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Many of these films have not yet been rated by the Motion Picture Association of America. Read the full descriptions and choose responsibly.

Films are generally followed by a Q&A with the director and selected members of the cast and crew.

All films are shown in 35mm and DCP.

U.S.A., 2016, 91 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 95 min., color Special thanks to Dolby Laboratories, Inc., for its support of our digital cinema projection. A couple who can’t stop fighting embark on a An aimless teenager on the outer edges of last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak their fights into songs and starting a band. life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent , PROGRAMMERS DIRECTOR/: Zoe Lister-Jones a potential new girlfriend, and older men he PRINCIPAL CAST: Zoe Lister-Jones, , meets online. DIRECTOR, PROGRAMMERS Fred Armisen, Susie Essman, Hannah Simone, Ravi Patel DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: SUNDANCE Hussain Currimbhoy, Heidi Zwicker PRINCIPAL CAST: Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Tuesday, January 24, 12:15 p.m. John Cooper Kate Hodge, Neal Huff ASSOCIATE PROGRAMMERS Eccles , Park City DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING Lauren Cioffi, Adam Montgomery, Wednesday, January 25, noon Trevor Groth Harry Vaughn Library Center Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 3:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. SENIOR PROGRAMMERS SHORTS PROGRAMMERS Friday, January 27, 9:15 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City David Courier, Shari Frilot, Dilcia Barrera, Emily Doe, Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 12:15 p.m. Caroline Libresco, John Nein, Ernesto Foronda, Jon Korn, Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Mike Plante, Charlie Reff, Kim Yutani Katie Metcalfe, Lisa Ogdie, Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. Adam Piron, Mike Plante, Kim Yutani, Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. Landon Zakheim Egyptian Theatre, Park City

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Brigsby Bear Burning Sands Crown Heights

U.S.A., 2016, 100 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 96 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 96 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 94 min., color

Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children’s TV show Deep into a fraternity’s Hell Week, a favored When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of The arrival of a young foreign girl disrupts produced for an of one: James. When pledge is torn between honoring a code of silence murder, his best friend, Carl King, devotes his life the lives and emotional balances of two the show abruptly ends, James’s life changes or standing up against the intensifying violence of to proving Colin’s innocence. Adapted from This Brooklyn families. forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself. underground hazing. American Life, this is the incredible true story of their harrowing quest for justice. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR: Dave McCary DIRECTOR: Gerard McMurray PRINCIPAL CAST: Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, : Kevin Costello, SCREENWRITERS: Christine Berg, Gerard McMurray DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Matt Ruskin Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, , PRINCIPAL CAST: Kyle Mooney, , PRINCIPAL CAST: Trevor Jackson, , PRINCIPAL CAST: Lakeith Stanfield, , Chloë Sevigny , , , Steve Harris, Tosin Cole, DeRon Horton, Trevante Rhodes Natalie Paul, , Nestor Carbonell, Amari Cheatom

Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Monday, January 23, 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 3:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Egyptian Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, January 26, 9:15 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, noon The MARC, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 12:15 p.m. Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 12:15 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City

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I Don’t Feel at Home The Hero in This World Anymore Landline

DAY ONE

U.S.A., 2016, 93 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 96 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 97 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 93 min., color

Lee, a former film icon, is living a When a depressed woman is burglarized, A young woman becomes obsessed with an Two sisters come of age in ’90s when comfortable existence lending his golden voice to she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking lifestyle blogger and moves to Los they discover their dad’s affair—and turns out advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving down the thieves, alongside her obnoxious Angeles to try and befriend her in real life. he’s not the only cheater in the family. Everyone a lifetime achievement award and unexpected neighbor. But they soon find themselves still smokes inside, no one has a cell phone, and news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance dangerously out of their depth against a pack DIRECTOR: Matt Spicer the Jacobs finally connect through lying, cheating, meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking of degenerate criminals. SCREENWRITERS: Matt Spicer, David Branson Smith and hibachi. to the future. PRINCIPAL CAST: , , DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Macon Blair O’Shea Jackson Jr., Wyatt Russell, Billy Magnussen DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR: Brett Haley PRINCIPAL CAST: , , SCREENWRITERS: Elisabeth Holm, Gillian Robespierre SCREENWRITERS: Brett Haley, Marc Basch David Yow, Jane Levy, Devon Graye PRINCIPAL CAST: Jenny Slate, , , Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. PRINCIPAL CAST: , , Abby Quinn, , Finn Wittrock Library Center Theatre, Park City Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman, Katharine Ross Thursday, January 19, 9:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Friday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, January 21, 11:59 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Sunday, January 22, 4:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 3:15 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 11:30 a.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 11:59 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 8:30 a.m. Friday, January 27, 9:15 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City

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Novitiate Patti Cake$ Roxanne Roxanne To the Bone

U.S.A., 2017, 107 min., color

In a last-ditch effort to battle her severe anorexia, 20-year-old Ellen enters a group recovery home. With the help of an unconventional doctor, Ellen and the other residents go on a sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing journey that leads to the ultimate question—is life worth living?

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: PRINCIPAL CAST: , , Preston, , Alex Sharp, Liana Liberato U.S.A., 2016, 123 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 108 min., color & b/w U.S.A., 2016, 100 min., color

In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, Straight out of Jersey comes Patricia The most feared battle MC in early-’80s NYC Sunday, January 22, noon a young woman training to become a nun Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge Eccles Theatre, Park City struggles with issues of faith, sexuality, and the an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of projects with the of the world on her Monday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. changing church. strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest shoulders. At age 14, hustling the streets to Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. for glory. provide for her family, Roxanne Shanté was well Redstone Cinema 1, Park City DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Maggie Betts on her way to becoming a hip-hop . Thursday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. PRINCIPAL CAST: , , DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Geremy Jasper The MARC, Park City Julianne Nicholson, , PRINCIPAL CAST: Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Michael Larnell Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Moriarty PRINCIPAL CAST: Chanté Adams, , Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City , Elvis Nolasco, Kevin Phillips, Shenell Edmonds Saturday, January 28, noon Friday, January 20, noon Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 12:15 p.m. Saturday, January 21, noon Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Wednesday, January 25, 3:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:15 p.m.. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 8:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Saturday, January 28, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. The MARC, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City

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Walking Out The Yellow Birds Casting JonBenet Chasing Coral

U.S.A., 2017, 96 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 110 min., color U.S.A./, 2016, 81 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 91 min., color

A father and son struggle to connect on any level Two young men enlist in the army and are The unsolved death of six-year-old American Coral reefs around the world are vanishing until a brutal encounter with a predator in the deployed to fight in the War. After an beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey remains the at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, heart of the wilderness leaves them both seriously unthinkable tragedy, a returning soldier struggles world’s most sensational child murder case. photographers, and scientists set out on a thrilling injured. If they are to survive, the boy must carry to balance his promise of silence with the truth Over 15 months, responses, reflections, and ocean adventure to discover why and to the his father to safety. and a mourning mother’s search for peace. performances were elicited from the Ramsey’s underwater mystery to the world. Colorado hometown , creating a bold DIRECTORS/ SCREENWRITERS: Alex Smith, DIRECTOR: Alexandre Moors work of art from the collective memories and DIRECTOR: Jeff Orlowski Andrew Smith SCREENWRITERS: , R.F.I. Porto mythologies the crime inspired. PRINCIPAL CAST: Richard Vevers, Zackery Rago, PRINCIPAL CAST: , Josh Wiggins, PRINCIPAL CAST: , Jack Huston, Dr. Ruth Gates, Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Dr. Mark Eakin, Bill Pullman, Alex Neustaedter, Lily Gladstone , Jason Patric, , DIRECTOR: Kitty Green Dr. John “Charlie” Veron

Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 9:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 12:15 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Monday, January 23, 5:30 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. Monday, January 23, 7:00 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 3:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 12:15 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Thursday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, noon Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Friday, January 27, 7:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 12:15 p.m. Friday, January 27, 5:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Friday, January 27, 3:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, January 28, 3:15 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City

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City of Ghosts Dina Dolores The

U.S.A., 2016, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 101 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 95 min., color & b/w U.S.A., 2017, 93 min., color Arabic with English subtitles English and Spanish with English subtitles An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart This cinema vérité look at the long-troubled With unprecedented access, this documentary door greeter navigate their evolving relationship Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions Oakland Police Department goes deep inside follows the extraordinary journey of “Raqqa in this unconventional love story. by cofounding the country’s first farmworkers’ their struggles to confront federal reform is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a group of union. Wrestling with raising 11 children, gender demands, a popular uprising following events in anonymous citizen journalists who banded DIRECTORS: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini bias, union defeat and victory, and nearly dying Ferguson, and an explosive . together after their was overtaken by PRINCIPAL CAST: Dina Buno, Scott Levin after a Police beating, Dolores ISIS—as they risk their lives to stand up against emerges with a vision that connects her newfound DIRECTOR: Peter Nicks one of the greatest evils in the world today. Friday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. feminism with racial and class justice. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR: Peter Bratt Saturday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. Sunday, January 22, 12:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. Friday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 4:00 p.m. Monday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. The MARC, Park City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library Theatre Friday, January 27, 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 12:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Thursday, January 26, 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Library Center Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, January 28, 9:00 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

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NOBODY SPEAK: Hulk Hogan, ICARUS The New Radical Gawker and Trials of a Free Press Quest

U.S.A., 2017, 110 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 117 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 102 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 110 min., color English and Russian with English subtitles Uncompromising millennial radicals from the The trial between Hulk Hogan and Gawker For over a decade, this portrait of a North When sets out to uncover the truth and the attack the Media pitted privacy rights against freedom of Philadelphia family and the creative sanctuary about doping in sports, a chance meeting with system through dangerous technological means, the press and raised important questions about offered by their home music studio was filmed a Russian scientist transforms his story from a which evolves into a high-stakes game with how big money can silence media. This film is an with vérité intimacy. The family’s 10-year journey personal experiment into a geopolitical world authorities in the midst of a dramatically examination of the perils and duties of the free is an illumination of race and class in America, involving dirty urine, unexplained death, and changing political landscape. press in an age of inequality. and it’s a testament to love, healing, and hope. Olympic Gold—exposing the biggest scandal in sports history. DIRECTOR/: DIRECTOR/WRITER: Brian Knappenberger DIRECTOR: Jonathan Olshefski

DIRECTOR: Bryan Fogel Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. SCREENWRITERS: Bryan Fogel, Mark Monroe Temple Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 11:30 a.m. Monday, January 23, 4:00 p.m. Friday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room The MARC, Park City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 2:45 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 3:45 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library Theatre Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 4:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Thursday, January 26, noon Sunday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:00 a.m. Saturday, January 28, noon Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Saturday, January 28, 2:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

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STEP Strong Island Trophy Unrest

