For more than 20 years, the Dramatic Competition has offered a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. Fueled by fierce creativity and vision, these 16 films are guaranteed to Beasts of the leave a lasting impact on the next Southern Wild generation of cinema. DIRECTOR: Benh Zeitlin SCREENWRITERS: Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin U.S.A., 2011, 91 min., color

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in “the Bathtub,” a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

Hushpuppy is not just the film’s heroine; she’s its soul. Beasts of the Southern US Dramatic Wild exists entirely in its own universe: mythological, anthropological, folkloric, and apocalyptic. Benh Zeitlin’s first feature (a Sundance Institute Feature Film Program COMPETITION project) employs a cast of nonactors— reflecting its grassroots production—to fiercely portray the bond between father and daughter in a world where only the strong survive. Standing defiantly at the end of the world, Hushpuppy affirms the dignity of telling their own story: that they were once there . . .—J.N.

ExP: Philipp Engelhorn, Paul Mezey, Michael Raisler Pr: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn Ci: Ben Richardson Ed: Crockett Doob, Affonso Gonçalves PrD: Alex DiGerlando Mu: Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin Principal Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry

Friday, January 20, 12:15 p.m. - BEAST20CD Eccles Theatre, Park City Blue Valentine Saturday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. - BEAST21RN Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Sunday, January 22, 3:30 p.m. - BEAST22GA Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. - BEAST23SA Screening Room, Sundance Resort Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. - BEAST24MN The MARC, Park City Thursday, January 26, noon - BEAST26ED SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Egyptian Theatre, Park City 14 The Comedy The End of Love Filly Brown DIRECTOR: Rick Alverson DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Mark Webber DIRECTORS: Youssef Delara, SCREENWRITERS: Rick Alverson, U.S.A., 2011, 100 min., color Michael D. Olmos Richard Donne, Colm O'Leary SCREENWRITER: Youssef Delara U.S.A., 2011, 96 min., color Mark is a struggling actor stuck between U.S.A., 2012, 99 min., color the life he once knew and the one waiting Indifferent even to the prospects of for him. When the mother of his two- “Majo” Tonorio, a.k.a. Filly Brown, is a inheriting his father’s estate, Swanson year-old son suddenly passes away, Mark raw, young Los Angeles hip-hop artist who has been insulated his whole life by the is forced to confront his shortcomings. spits from the heart. When a sleazy record bubble of privilege. He and his hipster Their fates, now intertwined, hang in the producer offers her a crack at rap stardom, friends live in a tepid social paradise, a.k.a. balance as Mark grapples with his ability Majo faces some daunting choices. With Williamsburg, where their good fortune to grow up. When he meets Lydia, a young an incarcerated mother, a record contract breeds indifference and recreational mother, he is no longer able to live in the could be the ticket out for her struggling cruelty. They pacify their discontent with comfort of denial. family. But taking the deal means selling games of mock sincerity and irreverence, out her talent and the true friends who as though humor itself were dying and had Writer/director/actor Mark Webber helped her to the cusp of success. nothing left to do but turn on itself. Testing creates a stark, yet intimate, atmosphere limits to break through their numbness, where we can't help but feel we are A portrait of an artist forced to discover they act out like spoiled children—with bearing witness to the most private her authentic voice, Filly Brown percolates ironic beards and beer bellies. moments between a father and son. Set with the raw energy of hope sprung from against the backdrop of Los Angeles, The desperation. Directed with tenacious Rick Alverson unleashes a camouflaged End of Love is an achingly honest portrait grit by Youssef Delara and Michael assault on contemporary culture veiled in with scenes linked not by dramatic line Olmos, propelled by an exceptional cast, a gorgeously crafted and humorous veneer. but by emotional vitality. Endowed with a and fused with a fierce hip-hop score, As taboos are broken, audience members raw but vibrant truth, it tells a story about Filly Brown heralds the arrival of Gina are forced to question their boundaries and the universal pain of loss and the courage Rodriguez in the title role. A dazzling whether they should be laughing with it, at it takes to change.—T.G. new star, Rodriguez not only lights up it, or not at all. A scathing look at the white the screen, but she could conquer the male on the verge of collapse, The Comedy ExP: Mollie Engelhart, Tim Ryan Pr: Mark Webber, airwaves as well.—D.C. provokes and disorients; it’s a carefully Liz Destro, Matt Sprague CoP: Dan McGilvray Ci: Patrice Cochet Ed: Sven Pape ExP: Edward James Olmos, Kevin Smith, Homa rendered cautionary fable for the autumn Principal Cast: Mark Webber, Shannyn Sossamon, of America.—T.G. Sorror Pr: Victor Teran, Amir Delara, Youssef Michael Cera, Jason Ritter, Amanda Seyfried, Delara, Michael D. Olmos, Mico Olmos, Edward Frankie Shaw "E-dub" Rios, Khool-Aid Rios Ci: Ben Kufrin Pr: Mike S. Ryan, Brent Kunkle AsP: Larry Fessenden Ed: Youssef Delara, Eric R. Brodeur Mu: Reza Safinia Ci: Mark Schwartzbard Ed: Michael Taylor, Rick Principal Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Jenni Rivera, Alverson So: Gene Park Principal Cast: Tim Saturday, January 21, 2:30 p.m. - ENDOF21LA Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos, Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alexia Library Center Theatre, Park City Emilio Rivera, Joseph Julian Soria Rasumussen, Gregg Turkington, James Murphy Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. - ENDOF22SN Screening Room, Sundance Resort Monday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. - ENDOF23MN Friday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. - FILLY20LE Saturday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. - COMED21LN The MARC, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. - ENDOF24IE Saturday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. - FILLY21EM Monday, January 23, 11:30 a.m. - COMED23PD Salt Lake City Library, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 3:30 p.m. - ENDOF25CA Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - FILLY22WE Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. - COMED24SA Eccles Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Screening Room, Sundance Resort Friday, January 27, 8:30 a.m. - ENDOF27MM Tuesday, January 24, 12:15 p.m. - FILLY24CD competition . s dramatic Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. - COMED26CA u The MARC, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 5:30 p.m. - FILLY27LE Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. - COMED27IE Library Center Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library, SLC Saturday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. - COMED28LM Library Center Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

15 The First Time For Ellen Hello I Must Be Going DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: So Yong Kim DIRECTOR: Todd Louiso Jonathan Kasdan U.S.A., 2011, 95 min., color SCREENWRITER: Sarah Koskoff U.S.A., 2011, 98 min., color U.S.A., 2012, 95 min., color After an overnight long-distance drive, Dave, a high school senior, spends most Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers Divorced and demoralized Amy Minsky’s of his time pining away over a girl he and his ex-wife. A struggling musician prospects look ridiculously bleak when can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, she is condemned to move back in with her aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who goatee, and his head firmly floating in the parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to doesn’t quite understand her or seem clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a help, but, as her patience level with advice to care. Although they go to different dad. Now is his last chance to fight for is plummeting, a bold 19-year-old boy schools, Dave and Aubrey find themselves shared custody of his daughter, Ellen. enters her life, igniting her last bit of self- at the same party. When both head esteem. What ensues is an unconventional outside to get some air, they meet. A Writer/director So Yong Kim takes this love story infused with all the good things casual conversation sparks an instant traditional situation and fills it with Amy needs to get on in life, and that just connection, and, over the course of a humanism. Joby becomes a fascinating may include great sex. weekend, things turn magical, romantic, character study—a wannabe rock star complicated, and funny as Aubrey and now turned into a human being—forced Todd Louiso and screenwriter Sarah Koskoff Dave discover what it's like to fall in love to care about something other than his treads new ground with a modern agenda for the first time. dreams. Kim’s subtle filmmaking style and infectious optimism. They gently captures real life and conveys emotion seduce us into a relationship dilemma that Director/screenwriter Jonathan in both funny and touching ways. Paul far exceeds age difference. The two lead Kasdan skillfully captures a moment Dano takes a character we are used to actors—Melanie Lynskey and Christopher of adolescence that rings resolutely laughing at and makes him genuine, Abbott—are bursting with talent, ensuring true. With smart writing and breakout completely immersing us in Joby’s journey that their situation is believable and performances by Britt Robertson and to respectability, even though he may not compelling us to root for them. Hello I Must Dylan O’Brien, its two young leads, The make it there.—M.P. Be Going is fresh and original, proving what First Time is a sweet, thoughtful, modern we so easily forget: the best medicine for look at the angst, anticipation, and ExP: Paul Dano, Jonathan Vinnik, Michael Clofine, most of the discomforts in life is the power hopefulness of young love.—L.O. Tricia Quick, Rui Costa Reis, Dave Berlin Pr: Jen of human connection.—J.C. Gatien, Bradley Rust Gray, So Yong Kim Ci: Reed Morano PrD: Ryan Smith Mu: Johann Johannsson ExP: Liah Kim Pr: Martin Shafer, Liz Glotzer Pr: Mary Jane Skalski, Hans Ritter CoP: Susan Leber Principal Cast: Paul Dano, Jon Heder, Jena Malone, AsP: O'Shea Read Ci: Rhet Bear Ed: Hugh Ross Ci: Julie Kirkwood Ed: Tom McArdle PrD: Russell Margarita Levieva, Shaylena Mandigo, Julian Gamble Principal Cast: Britt Robertson, Dylan O'Brien, Barnes Mu: Laura Veirs Principal Cast: Melanie Craig Roberts, James Frecheville, Victoria Justice, Lynskey, Blythe Danner, Christopher Abbott, John Christine Taylor Rubinstein, Julie White, Dan Futterman Saturday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. - FELLE21LE Library Center Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. - FELLE23EM Saturday, January 21, 12:15 p.m. - FIRST21CD Thursday, January 19, 9:30 p.m. - HELLO19CN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. - FELLE24SD Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - FIRST21SN Friday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. - HELLO20MM Screening Room, Sundance Resort Screening Room, Sundance Resort The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. - FELLE25WE Sunday, January 22, 7:00 p.m. - FIRST22RE Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. - HELLO21SA Tower Theatre, SLC Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. - FELLE26CE Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - FIRST23IE Sunday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. - HELLO22GE Eccles Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library, SLC Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC

