The Sundance Film Festival is one of the major film festivals that take place in the world. And this program is one of the programs which has introduced global audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies, and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, The Cove, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Precious, Trouble the Water, and Napoleon Dynamite.
The festival is a 10 day feature where it’s a heaven for any movie enthusiast. For the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, 110 feature-length films have been selected, and these movies come from 31 different countries and that is not the most amazing thing, the competition this time round has 44 first-time filmmakers, out of which 26 are in competition. These films have been selected from 4,042 feature-length film submissions composed of 2,059 U.S. and 1,983 international feature-length films. 88 films at the Festival will be world premieres.
On Day One, at the Festival one can catch the screening one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.S. and World Cinema competitions, as well as one shorts program.
Well here is the list of the movies that will be seen on Day One of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival:
1. Beasts of the Southern Wild / U.S.A.
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Screenwriters: Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry.
2. The Comedy / U.S.A.
Director: Rick Alverson
Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Robert Donne, Colm O’Leary
Cast: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alexia Rassmusen, Gregg Turkington.
3. The End of Love / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Mark Webber
Cast: Mark Webber, Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Cera, Jason Ritter, Amanda Seyfried, Frankie Shaw.
4. Filly Brown / U.S.A.
Directors: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos
Screenwriter: Youssef Delara
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Gina Rodriguez, Jenni Rivera, Edward James Olmos.
5. The First Time / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Jonathan Kasdan
Cast: Brittany Robertson, Dylan O’Brien, Craig Roberts, James Frecheville, Victoria Justice.
6. For Ellen / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: So Yong Kim
Cast: Paul Dano, Jon Heder, Jena Malone, Margarita Levieva, Shay Mandigo.
7. Hello I Must Be Going / U.S.A.
Director: Todd Louiso
Screenwriter: Sarah Koskoff
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Blythe Danner, Christopher Abbott, John Rubinstein, Julie White. DAY ONE FILM
8. Keep the Lights On / U.S.A.
Director: Ira Sachs
Screenwriters: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias
Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson, Souleymane Sy Savane, Paprika Steen.
9. LUV / U.S.A.
Director: Sheldon Candis
Screenwriters: Sheldon Candis, Justin Wilson
Cast: Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton.
10. Middle Of Nowhere / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Ava DuVernay
Cast: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Omari Hardwick, Lorraine Touissant, Edwina Findley.
11. Nobody Walks / U.S.A.
Director: Ry Russo-Young
Screenwriters: Lena Dunham, Ry Russo-Young
Cast: John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt, India Ennenga, Justin Kirk.
12. Safety Not Guaranteed / U.S.A.
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Screenwriter: Derek Connolly
Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karen Soni.
13. Save the Date / U.S.A.
Director: Michael Mohan
Screenwriters: Jeffrey Brown, Egan Reich, Michael Mohan
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend, Mark Webber.
14. Simon Killer / France, U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Antonio Campos
Cast: Brady Corbet, Mati Diop, Constance Rousseau, Michael Abiteboul, Solo.
15. Smashed / U.S.A.
Director: James Ponsoldt
Screenwriters: Susan Burke, James Ponsoldt
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally.
16. The Surrogate / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Ben Lewin
Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy.
1. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry / U.S.A., China
Director: Alison Klayman
2. The Atomic States of America / U.S.A.
Directors: Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce
3. Chasing Ice / U.S.A.
Director: Jeff Orlowski
4. DETROPIA /U.S.A.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
5. ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare / U.S.A.
Directors: Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke
6. Finding North /U.S.A.
Directors: Lori Silverbush, Kristi Jacobson
7. The House I Live In / U.S.A.
Director: Eugene Jarecki
8. How to Survive a Plague / U.S.A.
Director: David France
9. The Invisible War / U.S.A.
Director: Kirby Dick
10. Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present / U.S.A.
Director: Matthew Akers
11. ME at the ZOO / U.S.A.
Directors: Chris Moukarbel, Valerie Veatch
12. The Other Dream Team / Lithuania, U.S.A.
Director: Marius Markevicius
13. The Queen of Versailles / U.S.A.
Director: Lauren Greenfield of the American Dream.
