The 2019 Sundance Film Festival is still a few hebdomad aside but it just divulge the112 feature filmsthat’ll be playing the festival next year . They originate from 33 country and were take out of over 15,000 submissions .
That ’s a destiny of moving picture .
Fortunately for us , not all of the intemperate drama and poignant political documentaries are thing we continue on io9 . So , we went through the inclination and pulled out the weird shit . The cool red cent . The shit that has Lupita Nyong’o and Josh Gad agitate zombi ! Or is Cast Away but as a ghost story . Or adept Zac Efron as a serial killer . Or is about a girl raised by a automaton . You know , the poppycock we like about .
And do n’t forget this is the fete where , last yr , films likeHereditary , dreary to Both You , Mandy , andSearchingdebuted . So odds are , a few of the movies here are the movies we ’re go to be talking about come the end of next year .
Not all of these are 100 pct genre . Some are music genre - adjacent , about subjects ( like sequent slayer , blank space travel , hacking , diabolism etc . ) that are real , but still in the general vicinity . We still think you ’ll be concerned . Here are the prescribed festival description for the films , grouped by their festival classification .
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Greener Grass / U.S.A. ( Directors and film writer : Jocelyn DeBoer , Dawn Luebbe , Producer : Natalie Metzger ) — A deliciously twisted comedy set in a demented , timeless suburbia where every grownup wear braces on their straight teeth , yoke organize meticulously pressed outfits , and coveted class members are swap in more ways than one in this competition for acceptance . Cast : Jocelyn DeBoer , Dawn Luebbe , Beck Bennett , Neil Casey , Mary Holland , D’Arcy Carden . World Premiere
Little Monsters / Australia ( Director and screenwriter : Abe Forsythe , Producers : Jodi Matterson , Bruna Papandrea , Steve Hutensky , Keith Calder , Jessica Calder ) — A picture show dedicated to all the kindergarten teachers who motivate children to find out , tincture them with confidence and cease them from being guttle by zombies . Cast : Lupita Nyong’o , Alexander England , Josh Gad . World Premiere
MEMORY – The Origins of Alien / U.S.A. ( Director : Alexandre O. Philippe , Screenwriter : Alexandre O. Philippe , Producer : Kerry Deignan Roy ) — The untold ancestry story behindRidley Scott ’s Alien – rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies , underground comedian , the art of Francis Bacon , and the sinister visions of Dan O’Bannon and H.R. Giger . A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of film making , the power of myth , and our collective unconscious mind . World Premiere
Sweetheart / U.S.A. ( Director : JD Dillard , Screenwriters : JD Dillard , Alex Theurer , Alex Hyner , Producers : Jason Blum , JD Dillard , Alex Theurer , Alex Hyner , Bill Karesh ) — Jenn has rinse ashore a small tropical island and it does n’t take her long to earn she ’s completely alone . She must spend her twenty-four hour period not only surviving the constituent , but must also fend off the malevolent forcefulness that come out each night . Cast : Kiersey Clemons , Emory Cohen , Hanna Mangan Lawrence , Andrew Crawford . World Premiere
The Hole in the Ground / Ireland ( Director : Lee Cronin , Screenwriters : Lee Cronin , Stephen Shields , Producers : John Keville , Conor Barry ) — One Nox , Sarah ’s young boy disappears into the forest behind their rural home . When he return , he looks the same , but his behavior produce more and more distressing . presently , Sarah realizes that the boy who returned may not be her son at all … dramatis personae : Seána Kerslake , James Cosmo , Kati Outinen , Simone Kirby , Steve Wall , James Quinn Markey . World Premiere
The Lodge / U.S.A. , United Kingdom ( Directors : Veronika Franz , Severin Fiala , Screenwriters : Sergio Casci , Veronika Franz , Severin Fiala , Producers : Simon Oakes , Aliza James , Aaron Ryder ) — In this psychologically chilling sluggish burn , a new woman and her reticent new stepchild find themselves isolated in the family ’s remote winter cabin , locked away to drag up the secret of her black past and the losses that seem to haunt them all . mold : Riley Keough , Jaeden Martell , Lia McHugh , Alicia Silverstone , Richard Armitage . World Premiere
Premieres
passing Wicked , Shockingly Evil and Vile / U.S.A. ( Director : Joe Berlinger , Screenwriter : Michael Werwie , Producers : Michael Costigan , Nicolas Chartier , Ara Keshishian , Michael Simkin ) — A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the view of Liz , his longtime girlfriend , who defy to believe the truth about him for years . hurl : Zac Efron , Lily Collins , Haley Joel Osment , Kaya Scodelario , John Malkovich , Jim Parsons . World Premiere
I Am Mother / Australia ( Director : Grant Sputore , Screenwriter : Michael Lloyd Green , producer : Timothy White , Kelvin Munro ) — In the wake of manhood ’s extinction , a teenaged girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate the earth . But their unique trammel is threaten when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news . shape : Clara Rugaard , Rose Byrne , Hilary Swank . World Premiere
