nieto<\/em><\/p>\n Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin (Autour de Minuit)<\/em><\/p>\n Swallow the Universe<\/em>\u00a0is a Japanese Emaki manga (a hand-painted horizontal scroll) which tells the grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria\u2019s deep jungles. His sudden presence creates complete anarchy in the local fauna\u2019s until-then perfectly organized and primitive world. Gifted with a striking beauty, the child\u2019s presence awakens in the monkeys, tigers, anteaters and amphibians, envy and need of possession, originally human passions.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SHORT – OUT OF COMPETITION<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Butter Lamp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n France \/ China<\/em><\/p>\n Director and screenwriter: Wei Hu<\/em><\/p>\n Producers: Julien F\u00e9ret (Ama Productions), Yangxu Zhou (Goya Entertainment)<\/em><\/p>\n Cast: Genden Punstok<\/em><\/p>\n A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads photographing them in front of various back grounds.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Click <\/strong><\/a>here<\/a><\/strong> to learn more about the 2022 lineup of the Sundance Film Festival !<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":56923,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[219],"app_city_tax":[220],"app_news_type":[99],"class_list":["post-56925","app_news","type-app_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-cinema","app_city_tax-la","app_news_type-history"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n“BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.”
\nAs cellular communication networks collapsed, and panic took hold of the population, 1.4m people (as well as their friends and relatives across the globe) had to contemplate the very real possibility that they were about to die.<\/p>\n