U.S.A., 2016, 83 min., color U.S.A./Denmark, 2016, 107 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 110 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 93 min., color English and Afrikaans with English subtitles English and Danish with English subtitles With dreams of becoming the first in their Examining the violent death of the filmmaker’s families to attend college, a group of seniors from and the judicial system that allowed his This in-depth look into the powerhouse When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea an inner-city girls high school strives killer to go free, this documentary interrogates industries of big game hunting, breeding, is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves to make their step dance team a success against a murderous fear and racialized perception, and and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s “all in her backdrop of social unrest in a troubled city. reimagines the wreckage in ’s wake, Africa unravels the complex consequences head.” Determined to live, she sets out on a challenging us to change. of treating animals as commodities. virtual journey to document her story—and DIRECTOR: Amanda Lipitz four other families’ stories—fighting a disease DIRECTOR: Yance Ford DIRECTOR: Shaul Schwarz medicine forgot. CO-DIRECTOR: Christina Clusiau Saturday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. DIRECTOR: Jennifer Brea Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 5:15 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, noon Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, noon Temple Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 10:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, noon Thursday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 2:30 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Monday, January 23, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 12:15 p.m. The MARC, Park City Sunday, January 22, noon Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Wednesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. Friday, January 27, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

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Water & Power: A Heist Whose Streets? Axolotl Overkill Syndrome

DAY ONE

U.S.A., 2016, 87 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 90 min., color , 2016, 94 min., color Australia, 2016, 116 min., color English and German with English subtitles English and German with English subtitles In California’s convoluted water system, A account of the Ferguson uprising notorious water barons find ways to structure a told by the people who lived it, this is an Mifti, age 16, lives in Berlin with a cast of A passionate holiday romance takes an state-engineered system to their own advantage. unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old characters including her half-siblings; their unexpected and sinister turn when an Australian Exposing long-held centers of power, this Michael Brown inspired a community to fight rich, self-involved father; and her junkie friend photographer wakes one morning in a Berlin film reveals small farmers and everyday back—and sparked a global movement. Ophelia. As she mourns her recently deceased apartment and is unable to leave. citizens facing drought and a new, debilitating mother, she begins to develop an obsession groundwater crisis. DIRECTOR: Sabaah Folayan with Alice, an enigmatic and much older DIRECTOR: Cate Shortland CO-DIRECTOR: Damon Davis white-collar criminal. SCREENWRITER: Shaun Grant DIRECTOR: PRINCIPAL CAST: , Max Riemelt DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Helene Hegemann Thursday, January 19, 9:15 p.m. PRINCIPAL CAST: Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, Monday, January 23, 9:15 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Mavie Hörbiger, Laura Tonke, Hans Löw, Friday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, noon Bernhard Schütz The MARC, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 5:30 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 4:00 p.m. Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:45 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Friday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 12:30 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 2:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 9:45 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, noon Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 11:45 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

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Don’t Swallow My Carpinteros (Woodpeckers) Heart, Alligator Girl! Family Life Free and Easy

Dominican Republic, 2016, 107 min., color Brazil/Netherlands/France/Paraguay, 2017, Chile, 2017, 80 min., color Hong Kong, 2016, 99 min., color Spanish with English subtitles 108 min., color Spanish with English subtitles Mandarin with English subtitles Portuguese/Spanish/Guarani with English subtitles

Julián finds love and a reason for living in the In this about love and memories, Joca While -sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely When a traveling soap salesman arrives in a last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic’s is a 13-year-old Brazilian boy in love with an man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex- desolate Chinese town, a crime occurs, and sets Najayo Prison. His romance with fellow prisoner indigenous Paraguayan girl. To conquer her love, wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the the strange residents against each other with Yanelly must develop through sign language and he must face the violent region’s war-torn past sympathy of the single mother he has just met. tragicomic results. without the knowledge of dozens of guards. and the secrets of his elder brother, Fernando, a motorcycle cowboy. DIRECTORS: Alicia Scherson, Cristián Jiménez DIRECTOR: Jun Geng

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: José María Cabral DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Felipe Bragança SCREENWRITER: Alejandro Zambra SCREENWRITERS: Liu Bing Feng, Yuhua Geng Jun PRINCIPAL CAST: Jean Jean, Judith Rodriguez Perez, PRINCIPAL CAST: Cauã Reymond, Eduardo Macedo, PRINCIPAL CAST: Jorge Becker, Gabriela Arancibia, PRINCIPAL CAST: Xu Gang, Zhang Zhiyong, Xue Baohe, Ramón Emilio Candelario Adeli Gonzales, Zahy Guajajara, Claudia Assunção, Blanca Lewin, Cristián Carvajal Wang Xuxu, Gu Benbin, Zhang Xun Ney Matogrosso

Monday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. Preceded by How’s your prostate ? Saturday, January 21, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 5:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City DIRECTORS: Jeanne Paturle, Cécile Rousset Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City France, 2016, 4 min., color, French with English subtitles Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, noon Temple Theatre, Park City One friend tells another about the very strange time Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City when, beside a swimming pool, she learned about Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 1:00 p.m. her father’s prostate, his erectile function, and his Monday, January 23, 10:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City nighttime . Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Friday, January 27, 1:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 11:30 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 2:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 4:00 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 1:00 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Saturday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Thursday, January 26, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Friday, January 27, 6:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

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God’s Own Country My Happy Family The Nile Hilton Incident Pop Aye

DAY ONE

United Kingdom, 2017, 105 min., color Germany//France, 2017, 119 min., color Sweden/Germany/Denmark, 2016, 106 min., color Singapore/Thailand, 2017, 100 min., color Georgian with English subtitles Arabic/Dinka with English subtitles Thai with English subtitles Springtime in Yorkshire, isolated young sheep farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations , Georgia, 2016: In a patriarchal society, In Cairo, weeks before the 2011 revolution, Police On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect with binge drinking and casual sex, until the an ordinary Georgian family lives with three Detective Noredin is working in the infamous bumps into his long- elephant on the streets arrival of a Romanian migrant worker, employed generations under one roof. All are shocked Kasr el-Nil Police Station when he is handed the of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a for the lambing season, ignites an intense when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that journey across Thailand in search of the farm relationship that sets Johnny on a new path. from her parents’ home and live alone. Without the investigation concerns the power elite, close to where they grew up together. her family or her husband, a journey into the the president’s inner circle. DIRECTOR/ SCREENWRITER: Francis Lee unknown begins. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Kirsten Tan PRINCIPAL CAST: Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Tarik Saleh PRINCIPAL CAST: Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Ian Hart, Gemma Jones DIRECTORS: Nana & Simon PRINCIPAL CAST: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Penpak Sirikul, Bong SCREENWRITER: Nana Ekvtimishvili Mohamed Yousry, Yasser Ali Maher, Ahmed Selim, PRINCIPAL CAST: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Hania Amar Monday, January 23, 5:45 p.m. Berta Khapava, Tsisia Qumsishvili, Giorgi Tabidze, Thursday, January 19, 6:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City Dimitri Oragvelidze Egyptian Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 1:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. Friday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 2:15 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library Theatre Friday, January 27, 10:00 a.m. Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 5:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, noon Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. Friday, January 27, 9:15 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Thursday, January 26, 10:00 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Friday, January 27, noon Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Saturday, January 28, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City

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Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream in Another Language) The Wound The Good Postman In Loco Parentis

Mexico/Netherlands, 2016, 100 min., color South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France, 2016, Finland/Bulgaria, 2016, 82 min., color /Spain, 2016, 100 min., color Spanish with English subtitles 88 min., color, Xhosa with English subtitles Bulgarian with English subtitles John and Amanda teach Latin, English, and The last two speakers of a millennia-old Xolani, a lonely factory worker, joins the men of In a small Bulgarian village troubled by the guitar at a fantastical, stately home-turned- language haven’t spoken in 50 years, when his community in the mountains of the Eastern ongoing refugee crisis, a local postman runs for school. Nearly 50-year careers are drawing to a young linguist tries to bring them together. Cape to initiate a group of teenage boys into mayor—and learns that even minor deeds can a close for the pair who have become Yet hidden in the past, in the heart of the manhood. When a defiant initiate from the city outweigh good intentions. with the mantra: “Reading! ’Rithmetic! Rock ’n’ jungle, lies a secret concerning the fate of discovers his best-kept secret, Xolani’s entire roll!” But for pupil and teacher alike, leaving is the Zikril language. existence begins to unravel. DIRECTOR: Tonislav Hristov the hardest lesson. SCREENWRITERS: Tonislav Hristov, Lubomir Tsvetkov DIRECTOR: Ernesto Contreras DIRECTOR: John Trengove DIRECTORS: Neasa Ní Chianáin, David Rane SCREENWRITER: Carlos Contreras SCREENWRITERS: John Trengove, Thando Mgqolozana, Friday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. PRINCIPAL CAST: Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, Malusi Bengu Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Friday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. Eligio Meléndez, Manuel Poncelis, Fátima Molina, PRINCIPAL CAST: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Monday, January 23, 12:15 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Juan Pablo de Santiago, Hoze Meléndez Niza Jay Ncoyini Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 10:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Monday, January 23, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 8:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Sunday, January 22, 7:00 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Wednesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Friday, January 27, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:15 a.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:15 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Friday, January 27, noon Thursday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. Friday, January 27, 12:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre

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It’s Not Yet Dark Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower Last Men in Aleppo Machines

Ireland, 2016, 78 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 78 min., color Denmark/Syria, 2017, 90 min., color /Germany/Finland, 2016, 71 min., color English and Cantonese with English subtitles Arabic with English subtitles Hindi with English subtitles This is the incredible story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a young filmmaker who becomes completely When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks After five years of war in Syria, Aleppo’s This intimate, observant portrayal of the paralyzed from motor neurone disease but goes on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, remaining residents prepare themselves for a rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile on to direct an award-winning teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. siege. Khalid, Subhi, and Mahmoud, founding factory in Gujarat, India, moves through through the use of his eyes. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and members of the White Helmets, have remained the corridors and bowels of the enormously occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely in the city to help their fellow citizens—and disorienting structure—taking the viewer on a DIRECTOR: Frankie Fenton leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most experience daily life, death, struggle, and triumph journey of dehumanizing physical labor and notorious dissidents. in a city under fire. intense hardship. Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. DIRECTOR: Joe Piscatella DIRECTORS: Feras Fayyad, Steen Johannessen DIRECTOR: Rahul Jain Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Preceded by Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Tough Monday, January 23, 2:45 p.m. Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. DIRECTOR: Jennifer Zheng Tuesday, January 24, 4:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City United Kingdom, 2016, 5 min., color Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 6:45 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. English and Mandarin with English subtitles Thursday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Temple Theatre, Park City New light is shed on childhood cultural Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her Wednesday, January 25, 2:45 p.m. Friday, January 27, 3:15 p.m. British-born daughter speak as adults for the first time. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Some things can only be understood with maturity. Thursday, January 26, 10:00 a.m. Thursday, January 26, noon Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 10:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 8:30 a.m. Friday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 7:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Sunday, January 22, noon Salt Lake City Library Theatre Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 4:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