live over / U.S.A. ( Director : Jacob Estes , Screenwriters : Jacob Estes , Drew Daywalt , Producers : Jason Blum , Bobby Cohen ) — After a gentleman’s gentleman ’s household die in what appear to be a murder , he gets a speech sound call from one of the dead , his niece . He ’s not certain if she ’s a ghost or if he ’s blend mad — but as it turns out , he ’s not . Instead , her calls help oneself him rewrite history . mold : David Oyelowo , Storm Reid , Mykelti Williamson , Alfred Molina , Bryan Tyree Henry . World Premiere
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sparkle From Light / U.S.A. ( Director and screenwriter : Paul Harrill , Producers : James M. Johnston , Kelly Williams , Toby Halbrooks , Elisabeth Moss , Tim Headington , Theresa Page ) — Shelia , a single mom and sometime extrasensory detective , is enlisted to enquire a possible “ haunting ” at a widowman ’s farmhouse in East Tennessee . mold : Marin Ireland , Jim Gaffigan , Josh Wiggins , Atheena Frizzell , David Cale . World Premiere
Paradise Hills / Spain , U.S.A. ( Director : Alice Waddington , Screenwriters : Nacho Vigalondo , Brian DeLeeuw , producer : Adrian Guerra , Núria Valls ) — A young adult female is transmit to Paradise Hills to be straighten out , only to learn that the high - grade facility ’s beautiful frontage hides a sinister secret . Cast : Emma Roberts , Danielle Macdonald , Awkwafina , Eiza González , Milla Jovovich , Jeremy Irvine . World Premiere
U.S. Documentary Competition
APOLLO 11 / U.S.A. ( Director : Todd Douglas Miller , Producers : Todd Douglas Miller , Thomas Petersen , Evan Krauss ) — A strictly archival reconstructive memory of man ’s first trip to another world , featuring never - before - seen 70 mm footage and never - before - heard audio from the mission . World Premiere
Hail Satan / U.S.A. ( theater director : Penny Lane , Producer : Gabriel Sedgwick ) — A look at the intersection of organized religion and activism , trace the hike of The Satanic Temple : only six years sure-enough and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American account . The Temple is calling for a Satanic gyration to keep the body politic ’s mortal . But are they for existent ? World Premiere
ungentle Amazing Johnathan Documentary / U.S.A. ( Director and film writer : Ben Berman , Producers : Miranda Bailey , Ben Berman , Russell Groves , Amanda Marshall , Jacob Perlin ) — What begin as a documentary following the final tour of a dying thaumaturge — “ The Amazing Johnathan ” — becomes an unexpected and more and more freaky journey as the film producer struggles to split up the true from head game . Cast : Johnathan Szeles . World Premiere
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Koko - di Koko - da / Sweden , Denmark ( Director and screenwriter : Johannes Nyholm , Producer : Johannes Nyholm ) — As a couple travel on a trip to find their way of life back to each other , a sideshow creative person and his shady cortege emerge from the woods , terrorizing them , luring them profoundly and profoundly into a maelstrom of psychological little terror and mortifying slapstick . Cast : Leif Edlund , Ylva Gallon , Peter Belli , Katarina Jacobson . World Premiere
World Cinema Documentary Competition
The Magic Life of V / Finland , Denmark , Bulgaria ( Director : Tonislav Hristov , Screenwriters : Tonislav Hristov , Kaarle Aho , Producers : Kaarle Aho , Kai Nordberg ) — Haunted by puerility traumas , Veera is seek to become more independent through springy roleplaying . As she guides herself and her mentally - take exception comrade through worlds of multiple roles and identicalness , witches and wizards , she find the courageousness to face the demons of her own past times and her scurrilous father ’s legacy . World Premiere
Documentary Premieres
The Great Hack / U.S.A. ( Directors : Karim Amer , Jehane Noujaim , Screenwriters : Karim Amer , Erin Barnett , Pedro Kos , Producers : Karim Amer , Geralyn Dreyfous , Judy Korin ) — Data , arguably the world ’s most valuable asset , is being weaponize to engage cultural and political wars . The dark Earth of data exploitation is bring out through the unpredictable personal journey of thespian on different sides of the volatile Cambridge Analytica / Facebook data news report . World Premiere
Kids
THE WITCH HUNTERS / Serbia , Macedonia ( film director : Rasko Miljkovic , Screenwriters : Marko Manojlovic , Milos Kreckovic , Producer : Jovana Karaulic ) — 10 - twelvemonth - old Jovan is often escaping realness to bury himself into a fantasy world . It all changes when he befriend his new schoolfellow Milica and the risky venture to hunt her ‘ witch ’ stepmother go . Cast : Mihajlo Milavic , Silma Mahmuti . U.S. Premiere
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival takes billet in Park City Utah from January 24 – February 3 , 2019.Visit their official siteto happen out how to attend . Or , just wait a yr to see all these movies .
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