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16 Keep the Lights On LUV Middle of Nowhere DIRECTOR: Ira Sachs DIRECTOR: Sheldon Candis DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Ava DuVernay SCREENWRITERS: Ira Sachs, SCREENWRITERS: Sheldon Candis, U.S.A., 2011, 107 min., color Mauricio Zacharias Justin Wilson U.S.A., 2012, 101 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 94 min., color What happens when love takes you places you never thought you would go? When Keep the Lights On chronicles the emotionally Woody, an adorable 11-year-old boy her husband, Derek, is sentenced to eight and sexually charged journey through awaiting the return of his missing mother, years in a California prison, Ruby drops the love, addiction, and friendship of two lives with his grandmother and Uncle out of medical school to maintain her men. Documentary filmmaker, Erik, and Vincent, who is fresh off an eight-year marriage and focus on ensuring Derek's closeted lawyer, Paul, meet through a casual prison stint. For Woody, the confident, survival in his violent new environment. encounter, but they find a deeper connection charismatic Vincent is a titan among men. Driven by love, loyalty, and hope, Ruby and become a couple. Individually and When Vincent notices that Woody could learns to sustain the shame, separation, together, they are risk takers—compulsive, learn a thing or two about becoming a man, guilt, and grief that a prison wife must and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost he brings him along as he ventures forth to bear. Her new life challenges her to the decade-long relationship defined by highs, open his own business. But when legit life very core of her identity, and her turbulent lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik fails to support Vincent’s vision, and his path propels her in new, often frightening struggles to negotiate his own boundaries old Baltimore crime boss, Mr. Fish, haunts directions of self-discovery. and dignity and to be true to himself. him, the pace of little Woody’s manhood lesson accelerates. Ava DuVernay’s elegant and emotionally Keep the Lights On is shot with a grainy inspiring debut portrays the universal beauty that transports us to its late Beautiful, bold, and confident, Sheldon dilemma of how a woman maintains ’90s setting. It resonates with textures Candis’s auspicious debut feature herself as she commits to loving and of New York City, accentuated by disco transforms the standard gangster film supporting someone through hardship. beats and a mournful cello, both from into a warm and radiant coming-of-age Featuring luminous performances by musician Arthur Russell’s eclectic catalog. story that humanizes complex situations a cast of rising stars led by Emayatzy Director Ira Sachs’s fearlessly personal through characters motivated by love, Corinealdi and Omari Hardwick, Middle screenplay is anchored by Danish actor rather than pride. Brought to life by a of Nowhere infuses gravity and grace into Thure Lindhardt, who embodies Erik’s brilliant cast, including Michael Rainey Jr., the prison tale and marks the arrival of an isolation and vulnerability with a gentle Common, and Dennis Haysbert, LUV is a important new directorial talent.—S.F. presence. Harrowing and romantic, visceral lion-hearted tale about virtue as it shines and intellectual, Keep the Lights On is a through a complicated slice of black male Pr: Howard Barish, Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes moving film that looks at love and all of its life in Baltimore.—S.F. CoP: Tilane Jones Ci: Bradford Young Ed: Spencer Averick Principal Cast: Emayatzy Corinealdi, David manifestations, taking it to dark depths and Oyelowo, Omari Hardwick, Lorraine Toussaint, Pr: Jason Michael Berman, W. Michael Jenson, bringing it back to a place of grace. —K.Y. Edwina Findley, Sharon Lawrence Gordon Bijelonic, Datari Turner, Joel Newton, ExP: Ali Betil, Jawal Nga, Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen Common, Derek Dudley Ci: Gavin J. Kelly Ed: Jeff Pr: Marie Therese Guirgis, Lucas Joaquin, Ira Sachs Wishengrad PrD: Alex Brook Lynn Mu: Nuno Malo Ca: Mary Vernieu Principal Cast: Common, Michael Friday, January 20, 2:30 p.m. - MIDDL20LA Ci: Thimios Bakatakis Ed: Affonso Gonçalves Library Center Theatre, Park City PrD: Amy Williams CoD: Elisabeth Vastola Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Michael Kenneth Williams Saturday, January 21, 12:30 p.m. - MIDDL21GD Principal Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Julianne Nicholson, Souléymane Sy Savané, Sunday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. - MIDDL22PM Paprika Steen Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 3:30 p.m. - LUVVV23CA Monday, January 23, noon - MIDDL23SD Eccles Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort

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Friday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. - KEEPL20LN Tuesday, January 24, 3:30 p.m. - MIDDL24CA u Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. - LUVVV26LN Saturday, January 21, midnight - KEEPL21WL Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. - MIDDL27YE Library Center Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 11:30 a.m. - KEEPL23LD Friday, January 27, 9:45 p.m. - LUVVV27BN Library Center Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Wednesday, January 25, 12:15 p.m. - KEEPL25CD Saturday, January 28, 9:00 a.m. - LUVVV28EM Eccles Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. - KEEPL26EA Egyptian Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - KEEPL27IN Salt Lake City Library, SLC 17 Nobody Walks Safety Not Guaranteed Save the Date DIRECTOR: Ry Russo-Young DIRECTOR: Colin Trevorrow DIRECTOR: Michael Mohan SCREENWRITERS: Lena Dunham, SCREENWRITER: Derek Connolly SCREENWRITERS: Jeffrey Brown, Ry Russo-Young U.S.A., 2011, 85 min., color Egan Reich, Michael Mohan U.S.A., 2012, 85 min., color U.S.A., 2012, 98 min., color Three magazine employees are sent to Martine, a 23-year-old artist from New investigate a personal advertisement Sarah finds herself caught in an York, arrives in Los Angeles to stay in the placed in the newspaper: guy seeking intense postbreakup rebound with new pool house of a family living in the hip partner for time travel. They venture infatuation Jonathan after tragically and hilly community of Silver Lake. Peter, to the coast and set up a haphazard breaking the heart of rocker Kevin. Always the father, has agreed to help Martine surveillance. Darius is recruited as the one to give Sarah life advice is her sister complete sound design on her art film shill; her dry wit and cynical nature are Beth, who is diligently planning her as a favor to his wife. Martine innocently perfectly suited to trap this enigmatic upcoming wedding to apprehensive fiancé, enters the seemingly idyllic life of this oddball, Kenneth, and get a good story. Andrew. Both sisters fumble through the open-minded family with two kids and But it is she who first sees past the bumpy emotional landscape of modern- a relaxed Southern California vibe. Like paranoid loner façade to the compelling day relationships, forced to relearn how to a bolt of lightning, her arrival sparks a person inside. The drawback? This still love and be loved. surge of energy that awakens suppressed doesn’t rule out the possibility that he just impulses in everyone and forces them to might be crazy. Filmmaker Michael Mohan returns to confront their own fears and desires. the Sundance Film Festival—he made Colin Trevorrow has woven an ingenious his feature debut with One Too Many Exquisitely orchestrated by Ry Russo-Young tale: a modern version of the classic Mornings in NEXT in 2010. From a (You Won’t Miss Me screened at the 2009 madcap romantic comedy. Clever dialogue screenplay he wrote with famed graphic Festival) and cowritten by Lena Dunham and outlandish antics, peppered with novelist Jeffrey Brown and cowriter Egan (Tiny Furniture), this potent charting of misfit characters—each one charming Reich, this bittersweet story about the inner urges and sufferings links characters yet flawed—are wrapped in a love story trials of maturing love carefully balances together in an intricate dance of lust, denial, tingling with the tantalizing possibility intimate moments of pain and happiness. and deception. Despite their issues, each of time travel. In a world where moments Delicately captured by cinematographer comes across as fundamentally human, are fleeting and soul mates are scarce, it Elisha Christian, with standout lead urging viewers to appraise the characters' seems that even the simple act of falling in performances by Lizzy Caplan and Alison morality by evaluating their own motives. love is never safe.—J.C. Brie, Save the Date charms anyone lost in Sexually charged and rigorously composed, his or her own state of love.—C.R. Nobody Walks boasts an impressive cast ExP: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, John Hodges, who deliver incisive performances in this Michael B. Clark Pr: The MARC Turtletaub, Peter ExP: Gary Gilbert Pr: Jordan Horowitz, Michael Saraf, Stephanie Langhoff, Colin Trevorrow, Derek absorbing tale.—T.G. Roiff, Michael Huffington Ci: Elisha Christian Connolly CoP: Lacey Leavitt Ci: Benjamin Kasulke Ed: Christian Masini PrD: Cindy Chao, Michele Yu PrD: Ben Blankenship Principal Cast: Aubrey Plaza, OrA: Jeffrey Brown Principal Cast: Lizzy Caplan, ExP: Audrey Wilf, Zygi Wilf Pr: Jonathan Schwartz, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson, Karan Soni Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arend, Andrea Sperling, Alicia Van Couvering Mark Webber CoP: Warren Fisher Ci: Chris Blauvelt Preceded by BEAR Ed: John Walter Mu: Fall on Your Sword Director: Nash Edgerton Principal Cast: John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby, Australia, 2011, 11 min., color Rosemarie DeWitt, Justin Kirk, India Ennenga, Sunday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. - SAVET22LA Dylan McDermott Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. - SAVET24LD Sunday, January 22, 5:30 p.m. - SAFET22LE Library Center Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 p.m. - SAVET25GN competition . s dramatic

u Sunday, January 22, 12:15 p.m. - NOBDY22CD Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. - SAFET24LM Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 12:15 p.m. - SAVET27CD Monday, January 23, 9:30 p.m. - NOBDY23RN Thursday, January 26, noon - SAFET26CD Eccles Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - SAVET28EA Tuesday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. - NOBDY24GE Friday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. - SAFET27GE Egyptian Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 p.m. - NOBDY25MN Saturday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. - SAFET28MD The MARC, Park City The MARC, Park City Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. - NOBDY26SE Screening Room, Sundance Resort SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Friday, January 27, 2:30 p.m. - NOBDY27LA 18 Library Center Theatre, Park City Simon KiLler Smashed The Surrogate DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR: James Ponsoldt DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Ben Lewin Antonio Campos SCREENWRITERS: Susan Burke, U.S.A., 2011, 98 min., color France/U.S.A., 2011, 105 min., color James Ponsoldt English and French with English subtitles U.S.A., 2012, 91 min., color The quest for love appears insurmountable when a man confined to an iron lung A recent college graduate goes to Paris Kate and Charlie like to have a good determines, at age 38, to lose his virginity. after breaking up with his girlfriend of time. Their marriage thrives on a shared Based on the autobiographical writings five years. His life should be open-ended fondness for music, laughter . . . and of Berkeley, California–based journalist and full of promise, but he can’t shake getting smashed. When Kate’s partying and poet Mark O’Brien, The Surrogate his feelings of loss. Being a stranger in a spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, chronicles his attempt to transcend the strange land only aggravates his situation. compromising her job as an elementary limbo between childhood and adulthood, When he falls in love with a young schoolteacher, something’s got to give. in which he is literally trapped. With mysterious prostitute, a fateful journey But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. the blessing of an unusual priest and begins, though we soon learn that Simon is Sobriety means she will have to confront support from enlightened caregivers, the one with deeper secrets. the lies she’s been spinning at work, her the poignantly optimistic and always troubling relationship with her mother, droll O’Brien swallows his fear and hires Director/screenwriter Antonio Campos is and the nature of her bond with Charlie. a sex surrogate. What transpires over a a powerful, visceral storyteller. He and his handful of sessions transforms them both. team have created the perfect cinematic Many films indulge the dramatic highs and Rivetingly, sensitively, and humorously language to bring this hauntingly dark lows of addiction. Refreshingly, Smashed portrayed by John Hawkes and Helen odyssey to life. The camerawork is is interested in the unglamorous middle Hunt, the couple’s clinical exercise exquisite and the sound design rich, path—what stumbling through recovery becomes a tender, awkward, and gracious engineered to permeate your psyche and looks like. As Kate tests new boundaries journey from isolation to connection— make you feel you are walking in Simon’s and shoulders the consequences of her corporal and spiritual. shadow. Brady Corbet, a gifted Festival choices, this subtle story of imperfect alumnus, inhabits the dark soul of Simon transformation taps into truths about This poet’s extraordinary story resonates in one of his most complicated and fully the challenges and losses intrinsic to with the elegance and precision of a poem. realized performances. In fact, every role living life honestly. Genuine performances No line in The Surrogate is extraneous, no is perfectly cast to keep the film taut and and a grounded sense of place create an frame accidental. Filmmaker Ben Lewin's tense. Simon Killer is a neonoir thriller authentic, textured world where three- masterful brushstrokes endow every that creates an unsafe world where dimensional characters—neither all bad character with fullness and authenticity, the line between truth and dishonesty nor all good—occupy the uncomfortable fashioning rich metaphors and emotional blurs.—J.C. grey zone of being human.—C.L. nuance, and fusing them into an exquisite, unforgettable awakening.—C.L. Pr: Josh Mond, Sean Durkin, Matt Palmieri ExP: Audrey Wilf, Zygi Wilf Pr: Jonathan Schwartz, CoP: Melody Roscher Ci: Joe Anderson Andrea Sperling, Jennifer Cochis CoP: Stephanie Pr: Judi Levine, Stephen Nemeth Ci: Geoffrey Ed: Zac Stuart Pontier, Antonio Campos, Babak Meurer, Stephen Ricci, Elise Salomon Ci: Tobias Simpson Ed: Lisa Bromwell PrD: John Mott Jalali SoE: Coll Anderson SoM: Micah Bloomberg Datum Ed: Suzanne Spangler Mu: Yo La Tengo Mu: Marco Beltrami Ca: Ronnie Yeskel Principal Cast: Brady Corbet, Mati Diop, Michael Principal Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Principal Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, Abiteboul, Constance Rousseau, Lila Salet, Solo Paul, Octavia Spencer, Nick Offerman, Megan William H. Macy Mullally, Mary Kay Place