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RUMBLE: The Indians Motherland Plastic China Who Rocked The World Tokyo Idols

U.S.A./Philippines, 2016, 94 min., color China, 2016, 82 min., color , 2016, 103 min., color United Kingdom/Canada, 2017, 88 min., color Filipino with English subtitles Mandarin with English subtitles Japanese with English subtitles This powerful documentary about the role Taking us into the heart of the planet’s busiest Yi-Jie, an 11-year-old girl, works alongside her of Native Americans in contemporary music This exploration of Japan’s fascination with girl maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like parents in a recycling facility while dreaming of history—featuring some of the greatest music bands and their music follows an aspiring pop an unseen outsider into the hospital’s stream of attending school. Kun, the facility’s ambitious stars of our time—exposes a critical missing singer and her fans, delving into the cultural activity. At first, the people are strangers. As the foreman, dreams of a better life. Through the chapter, revealing how indigenous musicians obsession with young female sexuality and the film continues, it’s absorbingly intimate, rendering eyes and hands of those who handle its refuse, helped shape the soundtracks of our lives growing disconnect between men and women the women at the heart of the story increasingly comes an examination of global consumption and, through their contributions, influenced in hypermodern societies. familiar. and culture. popular culture. DIRECTOR: Kyoko Miyake DIRECTOR: Ramona S. Diaz DIRECTOR: Jiu-liang Wang DIRECTORS: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana PRINCIPAL CAST: Robbie Robertson, Buffy Sainte-Marie, , Tony Bennett, Steven Tyler, Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 3:15 p.m. Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 21, 3:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 1:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, noon Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 3:30 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 12:15 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:00 a.m. Saturday, January 28, 9:15 a.m. Friday, January 27, 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 11:59 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

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WINNIE The Workers Cup Before I Fall

DAY ONE

France, 2017, 98 min., color & b/w United Kingdom, 2017, 89 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 79 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 99 min., color English and Nepali/Malayalam/Twi/Ga/Hindi/Arabic While her husband served a life sentence, with English subtitles Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, paradoxically kept safe and morally Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to everything changes. After one fateful night, she uncontaminated, Winnie Mandela rode the raw Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and build a career as a health practitioner. Doug wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into violence of apartheid, fighting on the front line Asian migrant workers building the facilities Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. reliving the same day over and over, she begins and underground. This is the untold story of of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football When these two opposites meet at a dinner to question just how perfect her life really was. the mysterious that combined to take her tournament of their own. party, their worlds collide and neither will down, labeling him a saint, her a sinner. ever be the same. DIRECTOR: Ry Russo-Young DIRECTOR: Adam Sobel SCREENWRITER: Maria Maggenti DIRECTOR: Pascale Lamche DIRECTOR: PRINCIPAL CAST: , Halston Sage, SCREENWRITER: Logan Miller, Kian Lawley, Elena Kampouris, Thursday, January 19, 9:30 p.m. Diego Boneta Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City PRINCIPAL CAST: Salma Hayek, Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. Monday, January 23, noon Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 12:15 p.m. Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. Sunday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. The MARC, Park City The MARC, Park City Thursday, January 26, 1:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Friday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 10:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Salt Lake City Library Theatre Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Saturday, January 28, 11:30 p.m. Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Saturday, January 28, 10:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 10:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

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The Big Sick Call Me by Your Name The Discovery

U.S.A., 2016, 124 min., color /France, 2017, 130 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 110 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 89 min., color English and Italian/French with English subtitles Based on the real-life courtship: -born In a world where the afterlife has just been Four women, whose kids attend the same comedian Kumail and grad student Emily fall The sensitive and cultivated Elio, only child of scientifically proven—resulting in millions of preschool class, get together for a “fun mom in love, but they struggle as their cultures clash. the American-Italian-French Perlman family, is people taking their own lives to get there—comes dinner.” When the night takes an unexpected When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, facing another lazy summer at his parents’ villa this love story. turn, these unlikely new friends realize they Kumail must navigate the crisis with her parents in the beautiful and languid Italian countryside have more in than just marriage and and the emotional tug-of-war between his family when Oliver, an academic who has come to help DIRECTOR: Charlie McDowell motherhood. Together, they reclaim a piece of and his heart. with Elio’s father’s research, arrives. SCREENWRITERS: Charlie McDowell, Justin Lader the women they used to be. PRINCIPAL CAST: , , DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR: , , , DIRECTOR: Alethea Jones SCREENWRITERS: Emily V. Gordon, SCREENWRITERS: , Luca Guadagnino Ron Canada SCREENWRITER: Julie Rudd PRINCIPAL CAST: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe , PRINCIPAL CAST: , Timothée Chalamet, PRINCIPAL CAST: , Toni Collette, , , Anupam Kher , , , Bridget Everett, , , Friday, January 20, 9:30 p.m. Victoire Du Bois Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 6:15 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 6:15 p.m. The MARC, Park City Friday, January 27, 3:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, January 28, 2:45 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 3:15 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 9:15 p.m. The MARC, Park City The MARC, Park City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 5:15 p.m. Sunday, January 29, 12:15 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 8:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, noon The MARC, Park City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City The MARC, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Sunday, January 29, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 12:15 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Eccles Theatre, Park City

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The Incredible Jessica James The Last Word Manifesto

CLOSING NIGHT

U.S.A., 2016, 85 min., color U.S.A., 2015, 108 min., color Germany, 2016, 94 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 99 min., color

Jessica James, an aspiring NYC playwright, is Harriett is a retired businesswoman who tries to Can history’s art manifestos apply to In the near future—a time of artificial struggling to get over a recent breakup. She sees a control everything around her. When she decides contemporary society? An homage to the intelligence—86-year-old Marjorie has a light at of the tunnel when she meets the to write her own obituary, a young journalist takes twentieth century’s most impassioned artistic handsome new companion who looks like her recently divorced Boone. Together, they discover up the task of finding out the truth, resulting in a statements and innovators, from Futurists and deceased husband and is programmed to feed how to make it through the tough times while life-altering friendship. Dadaists to Pop Art, Fluxus, Lars von Trier, the story of her life back to her. What would we realizing they like each other—a lot. and , this series of reenactments remember, and what would we forget, if given DIRECTOR: Mark Pellington performed by explores these the chance? DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Jim Strouse SCREENWRITER: Stuart Ross Fink declarations’ performative components and PRINCIPAL CAST: Jessica Williams, Chris O’Dowd, PRINCIPAL CAST: Shirley MacLaine, , political significance. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Lakeith Stanfield, Noël Wells , Thomas Sadoski, Philip Baker Hall PRINCIPAL CAST: , Geena Davis, , DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Julian Rosefeldt PRINCIPAL CAST: Cate Blanchett Friday, January 27, 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. Sunday, January 29, 3:15 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Salt Lake City Library Theatre Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 29, 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Temple Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 7:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Saturday, January 28, 5:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

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Mudbound The Polka King Rememory

U.S.A., 2016, 120 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 95 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 106 min., color U.S.A./Canada, 2016, 111 min., color

In the post–World War II South, two families Based on the remarkable true story of the This portrait of the life and mind of reclusive A visionary inventor found dead. A machine that are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and world’s only known Polka Ponzi scheme, author J.D. goes from the bloody front can record people’s memories. A man haunted by an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously this mix of comedy and tragedy is about Jan lines of World War II to his early rejections and the past. This noir mystery explores the ways in fight the battle at home and the battle abroad. Lewan, a Polish immigrant who believed in the the PTSD-fueled writer’s block that led to his which memory defines the present. This pioneer story is about friendship, American Dream. But with big dreams came big iconic , . heritage, and the unending struggle for and mistakes for the man who became the “King of DIRECTOR: Mark Palansky against the land. Pennsylvania Polka.” DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: SCREENWRITERS: Michael Vukadinovich, Mark Palansky PRINCIPAL CAST: , , PRINCIPAL CAST: , , DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR: Maya Forbes , Zoey Deutch, Hope Davis, , , Henry Ian Cusick, SCREENWRITERS: , Dee Rees SCREENWRITERS: Maya Forbes, Wally Wolodarsky Evelyne Brochu PRINCIPAL CAST: , , PRINCIPAL CAST: Jack Black, Jenny Slate, Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. Mary J. Blige, , , Jason Schwartzman, , J.B. Smoove Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 9:45 p.m. The MARC, Park City Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 6:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Sunday, January 29, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 9:30 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Friday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Saturday, January 28, 8:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City

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Sidney Hall Where Is Kyra? Wilson Wind River

U.S.A., 2017, 117 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 98 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 101 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 111 min., color

Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a Wilson, a lonely, neurotic, and hilariously honest An FBI agent teams with the town’s veteran game life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass middle-aged misanthrope, reunites with his tracker to investigate a murder that ocurred on a generation, and then disappears without a trace. and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a estranged wife and gets a shot at happiness when Native American reservation. perilous and mysterious journey that threatens he learns he has a teenage daughter he has never DIRECTOR: to usurp her life. met. In his uniquely outrageous and slightly DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: SCREENWRITERS: Shawn Christensen, Jason Dolan twisted way, he sets out to connect with her. PRINCIPAL CAST: , Elizabeth Olsen, PRINCIPAL CAST: , , DIRECTOR: Andrew Dosunmu Kyle Chandler, , Nathan Lane, SCREENWRITER: Darci Picoult DIRECTOR: Craig Johnson Margaret Qualley PRINCIPAL CAST: , SCREENWRITER: PRINCIPAL CAST: , , Saturday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 6:15 p.m. Monday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 3:15 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. Monday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Library Center Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Sunday, January 29, 12:30 p.m. Friday, January 27, 6:15 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 11:59 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Sunday, January 29, 10:00 a.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room

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500 YEARS Cries from Syria Give Me Future: Major Lazer in Cuba of

U.S.A., 2017, 108 min., color U.S.A./Syria/Czech Republic, 2017, 111 min., color U.S.A./Cuba, 2016, 85 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 79 min., color Spanish/Ixil/K'iche/Kaqchiquel with English subtitles Arabic with English subtitles English and Spanish with English subtitles Afghanistan, immediately post-9/11: Small From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow This documentary attempts to recontextualize the In the spring of 2016, global music sensation teams of Green Berets arrive on a series of of a president, the sweeping story of mounting and ongoing hostilities Major Lazer performed a free concert in Havana, secret missions to overthrow the Taliban. What resistance played out in Guatemala’s recent in Syria through eyewitness and Cuba—an unprecedented show that drew an happens next is equal parts war origin story and history is told through the actions and testimony. Children and parents recount of almost half a million. This concert cautionary tale, illuminating the nature and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan revolution, civil war, air strikes, atrocities, and documentary evolves into an exploration of youth impact of 15 years of constant combat, with population, who now stand poised to reimagine ongoing humanitarian aid crises, in a portrait of culture in a country on the precipice of change. unprecedented access to U.S. Special Forces. their society. recent history and the consequences of violence. DIRECTOR: Austin Peters DIRECTOR: Greg Barker DIRECTOR: Pamela Yates DIRECTOR: Evgeny Afineevsky PRINCIPAL CAST: Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj, Saturday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 2:30 p.m. Matilde Terraza Gallego, Daniel Pascual Hernández, Sunday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City The MARC, Park City Andrea Ixchíu Hernández, Julio Solórzano Foppa The MARC, Park City Friday, January 27, 5:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. The MARC, Park City Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 8:30 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 11:45 a.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Sunday, January 29, 6:15 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