14. Slavery By Another Name / U.S.A.
Director: Sam Pollard
15. Love Free or Die: How the Bishop of New Hampshire is Changing the World / U.S.A.
Director:Macky Alston
16. We’re Not Broke / U.S.A.
Directors: Karin Hayes, Victoria Bruce
1. 4 Suns / Czech Republic
Director and screenwriter: Bohdan Sláma
Cast: Jaroslav Plesl, Ana Geislerová, Karel Roden, Jirí Mádl, Klára Melíšková. World Premiere
2. About the Pink Sky / Japan
Director and screenwriter: Keiichi Kobayashi
Cast: Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara, Tsubasa Takayama, Hakusyu Togetsuan. International Premiere
3. Can / Turkey
Director and screenwriter: Rasit Celikezer
Cast: Selen Ucer, Serdar Orcin, Berkan Demirbag, Erkan Avci. World Premiere
4. Father’s Chair (A Cadeira do Pai) / Brazil
Director: Luciano Moura, Screenwriters: Elena Soarez, Luciano Moura
Cast: Wagner Moura, Lima Duarte, Mariana Lima. World Premiere
5. L / Greece
Director: Babis Makridis, Screenwriters: Efthymis Filippou, Babis Makridis
Cast: Aris Servetalis, Makis Papadimitriou, Lefteris Mathaios, Nota Tserniafski, Stavros Raptis. World Premiere
6. The Last Elvis (El Ultimo Elvis) / Argentina
Director: Armando Bo, Screenwriters: Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo
Cast: John McInerny, Griselda Siciliani, Margarita Lopez. World Premiere
7. Madrid, 1987 / Spain
Director and screenwriter: David Trueba
Cast: José Sacristán, María Valverde, Ramon Fontserè. International Premiere
8. My Brother the Devil / United Kingdom
Director and screenwriter: Sally El Hosaini
Cast: James Floyd, Saïd Taghmaoui, Fady Elsayed. World Premiere
9. Teddy Bear / Denmark
Director: Mads Matthiesen
Screenwriters: Mads Matthiesen, Martin Pieter Zandvliet
Cast: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard, David Winters, Allan Mogensen. World Premiere
10. Valley of Saints / India, U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Musa Syeed
Cast: Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Mohammed Afzal Sofi, Neelofar Hamid. World Premiere
11. Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos) / Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Spain
Director: Andrés Wood, Screenwriters: Eliseo Altunaga, Rodrigo Bazaes, Guillermo Calderón, Andrés Wood
Cast: Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Luis Machín, Gabriela Aguilera, Roberto Farías. International Premiere
12. Wish You Were Here / Australia
Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Screenwriters: Felicity Price, Kieran Darcy-Smith
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price, Antony Starr. World Premiere.
13. WRONG / France
Director and screenwriter: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, William Fichtner. World Premiere
14. Young & Wild / Chile
Director: Marialy Rivas
Screenwriters: Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutiérrez, Pedro Peirano
Cast: Alicia Rodríguez, Aline Kuppenheim, María Gracia Omegna, Felipe Pinto. World Premiere
1. ½ REVOLUTION / Denmark
Directors: Omar Shargawi, Karim El Hakim
2. 5 Broken Cameras / Palestine, Israel, France
Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
3. BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* / Sweden
Director: Fredrik Gertten
4. China Heavyweight / Canada, China
Director: Yung Chang
5. Gypsy Davy / Israel, U.S.A., Spain
Director: Rachel Leah Jones
6. The Imposter / United Kingdom
Director: Bart Layton
7. Indie Game: The Movie / Canada
Directors: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
8. The Law in These Parts / Israel
Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
9. Payback / Canada
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
10. Putin’s Kiss / Denmark
Director: Lise Birk Pedersen
11. Searching for Sugar Man / Denmark, United Kingdom
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
12. THE AMBASSADOR / Denmark
Director: Mads Brügger
The festival is a 10 day feature where it’s a heaven for any movie enthusiast. For the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, 110 feature-length films have been selected, and these movies come from 31 different countries and that is not the most amazing thing, the competition this time round has 44 first-time filmmakers, out of which 26 are in competition. These films have been selected from 4,042 feature-length film submissions composed of 2,059 U.S. and 1,983 international feature-length films. 88 films at the Festival will be world premieres.
