Sundance Film Festival from Colorado comes to London this weekend and features a lineup of 14 films that were shown at the popular festival in January. This year’s festival will take place from June 1st – 4th at Central London’s gorgeous Picturehouse Central. Here’s a small selection of what’s on offer:
The opening night film is Beatriz at Dinner where Selma Hayek plays Beatriz, a poor Mexican-American holistic practitioneer who finds herself at a wealthy client’s dinner party. Also starring John Lithgow and Choe Sevigny.
The Big Sick is a rom-com about a Pakistani-American man and his white American girlfriend who negotiate family interferences in their relationship. With Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.
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There are two films at the festival that take place in New York’s Brooklyn neighborhoods. In Crown Heights, one man is wrongly convicted of murder in this true-life miscarriage of justice. Crown Heights was the Audience Award Winner at the January Sundance festival. Bushwick deals with a woman (Brittany Snow) who steps out of the subway to discover her neighborhood is under seige from militia forces.
Recent Best Actor winner Casey Affleck plays a ghost who was recently deceased and returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his wife (Rooney Mara) in A Ghost Story.
The unusual Bitch stars Marianna Palka who plays an unhappy housewife and mother who, when she snaps, turns int a vicious dog. A bit strange and unusual….
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Woody Harrelson is Wilson, a middle aged man who lives alone with his dog and who is on a mission to track down his ex-wife only to discover that he has a teenage daughter.
The documentary Dina, winner of the Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize, is an unconventional love story about two autistic adults; while another documentary – Icarus – takes an investigative look at doping in sports. And also scheduled into the program is a fan favorite Surprise Film on Friday night.
Short films will also be played at the festival, and include Come Swim, the directorial debut of Kirsten Stewart, and Tough, about a mother-daughter misunderstanding. There will also be events during the weekend, including several of the directors and stars will be attending post screening Q&A’s. One of the highlights should be a discussion called Independent Film Trumps Reality where movie makers discuss movies in the current political climate.
To buy tickets to any of the screenings and events, please go to picturehouses.com/sundance. Festival passes as well individual screening tickets are both sold.
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Article by Tim Baros