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Untitled Follow-up to an TAKE EVERY WAVE: Oklahoma City Inconvienient Truth Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman The Life of Laird Hamilton

DAY ONE

U.S.A., 2016, 98 min., color & b/w U.S.A., 2016, 100 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 87 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 118 min., color

The 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah A decade after brought From the Montana Rockies to the wheat fields This is the remarkable story of an American Federal Building in Oklahoma City is the worst climate change into the heart of popular culture of and the Gulf of Mexico, families icon who changed the sport of big wave surfing of domestic terrorism in American history; comes the riveting follow-up that shows both the who work the land and sea are crossing political forever. Transcending the surf , this in- this documentary explores how a series of deadly escalation of the crisis and how close we are to a divides to find unexpected ways to protect the depth portrait of a hard-charging athlete explores encounters between American citizens and real . natural resources vital to their livelihoods. These the fear, courage, and ambition that push a man federal law enforcement—including the standoffs are the new heroes of conservation, deep in to greatness—and the cost that comes with it. at Ruby Ridge and Waco—led to it. DIRECTORS: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk America’s heartland. DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR/WRITER: Barak Goodman : Mark Bailey, Jack Youngelson Thursday, January 19, 5:30 p.m. DIRECTORS: Froemke, John Hoffman Eccles Theatre, Park City WRITER: Jack Youngelson Saturday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 5:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City Friday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. Friday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. Sunday, January 22, 5:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 9:15 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 9:15 p.m. Eccles Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library Theatre Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 5:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

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Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story Untitled / Buena Vista of Black Colleges and Universities This Is Everything: Gorgeous Social Club Documentary

U.S.A., 2017, 85 min., color & b/w U.S.A., 2017, 91 min., color U.S.A./United Kingdom/Cuba, 2017, 110 min., color Spanish with English subtitles A haven for Black intellectuals, artists, and This groundbreaking film portrays the journey of revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the Gigi Lazzarato, a fearless woman who began life The musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club American Dream—Black colleges and universities as Gregory, posting fashion videos to YouTube exposed the world to Cuba’s vibrant culture have educated the architects of freedom from his bedroom, only to later come out as with their landmark 1997 album. Now, against movements and cultivated leaders in every field. a female. With never-before-seen the backdrop of Cuba’s captivating musical They have been unapologetically Black for 150 personal footage, the film spotlights a family’s history, hear the band’s story as they reflect on years. For the first time ever, their story is told. unwavering love for a child. their remarkable careers and the extraordinary circumstances that brought them together. DIRECTOR: Stanley Nelson DIRECTOR: WRITERS: Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith DIRECTOR: Lucy Walker

Tuesday, January 24, 5:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 11:45 a.m. The MARC, Park City Friday, January 20, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, noon Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Sunday, January 22, 3:30 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Saturday, January 28, 5:45 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City

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Columbus Dayveon Deidra & Laney Rob a Train

DAY ONE

U.S.A., 2017, 105 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 75 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 94 min., color

Casey lives with her mother in a little-known In the wake of his older brother’s death, Two teenage sisters start robbing trains to make Midwestern town haunted by the promise of 13-year-old Dayveon spends the sweltering ends meet after their single mother’s emotional modernism. Jin, a visitor from the other side of summer days roaming his rural Arkansas meltdown in an electronics store lands her in jail. the world, attends to his dying father. Burdened town. When he falls in with a local gang, by the future, they find respite in one another and he becomes drawn to the camaraderie and DIRECTOR: Freeland the architecture that surrounds them. violence of their world. SCREENWRITER: Shelby Farrell PRINCIPAL CAST: Ashleigh Murray, Rachel Crow, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Kogonada DIRECTOR: Amman Abbasi Tim Blake Nelson, , Danielle Nicolet, PRINCIPAL CAST: , Haley Lu Richardson, SCREENWRITERS: Amman Abbasi, Steven Reneau Sasheer Zamata , Rory Culkin, Michelle Forbes PRINCIPAL CAST: Devin Blackmon, Kordell “KD” Johnson, Dontrell Bright, Chasity Moore, Lachion Buckingham, Preceded by Deer Squad: The Movie Sunday, January 22, 8:30 p.m. Marquell Manning DIRECTORS: Pipus Larsen, Kenneth Gug, Scott J. Ross Egyptian Theatre, Park City U.S.A., 2016, 5 min., color Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. Kelvin Peña, a charismatic 17-year-old from rural Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 19, 5:30 p.m. Pennsylvania, shares his story of going viral after Thursday, January 26, 4:00 p.m. The MARC, Park City befriending a group of wild deer in his backyard. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Friday, January 20, noon Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 12:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City The MARC, Park City Friday, January 27, 2:30 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 1:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Friday, January 27, 11:59 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 28, 2:30 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

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A Ghost Story Gook L.A. Times Lemon

U.S.A., 2016, 87 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 94 min., b/w U.S.A., 2016, 97 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 90 min., color English and Korean with English subtitles This is the story of a ghost and the house In this classically styled comedy of manners set A man watches his life unravel after he is left by he haunts. Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers in , sophisticated thirtysomethings his blind girlfriend. who own a struggling women’s shoe store, have try to determine whether happiness exists DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: David Lowery an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. in coupledom, or if the perfectly suited couple is DIRECTOR: PRINCIPAL CAST: , Rooney Mara, On the first day of the 1992 LA riots, the trio actually just an urban . SCREENWRITERS: Janicza Bravo, Will Oldham, Sonia Acevedo, Rob Zabrecky, Liz Franke must defend their store and contemplate the PRINCIPAL CAST: Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, meaning of family, their personal dreams, and DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Michelle Morgan , Nia Long, , PRINCIPAL CAST: Michelle Morgan, Dree Hemingway, Sunday, January 22, 12:15 p.m. the future. , Kentucker Audley, Margarita Levieva, Library Center Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Justin Chon Adam Shapiro Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City PRINCIPAL CAST: Justin Chon, Simone Baker, David So, The MARC, Park City Monday, January 23, 11:30 a.m. Curtiss Cook Jr., Sang Chon, Ben Munoz Thursday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. Preceded by 5 Films About Technology Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City DIRECTOR: Peter Huang Thursday, January 26, 11:59 p.m. Friday, January 27, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. Canada, 2016, 5 min., color Library Center Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Take a satirical look at the dumber side of technology. Friday, January 27, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, January 28, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, noon Egyptian Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Saturday, January 28, noon Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 9:45 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Library Center Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. Friday, January 27, 6:15 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City Friday, January 27, 3:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

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Menashe Person to Person Thoroughbred Colossal

U.S.A., 2017, 81 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 84 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 110 min., color

Yiddish with English subtitles A record collector hustles for a big score while his Two teenage girls in suburban An unapologetic party girl dreams of a fresh heartbroken roommate tries to erase a terrible rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of start only to discover a mysterious and fantastical Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish mistake, a teenager bears witness to her best growing apart. In the process, they learn that connection between herself and a city-wrecking community, a widower battles for custody of friend’s new relationship, and a rookie reporter, neither is what she seems to be—and that a monster on the other side of the globe. his son. A tender drama performed entirely in alongside her demanding supervisor, chases the murder might solve both of their problems. Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature clues of a murder case involving a life-weary DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Nacho Vigalondo of faith and the price of parenthood. clock shop owner. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Cory Finley PRINCIPAL CAST: , , DIRECTOR: Joshua Z Weinstein DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Dustin Guy Defa PRINCIPAL CAST: , Anya Taylor-Joy, , Austin Stowell, Tim Blake Nelson SCREENWRITERS: Joshua Z Weinstein, Alex Lipschultz, PRINCIPAL CAST: , Michael Cera, Anton Yelchin, , Francie Swift, Kaili Vernoff Musa Syeed Tavi Gevinson, Philip Baker Hall, Bene Coopersmith, Friday, January 20, 6:15 p.m. PRINCIPAL CAST: Menashe Lustig George Sample III Saturday, January 21, noon The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. Preceded by It’s a Date Sunday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. The MARC, Park City DIRECTOR: Zachary Zezima Egyptian Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 11:30 p.m. U.S.A., 2016, 7 min., color Tuesday, January 24, noon Tuesday, January 24, 11:45 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City This film explores miscommunication, perceptions, Library Center Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City and vulnerability in the modern world. Everyone is Wednesday, January 25, 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 p.m. an alien at first. Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 12:15 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. Friday, January 20, noon Temple Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 2:30 p.m. Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 2:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City Friday, January 27, 10:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

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Look and See: Frantz Lady A Portrait of Wendell Berry Raw

France/Germany, 2016, 114 min., color & b/w United Kingdom, 2016, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 82 min., color France, 2016, 98 min., color French and German with English subtitles French with English subtitles Rural , 1865: Katherine is stifled by This cinematic portrait of the changing In a small German town after World War I, Anna her loveless marriage to a bitter man and his landscapes and shifting values of rural America When a young vegetarian undergoes a mourns daily at the grave of her fiancé, Frantz, unforgiving family. When she embarks on a in the era of industrial agriculture is seen carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, she killed in battle in France. One day a young passionate affair with a stableman from the estate, through the mind’s eye of farmer and writer develops an unbidden taste for meat, with Frenchman, Adrien, also lays flowers at the grave. the force unleashed inside her is so powerful that Wendell Berry. unexpected consequences. His presence, so soon after the German defeat, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants. ignites passions. DIRECTORS: Laura Dunn, Jef Sewell DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Julia Ducournau DIRECTOR: William Oldroyd PRINCIPAL CAST: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, DIRECTOR: François Ozon SCREENWRITER: Alice Birch Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss SCREENWRITERS: François Ozon, Philippe Piazzo PRINCIPAL CAST: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Preceded by My Father’s Tools PRINCIPAL CAST: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, Christopher Fairbank DIRECTOR: Heather Condo Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Johann von Bülow, Canada, 2016, 7 min., color Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Anton von Lucke Stephen continues producing traditional baskets to Friday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. honor his father and thus finds peace in his studio as he Sunday, January 22, 8:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City connects with the man who taught him the craft. The MARC, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. Friday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 p.m. The MARC, Park City The MARC, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. Friday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, noon Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Tuesday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City

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Sami Blood Their Finest Docuseries Showcase