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19 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry DIRECTOR/cinematographer: Alison Klayman U.S.A./China, 2011, 91 min., color US DOCUMENTARY English and Mandarin with English subtitles Ai Weiwei is known for many things— great architecture, subversive, in-your- COMPETITION face art, and political activism. He has also called for greater transparency on the part of the Chinese state. Director Alison Klayman chronicles the complexities of Ai’s life for three years, beginning with his rise to public prominence, via blog and Twitter, after he questioned the deaths of more than 5,000 students in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The record continues through his widely publicized arrest in Beijing in April of 2011. As Ai prepares various works of art for major international exhibitions and his activism heats up, and his run-ins with China’s authorities become more and more frequent.

In this unprecedented look at Ai and those close to him, Klayman’s camera captures his forthrightness and unequivocal stance. He gives a larger picture of the artist as an individual, a symbol of China’s oppression, and a powerful voice against a country that still denies its citizens many basic freedoms.—K.Y.

ExP: Andrew Cohen, Julie Goldman, Karl Katz Pr: Alison Klayman, Adam Schlesinger Ed: Jennifer Fineran Mu: Ilan Isakov ConPr: Colin Jones

Sunday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. - AIWEI22LD Library Center Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 5:30 p.m. - AIWEI24ME The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. - AIWEI25IE From human rights to popular culture, Salt Lake City Library, SLC these 16 films confront the subjects Thursday, January 26, noon - AIWEI26TD that define our time. Stylistic diversity Temple Theatre, Park City and rigorous filmmaking distinguish Friday, January 27, noon - AIWEI27SD these new American documentaries. Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 28, 9:00 a.m. - AIWEI28YM Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

20 Freedom Riders The Atomic States Chasing Ice DETROPIA of America DIRECTOR/cinematographer: DIRECTORS: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady DIRECTORS: Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce Jeff Orlowski U.S.A., 2011, 90 min., color Based on the book by Kelly McMasters SCREENWRITER: Mark Monroe U.S.A., 2011, 92 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 74 min., color Detroit’s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last Based on Kelly McMasters’s memoir When National Geographic photographer century— the Great Migration of African about growing up in a nuclear-reactor James Balog asked, “How can one take a Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of community, this stirring film illustrates picture of climate change?” his attention manufacturing and the middle class; the the dire health consequences for many was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he love affair with automobiles; the flowering residents in Shirley, her Long Island was asked to do a cover story on glaciers of the American dream; and now . . . the hometown. Yet despite the known risks that became the most popular and well- collapse of the economy and the fading of utilizing nuclear power, our country’s read piece in the magazine during the American mythos. rapidly increasing energy needs are last five years. But for Balog, that story fueling a nuclear renaissance. marked the beginning of a much larger and With its vivid, painterly palette and longer-term project that would reach epic haunting score, DETROPIA sculpts a Acutely topical—given the recent Fukushima proportions. dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering disaster in Japan—The Atomic States of on the brink of dissolution. As houses are America convincingly encapsulates both In this breathtakingly beautiful demolished by the thousands, automobile- the history of this allegedly clean source documentary, filmmaker Jeff Orlowski company wages plummet, institutions of energy and our collective denial of a follows the indomitable photographer as crumble, and tourists gawk at the potentially looming disaster at our aging he brings to life the Extreme Ice Survey “charming decay,” the film’s vibrant, gutsy sites. Firsthand narratives from people (EIS)—a massive photography project characters glow and erupt like flames from connected to the nuclear industry blend that placed 30 cameras across three the ashes. These soulful pragmatists and with the behind-the-scenes debacle of continents to gather visual evidence of stalwart philosophers strive to make ends maintaining legitimate regulation. the Earth’s melting ice. Chasing Ice tells meet and make sense of it all, refusing to the story of a visionary artist who, in abandon hope or resistance. Their grit and Potent, emotionally powerful, and highly facing his own mortality, bequeaths the pluck embody the spirit of the Motor City revealing, Don Argott and Sheena Joyce’s magic of photography and the adventure as it struggles to survive postindustrial film does an outstanding job of opening of the expedition to a new generation and America and begins to envision a radically our eyes to the reality of nuclear power. captures the most visible sign of climate different future.—C.L. “We all live downstream from something,” change on the planet today.—S.F. McMasters reminds us in this cautionary Pr: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Craig Atkinson call to action.—L.V. Pr: Jeff Orlowski, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Jerry AsP: Christina Gonzalez Ci: Tony Hardmon, Craig Aronson Ed: Davis Coombe Mu: J. Ralph Atkinson Ed: Enat Sidi AsE: Erin Casper Mu: Dial.81 ExP: Joan Hornig, George Hornig, Jane Presier, Linda Gelfond, Rory Riggs, Danny Sherman, Noah Musher, Preceded by Song of the Spindle Anne Marie Macari Pr: Sheena M. Joyce Ci: Don Director: Drew Christie Saturday, January 21, noon - DETRO21TD Argott Ed: Demian Fenton AsE: Marc D'Agostino U.S.A., 2011, 4 min., color Temple Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 5:15 p.m. - DETRO22ME

Preceded by Newtown Creek Digester The MARC, Park City y competition Eggs: The Art of Human Waste Monday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. - CHASI23LN Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - DETRO23SN Director: David W. Leitner Library Center Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort U.S.A., 2011, 3 min., color Tuesday, January 24, 11:15 a.m. - CHASI24MD Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. - DETRO25LM The MARC, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - CHASI25IN Friday, January 27, 3:30 p.m. - DETRO27RA . s documentar Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - ATOMI23TN Salt Lake City Library, SLC Redstone Cinema 8, Park City u Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:00 a.m. - CHASI27TM Saturday, January 28, noon - DETRO28ID Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. - ATOMI24LA Temple Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:15 p.m. - CHASI28RA Thursday, January 26, 3:30 p.m. - ATOMI26RA Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Friday, January 27, 6:45 p.m. - ATOMI27BE Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Saturday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. - ATOMI28PM

Prospector Square Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL 21 ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight Finding North The House I Live In to Rescue American DIRECTORS: Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Eugene Jarecki Healthcare U.S.A., 2011, 80 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 110 min., color DIRECTORS/producers: Matthew Heineman, Susan Froemke America has lost its way in taking care of Eugene Jarecki’s seminal film Why We U.S.A., 2012, 95 min., color its own. The shocking fact is that one in Fight dissected the underbelly of the six Americans doesn’t get enough to eat American war machine. Now, with scalpel- Our healthcare system is broken. Potent on a regular basis. Even more disturbing like precision, Jarecki turns his lens on forces fight to maintain the status quo is the fact that this new face of hunger is a less visible war—one that is costing in a medical industry created for quick largely invisible. There are no breadlines more lives, destroying more families, and fixes, rather than prevention; for profit- in the streets, but increasing numbers of quickly becoming a scourge on the soul of driven, rather than patient-driven, care. soup kitchens and food banks are feeding American society. In the past 40 years, Healthcare is at the center of an intense people who—though employed full time— the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 political firestorm in our nation's capitol. can’t make ends meet. million arrests, made America the world's But the current battle over cost and largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished access does not ultimately address the Finding North unveils the human stories communities at home and abroad. Yet root of the problem: we have a disease- behind the statistics: a rancher juggling drugs are cheaper, purer, and more care system, not a healthcare one. After two jobs and a small-town policeman available today than ever. Where did we go decades of opposition, a movement to rely on food pantries to survive between wrong, and what can be done? introduce innovative high-touch, low- paychecks; a single working mom can’t cost methods of prevention and healing is afford consistent meals for her children; a Comprehensive in scope, heart wrenching finally gaining ground. short-order cook must travel more than an in its humanity, and brilliant in its thesis, hour to purchase fruits and vegetables. Jarecki's new film grabs viewers and With consummate skill, filmmakers shakes them to their core. The House I Matthew Heineman and Susan Froemke As it unravels the real societal costs and Live In is not only the definitive film on interweave dramatic personal stories with applies transparency to the causes of the failure of America’s drug war, but the efforts of leaders battling to transform this hunger crisis in the richest country it is also a masterpiece filled with hope healthcare at the highest levels of in the world, Kristi Jacobson and Lori and the potential to effect change. This medicine, industry, government, and even Silverbush’s bracing film explores ways film is surely destined for the annals of the U.S. military. Destined to be hailed as that we as a nation can correct this documentary history.—D.C. the definitive film on American healthcare, alarming and unnecessary state of ESCAPE FIRE offers a way out—a primer on affairs.—C.L. PrB: Eugene Jarecki, Melinda Shopsin how to save the health of a nation.—D.C. ExP: Joslyn Barnes, Nick Fraser, Danny Glover ExP: Diane Weyermann, Jeff Skoll, Tom Colicchio, Pr: Sam Cullman, Christopher St. John AsP: Shirel Kozak, Daniel DiMauro, Kara Elverson ExP: Doug Scott Ci: Wolfgang Held, Matthew Christina Weiss Lurie, Jeffrey Lurie Pr: Julie Ed: Paul Frost Mu: Robert Miller Heineman Ed: Bradley Ross Mu: Moby, Chad Kelly Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush Ci: Daniel B. Gold, Kirsten Johnson Preceded by Heart Stop Beating Ed: Madeleine Gavin, Jean Tsien, Andrea B. Scott Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. - HOUSE21TE Director: Jeremiah Zagar Mu: T Bone Burnett and the Civil Wars Temple Theatre, Park City U.S.A., 2011, 3 min., color Sunday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. - HOUSE22EM Egyptian Theatre, Park City y competition Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - FINDN22TE Monday, January 23, 6:45 p.m. - HOUSE23BE Friday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. - ESCAP20LD Temple Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Library Center Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. - FINDN23TM Thursday, January 26, 2:15 p.m. - HOUSE26LA Saturday, January 21, 3:30 p.m. - ESCAP21RA Temple Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. - FINDN25GE Saturday, January 28, noon - HOUSE28ED . s documentar u Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - ESCAP22IE Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library, SLC Thursday, January 26, 2:30 p.m. - FINDN26MA Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. - ESCAP24MA The MARC, Park City The MARC, Park City Friday, January 27, 8:30 p.m. - FINDN27PN Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - ESCAP27TN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 12:45 p.m. - FINDN28BD Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