On Day One, at the Festival one can catch the screening one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.S. and World Cinema competitions, as well as one shorts program.
Well here is the list of the movies that will be seen on Day One of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival:
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
The world premieres of 16 American narrative feature films.1. Beasts of the Southern Wild / U.S.A.
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Screenwriters: Benh Zeitlin, Lucy Alibar
Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry.
2. The Comedy / U.S.A.
Director: Rick Alverson
Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Robert Donne, Colm O’Leary
Cast: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alexia Rassmusen, Gregg Turkington.
3. The End of Love / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Mark Webber
Cast: Mark Webber, Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Cera, Jason Ritter, Amanda Seyfried, Frankie Shaw.
4. Filly Brown / U.S.A.
Directors: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos
Screenwriter: Youssef Delara
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Gina Rodriguez, Jenni Rivera, Edward James Olmos.
5. The First Time / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Jonathan Kasdan
Cast: Brittany Robertson, Dylan O’Brien, Craig Roberts, James Frecheville, Victoria Justice.
6. For Ellen / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: So Yong Kim
Cast: Paul Dano, Jon Heder, Jena Malone, Margarita Levieva, Shay Mandigo.
7. Hello I Must Be Going / U.S.A.
Director: Todd Louiso
Screenwriter: Sarah Koskoff
Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Blythe Danner, Christopher Abbott, John Rubinstein, Julie White. DAY ONE FILM
8. Keep the Lights On / U.S.A.
Director: Ira Sachs
Screenwriters: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias
Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Julianne Nicholson, Souleymane Sy Savane, Paprika Steen.
9. LUV / U.S.A.
Director: Sheldon Candis
Screenwriters: Sheldon Candis, Justin Wilson
Cast: Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton.
10. Middle Of Nowhere / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Ava DuVernay
Cast: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo, Omari Hardwick, Lorraine Touissant, Edwina Findley.
11. Nobody Walks / U.S.A.
Director: Ry Russo-Young
Screenwriters: Lena Dunham, Ry Russo-Young
Cast: John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt, India Ennenga, Justin Kirk.
12. Safety Not Guaranteed / U.S.A.
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Screenwriter: Derek Connolly
Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karen Soni.
13. Save the Date / U.S.A.
Director: Michael Mohan
Screenwriters: Jeffrey Brown, Egan Reich, Michael Mohan
Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend, Mark Webber.
14. Simon Killer / France, U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Antonio Campos
Cast: Brady Corbet, Mati Diop, Constance Rousseau, Michael Abiteboul, Solo.
15. Smashed / U.S.A.
Director: James Ponsoldt
Screenwriters: Susan Burke, James Ponsoldt
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally.
16. The Surrogate / U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Ben Lewin
Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy.
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The world premieres of 16 American documentary films.1. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry / U.S.A., China
Director: Alison Klayman
2. The Atomic States of America / U.S.A.
Directors: Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce
3. Chasing Ice / U.S.A.
Director: Jeff Orlowski
4. DETROPIA /U.S.A.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
5. ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare / U.S.A.
Directors: Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke
6. Finding North /U.S.A.
Directors: Lori Silverbush, Kristi Jacobson
7. The House I Live In / U.S.A.
Director: Eugene Jarecki
8. How to Survive a Plague / U.S.A.
Director: David France
9. The Invisible War / U.S.A.
Director: Kirby Dick
10. Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present / U.S.A.
Director: Matthew Akers
11. ME at the ZOO / U.S.A.
Directors: Chris Moukarbel, Valerie Veatch
12. The Other Dream Team / Lithuania, U.S.A.
Director: Marius Markevicius
13. The Queen of Versailles / U.S.A.
Director: Lauren Greenfield of the American Dream.