Abstract: The Art Of Design

Sweden, 2016, 110 min., color United Kingdom, 2016, 117 min.,color & b/w Abstract: The Art of Design The Festival will debut one episode of both Abstract:The Swedish/South Sámi with English subtitles English and Hungarian with English subtitles U.S.A., 2016, 45 min., color Art of Design and : Turned On, followed

by an extended Q&A with directors and executive Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. During the 1940 Blitz, untried A look beyond blueprints and computers into producers Morgan Neville and . Exposed to race biology examinations at her screenwriter Catrin struggles to find her voice the art and science of design, showcasing great designers from every discipline whose work boarding school and the racism of the 1930s, amid war, as she and a makeshift cast work under Saturday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. shapes our world. she starts dreaming of another life—one that fire to create a film to lift the nation’s spirits—and Egyptian Theatre, Park City demands she become someone else and break all inspire America to join the war. Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. DIRECTOR: Morgan Neville ties with her family and culture. Salt Lake City Library Theatre EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Morgan Neville, Scott Dadich, DIRECTOR: Lone Scherfig DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Amanda Kernell SCREENWRITER: Gaby Chiappe Dave O’Connor, Justin Wilkes, Jon Kamen PRINCIPAL CAST: Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Sparrok, PRINCIPAL CAST: , Sam Claflin, PRINCIPAL CAST: Christoph Niemann Maj Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, Hanna Alström, Malin Crépin Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Jake Lacy,

Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 3:15 p.m. U.S.A., 2017, 50 min., color Salt Lake City Library Theatre The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 11:15 a.m. This documentary series tells personal stories Prospector Square Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City about people affected by the explosion of Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 10:00 p.m. the internet, where pornography, dating Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Redstone Cinema 2, Park City apps, and virtual relationships are just a click away. Exploring the intersection of sex and technology, it tells stories of intimacy, connection, disconnection, self-promotion, race, and gender politics. DIRECTOR: Rashida Jones CREATORS: Ronna Gradus, Jill Bauer, Rashida Jones

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Downward Dog The History of Comedy I Love Dick

U.S.A., 2017, 88 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 42 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 90 min., color

The story of a struggling millennial, Nan, as Utilizing archival footage punctuated by Chris and Sylvere, a married couple in the observed from the point of view of her lonely contemporary interviews with comedy legends intellectual community of Marfa, , become and philosophical dog, Martin. and scholars, this is the history of not only what obsessed with a charismatic artist named Dick. makes us laugh, but how comedy has affected the What follows is the unraveling of a marriage, DIRECTORS: Kat Likkel, John Hoberg social and political landscape throughout history. the deification of a reluctant messiah, and the CREATORS: Michael Killen, Samm Hodges awakening of the . PRINCIPAL CAST: , Samm Hodges, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: , Lucas Neff, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Barry Rothbart Todd Milliner, Mark Herzog, Christopher G. Cowen DIRECTORS: Jill Soloway, Andrea Arnold, CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Stephen J. Morrison Kimberly Peirce, James Frohna EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jill Soloway, Sarah Gubbins, Andrea Sperling, Victor Hsu The Festival will premiere the first four episodes of this PRINCIPAL CAST: , , comedy series, followed by an extended Q&A with the The Festival will premiere two episodes of this , Roberta Colindrez, India Menuez, cast, creators, and showrunners. docuseries, “Spark of Madness” and “Going Blue,” followed by an extended Q&A. Phoebe Robinson Sunday, January 22, 11:15 a.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City The Festival will present the first three episodes of this Salt Lake City Library Theatre Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. Original Series, followed by an extended Q&A. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Monday, January 23, 2:45 p.m. The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre

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Independent Showcase Made in Cuba

Shit Kids Great Muy Bien

Playdates When the Street Lights Go On Great Muy Bien Connection (Conectifai) U.S.A., 2016, 24 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 46 min., color Cuba, 2016, 16 min., color Cuba, 2016, 18 min., color Uprooted from their Midwestern life, Bennett, a The residents of a small town grapple with the English and Spanish with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles ruthless killing of a young girl and a teacher. new stay-at-home dad, and Julie, a working mom, The United States restored diplomatic relations ETECSA—Cuba’s only telephone company— are forced to take their kids on playdates inside DIRECTOR: with Cuba in 2015, making it no longer installed Wi-Fi routers in 18 public parks in 2016. the elitist parenting culture of Silicon Beach. SCREENWRITERS: Eddie O’Keefe, Chris Hutton unrealistic for Cubans to dream of one day For many Cubans, this meant being able to go WRITERS: Giles Andrew, Dan Marshall PRINCIPAL CAST: Max Burkholder, Odessa Young, living and working abroad. Cubans of all ages online for the first time. This film shows us how CREATORS: Giles Andrew, Dan Marshall, Adam Long, Ben Winchell, Kelli Mayo, Graham Beckel and diverse aspirations enroll at the makeshift Cubans of all ages initially explore social media, Alex Bourne Big Ben English school in Havana. online dating, and more. PRINCIPAL CAST: , Carla Gallo, Miles Fisher, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Sheyla Pool Pástor DIRECTOR: Horizoe Garcia Miranda Craig Frank, Gemma Brooke Allen, Landon Gordon The Festival is proud to present the world premieres of three pilot presentations from the independent community, followed by a Q&A with the directors and House for Sale (Casa en Venta) Shit Kids The Festival is proud to present this showcase of creators of each. Cuba/Colombia, 2016, 13 min., color documentary short films from Cuba, reflecting Sundance U.S.A., 2016, 17 min., color Spanish with English subtitles Friday, January 20, 2:30 p.m. Institute’s long-standing commitment to international The daughter of an earth-shatteringly boring Egyptian Theatre, Park City After more than 50 years, the ban on individuals artists. These films were guided by ’s couple, along with the son of an equally Saturday, January 21, 3:30 p.m. in Cuba selling their houses was lifted in 2011. Program in collaboration with La humdrum set of parents, have decided to Rose Wagner Center, Sale Lake City Three Cubans invite us into their homes—full of Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (EICTV) and their parents’ murders. memories, souvenirs, and family members—to Guardian documentaries.

DIRECTOR/CREATOR: Kyle Dunnigan hear their “sales pitch.” Monday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. PRINCIPAL CAST: Kyle Dunnigan, Kevin Berntson, DIRECTOR: Emanuel Giraldo Betancur Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Candace Brown, Margee Magee, Grace Van Dien, Tuesday, January 24, noon Doug Noble Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City

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Midnight Episodic Showcase RISE

Snatchers

Pineapple Canada, 2016, 150 min., color The Festival will premiere three short-form episodes of U.S.A., 2016, 33 min., color Pineapple, a uniquely cinematic drama series, followed by This vibrant and immersive documentary series eight short-form episodes of Snatchers, an otherworldly When a miner’s daughter is assaulted in the local explores the front lines of indigenous resistance. horror-comedy series. coal mine, she utters only one word, leaving the Episodes "Apache Stronghold", "Sacred town’s sheriff baffled. The event quickly spirals Saturday, January 21, 11:30 p.m. Water", and "Red Power" examine factors that out of control, impacting the entire town. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City threaten indigenous liberation in the twenty-first DIRECTOR/WRITER: Arkasha Stevenson Monday, January 23, 9:45 p.m. century. A series of contrasts, this series is both a PRINCIPAL CAST: Tyler Vickers, Kel Owens, Ron Gilbert, Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City condemnation of colonialism and a celebration of Gloria Vonn, Lucille Sharp, Brooklyn Robinson indigenous peoples.

DIRECTOR/SHOWRUNNER: Michelle Latimer Snatchers HOST: Sarain Carson-Fox U.S.A., 2016, 65 min., color After status-obsessed teen Sara has sex for the first time, she wakes up the next day nine months Continuing Sundance Institute’s ongoing commitment pregnant—with an alien. Turning to her nerdy to presenting bold stories from within the Native ex-bestie, Hayley (the only person she can trust American and indigenous communities, we are proud to without ruining her reputation), they strive to put debut three episodes of the docuseries RISE: “Apache Stronghold,” “Sacred Water,” and “Red Power,” followed an end to all the carnage. by an extended Q&A. DIRECTORS: Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleiman SCREENWRITERS: Scott Yacyshyn, Benji Kleiman, Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. Stephen Cedars Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City PRINCIPAL CAST: Mary Nepi, Gabrielle Elyse, Monday, January 23, 6:15 p.m. Austin Fryberger, J.J. Nolan, , Rich Fulcher Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City

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Short Form Episodic Showcase Shots Fired Time: The Kalief Browder Story

Gente-fied

U.S.A., 2016, 95 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 87 min., color The Chances Strangers U.S.A., 2016, 34 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 90 min., color English and American Sign Language After racially-charged shootings in a North After his arrest at age 16, Kalief Browder fought Newly single and bisexual Isobel rents out her with English subtitles Carolina town, an investigator digs into the cases the system and prevailed, despite unthinkable spare room in a last ditch effort to keep the alongside a special prosecutor. Together they circumstances. He became an American hero. Best friends Kate and Michael, who are deaf, home she loves. Along with her best seek justice while navigating the ensuing media try their best to see their friendship through new friend, she navigates the most complicated attention and public unrest threatening the DIRECTOR: Jenner Furst changes in their lives, as Kate adjusts to being time in her life—emotionally, sexually, and divided town. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jenner Furst, newly married and Michael attempts to get over professionally—while sharing her home with Harvey Weinstein, Shawn "Jay Z" Carter, his ex-boyfriend. a new stranger each episode. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Gina -Bythewood, David C. Glasser, , DIRECTOR: Anna Kerrigan , Brian Grazer Julia Willoughby Nason, Michael Gasparro CREATORS: Josh Feldman, Shoshannah Stern DIRECTORS: Mia Lidofsky, Celia Rowlson-Hall CREATORS: Gina Prince-Bythewood, PRINCIPAL CAST: Josh Feldman, Shoshannah Stern, EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Michael B. Clark, Alex Reggie Rock Bythewood Aaron Costa Ganis, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Turtletaub, , Mia Lidofsky PRINCIPAL CAST: Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James, Darryl Stephens, Wilson Cruz PRINCIPAL CAST: Zoë Chao, Meredith Hagner, The Festival will debut the first two episodes of this , Breeda Wool, Matt Oberg, , , Stephen Moyer, in-depth, humanizing look at a broken justice system, Shiri Appleby Mack Wilds Gente-fied followed by an extended Q&A.