22 How to Survive a Plague The Invisible War Love Free or Die DIRECTOR: David France DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Kirby Dick DIRECTOR: Macky Alston SCREENWRITERS: David France, U.S.A., 2011, 93 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 82 min., color T. Woody Richman, Tyler Walk U.S.A., 2012, 120 min., color Casualties of war rage beyond the In June 2003, the Episcopal Church in New battlefield. As ranks of women in the Hampshire came under fire when it became Faced with their own mortality, an American military swell, so do incidents the first to elect an openly gay man, Gene improbable group of mostly HIV-positive of rape. An estimated 30 percent of Robinson, as a bishop. Since that flash young men and women broke the mold as servicewomen and at least 1 percent of point, Robinson has been at the center of radical warriors taking on Washington servicemen are sexually assaulted during the contentious battle for LGBT people to and the medical establishment. How their enlistment. And not by the enemy, receive full acceptance in the faith. to Survive a Plague is the story of two but at the hands of fellow soldiers. With coalitions—ACT UP and TAG (Treatment stark clarity and escalating revelations, Director Macky Alston (whose film, Action Group)—whose activism and The Invisible War exposes a rape epidemic Family Name, won the Freedom of innovation turned AIDS from a death in the armed forces, investigating the Expression Award at the 1997 Sundance sentence into a manageable condition. institutions that perpetuate it as well Film Festival) follows Robinson into the Despite having no scientific training, as its profound personal and social breach in the struggle for equality. While these self-made activists infiltrated the consequences. resolute in his calling, Robinson grows pharmaceutical industry and helped increasingly critical of the central role identify promising new drugs, moving We meet characters who embraced their that religious institutions have played them from experimental trials to patients service with pride and professionalism, in fostering homophobia and hatred. in record time. With unfettered access only to have their idealism crushed. He is pointedly not invited to a once-a- to a treasure trove of never-before-seen Their chilling stories of violent sexual decade convocation of bishops and courts archival footage from the 1980s and '90s, assault become even more rattling as controversy by attending. His presence filmmaker David France puts the viewer they seek justice in a Kafkaesque military the next year for the Episcopal General smack in the middle of the controversial legal system. As a courageous few Convention underscores the impact of its actions, the heated meetings, the defy victimhood, they face their most impending decisions about the church’s heartbreaking failures, and the exultant challenging fight yet: penetrating a closed stance on the consecration of future gay breakthroughs of heroes in the making. circuit where officers collude, cases are bishops and the performance of same-sex routinely swept under the rug, and few marriage ceremonies. Blisteringly powerful, How to Survive a perpetrators are tried or convicted.—C.L. Plague transports us back to a vital time While Robinson never intended to be the ExP: Regina Kulik Scully, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, poster boy for gay bishops, Love Free or of unbridled death, political indifference, Geralyn Dreyfous, Maria Cuomo Cole, Abigale and staggering resilience and constructs Die demonstrates that he has become a Disney, Nicole Boxer-Keegan Pr: Amy Ziering, beacon of hope for millions. His history- a commanding archetype for activism Tanner King Barklow Ci: Thaddeus Wadleigh, Kirsten today.—D.C. Johnson Ed: Doug Blush, Derek Boonstra making church provides a model for other communities of faith to treat all people ExP: Joy Tomchin, Dan Cogan Pr: David France, with dignity and respect, regardless of Howard Gertler CoP: Henry van Ameringen, Friday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. - INVIS20TA their sexuality.—B.T.

Alan Getz, Peggy Farber, Lindy Linder, Ted Snowdon Temple Theatre, Park City y competition Ed: T. Woody Richman, Tyler Walk Mu: The Red Hot Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - INVIS21IN Pr: Sandra Itkoff Ci: Tom Hurwitz Mu: Paul Brill Organization Salt Lake City Library, SLC So: Peter Miller PicEd: Christopher White Sunday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. - INVIS22MD The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 3:30 p.m. - INVIS25RA

Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - HOWTO22TA Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - LOVEF23TE . s documentar Redstone Cinema 8, Park City u Temple Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. - INVIS28LD Tuesday, January 24, 11:15 a.m. - HOWTO24ED Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. - LOVEF24PN Library Center Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, noon - HOWTO25SD Wednesday, January 25, 3:45 p.m. - LOVEF25BA Screening Room, Sundance Resort Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Thursday, January 26, 8:00 p.m. - HOWTO26MN Thursday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. - LOVEF26PD The MARC, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 12:30 p.m. - HOWTO27RD Saturday, January 28, 2:30 p.m. - LOVEF28MA Redstone Cinema 8, Park City The MARC, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:45 p.m. - HOWTO28BA SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC 23 Marina Abramović ME at the ZOO The Other Dream Team The Artist Is Present DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: Valerie DIRECTOR: Marius Markevicius DIRECTOR: Matthew Akers Veatch, Chris Moukarbel SCREENWRITERS: Marius Markevicius, U.S.A./Serbia/Montenegro, 2011, U.S.A., 2011, 90 min., color Jon Weinbach 104 min., color Lithuania/U.S.A., 2011, 87 min., color & b/w ME at the ZOO tells the fascinating English and Lithuanian with English subtitles Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, modern tale of Chris Crocker, a video Marina Abramović has been redefining blogger from a small town in Tennessee. In 1992 the United States sent the Dream performance art for nearly 40 years. Part of the first generation that came of Team to the Olympic Games in Barcelona. Using her body as a medium, and pushing age under constant self-surveillance, he Considered the greatest basketball herself beyond her physical and mental was raised on the Internet, and his online team ever assembled, these players limits, Abramović creates emotionally videos—including his infamous YouTube were expected to dominate and win the provocative work that transgresses declaration “Leave Britney Alone!”— gold—and that’s exactly what they did. boundaries and expands consciousness. have been viewed hundreds of millions Meanwhile, on another court, a basketball She is, quite simply, one of the most of times. The film weaves a tapestry of team from the newly independent nation compelling artists of our time. Web comments and response videos with of Lithuania was chasing a different kind reactions from Crocker fans and haters to of dream. A tiny country of three million With total access granted by Abramović map the controversial rise of an Internet people, Lithuania won the bronze medal, and the Museum of Modern Art, filmmaker folk hero. beating Russia, its former oppressor. Matthew Akers has created a visually luscious and mesmerizing cinematic This unconventional documentary Filmmaker Marius Markevicius skillfully journey that takes us inside the world excavates a personal story that was crafts an inspirational David-versus- of radical performance. Akers brings written on the Internet and, in the process, Goliath story, bouncing from the personal us close to the curators, collaborators, uncovers an identity indistinguishable from struggles of players living behind the iron lovers, and admirers of the artist. The technology. In this exploration of the way curtain to their astonishing journey out filmmaker also mines Abramović’s creative video sharing and social platforms shape of the clutches of communism into their process and remarkably grants audiences the way we tell our stories and mediate unlikely partnership with the Grateful the coveted experience of sitting our lives, filmmakers Valerie Veatch and Dead and the glory of the summer across from the artist during the most Chris Moukarbel utilize the aesthetic Olympics in Barcelona. The Other Dream important show of her career. Marina imbedded in the story to craft a Team is a triumphant tale of freedom, Abramović The Artist Is Present is both scintillating portrait of a young man who guts, and pride—a rousing testament an intimate portrait and an experiential may be a star, a fad, or a harbinger of to the power of sports as a catalyst for encounter with an astonishingly magnetic, what lies ahead.—T.G. cultural identity.—D.C. endlessly intriguing woman who draws no distinction between life and art.—S.F. ExP: Vin Farrell, Michael Stipe, Jim McKay, Pr: Marius Markevicius, Jon Weinbach CoP: Linas Rachel Grady Pr: Nicholas Shumaker, Jack Turner Ryskus, Jennifer Cochis Ci: Jesse Feldman, Bo ExP: Sheila Nevins, Nancy Abraham Pr: Jeff Dupre, CoP: Alex Mar Bilstrup Ed: Dan Marks, Curtiss Clayton AsE: David Maro Chermayeff Ci: Matthew Akers Ed: E. Donna Canseco Mu: Dustin O'Halloran Shepherd Mu: Nathan Halpern CoEd: Jim Hesion Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - MEZOO21TN Preceded by Hilary’s Straws

y competition Temple Theatre, Park City Director: Phil Cox United Kindom, 2011, 3 min., color Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. - MARIN20TN Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - MEZOO22SE Temple Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. - MARIN21TM Monday, January 23, 11:45 a.m. - MEZOO23MD Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. - OTHER21TA Temple Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City

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u Sunday, January 22, noon - MARIN22SD Sunday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. - OTHER22RE Screening Room, Sundance Resort Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Monday, January 23, 3:45 p.m. - MARIN23BA Thursday, January 26, 7:00 p.m. - MEZOO26RE Wednesday, January 25, 11:30 a.m. - OTHER25MD Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Redstone Cinema 7, Park City The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 p.m. - MARIN25LN Saturday, January 28, 2:30 p.m. - MEZOO28PA Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - OTHER27WN Library Center Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Thursday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. - MARIN26RN Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - OTHER28TA Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

24 The Queen of Versailles Slavery by Another Name We're Not Broke DIRECTOR: Lauren Greenfield DIRECTOR: Sam Pollard DIRECTORS: Karin Hayes, Victoria Bruce U.S.A., 2012, 100 min., color SCREENWRITER: Sheila Bernard U.S.A., 2012, 81 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 87 min., color & b/w With the epic dimensions of a With the United States in the grip of the Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Sam Pollard performs a remarkable worst economic recession since the Great Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and act of historical reclamation in this Depression and an unprecedented budget David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the documentary, recounting the many ways deficit, the conclusion that our country innate virtues and flaws of the American in which American slavery persisted as a is broke seems unquestionable. At least dream. We open on the triumphant practice many decades after its supposed that's what politicians and pundits want construction of the biggest house in abolition. It is a story impressive in its ordinary citizens to believe. America, a sprawling, 90,000-square- sweep and alarming in the way that foot mansion inspired by Versailles. Since its larger theme—an American moral Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce's searing a booming time-share business built on failure—has been obscured in history. exposé reveals that, strangely absent from the real-estate bubble is financing it, this rhetoric, is the infuriating fact that the economic crisis brings progress to a Facing economic catastrophe under multibillion-dollar corporations are based halt and seals the fate of its owners. We Reconstruction, as well as freed black in the U.S., make money from American witness the impact of this turn of fortune citizens’ political and social ascendancy, consumers, and often even receive lucrative over the next two years in a riveting film southern states found effective tactics to contracts from the government, yet pay fraught with delusion, denial, and self- continue forced servitude in new modes. nothing in U.S. income taxes. By exploiting effacing humor. Techniques such as peonage (forced labor tax-law loopholes and spending millions on to pay off debts), leasing convicts to lobbyists to pressure politicians to protect Lauren Greenfield instinctively knows private business, or forcing convict labor their interests, corporations pocket billions what questions to ask, when to ask in state-run enterprises subjected newly while the less-connected middle class them, and, more importantly, where to freed American citizens to inescapable disappears, and the poor get poorer. put her camera to mine this overflowing conditions that insidiously operated under treasure of events. She constructs a more palatable names than slavery. We're Not Broke explores how the series of glowing metaphors to concoct government has allowed this inequality to a fascinating character study of parents, Pollard recounts this slowly evolving develop and the growing wave of discontent children, pets, and household employees hidden history, including the activism that it has fostered. Presaging the larger as their privileged existence turns upside that powerfully confronted it, with a wave of protests from the international down. The end result is a portrait of a stirring combination of photographs, Occupy movement, the film follows a couple who dared to dream big but lose, reenactments, and the testimony of key number of activists who have had enough still maintaining their unique brand of historians, bringing to light many shocking and are demanding that corporations humility.—J.C. details, but more importantly redefining finally pay their fair share.—B.T. “emancipation” in history and American ExP: Frank Evers, Dan Cogan Pr: Lauren Greenfield, political life.—S.K. ExP: Charles G. Davidson Pr: Karin Hayes, Victoria Danielle Renfrew Behrens CoP: Rebecca Horn Black Bruce AsP: Paul Rachman Ci: Bryan Litt Ed: Cindy Ci: Tom Hurwitz Ed: Victor Livingston Mu: Jeff Beal ExP: Catherine Allan, Douglas A. Blackmon Pr: Sam Lee Mu: Dan Radlauer, Bart Samolis Pollard, Joyce Vaughn Ci: Andrew Young Ed: Jason Langston Pollard Mu: Michael Bacon Preceded by The Debutante Hunters y competition Thursday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. - QUEEN19CE Director: Maria White Eccles Theatre, Park City U.S.A., 2011, 12 min., color Friday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. - QUEEN20TM Monday, January 23, noon - SLAVE23TD Temple Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. - WEREN22TN . s documentar