14. Slavery By Another Name / U.S.A.
Director: Sam Pollard
15. Love Free or Die: How the Bishop of New Hampshire is Changing the World / U.S.A.
Director:Macky Alston
16. We’re Not Broke / U.S.A.
Directors: Karin Hayes, Victoria Bruce
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Fourteen films from emerging filmmaking talents offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles.1. 4 Suns / Czech Republic
Director and screenwriter: Bohdan Sláma
Cast: Jaroslav Plesl, Ana Geislerová, Karel Roden, Jirí Mádl, Klára Melíšková. World Premiere
2. About the Pink Sky / Japan
Director and screenwriter: Keiichi Kobayashi
Cast: Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara, Tsubasa Takayama, Hakusyu Togetsuan. International Premiere
3. Can / Turkey
Director and screenwriter: Rasit Celikezer
Cast: Selen Ucer, Serdar Orcin, Berkan Demirbag, Erkan Avci. World Premiere
4. Father’s Chair (A Cadeira do Pai) / Brazil
Director: Luciano Moura, Screenwriters: Elena Soarez, Luciano Moura
Cast: Wagner Moura, Lima Duarte, Mariana Lima. World Premiere
5. L / Greece
Director: Babis Makridis, Screenwriters: Efthymis Filippou, Babis Makridis
Cast: Aris Servetalis, Makis Papadimitriou, Lefteris Mathaios, Nota Tserniafski, Stavros Raptis. World Premiere
6. The Last Elvis (El Ultimo Elvis) / Argentina
Director: Armando Bo, Screenwriters: Nicolás Giacobone and Armando Bo
Cast: John McInerny, Griselda Siciliani, Margarita Lopez. World Premiere
7. Madrid, 1987 / Spain
Director and screenwriter: David Trueba
Cast: José Sacristán, María Valverde, Ramon Fontserè. International Premiere
8. My Brother the Devil / United Kingdom
Director and screenwriter: Sally El Hosaini
Cast: James Floyd, Saïd Taghmaoui, Fady Elsayed. World Premiere
9. Teddy Bear / Denmark
Director: Mads Matthiesen
Screenwriters: Mads Matthiesen, Martin Pieter Zandvliet
Cast: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard, David Winters, Allan Mogensen. World Premiere
10. Valley of Saints / India, U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Musa Syeed
Cast: Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Mohammed Afzal Sofi, Neelofar Hamid. World Premiere
11. Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos) / Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Spain
Director: Andrés Wood, Screenwriters: Eliseo Altunaga, Rodrigo Bazaes, Guillermo Calderón, Andrés Wood
Cast: Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Luis Machín, Gabriela Aguilera, Roberto Farías. International Premiere
12. Wish You Were Here / Australia
Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Screenwriters: Felicity Price, Kieran Darcy-Smith
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price, Antony Starr. World Premiere.
13. WRONG / France
Director and screenwriter: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, William Fichtner. World Premiere
14. Young & Wild / Chile
Director: Marialy Rivas
Screenwriters: Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutiérrez, Pedro Peirano
Cast: Alicia Rodríguez, Aline Kuppenheim, María Gracia Omegna, Felipe Pinto. World Premiere
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary filmmakers working today.1. ½ REVOLUTION / Denmark
Directors: Omar Shargawi, Karim El Hakim
2. 5 Broken Cameras / Palestine, Israel, France
Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
3. BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* / Sweden
Director: Fredrik Gertten
4. China Heavyweight / Canada, China
Director: Yung Chang
5. Gypsy Davy / Israel, U.S.A., Spain
Director: Rachel Leah Jones
6. The Imposter / United Kingdom
Director: Bart Layton
7. Indie Game: The Movie / Canada
Directors: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
8. The Law in These Parts / Israel
Director: Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
9. Payback / Canada
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
10. Putin’s Kiss / Denmark
Director: Lise Birk Pedersen
11. Searching for Sugar Man / Denmark, United Kingdom
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
12. THE AMBASSADOR / Denmark
Director: Mads Brügger
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