U.S.A., 2016, 35 min., color Wednesday, January 25, 5:30 p.m. Seven characters deal with the effects of change The MARC, Park City The Festival will premiere two episodes of this 10-hour in LA’s Boyle Heights. Bicultural millennials and The Festival will debut five episodes of The Chances, drama series, followed by an extended Q&A with the old-school business owners hustle to create spaces three episodes of Gente-fied, and the first three episodes of Strangers, followed by a Q&A with the directors and directors and creators. that celebrate their Latino identities—even while faced with rent hikes, a housing crisis, and a creators of each. Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 p.m. steady stream of outsiders threatening to gentrify Monday, January 23, 11:00 a.m. The MARC, Park City their barrio. Egyptian Theatre, Park City DIRECTOR: Marvin Lemus Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Charles D. King, Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Aaliyah Williams, PRINCIPAL CAST: Edsson Morales, Victoria Ortiz, Rafael Sigler, Alicia Sixtos, Salvador Velez Jr., America Ferrera

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The Generation My Life as a Zucchini RED DOG: True Blue

SLC GALA

U.S.A., 2016, 87 min., color Switzerland/France, 2016, 68 min., color Australia, 2016, 89 min., color Recommended for ages 10 and over Recommended for ages 12 and over Recommended for ages 8 and over

Aspiring teenage astronauts reveal that a journey After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended When 11-year-old Mick is shipped off to his to Mars is closer than you think. by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies grandfather’s cattle station in Australia’s remote him to a foster home filled with other orphans his Pilbara region, he prepares himself for a life of DIRECTOR: Michael Barnett age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, dull hardship but instead finds myth, adventure, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he and a friendship with a scrappy, one-of-a-kind Friday, January 20, 7:00 p.m. searches for a new family of his own. pup that will change his life forever. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Saturday, January 21, noon DIRECTOR: Claude Barras DIRECTOR: Kriv Stenders Salt Lake City Library Theatre SCREENWRITER: Céline Sciamma SCREENWRITER: Daniel Taplitz Sunday, January 22, 3:30 p.m. PRINCIPAL CAST: Erick Abbate, Romy Beckman, PRINCIPAL CAST: Levi Miller, Bryan Brown, Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Ness Krell, Olivia Bucknor, Clara Young Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Thomas Cocquerel, Saturday, January 28, 1:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Sunday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. Preceded by Jonas and the Sea Prospector Square Theatre, Park City DIRECTOR: Marlies Van der Wel Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. Netherlands, 2015, 12 min., color Salt Lake City Library Theatre Jonas has dreamed of living in the sea all his life, but it’s Saturday, January 28, 3:30 p.m. impossible. Or is it? Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. Salt Lake City Library Theatre Sunday, January 22, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Saturday, January 28, 12:30 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City

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78/52 Bad Day for the Cut Bitch Bushwick

U.S.A., 2017, 91 min., color & b/w Ireland, 2016, 99 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 93 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 93 min., color

An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at A woman snaps under crushing life Lucy emerges from a Brooklyn subway to find in ’s , the “man behind the home with his mother, sets off on a mission of and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog. Her that her neighborhood is under attack by black- curtain,” and the screen murder that profoundly revenge when the old lady is murdered. philandering, absentee husband is forced to clad military soldiers. An ex-Marine corpsman, changed the course of world cinema. become reacquainted with his four children and Stupe, reluctantly helps her fight for survival DIRECTOR: Chris Baugh sister-in-law as they attempt to keep the family through a civil war, as Texas attempts to secede DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Alexandre O. Philippe SCREENWRITERS: Chris Baugh, Brendan Mullin together during this bizarre crisis. from the United States of America. PRINCIPAL CAST: Nigel O’Neill, Susan Lynch, Józef Pawłowski, Stuart Graham, Anna Próchniak, DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTORS: Cary Murnion, Jonathan Milott Monday, January 23, 11:45 p.m. Ian McElhinney PRINCIPAL CAST: , , SCREENWRITERS: Nick Damici, Graham Reznick Egyptian Theatre, Park City Marianna Palka, Brighton Sharbino, Rio Mangini, PRINCIPAL CAST: Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Tuesday, January 24, 5:45 p.m. Kingston Foster Angelic Zambrana, Jeremie Harris, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 11:45 p.m. Arturo Castro Thursday, January 26, 3:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:30 p.m. Friday, January 20, 11:59 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 11:59 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Wednesday, January 25, 11:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 9:45 p.m. Temple Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. Friday, January 27, 11:59 p.m. Rose Wagner Center, Salt Lake City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 11:45 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City

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Killing Ground Kuso XX

DAY ONE

Australia, 2016, 89 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 86 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 80 min., color

Ian and Samantha arrive at an isolated campsite Broadcasting through a makeshift network of A young servant fleeing from his master This all-female horror anthology features four to find an SUV and a tent—with no sign of the discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in takes refuge at a dysfunctional convent in dark tales from four fiercely talented women. occupants. The discovery of a distressed child the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake medieval Tuscany. wandering in the woods unleashes a terrifying nightmare. Travel between screens and DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: Annie Clark, chain of events that will test the young couple’s aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survivors. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: , Roxanne Benjamin, Jovanka Vuckovic breaking point. PRINCIPAL CAST: , Dave Franco, PRINCIPAL CAST: Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, DIRECTOR: Steven Ellison , Aubrey Plaza, John C. Reilly, Breeda Wool, Christina Kirk DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Damien Power SCREENWRITERS: Steven Ellison, David Firth, Zach Fox Molly Shannon PRINCIPAL CAST: Aaron Pedersen, Ian Meadows, PRINCIPAL CAST: Iesha Coston, Zack Fox, Sunday, January 22, 11:59 p.m. Harriet Dyer, Aaron Glenane Hannibal Buress, The Buttress, Tim Heidecker, Thursday, January 19, 8:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Mali Matsuda The MARC, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. Friday, January 20, 11:45 p.m. Friday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 11:45 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 11:45 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 1:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 2, Park City Sunday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. The Grand Theatre, Salt Lake City Thursday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, January 21, 11:59 p.m. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 11:59 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 p.m. Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 11:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 11:45 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City

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Shorts Program 1 Shorts Program 2 93 min. 99 min.

Black Holes Rubber Heart DIRECTORS: David Nicolas, Laurent Nicolas DIRECTOR: Lizzy Sanford U.S.A./France, 2016, 9 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 8 min., color Dave is about to lead the first mission to Mars After a painful dry spell, a woman attempts to when he's teamed up with a sentient melon, have a one-night stand. who claims to be the reincarnation of a fashion designer, upstaging his big moment and driving him to the brink of madness. Pedro DAY ONE DIRECTOR: André Santos, Marco Leão I Know You From Somewhere Kao Shi (A Test) Portugal, 2016, 21 min., color Hairat Portuguese with English subtitles DIRECTOR: Jessica Beshir Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy I Know You From Somewhere , 2016, 6 min., b/w Kao Shi (A Test) falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the DIRECTOR: Andrew Fitzgerald Harari and Oromiffa with English subtitles DIRECTOR: Zuxiang Zhao beach. U.S.A., 2016, 15 min., color One man’s nightly ritual brings solace to the China, 2016, 20 min., color A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet lovelorn of Harar. Mandarin with English subtitles Bunraku after she inadvertently becomes a viral sensation. In a small-town high school, days before the DIRECTOR: Lucas Leyva, Jillian Mayer college entrance exam, teacher Chen Jun finds What Tears Us Apart U.S.A., 2016, 14 min., color out that the father of his most promising student Toru DIRECTOR: Hu Wei Japanese with English subtitles has died in a mining accident. Telling him—or DIRECTORS: Jonathan Minard, Scott Rashap France, 2016, 19 min., color not—bears heavy consequences. Here’s a day in the life of a husband and wife U.S.A., 2016, 14 min., color French with English subtitles living in a world of giant monsters. Japanese with English subtitles A Chinese couple visits the daughter they gave up for adoption 30 years ago. While meeting GOOD CRAZY An infant’s life is transformed by a Slapper the French adoptive parents, language barriers DIRECTOR: Rosa Salazar new technology. DIRECTOR: Luci Schroder become apparent and the birth mother’s hidden U.S.A., 2016, 14 min., color Australia, 2016, 15 min., color emotions rise to the surface. A complex chick deals with a vanilla beau, a A broke and rebellious teen navigates a suburban Alone shitty brunch, and a dead coyote all in a Los wasteland, hustling money for the morning-after DIRECTOR: Garrett Bradley Angeles day. There’s batshit crazy, and then Thursday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. - pill—before it’s too late. U.S.A., 2016, 13 min., b/w Prospector Square Theatre, Park City there’s good crazy—she fits somewhere in This investigation into the layers of mass Friday, January 20, noon between. incarceration and its shaping of the modern black Sundance Mountain Resort Screening Room, Friday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. American family is seen through the eyes of a Saturday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City single mother in New Orleans, Louisiana. Redstone Cinema 1, Park City Dear Mr. Shakespeare Saturday, January 21, noon Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. DIRECTOR: Shola Amoo Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City United Kingdom, 2016, 6 min., color Saturday, January 21, 10:00 p.m. Come Swim Saturday, January 28, 7:00 p.m. This exploration of Shakespeare’s intentions Redstone Cinema 2, Park City DIRECTOR: Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City when writing explores the ’s racial Thursday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. U.S.A., 2016, 17 min., color themes in historical and contemporary settings, Egyptian Theatre, Park City This is a diptych of one man’s day, half and draws wider parallels between immigration impressionist and half realist portraits. and blackness in the UK today.

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Shorts Program 3 Shorts Program 4 93 min. 99 min.

Hot Seat Laps DIRECTOR: Anna Kerrigan DIRECTOR: Charlotte Wells U.S.A., 2016, 12 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 6 min., color Teenage Andrea uses a male stripper to gain the On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded respect and admiration of cool girl Daphne in subway is sexually assaulted in this exploration of coming-of-age sexuality and plain sight. teen girls’ complex relationships, based on a true story. American Paradise DIRECTOR: Joe Talbot LostFound And so we put goldfish in the pool. Shinaab U.S.A., 2016, 16 min., color DIRECTOR: Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. A desperate man in Trump’s America tries to Dawn of the Deaf U.S.A., 2016, 8 min., color Cecile on the Phone shift his luck with the perfect crime in this story DIRECTOR: Rob Savage A young Anishinaabe man struggles with his DIRECTOR: Annabelle Dexter-Jones inspired by true events. United Kingdom, 2016, 12 min., color place in the inner city of Minneapolis. U.S.A., 2016, 11 min., color British Sign Language with English subtitles Overwhelmed by doubt and confusion after Visions of an Island When a strange sound wipes out the hearing her ex-boyfriend’s return to New York, Cecile DIRECTOR: Sky Hopinka Night Shift population, a small group of deaf people must embarks on a series of telephone conversations U.S.A., 2016, 15 min., color DIRECTOR: Marshall Tyler band together to survive. that serve only to distract her from the one Aleut with English subtitles U.S.A., 2016, 15 min., color conversation she really needs to have. Indigenous and foreign presences coexist on an Get a glimpse into a day in the life of a bathroom Alaskan island in the center of the Bering Sea. LostFound attendant in a Los Angeles nightclub. DIRECTOR: Shakti Bhagchandani U.S.A., 2016, 12 min., b/w DIRECTOR: Esteban Arrangoiz And so we put goldfish in the pool. And The Whole Sky Fit In The Dead Cow’s Eye Mexico, 2016, 16 min., color DIRECTOR: Makoto Nagahisa This story portrays a day in the life of a woman DIRECTOR: Francisca Alegría in the Nation of Islam. Spanish with English subtitles Japan, 2016, 28 min., color Chile/U.S.A., 2016, 19 min., color Julio César Cu Cámara is the chief diver in Japanese with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles the Mexico City sewer system. His job is to One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the Hardware Emeteria is visited by the ghost of her patrón, repair pumps and dislodge garbage that flows swimming pool of a secondary school. This is DIRECTOR: Stephen Jacobson Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to into the gutters to maintain the circulation of a story about the four 15-year-old girls who put U.S.A., 2016, 15 min., color the afterlife—but he has more devastating news. sewage waters. them there. An amateur electronic drum enthusiast travels to a housewares trade show looking to strike up the Friday, January 20, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. perfect business partnership. When things don’t Hold On Redstone Cinema 1, Park City DIRECTOR: Christine Turner Redstone Cinema 1, Park City go as planned, he finds himself at the mercy of Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. U.S.A., 2017, 9 min., color the electronic drumbeat playing in his head. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City Tuesday, January 24, noon Family bonds are tested when a young man is left Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. Temple Theatre, Salt Lake City to care for his grandmother one morning. Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 6:15 p.m. Thursday, January 26, 4:00 p.m. Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

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Shorts Program 5 Spotlight 101 min. 82 min.