Saturday, January 21, 3:30 p.m. - QUEEN21GA u Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. - SLAVE24YM Temple Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 4:00 p.m. - WEREN24RA Tuesday, January 24, noon - QUEEN24YD Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - SLAVE26YN Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 6:45 p.m. - WEREN25BE Friday, January 27, 8:30 p.m. - QUEEN27MN Friday, January 27, 3:45 p.m. - SLAVE27BA Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC The MARC, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Thursday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. - WEREN26MD Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - QUEEN28SA Saturday, January 28, noon - SLAVE28TD The MARC, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. - WEREN27SA Screening Room, Sundance Resort

Saturday, January 28, 9:00 a.m. - WEREN28TM SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Temple Theatre, Park City 25 COMPETITION COMPETITION WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC From all corners of the globe, these emerging filmmaking talents offer fresh perspectives and inventive styles. We present these exceptional works as a way to honor the independent About the Pink Sky Can spirit in Momoiro sora o DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER/producer: filmmakers DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Raşit Çelikezer everywhere. Keiichi Kobayashi Turkey, 2011, 106 min., color Japan, 2011, 113 min., b/w Turkish with English subtitles Japanese with English subtitles Loving Istanbul couple Ayşe and Cemal Izumi, a headstrong high-school girl need only a child to complete their life with a cheerfully cynical outlook—she together, but they cannot conceive. To routinely “rates” the newspaper by salvage Cemal’s pride, they resort to assigning articles positive or negative illegal means to procure a baby. This wild values—finds a wallet containing 300,000 grab at a more perfect life proves their yen (almost $4,000) and the owner’s ID: undoing, leading the couple to spiral Sato, a wealthy high-school boy. Instead toward separate futures. The couple's of returning it, Izumi lends a hefty sum estrangement is intertwined with the to an older fishing buddy with financial film’s parallel narrative, in which a distant problems. Her classmates Hasumi and and neglectful single mom is raising her Kaoru later force her to return the wallet little boy, Can. to Sato, but, unable to account for all of the money, Izumi agrees to help him Director/screenwriter Raşit Çelikezer console a friend in the hospital by creating conjures up a compelling tale about a newspaper containing only “good news.” family, pride, and what we risk when we fail to value what we have. The veteran Keiichi Kobayashi’s serene, coming-of-age Turkish cast, including Selen Uçer as Ayşe story avoids the customary trappings of and Serdar Orçin as Cemal, allows our teen culture and genre with a pronounced understanding of each character to evolve sense of quiet. With its lively, black-and- throughout the story. Can honors the white cinematography and long takes, tradition of Yeşilçam—shorthand for the Kobayashi’s aesthetic—drained of color Golden Age of Turkish Cinema. As such, and clutter—feels like a dream or a Can infuses its traditional premise with distant memory. About the Pink Sky owes an inventive storytelling structure and its underlying energy to the young actors a fresh take on family sorrows as old as (all newcomers) with real chemistry, time.—H.Z. who deftly balance the quirky humor, teenage uncertainty, and subtle shifts in CoP: Burak Akidil, Umman Küçükyılmaz adolescent consciousness.—J.N. Ci: Ali Özel Ed: Ahmet Can Cakirca ArD: Ayşen Gürevin Karaytuğ Mu: Tamer Ciray Principal Cast: Selen Uçer, Serdar Orçin, ExP: Hiroshi Harada So: Nariyuki Hidaka Berkan Demirbag, Erkan Avci Ti: Kiyoshi Tsuchiya Pmg: Sho Matsushima, Brian Masato Kobo Mgr: Norihiko Miyazaki Intp: Brian Masato Kobo Principal Cast: Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara, Tsubasa Takayama, Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - CANNN23EN Hakusyu Togetsuan. Egyptian Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. - CANNN24BA Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Wednesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. - CANNN25YA Friday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. - APINK20EA Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 7:00 p.m. - CANNN264E Saturday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. - APINK21YM Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, noon - CANNN28YD Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - APINK22IA Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library, SLC Thursday, January 26, 1:00 p.m. - APINK26RD Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Friday, January 27, 10:00 p.m. - APINK274N

SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City

26 An Education Father's Chair Four Suns L A Cadeira do Pai Čtyři Slunce DIRECTOR: Babis Makridis DIRECTOR: Luciano Moura DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Bohdan Sláma SCREENWRITERS: Efthimis Filippou, SCREENWRITERS: Elena Soarez, Czech Republic, 2011, 105 min., color Babis Makridis Luciano Moura Czech with English subtitles Greece, 2012, 87 min., color Brazil, 2012, 88 min., color Greek with English subtitles Portuguese with English subtitles Jára lives in a cramped apartment with his wife, Jana, their toddler, and Véna, his L begins with an ode to being a bear and Theo is living the good life in an teenage son from a previous marriage. A ends with an ode to the sea. What happens upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a man who has never actually grown up, Jára in between constitutes one of the more hardworking doctor, husband, and father. loses his job at a factory when he’s caught original, willfully bizarre films of the year. However, Theo has chosen his career over smoking pot, and his wife’s patience is his family, and little by little he discovers wearing thin. Jára spends too much time A man lives in his car. He’s 40 and that his world is crumbling around him. with his friend, Karel, an oddball, New Age separated from his wife and kids, who His beloved mentor and surrogate father mystic. Jana, meanwhile, tries to connect live in a different car. They meet in is dying, and his wife announces that she with Véna, who has started drinking, parking lots. A professional driver, the wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares skipping school, and hanging out with some man delivers honey to a narcoleptic man him for the day when he comes home to disaffected punks. Nevertheless, Jára and often dreams of his friend, who was discover that his 15-year-old son, Pedro, decides to go along on a road trip to find killed when a hunter mistook him for a has disappeared. Theo takes to the road Karel’s spiritual master. bear. Frequently late delivering honey, in search of his son. In a journey that leads the man is fired, and his driving skills him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers Bohdan Sláma’s sensibility stems from a are questioned. Thrust into existential what really matters to him. Searching for tender view of ordinary people and their uncertainty, he abandons “car life” and his missing son, Theo finds himself. inability to see themselves. Like Mike joins a rogue motorbike gang. Leigh, Sláma uncannily creates characters Director Luciano Moura digs into the that are distinctive, even eccentric, Cowriter/director Babis Makridis and complex, at times exquisite, and often without seeming contrived. Although cowriter Efthimis Filippou (Dogtooth, emotionally challenging relationship his characters wrestle with selfishness, Alps) propel us into a funky, surreal between parents and children that can infidelity, and despair, they share an world of deadpan absurdism. Beneath define our destiny. With a heartrending, inexplicable, innate optimism; a glimpse the postmodern detachment lies a quiet multifaceted performance from Wagner of inner light. In this delicately framed human struggle. Facing absurd existences, Moura as Theo, Father’s Chair takes us on a reflection on happiness, Sláma constructs these characters are trying: to be better road trip into the depths of humanity.—D.C. a story that feels effortless and even drivers, to be better bears. Even the score, magical. Maybe Karel’s mystic stones a flawed rendition of Moonlight Sonata, is Pr: Fernando Meirelles, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, aren’t so far off the mark.—J.N. trying to be better.—J.N. Bel Berlinck Ci: Adrian Teijido Ed: Lucas Gonzaga ArD: The MARCelo Escañuela Mu: Beto Villares Pr: Pavel Strnad Ci: Divis Marek Ed: Jan Danhel Pr: Amanda Livanou, Babis Makridis Ca: Francisco Accioly Principal Cast: Wagner Moura, So: Jan Cenek Principal Cast: Jaroslav Plesl, Aňa Ci: Thimios Bakatakis Ed: Yannis Chalkiadakis Mariana Lima, Lima Duarte, Brás Antunes Geislerová, Karel Roden, Jiří Mádl, Klára Melíšková ArD: Dafni Kalogianni Mu: Coti K So: Costas Fylaktidis Principal Cast: Aris Servetalis, Makis Papadimitriou, Lefteris Mathaios, Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. - FATHR20EE Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. - 4SUNS21EE Nota Tserniafski, Stavros Raptis Egyptian Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 4:00 p.m. - FATHR21RA Sunday, January 22, 12:30 p.m. - 4SUNS22RD Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Monday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. - LLLLL23EE Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - FATHR22BE Egyptian Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. - 4SUNS26PM competition cinema dramatic world Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. - LLLLL24TN Wednesday, January 25, 5:30 p.m. - FATHR25ME Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - 4SUNS26BN Temple Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. - LLLLL25BE Friday, January 27, 8:30 a.m. - FATHR27PM Friday, January 27, 4:00 p.m. - 4SUNS274A Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:15 a.m. - LLLLL272M Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - FATHR28BA Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. - LLLLL27SE Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 28, 1:00 p.m. - LLLLL28RD Redstone Cinema 7, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL 27 The Last Elvis Madrid, 1987 My Brother the Devil El Ultimo Elvis DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: David Trueba DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Sally El Hosaini DIRECTOR: Armando Bo Spain, 2011, 104 min., color United Kingdom, 2011, 105 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Nicolás Giacobone, Spanish with English subtitles Armando Bo Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive Argentina, 2011, 92 min., color On a hot summer day in Madrid during boy whose hunger for the rant and Spanish with English subtitles a significant year of social and political banter of buddies makes him prone to transition in Spain, Miguel, a revered older tread dangerous territories. He idolizes In the unique world of the Buenos Aires journalist, meets with a beautiful young his handsome older brother, Rashid, a celebrity-impersonator scene, “Elvis” student, Ángela, in a café. She wants charismatic, well-respected member of Gutiérrez is a star. By day, though, he to interview him for a project. He, with a local gang, whose drug dealing enables must contend with a dead-end factory sexual intentions, suggests they go to his “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to job and an ex-wife who worries about friend’s studio nearby. Somehow they end be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes how his obsessive behavior affects their up locked in a bathroom together, naked, a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events young daughter, Lisa Marie. Feeling more with no rescue in sight. Removed from the and forces the brothers to confront their connected to his persona as the King than outside world, the pair, who represent inner demons. It turns out that hate is to his own family, Gutiérrez retreats from polarized generations, begin a complex easy. It is love and understanding that reality until a tragic accident interrupts duel. On the surface, it seems a setup take real courage. his plans and forces him to grapple with of unequal age, intellect, ambition, and his real-world responsibilities. experience, but over 24 hours, power and Sally El Hosaini proves herself a bold and desire transfer from person to person. brilliant new directorial talent with this Armando Bo’s stylish, yet tender, gorgeous and masterful debut. Rich in feature debut illuminates the glamour Madrid, 1987 focuses on two characters beauty, humility, and authenticity, My and grace that a stage can bring to any who embody the duality of their times. Brother the Devil is an urban tale that performer with the soul of an artist. Veteran actor José Sacristán and María burns with vision and passion—a gem The Last Elvis, buttressed by a stunning Valverde portray the vulnerability of bound to find a place of distinction.—S.F. central performance by real-life Elvis their characters’ situation unforgettably. tribute artist John McInerny, imbues Writer/director David Trueba, who made ExP: Sally El Hosaini, Mohamed Hefzy Pr: Gayle its protagonist with depth and dignity, Madrid, 1987 independently in Spain, Griffiths, Julia Godzinskaya, Michael Sackler Ci: David Raedeker Ed: Iain Kitching PrD: Stephane creating a realistic portrait of a broken skillfully pares down his film into a Collonge Mu: Stuart Earl Principal Cast: James man who seeks shelter in his dreams. As layered look at a fleeting and uncommon Floyd, Saïd Taghmaoui, Fady Elsayed our Elvis takes flight within the King’s connection made across one of life’s music, so, too, does the film around divides.—K.Y. him.—H.Z. Sunday, January 22, 8:30 p.m. - MYBRO22PN Pr: Jessica Huppert Berman Ci: Leonor Rodríguez Prospector Square Theatre, Park City ExP: Patricio Alvarez Casado, Matias Mosteirin Ed: Marta Velasco Mu: Irene Tremblay, David Tuesday, January 24, 9:45 p.m. - MYBRO24BN Pr: Steve Golin, Hugo Sigman Ci: Javier Julia Trueba So: Álvaro Silva AtD: Ignacio Gabasa Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Ed: Patricio Pena Principal Cast: John McInerny, Principal Cast: José Sacristán, María Valverde, Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. - MYBRO25YM Griselda Siciliani, Margarita Lopez Ramon Fontserè Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, noon - MYBRO26SD Screening Room, Sundance Resort Monday, January 23, 8:30 p.m. - LASTE23PN Friday, January 20, 2:30 p.m. - MADRI20PA Friday, January 27, 2:30 p.m. - MYBRO27MA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. - LASTE25PM Saturday, January 21, noon - MADRI21SD Saturday, January 28, 12:15 p.m. - MYBRO28RD Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Thursday, January 26, 3:45 p.m. - LASTE26BA Sunday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. - MADRI22TM competition cinema dramatic world Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. - LASTE27RN Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. - MADRI24WE Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 28, 4:00 p.m. - LASTE284A Friday, January 27, 5:30 p.m. - MADRI27PE Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 11:30 a.m. - MADRI281M Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

