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Sundance 2015

This year’s bold (and very yellow) look

We’ll be adding links to fresh entries throughout the festival (and perhaps a few days beyond) and updating the ones we’ve got for as long as it takes.

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment. Susan Gerhard.

Bryan Buckley’s The Bronze.

Andrew Bujalski’s Results.

Robert Eggers’s The Witch.

Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl.

Jennifer Phang’s Advantageous.

Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah.

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe’s (T)ERROR.

Robert Gordan and Morgan Neville’s Best of Enemies. Susan Gerhard.

Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land.

Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack.

Bill and Turner Ross’s Western.

Marc Silver’s 3½ MINUTES.

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

Gerard Barrett’s Glassland.

Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangaile.

Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan.

John Maclean’s Slow West.

Anna Muylaert’s The Second Mother.

Prashant Nair’s Umrika.

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Frida and Lasse Barkfors’ Pervert Park.

Chad Gracia’s The Russian Woodpecker.

Kim Longinotto’s Dreamcatcher.

Louise Osmond’s Dark Horse.

Stevan Riley’s Listen to Me Marlon. Susan Gerhard.

Jerry Rothwell’s How to Change the World.

NEXT

Rick Alverson’s Entertainment.

Sean Baker’s Tangerine.

Josh Mond’s James White.

SHORTS

Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow. And the award-winners.

NEW FRONTIER

Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room.

Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road. InterviewJesse Hawthorne Ficks.

PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT

David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Cannes.

SPOTLIGHT

Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes. Venice, Telluride and Toronto.

Yann Demange’s ’71. New York.

Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden. New York.

Claudia Llosa’s Aloft. Berlin.

Kornél Mundruczó’s White God. Cannes.

Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood. Cannes.

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe. Cannes.

Damián Szifrón’s Wild Tales. Cannes.

PREMIERES

Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America.

James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour.

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES

Liz Garbus’s What Happened, Miss Simone?

Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.


Updates, 2/28: Variety critics Justin Chang, Peter Debruge and Scott Foundas discuss their favorite films from this year’s edition:

At the Talkhouse Film, filmmakers and contributors Joe Swanberg, Patrick Brice, Rodney Ascher, Robert Greene, Josephine Decker, Nikole Beckwith, Charles Poekel, Kentucker Audley, Calvin Lee Reeder, James Marsh, Michael Mohan, Travis Mathews, Stacie Passon, Chad Hartigan, Andrew Droz Palermo, David Lowery, Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Craig Johnson, Desiree Akhavan, Michael Tully and Ben York Jones discuss their Sundance experiences.

James Kang has ranked 17 films according to their Critics Round Up scores and Steve Greene presents the results of Indiewire‘s poll of critics. And sure enough, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl comes out on top. Best doc? The Wolfpack.

Vulture‘s Jada Yuan, Kyle Buchanan and Bilge Ebiri pick their “18 Best Films from Sundance 2015.” At RogerEbert.com, Erik Childress, Sam Fragoso and Brian Tallerico write about their favorite films and performances. The Playlist picks its favorites, too, and the Hollywood Reporter‘s critics spotlight twelve films.

Robert Greene considers the docs for Sight & Sound.

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