Lucia, Before and After The Laughing Spider DIRECTOR: Anu Valia DIRECTOR: Keiichi Tanaami Japan, 2016, 7 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 14 min., color The early childhood memory of aerial attacks leaves a After traveling 200 miles, a young woman waits lasting impression, with strong stimulus and disquiet. out Texas’s state-mandated 24-hour waiting period before her abortion can proceed. Nighthawk DIRECTOR: Špela Čadež Slovenia/Croatia, 2016, 9 min., color New Neighbors Slovene with English subtitles DIRECTOR: E.G. Bailey Attempting to remove an unresponsive badger from a Mare Nostrum U.S.A., 2016, 8 min., color Summer Camp Island dark road, a police patrol soon realizes that the animal How far will a mother go to protect her children? is not dead but rather dead drunk. Things take an even stranger turn when the creature wakes up. Mare Nostrum Summer Camp Island DIRECTORS: Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf DIRECTOR: Julia Pott Fish Story U.S.A./Korea, 2016, 9 min., color Nutag-Homeland France/Syrian Arab Republic, 2016, 14 min., color DIRECTOR: Charlie Lyne Oscar and his best friend, Hedgehog, just got dropped DIRECTOR: Alisi Telengut On a Mediterranean shore, a Syrian father makes United Kingdom, 2017, 14 min., color off at summer camp. Once the parents leave the island, Canada, 2016, 6 min., color a decision that puts his daughter's life at risk. Behind a fishy tale lies this search for the truth. the strangeness lurking beneath the surface is revealed— This hand-painted visual poem explores the ideas of aliens exist, horses become unicorns and there are diaspora, homeland, and the mass deportations of the monsters under the bed. Kalmyk people during World War II. The Geneva Convention Dadyaa–The Woodpeckers of Rotha Drawn & Recorded: Teen Spirit DIRECTOR: Benoît Martin DIRECTOR: Pooja Gurung, Bibhusan Basnet DIRECTOR: Drew Christie Victor & Isolina Nepal/France, 2016, 16 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 3 min., color DIRECTOR: William Caballero France, 2016, 15 min., color This is the story behind one of the most iconic songs U.S.A., 2016, 6 min., color French with English subtitles Nepalese with English subtitles ever written, animated in the style of a pop-up book. English and Spanish As Hakim is waiting for the bus after class, he is Atimaley and Devi’s village is haunted by Trumpet Man Creatively visualized through 3D printing, two elderly Latinos embark on a resonating he said/she said account caught in a vendetta between teenagers. He’s not memories. When a dear friend leaves the village DIRECTOR: Emily Wong without saying goodbye, the old couple faces a Hong Kong, 2016, 14 min., color of the events that led them to live separately after more exactly keen to be involved, but can he avoid it? than 50 quirky and stressful years together. dilemma: keep living with the memories or leave A turntable springs out a woman named Avocado; her the village for good? instinct creates a man called Soul. Passion swings both, and an uncertain madness strikes Soul heavily. Seeds LOVE

HEAT of passion breed among five men, eventually DIRECTOR: Réka Bucsi DIRECTOR: Agata Trzebuchowska, Mateusz Pacewicz leading Soul to a deeper understanding of life. France/Hungary, 2016, 15 min., color Friday, January 20, 7:00 p.m. Poland, 2016, 8 min., color Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the changing Redstone Cinema 2, Park City The Bald Future Polish with English subtitles DIRECTOR: Paul Cabon atmosphere on one planet caused by a meteoric impact Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. France, 2016, 6 min., color in a distant solar system. Inhabitants on this pulsing A young boy does an unusual favor for a Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City French with English subtitles planet become one with each other, in various ways, in friend, assuming his identity to visit his senile Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. Being a bald man sucks. Knowing you’ll become this three-chapter exploration of affection. grandmother. The woman takes him for a walk, Prospector Square Theatre, Park City one is worse. and tells him about the biggest mystery of her life. Friday, January 27, noon Broken–The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck Saturday, January 21, noon Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City DIRECTOR: Volker Schlecht, Alexander Lahl Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Germany, 2016, 7 min., color Sunday, January 22, 10:00 p.m. German with English subtitles Redstone Cinema 2, Park City This about Hoheneck, the main Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. women’s prison in former East Germany, is based on original interviews with former inmates. It’s a film about Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City political imprisonment, forced labor, and enormous Saturday, January 28, 8:30 p.m. profits on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City

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Documentary Shorts Program Midnight Shorts Program 97 min. 106 min.

The Rabbit Hunt The Robbery DIRECTOR: Patrick Bresnan DIRECTOR: Jim Cummings U.S.A., 2016, 12 min., color U.S.A., 2016, 10 min., color On the weekends during the harvest season, 17-year-old Chris and his family hunt rabbits in the Crystal robs a liquor store—it goes pretty OK. sugarcane fields of the Florida Everglades. Fucking Bunnies DIRECTOR: Teemu Niukkanen White Riot: London DIRECTOR: Rubika Shah Finland, 2016, 17 min., color United Kingdom, 2016, 9 min., color & b/w Finnish with English subtitles White Riot: London In 1977, immigration divides Britain. What happens Fucking Bunnies Raimo’s comfortable, middle-class bubble is burst when a punk fanzine challenges the status quo? when a Satan-worshipping sex cult moves in next door. Waiting for Hassana Project X Do No Harm DIRECTOR: Ifunanya Maduka DIRECTOR: , Henrik Moltke DIRECTOR: Roseanne Liang U.S.A., 2016, 11 min., color Summer’s Puke Is Winter’s Delight , 2016, 10 min., color New Zealand, 2017, 12 min., color Hausa with English subtitles A top secret handbook takes viewers on an DIRECTOR: Sawako Kabuki In 2014, 276 teenage girls came together for exams undercover journey to the site of a hidden 3:00 a.m., 1980s Hongjing: In an aging private Japan, 2016, 3 min., color in Chibok, Nigeria—by dawn, nearly all had partnership. Based on NSA documents, this hospital, a single-minded surgeon is forced to Japanese with English subtitles disappeared, and their school was burned to the film reveals the inner workings of a windowless break her physician’s oath when violent gangsters Painful events become memories over time. Still, ground. Jessica, an escapee, shares her haunting skyscraper in Manhattan. storm in to stop a crucial operation. account of a friendship violently interrupted by Boko we vomit and eat again. Life is eco. Haram. Close Ties DIRECTOR: Zofia Kowalewska Hot Winter: A film by Dick Pierre A Nearly Perfect Blue Sky (Un ciel bleu presque

Bayard & Me Poland, 2016, 19 min., color DIRECTOR: Matt Wolf DIRECTOR: Jack Henry Robbins parfait) Polish with English subtitles U.S.A., 2016, 16 min., color & b/w U.S.A., 2016, 17 min., color DIRECTOR: Quarxx Barbara and Zdzislaw will soon celebrate their 45th Naegle's boyfriend, Bayard Rustin, was a France, 2016, 37 min., color anniversary—despite their constant bickering, and One of the first films in American cinema to famous civil rights activist 30 years Walter's senior. In the fact that Zdzislaw spent eight of those years address climate change, Hot Winter: A film by Dick French with English subtitles the 1980s, Bayard decided to adopt Walter for legal living with another woman. This is a portrait of a Pierre, was also a hardcore porno. All sex scenes You might think that Simon lives a monotonous protection. This love story is about a time when gay relationship that, somewhat inexplicably, perseveres. marriage was inconceivable. have been removed as to not distract from the life, but you would be wrong—contrary to conscious message. appearances, he doesn’t live alone among the Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy Friday, January 20, 6:30 p.m. ruins of an old farm. Between kidnapper and Redstone Cinema 1, Park City DIRECTOR: Lewie Kloster guardian angel, he never takes his eyes off his U.S.A., 2016, 4 min., color Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. Pussy roommate. Academy Award–nominated documentary Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City DIRECTOR: Renata Gasiorowska filmmaker Christine Choy undergoes an adventure Monday, January 23, 5:30 p.m. Poland, 2016, 9 min., color of wild proportions when she accidentally Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 11:30 p.m. smuggles cigarettes. Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. Alone at home one evening, a young girl Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City decides to have a solo pleasure session—but not Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. Ten Meter Tower everything goes according to plan. Broadway Centre Cinema 6, Salt Lake City DIRECTOR: Maximilien Van Aertryck, Axel Danielson Monday, January 23, 11:30 p.m. Sweden, 2016, 16 min., color Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Swedish with English subtitles Thursday, January 26, 7:00 p.m. People who have never been up a 10-meter diving tower must choose whether to jump or climb down Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City in this entertaining study of people in a vulnerable position.

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Heartcorps: NEW FRONTIER EXHIBITION Full Turn Riders of the Storyboard Heroes

CLAIMJUMPER 573 Main St.

Open to Credential Holders: 1:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Friday, January 20– Friday, January 27 1:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.