28 Teddy Bear Valley of Saints Violeta Went to Heaven DIRECTOR: Mads Matthiesen DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Musa Syeed Violeta se fue a los cielos SCREENWRITERS: Mads Matthiesen, India/U.S.A., 2012, 82 min., color DIRECTOR: Andrés Wood Martin Pieter Zandvliet English and Kashmiri with English subtitles SCREENWRITER: Eliseo Altunaga Denmark, 2011, 93 min., color Chile/Argentina/Brazil/Spain, 2011, Danish with English subtitles Widely considered to be the crown 110 min., color & b/w jewel of Kashmir, Dal Lake is a sprawling Spanish/French with English subtitles In the opening moments of Teddy Bear, a aquatic community where erupting colossal, laconic man tries and fails, over political violence often distracts from Like a Chilean Edith Piaf or Bob Dylan, shrimp cocktail, to make small talk with the natural beauty. Gulzar, a , working- Violeta Parra was a folksinger and pop his date. Such is the fascinating paradox class boatman, plans to skip town with culture icon whose songs, like “Gracias a la of Dennis, a champion bodybuilder whose his best friend in search of a better life, Vida,” expressed the soul of her nation and impressive physical prowess does not but a weeklong military curfew derails protested social injustice. Violeta Went to defeat his social discomfort or solitude. At their departure. Forced to wait it out, Heaven tells Parra’s extraordinary story, home after the date, Dennis reflexively lies Gulzar takes a job assisting a pretty tracing her evolution from impoverished when a voice behind a door questions his scientist named Asifa. As they navigate child to international sensation to Chile’s whereabouts. That voice, we soon learn, the floating landscape, collecting water national hero, while capturing the swirling belongs to Dennis’s fragile, birdlike mother, samples for an environmental study, an intensity of her inner contradictions, who wields a powerful hold on his heart. unlikely relationship blossoms between fallibilities, and passions. This maternal anchor by no means allays his the two. When Asifa’s research reveals chronic longing for love, so he musters the harmful pollutants, Gulzar realizes that Director Andrés Wood, whose films are courage to embark on a quest. In Thailand, the ecology of the lake and an entire distinguished for crystallizing Chile’s amid sex tourists, monolithic hotels, and way of life face an alarming threat, and zeitgeist, wisely moves beyond linear local gym rats, Dennis begins to overcome everything in his own life begins to take on biography, drawing on an impressionistic his fears and personal limitations. a new hue. structure and a reverberating performance by actress Francisca Gavilán, to unearth Watching Dennis’s quiet revolution gather Lush cinematography heightens the elusive, charged core of this magnetic steam transfixes us in this subtle, moving the region’s visual splendor in this character. Wood evocatively interweaves story about integrity, the inherent strength enlightening feature debut from Musa key set pieces from Parra’s life—her humble in gentleness, and what it means to be Syeed. Intricately weaving contemporary family roots, her Paris foray as a celebrated dutiful to oneself.—C.L. issues with traditional culture and ancient visual artist, her travels through Chile to myths, Valley of Saints is a vibrant, lyrical preserve disappearing traditional culture, ExP: Karoline Leth, Birgitte Skov, Michael Fleischer, film about finding one’s path home in a her tenuous hold on motherhood, and her Morten Revsgaard Frederiksen Pr: Morten Kjems changing world.—C.D. tumultuous love life. And then there’s the Juhl Ci: Laust Trier-Mørk Ed: Adam Nielsen PrD: Thomas Bremer, Boontawee "Tor" Taweepasas music. Violeta’s heart-wrenching, indelible Pr: Nicholas Bruckman Ci: Yoni Brook Ed: Musa So: Peter Albrechtsen Principal Cast: Kim songs permeate this film, and they will Syeed, Mary Manhart, Ray Hubley Mu: Mubashir Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee penetrate the viewer’s soul.—C.D. Mohi-ud-Din Principal Cast: Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Hougaard, David Winters, Allan Mogensen Mohammed Afzal Sofi, Neelofar Hamid. ExP: Patricio Pereira, Pablo Rovito, Fernando Preceded by Long Distance Sokolowicz, Denise Gomes, Paula Cosenza Pr: Patricio information Pereira Ci: Miguel Ioann Littin Ed: Andrea Chignoli Director: Douglas Hart Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - VALLE23YE PrD: Rodrigo Bazaes So: Miguel Hormazábal United Kingdom, 2011, 8 min., color Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Principal Cast: Francisca Gavilán, Thomas Durand, Wednesday, January 25, noon - VALLE25ED Luis Machín, Gabriela Aguilera, Roberto Farías Egyptian Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 12:30 p.m. - VALLE26RD

Sunday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. - TEDDY22PA competition cinema dramatic world Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. - VIOLE20EN Thursday, January 26, 9:45 p.m. - VALLE26BN Tuesday, January 24, 10:00 p.m. - TEDDY24RN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Saturday, January 21, 1:00 p.m. - VIOLE21RD Friday, January 27, 10:00 a.m. - VALLE274M Thursday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. - TEDDY26PE Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - VIOLE22BA Friday, January 27, 9:00 a.m. - TEDDY27YM Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 5:30 p.m. - VIOLE26LE Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - TEDDY28WA Library Center Theatre, Park City

Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 28, 1:00 p.m. - VIOLE284D SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City 29 Wish You Were Here Wrong Young & Wild DIRECTOR: Kieran Darcy-Smith DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR: Marialy Rivas SCREENWRITERS: Kieran Darcy-Smith, Quentin Dupieux SCREENWRITERS: Marialy Rivas, Felicity Price France/U.S.A., 2011, 94 min., color Camila Gutiérrez, Pedro Peirano Australia, 2011, 93 min., color Chile, 2011, 90 min*., color Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to Spanish with English subtitles Expectant parents Alice and Dave join realize he has lost the love of his life, his Alice’s younger sister, Steph, and her dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul Daniela is a petite, pretty teenager raised new boyfriend, Jeremy, on an impromptu (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes in the bosom of a strict and well-to-do tropical getaway in Cambodia. But the lives of others: a pizza-delivering evangelical family in Santiago, Chile. following Jeremy’s abrupt disappearance, nymphomaniac, a jogging-addict Daniela is also a 17-year-old who finds the others must attempt to return to their neighbor in search of completeness, an that her raging sexual drive is difficult to normal lives in Sydney. The shell-shocked opportunistic French-Mexican gardener, reconcile with the orders of her religion. survivors' recovery begins to fall apart and an off-kilter pet detective. In his With no outlet for her desire, Daniela taps when a stinging truth about their time journey to find Paul, Dolph may lose into a rampant underground network in Cambodia is revealed. The three must something even more vital—his mind. of other horny teenagers through her contend with the fallout, along with the sexually charged blog. As she types the looming threat of further revelations Quentin Dupieux created a stir at the gospel of her life as a fornicator online, about that fateful night. 2010 Cannes Film Festival with Rubber, Daniela still goes to church and prays to a film about a killer tire. He has crafted Jesus, “Lord, see to it that Mother doesn’t With a nonlinear time line used to a follow-up that is equally bizarre, yet type youngandwild.blogspot.com!” maximum effect, and each actor realizing entrancing. Wrong overturns cinematic two distinct versions of a character— conventions and the universe within the Director Marialy Rivas’s handsome before and after the vacation from film. Preconceived notions about life and debut feature is a playful and energetic hell—Kieran Darcy-Smith successfully storytelling are altered to a humorous, coming-of-age story about a young orchestrates a remarkably ambitious disorienting, yet ultimately illuminating woman who refuses to make choices that feature debut. Anchored by Joel effect. In doing so, Wrong makes us limit her pleasure. Brought to life by an Edgerton’s impeccable performance as question those we blindly trust. With a attractive cast, led by the enigmatic Alicia Dave, a man desperate to cling to his hand in nearly every facet of filmmaking, Rodríguez, Young & Wild romps through shattered family, the intense and stylish Dupieux proves himself a mad, colossally the burning fires of religious fervor Wish You Were Here is a searing refutation talented visionary who delightfully and youthful sexual energy to deliver of the notion that what happens on refuses to play by the rules.—T.G. a delightful portrait of contemporary vacation can’t follow us home.—H.Z. teenage life in Santiago.—S.F. Pr: Gregory Bernard, Charles-Marie Anthonioz Pr: Angie Fielder Ci: Jules O'Loughlin Ed: Jason CoP: Gregoire Melin, Nicolas Lhermitte, Josef Lieck, ExP: Mariane Hartard, Juan Ignacio Correa Pr: Juan Ballantine PrD: Alex Holmes Mu: Tim Rogers Diane Jassem, Kevos Van Der Meiren Ci/Ed: Quentin de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín Ci: Sergio Armstrong CoD: Joanna Park Principal Cast: Joel Edgerton, Dupieux PrD: Joan Le Boru Mu: Tahiti Boy, Mr. Oizo Ed: Andrea Chignoli, Sebastián Sepúlveda Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price, Antony Starr Principal Cast: Jack Plotnick, Eric Judor, ArD: Polin Garbisu So: Roberto Espinoza Alexis Dziena, Steve Little, William Fichtner Principal Cast: Alicia Rodríguez, Aline Kuppenheim, María Gracia Omegna, Felipe Pinto Thursday, January 19, 6:30 p.m. - WISHY19LE Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. - WRONG21PN Friday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. - WISHY20CM Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 12:15 p.m. - YOUNG21PD Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 9:45 p.m. - WRONG22BN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. - WISHY20WE Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Sunday, January 22, 6:45 p.m. - YOUNG22BE Tower Theatre, SLC Tuesday, January 24, midnight - WRONG24EL Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC competition cinema dramatic world Saturday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. - WISHY21OE Egyptian Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 10:00 p.m. - YOUNG23RN Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. - WRONG26YA Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 5:30 p.m. - WISHY25LE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 8:30 p.m. - YOUNG26PN Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, noon - WRONG27YD Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 4:00 p.m. - WISHY27RA Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, midnight - YOUNG27EL Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