Saturday, January 28 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

LEAD ARTIST: Benjamin Muzzin LEAD ARTIST: dandypunk LEAD ARTIST: Melissa Painter Cash bar on second floor KEY COLLABORATORS: Darin Basile, Jo Cattell KEY COLLABORATORS: Tim Dillon, Thomas Wester, This installation explores the notion of the third Jason Schugardt, Laura Gorenstein Miller dimension with the desire to of the usual Follow the story of Particle, a two-dimensional frame of a flat screen. The rotation of two tablets light being, as you walk through the pages of The : An extravagant movie palace where creates a three-dimensional, animated hologram a giant, immersive comic book. Hand-drawn silent films were shown. One dance—fiercely that can be seen at 360 degrees, unlike any other illustrations come to life around you using athletic and romantic—invites you inside through type of display. projection-mapping technology, while high- both virtual reality and augmented reality level Cirque du Soleil performers interact with headsets. The story comes off the screen, putting animated characters in this “digital light poem.” you into your body and challenging you to move, navigate heroic shifts in perspective and scale, and reach out to touch the experience.

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The Journey to the Center of the Natural Machine Life of Us NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism A Working Day

LEAD ARTISTS: Daniella Segal, Daniel Lazo, LEAD ARTISTS: , Aaron Koblin, LEAD ARTISTS: Ashley Baccus-Clark, LEAD ARTIST: A Normal Working Day Eran May-Raz, Charles Niu Pharrell Williams Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Ece Tankal, Nitzan Bartov KEY COLLABORATORS: Megan Ellison, These hypnotic single-channel projections are From stone ax to supercomputer, our brain’s McKenzie Stubbert, Jona Dinges A three-part exploration of black women formed from the bodies of the performers of the evolution has been guided by our tools, and the roles they play in technology, society, artist collective A Normal Working Day, which evolving it into the most complicated object This shared VR journey tells the complete story and culture—including speculative products, consists of the installation artist Zimoun and in the known universe. Explore a holographic of the evolution of life on Earth. immersive experiences, and neurocognitive the choreographers and dancers Delgado Fuchs brain with a friend on augmented reality impact research. Using fashion, cosmetics, (Marco Delgado, Nadine Fuchs). headsets, and rebuild your relationship to the and the economy of beauty as entry points, Natural Machine. the project illuminates issues of privacy, transparency, identity, and perception.

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Scientists Have Found a Way to Synesthesia Suit: Pleasant Places Make Paraplegics Move Again Rez Infinite and Crystal Vibes Tree

LEAD ARTIST: Quayola LEAD ARTISTS: Michael Tabb, Ananya Bhattacharya, LEAD ARTISTS: Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Ayahiko Sato, LEAD ARTIST: Milica Zec, Winslow Porter Alberto Santos Dumont Association for Research Kouta Minamizawa KEY COLLABORATORS: Aleksandar Protic, A return to, and a modern elaboration upon, Support (AASDAP) KEY COLLABORATORS: Osamu Kodera, Yukari Konishi, Jakob Kudsk Steensen Vincent Van Gogh’s Provence landscapes, KEY COLLABORATORS: Lente Viva Filmes Benjamin Outram this series of digital paintings interrogates This virtual experience transforms you into a and reframes concepts of representation This video, created by Quartz, points to the deep This full-body 26-sensor suit combines rainforest tree. With your arms as the branches and perception through image manipulation impact that VR can have in triggering a recovery audiovisual and vibrotactile textures to push and body as the trunk, you experience the tree’s and augmented reality. Using bucolic and of our brains and bodies. Scientists from the technology-mediated sensory frontiers. growth from a seedling to its fullest form and contemplative images, juxtaposed with Walk Again Project, an international, non-profit Experience a multisensory with pounding witness its fate firsthand. raw data visualization, this project suggests research consortium, led by Professor Miguel beats and stringed instruments in acclaimed alternate modes of visual synthesis. Nicolelis from Duke University and the Alberto videogame Rez Infinite, or feel vibrations of candy- Santos Dumont Association for Research Support colored psychedelic sound rippling through the in São Paulo, Brazil, have found a way to make Crystal Vibes universe. paraplegics move again using a brain-machine interface that utilizes VR methods. All the patients who kept up with their training regained some feeling and motor skills.

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VR LINEUP ASTEROIDS! Chasing Coral: The VR Experience Chocolate

VR PALACE 475 Swede Alley

Ticket required One ticket = one hour in the VR Palace

VR BAR AT THE MUSIC CAFE 751 Main Street Open to Credential Holders

Friday, January 20– Saturday, January 21 LEAD ARTIST: Eric Darnell LEAD ARTIST: Jeff Orlowski LEAD ARTIST: Tyler Hurd 8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Running time: 15 min. KEY COLLABORATORS: The Ocean Agency, Running time: 4 min. View Into The Blue Sunday, January 22 Journey the cosmos aboard the spaceship of Running time: 6 min. This VR experience for the song "Chocolate" 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Mac and Cheez, an alien duo who encounter by Giraffage sets you in a cat-centric world of Monday, January 23 and some serious danger deep in outer space. Zackary Rago, a passionate scuba diver and sparkling, colorful chrome with a tribe of people Thursday, January 26 Game dynamics are integrated into the researcher, documented the unprecedented doing a ritualistic dance just for you, their robot 8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. narrative to create an interactive experience 2016 coral bleaching event at Lizard Island god, to provide them with their precious resource, of two mission-focused aliens who forget on the Great Barrier with this exclusive cute lil' chrome kitties. what’s important in life. It's now up to you to underwater VR experience. show them what really matters. This project is coupled with the U.S. Documentary Competition feature film Chasing Coral.

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Dear Angelica Hue IF NOT LOVE Life of Us

LEAD ARTIST: Saschka Unseld LEAD ARTISTS: Nicole McDonald, KC Austin, LEAD ARTIST: LEAD ARTISTS: Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin, KEY COLLABORATORS: Wesley Allsbrook, Angela Petrella Tay Strathairn KEY COLLABORATOR: Bruce Allan Pharrell Williams Running time: 13 min. KEY COLLABORATORS: Rob Auten, Will Watkins, Running time: 6 min. KEY COLLABORATORS: Megan Ellison, Gaby Darbyshire McKenzie Stubbert, Jona Dinges This project is a journey through the magical and Running time: 10 min. A conflicted Christian man carries out a mass Running time: 8 min. dreamlike ways we remember lost ones and, even shooting. In his past: a same-sex hookup and though they are gone, what remains of the ones This is an immersive and visually driven self-loathing. What if events had unfolded This shared VR journey tells the complete story we loved. interactive film about a man who has lost the differently? What if his partner had convinced of the evolution of life on Earth. ability to see color. Participants reawaken the him to face himself ? Could that simple act have ’s sense of wonder and imagination changed the course of history? through empathetic as color and connection return to his worldview.

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Melting Ice Mindshow Miyubi Orbital Vanitas

LEAD ARTIST: Danfung Dennis LEAD ARTISTS: Mindshow Staff, Gil Baron, Jonnie Ross, LEAD ARTISTS: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël LEAD ARTIST: Shaun Gladwell Running time: 10 min. Adam Levin KEY COLLABORATOR: Owen Burke KEY COLLABORATOR: Leo Faber Running time: 15 min. Running time: 40 min. Running time: 5 min. We take viewers on a transcendent exploration into the devastating consequences of climate Make VR cartoons with your body and voice. Experience love and obsolescence as a Japanese This virtual reality experience presents a change on Greenland’s ice sheet. Stand under Teleport into different characters and act out all toy robot, gifted to a child in the home of a surreal sci-fi mystery and meditation on death. collapsing glaciers, next to raging rivers of ice the parts. Create with your friends by passing fractured family in 1982 suburban America. Initially placed in Earth’s orbit, participants melt, and witness rising sea levels—all visceral scenes back and forth, then share your shows in soon notice an enigmatic form floating toward warnings of our planet’s future. VR and on social media. them. What takes place next makes perfect use of the VR format.

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Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story The Sky Is a Gap Through You Zero Days VR

LEAD ARTIST: Nonny de la Peña LEAD ARTIST: Rachel Rossin LEAD ARTISTS: Saschka Unseld, Lily Baldwin LEAD ARTIST: Scatter, Yasmin Elayat, Elie Zananiri KEY COLLABORATORS: Emblematic Group, Running time: 3 min. Running time: 10 min. KEY COLLABORATORS: Mei-Ling Wong, Atrevida Productions, True Colors Fund Alexander Porter, James George Running time: 10 min. The viewer is allowed to precisely move time with Dance is used to inhabit a common mortal story Running time: 15 min. space by the use of a positionally tracked headset. of love born, lived, lost, burned, and seemingly In August 2014, Daniel Ashley Pierce’s family Existing in the physical and virtual realms, gone forever—only to be found again. The story of a clandestine mission hatched by verbally and physically accosted him before the installation depicts a pyroclastic explosion the U.S. and to sabotage an underground kicking him out of the house because they inspired by Zabriskie Point, where the scene’s Iranian nuclear facility told from the perspective disapproved of his sexuality. Built directly around progress is physically mapped to the participant’s of Stuxnet, a sophisticated cyber weapon, and a audio Daniel recorded from that encounter, this forward and backward movement. key NSA informant. experience the project includes thoughts of hope and triumph high stakes of cyber warfare placed inside the from Daniel and three other LGBTQ youth. invisible world of computer viruses.

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18 Black Girls / Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual World Without End Machines: $X in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (No Reported Incidents) MORE INFO

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TRANSPORTATION APPS

Park City Transit http://goo.gl/uTJOla

U.S.A., 2016, 60 min., color U.S.A., 2017, 70 min., color & b/w U.S.A./United Kingdom, 2016, 57 min., color

In this pair of performances, the artist googles This documentary performance, a murder Close observations around Southend-on- Park City Transit the phrase “one-year-old black boy” and “one- mystery about the artist’s own family, is a Sea, a small English town along the Thames iPhone App year-old black girl,” ascending in age to 18, torn apart and reassembled. estuary, reveal not only everyday streets, http://goo.gl/AtZ5cu allowing Google’s “popular searches” algorithm Journeying straight into the black heart everyday birds, unflagging , mud, and to populate what words will follow. of a family and country, this multimedia sky, but also prize-winning Indian curries, an performance explors a forgotten killing by the encyclopedic universe of hats, and a nearly Park City Transit DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Terence Nance artist's great-grandfather—a white Southern lost world of proto-punk music. Google Play App racist—of a black man in lower Alabama. https://goo.gl/rh4hlX DIRECTOR: Jem Cohen Wednesday, January 25, 2:00 p.m. DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER/PRINCIPAL CAST: Base Camp, Park City Travis Wilkerson Preceded by MappaMundi Friday, January 27, 2:00 p.m. DIRECTORS: Bady Minck Smartphone Link Base Camp, Park City Luxembourg/Austria, 2017, 43 min., color http://goo.gl/Oj2YBG Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. English and German with English subtitles Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Through the eyes of cosmic cartographers, the viewer Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. takes a voyage through 950 million years of Earth Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City history and 15,000 years of cartography. This accelerated journey visualizes the change in our world—a change unnoticeable in a single lifetime.

Monday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 5:45 p.m. Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 5:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 29, 3:00 p.m. Tower Theatre, Salt Lake City

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