30 ½ REVOLUTION DIRECTORS: Omar Shargawi, Karim El Hakim Denmark/Egypt, 2011, 72 min., color Arabic/Danish/English with English subtitles

January 2011—downtown Cairo—a close- knit group of activist friends struggle to stay alive and stick together as waves of Made by some of the most courageous and extraordinary filmmakers protests escalate around them in their working today, these films from around the world poignantly examine neighborhood near Tahrir Square during issues that range from the personal to the universal. the first chaotic days of the Egyptian revolution. Armed with cameras and focused determination, directors Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim take to the streets to capture historic events out of view of the world’s media. What emerges is an astonishing cry for unity. As the violence and uncertainty build, Karim and his young family’s apartment becomes ground zero. Friends and neighbors flock together, fighting to survive the counterpunches thrown by police and the armed gangs of thugs swarming the streets below their balcony.

½ Revolution is a visceral, fiercely immediate, handheld testimony, told through a string of spontaneous stolen moments that allow the viewer the front seat ride of a lifetime in a revolution that continues to unfold before our eyes.—D.C.

Pr: Carsten Holst AsP: Philippe Dip Ed: Per Sandholt, Jeppe Bødskov, Thomas Papapetros Mu: Anders Christensen So: Alex Pavlovic

Friday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. - 1/2RE20EM y competition Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 12:45 p.m. - 1/2RE21BD Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - 1/2RE21YN Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - 1/2RE22SA Screening Room, Sundance Resort Wednesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. - 1/2RE25EA

Egyptian Theatre, Park City cinema documentar world Friday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. - 1/2RE27RE Redstone Cinema 8, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

Senna 31 5 Broken Cameras THE AMBASSADOR BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: DIRECTOR: Mads Brügger DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Fredrik Gertten Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi SCREENWRITERS: Mads Brügger, Sweden, 2012, 88 min., color Palestine/Israel/France, 2011, 85 min., Maja Jul Larsen English and Swedish with English subtitles color & b/w Denmark, 2011, 97 min., color Arabic/Hebrew with English subtitles In April 2009, Swedish filmmakers Fredrik An enigmatic and decadent white diplomat Gertten and Margarete Jangård learned Five broken cameras—and each one arrives in central Africa sporting dark that the world premiere of BANANAS!*— has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded glasses, riding boots, and a cigarette their documentary about a lawsuit against in the bullet-ridden remains of digital holder. He has recently bought an the Dole Food Company—would take place technology is the story of Emad Burnat, ambassadorship and claims to be a do- at a major film festival in Los Angeles. a farmer from the Palestinian village of good rich businessman spearheading Within weeks, they were embroiled in Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent a diplomatic mission. Officially, he is a legal and public-relations battle to resistance when the Israeli army there to start a factory that will employ save their premiere, their film, their encroached upon its land to make room locals to produce matches. Unofficially, reputations, and their freedom of speech. for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first he has really come to gain access to camera in 2005 to document the birth of the area’s vast reserves of diamonds. While censorship is, sadly, nothing new, its his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of It soon becomes apparent that, in this insidious power gains startling immediacy the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist postcolonial economy, nearly everyone by playing out in front of Gertten's of an escalating struggle as olive trees is out to rip off everyone else, and the camera. The filmmakers find themselves are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall dangers become all too real. painted as villains due to Dole's shrewd PR is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli moves—even before their film has been settlements. Mads Brügger returns to the Sundance screened. Gertten takes the offensive, Film Festival (The Red Chapel won the filing a countersuit and media campaign Gibreel’s loss of innocence and the World Dramatic Jury Prize in 2010) with of his own to confront Dole’s overgrown destruction of each camera are potent yet another brilliant example of gonzo schoolyard bully tactics. metaphors in a deeply personal filmmaking. Armed with a diplomatic documentary that vividly portrays a passport, a hidden camera, and his As demonstrated over the past several conflict many of us think we know. Emad razor-sharp wit, he risks life and limb months in actions held around the Burnat, a Palestinian, joins forces with to uncover deep-rooted corruption that globe, corporations are being taken to Guy Davidi, an Israeli, and—from the allows others to continue to get rich from task for their disproportionate political wreckage of five broken cameras—two Africa’s resources. THE AMBASSADOR and financial influence. BIG BOYS GONE filmmakers create one extraordinary work is a genre-breaking tragicomedy that BANANAS!* is a telling case study of the of art.—D.C. establishes Brügger as a singular voice in power of individuals to fight back.—B.T. the documentary world.—T.G. Pr: Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Pr: Margarete Jangård Ci: Frank Pineda, Gabriel Noguez, Jason Wawro, Joseph Aguirre, y competition Burnat, Guy Davidi Ci: Emad Burnat Mu: Le Trio ExP: Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Peter Garde Joubran So: Amélie Canini Pr: Peter Engel, Carsten Holst AsP: Julie Elmquist Kiki Allgeier Ed: Jesper Osmund, Benjamin E. Neergaard Ed: Carsten Søsted, Kimmo Taavila, Binderup, Nils Pagh Andersen AsE: Emma Svensson Leif Axel Kjeldsen Mu: Niklas Schak, Tin Soheili Mu: Conny Malmqvist, Dan "Gisen" Malmquist Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - 5BROK23YN Ph: Johan Stahl Winthereik So: Alexander Thörnqvist Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 3:45 p.m. - 5BROK24BA Preceded by Meet Mr. Toilet Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. - AMBAS20SN Director: Jessica Yu Wednesday, January 25, noon - 5BROK25YD Screening Room, Sundance Resort U.S.A., 2011, 3 min., color Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City

cinema documentar world Saturday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. - AMBAS21PE Thursday, January 26, 1:00 p.m. - 5BROK264D Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. - BIGBO20PN Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. - AMBAS24TE Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. - 5BROK281M Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 9:45 p.m. - BIGBO21BN Holiday Village Cinema 1, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. - AMBAS26YM Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 1:00 p.m. - BIGBO22RD Friday, January 27, 1:00 p.m. - AMBAS27RD Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. - BIGBO26TM Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - AMBAS28IA Temple Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library, SLC SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Friday, January 27, 12:15 p.m. - BIGBO272D Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City 32 China Heavyweight GYPSY DAVY The Imposter DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Yung Chang DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR: Bart Layton Canada/China, 2012, 89 min., color Rachel Leah Jones United Kingdom, 2011, 95 min., color Chinese/Sichuanese with English subtitles Israel/U.S.A./Spain, 2011, 96 min., color & b/w English and Spanish with English subtitles It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears In southwestern China, state athletic from his home in San Antonio, Texas. coaches scour the countryside to recruit How does a white boy with Alabama Three and a half years later, he is found poor, rural teenagers who demonstrate roots become a flamenco guitarist in alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. a natural ability to throw a good punch. Andalusian boots, and what happens Disoriented and quivering with fear, he Moved into boxing training centers, these behind the scenes along the way? GYPSY divulges his shocking story of kidnap boys and girls undergo a rigorous regimen DAVY uncoils a mesmerizing story of many and torture. His family is overjoyed to that grooms them to be China’s next hearts wound around one man. Traveling bring him home. But all is not what it Olympic heroes but also prepares them across continents and through a labyrinth seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, for life outside the ring. As these young of hidden meanings, filmmaker Rachel but he looks decidedly different, and he boxers develop, the allure of turning Leah Jones documents her beguiling now speaks with a strange accent. Why professional for personal gain and glory journey toward her elusive father. As she doesn't the family seem to notice these competes with the main philosophy retraces his path, she pioneers a new one glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an behind their training—to represent their for herself. investigator starts asking questions that country. Interconnected with their story this astounding true story takes an even is that of their charismatic coach, Qi Free of sentimentality or self-indulgence, stranger turn. Moxiang, who—now in his late thirties and Jones's wry, self-reflective narration determined to win back lost honor—trains provides a compass for navigating one Like his canny subject, gifted filmmaker for a significant fight. family’s knotted web of mysteries and Bart Layton pulls off an astonishing coup. betrayals. As the revelations mount, Buoyed by eye-catching dramatizations China Heavyweight artfully captures the her editing ingeniously interlocks time and an enthralling structure that playfulness among the trainees, their sequences, characters, and archival crisscrosses time and place, The Imposter grueling conditioning, and the guiding material into a resounding and life- unfolds as a gripping thriller that leaves principle that athletic achievement is for affirming whole. Her father’s yearning, us dizzy, yet certain that truth is, indeed, their country, rather than themselves. hypnotic guitar score serves as the stranger than fiction.—D.C. Director Yung Chang returns to the connective tissue throughout the film, Sundance Film Festival (Up the Yangtze immersing us in his primary and most ExP: John Battsek, Simon Chinn, Molly Thompson, screened in 2008) with an intimately enduring love affair: his music. What once Katherine Butler, Bob DeBitetto Pr: Dimitri Doganis CoP: Poppy Dixon, Vanessa Tovell Ci: Erik Alexander observed film that both explores and pulled a family apart now binds a film Wilson, Lynda Hall Ed: Andrew Hulme reflects social change and development in together, and perhaps a tangled collection Mu: Anne Nikitin modern China.—K.Y. of souls into kin. —C.L.

ExP: Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross, Lixin Fan Pr/Ci: Philippe Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones Monday, January 23, 5:30 p.m. - IMPOS23PE y competition Pr: Bob Moore, Peter Wintonick CoP: Yi Han, Qi Zhao Ed: Rachel Leah Jones, Erez Laufer Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Ci: Shaoguang Sun Ed: Hannele Halm, Xi Feng Mu: David Serva Jones So: Isaac Cohen Wednesday, January 25, noon - IMPOS25TD Mu: Olivier Alary Temple Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - IMPOS26WN Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. - GYPSY24YA Tower Theatre, SLC Sunday, January 22, 6:00 p.m. - CHINA22YE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 8:30 a.m. - IMPOS27LM Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - GYPSY25TN Library Center Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - CHINA23BE Temple Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:15 p.m. - IMPOS282A Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City

Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Thursday, January 26, 10:00 a.m. - GYPSY264M cinema documentar world Tuesday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. - CHINA24RE Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. - GYPSY27BA Thursday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. - CHINA26EM Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 4:00 p.m. - GYPSY28RA Friday, January 27, 12:15 p.m. - CHINA27TD Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - CHINA27SN Screening Room, Sundance Resort SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

33 Indie Game: The Movie The Law in These Parts Payback a film by Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky Shilton Ha Chok DIRECTOR/WRITER: Jennifer Baichwal Canada, 2011, 103 min., color DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Canada, 2011, 82 min., color Ra'anan Alexandrowicz With the twenty-first century comes a new Israel, 2011, 101 min., color & b/w Jennifer Baichwal’s brilliant breed of struggling independent artist: Hebrew with English subtitles documentaries exemplify the alignment the indie game designer. Refusing to toil of form with content as she imaginatively for major developers, these innovators “This film is not about the people who transposes other artists’ work into the independently conceive, design, and broke the law, but about those entrusted film medium to explore and expand their program their distinctly personal games in with the law,” says director Ra’anan narratives. In her latest such project, the hope that they, too, may find success. Alexandrowicz about his latest project. Baichwal undertakes the ambitious task of Ambitiously perceived, sparely designed, cinematizing Payback, Margaret Atwood’s After three years of painstaking and meticulously executed, The Law visionary book of essays about systems of work, designer Edmund McMillen and in These Parts as commanding and wealth, justice, and reparation. programmer Tommy Refenes await the compassionate as it goes to the heart of release of their first major game for Xbox, Israel’s moral quandary. In this country Seemingly disparate forays into the worlds Super Meat Boy—the adventures of a founded on democratic principles, of migrant tomato pickers in Florida, skinless boy in search of his girlfriend, Alexandrowicz asks—in both simple and feuding clans in Albania, victims of BP’s who is made of bandages. At PAX, a profound terms—can justice truly be oil spill, and a repentant inmate all mix major video-game expo, developer Phil served in the occupied territories given with insights from thinkers like theologian Fish unveils his highly anticipated, four- the current system of law administered by Karen Armstrong, ecologist William years-in-the-making Fez. Jonathan Blow Israel for Palestinians? Rees, public critic Raj Patel, and Atwood considers beginning a new game after herself. Integrating Atwood’s words creating Braid, one of the highest-rated Divided into five chapters, the film with their outlooks, Baichwal’s luxurious games of all time. is precisely argued, disciplined, and pacing, arresting imagery, and astonishing dramatic as it considers the repercussions juxtapositions stimulate provocative First-time filmmaking duo Lisanne Pajot of the complex and unusual legal associations among ideas and realities. and James Swirsky capture the emotional framework created in the territories journey of these meticulously obsessive following the 1967 Six-Day War. The Both visceral and revelatory, Payback artists who devote their lives to their research took years, and the evidence plunges us deeply into reconsidering the interactive art. Four developers, three is irrefutable, as those agreeing to roots of social inequity, what we value, games, and one ultimate goal— to express be interviewed steadily reveal the and debt’s profound role as an organizing oneself through a video game.—C.R. contradictions being sustained by an principle in our lives—one that shapes entire nation, of which Alexandrowicz is relationships, society, and the fate of the Mu: Jim Guthrie painfully aware.—C.M. planet.—C.L.

y competition Preceded by Meaning of Robots Pr: Liran Atzmor CoP: B.Z. Goldberg ExP: Laura Poitras, Pr/ExP: Ravida Din Ci: Nicholas de Pencier Director: Matt Lenski Martin Hagemann, Paul Saadoun Ci: Shark De Mayo Ed: Nick Hector Mu: Martin Tielli U.S.A., 2011, 4 min., color Ed: Neta Dvorkis Mu: Karni Postel Preceded by the landfill Directors: Jessica Edwards and Friday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. - INDIE20YA Friday, January 20, 3:00 p.m. - LAWIN20SA Gary Hustwit Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort u.s.a., 2012, 3 min., color Saturday, January 21, 12:30 p.m. - INDIE21RD Saturday, January 21, 3:45 p.m. - LAWIN21BA Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Sunday, January 22, noon - INDIE22ID Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. - PAYBA20YE

cinema documentar world Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - LAWIN22YA Salt Lake City Library, SLC Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 11:30 a.m. - INDIE25PD Tuesday, January 24, 3:00 p.m. - LAWIN24TA Sunday, January 22, noon - PAYBA22BD Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Saturday, January 28, 12:15 p.m. - INDIE282D Thursday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. - LAWIN26RE Monday, January 23, 3:30 p.m. - PAYBA23RA Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Friday, January 27, 7:00 p.m. - LAWIN274E Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. - PAYBA25TE Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 3:15 p.m. - PAYBA272A Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

34 Putin's Kiss Searching for Sugar Man DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Lise Birk Pedersen Malik Bendjelloul Denmark, 2011, 82 min., color Sweden/United Kingdom, 2011, 85 min., color Russian with English subtitles Rodriguez was the greatest ’70s U.S. rock Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia’s icon who never was. His albums were popular nationalistic youth movement, critically acclaimed and many felt he Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager was going to be the next big thing, but who—literally—embraced Vladimir Putin sales bombed, and he faded away into and his promise of a greater Russia, her obscurity among rumors of a gruesome dedication as an organizer is rewarded death. However, as fate would have it, with a university scholarship, an a bootleg copy of his record made its apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. way to South Africa, where his music But her bright political future falters when became a phenomenal success. In a she befriends a group of liberal journalists country suppressed by apartheid, his who are critical of the government, antiestablishment message connected including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls with the people. Nashi a “group of hooligans,” and she’s forced to confront the group’s dirty—even When his second album finally gets violent—tactics. released on CD in South Africa, two fans take it as a sign, deciding to look into the In her first feature, Danish filmmaker mystery of how Rodriguez died and what Lise Birk Pedersen offers a chilling happened to all of the profits from his view of modern Russia, its fragile— album sales. Since very little information perhaps illusory—democracy, and about the singer exists, they meet many Nashi’s alarmingly fascist tendencies obstacles until they uncover a shocking (mass rallies, book burnings, “patriotic revelation that sets off a wild chain of education,” and vilification of opponents). events that has to be seen to be believed. But, distinguished by an artful, Searching for Sugar Man is a story cinematic aesthetic and astonishing of hope, inspiration, and the resonating intimacy, the film’s emotional weight power of music.—T.G. lies in the evolution of Masha’s political consciousness. Putin's Kiss reminds us ExP: John Battsek Pr: Simon Chinn CoP: Nicole that all politics are deeply personal.—J.N. Stott, George Chignell Ci: Camilla Skagerström

ExP: Anders Dalgaard, Martin Dalgaard, Morten y competition Bank Pr: Helle Faber Ci: Lars Skree Ed: Janus Thursday, January 19, 9:30 p.m. - SEARC19LN Billeskov Jansen, Steen Johannessen Mu: Tobias Library Center Theatre, Park City Hylander So: Peter Albrechtsen Friday, January 20, 9:00 a.m. - SEARC20YM Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. - SEARC20IE Salt Lake City Library, SLC Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. - PUTIN20IN Sunday, January 22, 6:30 p.m. - SEARC22OE Salt Lake City Library, SLC Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. - PUTIN24YE Wednesday, January 25, 1:00 p.m. - SEARC25RD

Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City cinema documentar world Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. - PUTIN25PA Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. - SEARC27TA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. - PUTIN26BA Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Friday, January 27, 6:15 p.m. - PUTIN272E Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Saturday, January 28, 9:15 a.m. - PUTIN282M Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

35 from Las Palmas Shorts Program I 94 min.

Prepare to be in the company of rule breakers, rebels, and those unafraid to step out of line because this program is all about crossing boundaries. Whether it’s geography bridged via cyberspace, abandoning all morals and beliefs to dive into a criminal underworld, or becoming downright drunk and disorderly, these renegades are fighting Presented by yahoo! the boundaries of their worlds. A couple push each other to their limits, an animal adopts an urban lifestyle, and life has taken an unusual turn in the home of a neurotic fitness junkie. Enjoy the ride, and see you on the other side . . .

FISHING WITHOUT NETS Director: Cutter Hodierne U.S.A./Kenya, 2011, 17 min., color Las Palmas Director: Johannes Nyholm Sweden, 2011, 13 min., color A Morning Stroll Director: Grant Orchard United Kingdom, 2011, 7 min., color & b/w Random Strangers Director: Alexis Dos Santos United Kingdom/Netherlands, 2011, 25 min., color Tooty’s Wedding DIRECTOR: Frederic Casella United Kingdom, 2010, 19 min., color UNA HORA POR FAVORA Director: Jill Soloway U.S.A., 2011, 13 min., color

Thursday, January 19, 8:30 p.m. - SHRT119EE Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 11:30 p.m. - SHRT120PL Driven by innovation and experimentation, the Shorts Programs Prospector Square Theatre, Park City call out filmmaking’s most original voices. Presented by Yahoo! Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. - SHRT121BA Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. - SHRT125YE Shorts Programming Team Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Emily Doe Saturday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. - SHRT128RN Ernesto Foronda Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Jon Korn Katie Metcalfe Lisa Ogdie

SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Mike Plante Kim Yutani 66 Landon Zakheim Sikumi (On the Ice) from The Black Balloon from Frozen Stories from The Hidden Smile Shorts Program II Shorts Program III Shorts Program IV 106 min. 97 min. 100 min.

Shorts Program II spotlights our basic The films in Shorts Program III are all This is the program guaranteed to leave human need for connection in all its forms. quietly triumphant. Their triumphs are its audience soul searching. These seven But don’t worry; such an existential not ones that end in victory, though; they unique and powerful films exist in the undertaking is far from a snoozer. You’ll are acts of perseverance. The characters gray areas between the ethical borders find yourself laughing out loud one all demonstrate remarkable inner of black and white. Shorts Program IV moment, then moved to tears the next. strength, whether it be in the face of a is full of characters contemplating the Poignant stories and characters search for bigoted family custom, teenage bullies, consequences of their actions, learning to love, family, home, and community, and we untrustworthy strangers, personal look at the world through a more mature are shown that all humanity is desperate frustration, or crippling loneliness. And lens, and digesting some painful truths that for any signs of belonging. So turn off those although their circumstances may not steer the transition from carefree innocence gadgets, unplug, sit back, and let this change, these characters are tough, so we to political and personal consciousness; but amazing collection of films take you on a know they will endure. don’t worry—laughter and levity are there wonderfully inspiring journey. for balance. Whether it’s discarded youth, Dol (First Birthday) privileged teenagers, angst-ridden adults, ‘92 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Director: Andrew Ahn or entire planets, established artists and Rookie Card U.S.A., 2011, 12 min., color fresh young voices illuminate their subjects Director: Todd Sklar with a level of artistry that promises to U.S.A., 2011, 12 min., color The Fort Director: Andrew Renzi leave you speechless. The Arm U.S.A., 2011, 12 min., color Directors: Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos, Barbie Blues Jessie Ennis Frozen Stories Director: Adi Kutner U.S.A., 2011, 9 min., color Director: Grzegorz Jaroszuk Poland, 2011, 26 min., color Israel, 2011, 18 min., color The Black Balloon Playtime Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie L TRAIN Director: Lucas Mireles U.S.A., 2011, 21 min., color Director: Anna Musso U.S.A., 2011, 11 min., color Germany, 2011, 13 min., color Girl The Hidden Smile (El somriure amagat) Director: Fijona Jonuzi Rolling on the Floor Laughing Director: Ventura Durall Sweden, 2011, 15 min., color Director: Russell Harbaugh U.S.A., 2011, 19 min., color Spain, 2011, 15 min., color Henley Killing the Chickens to Scare Director: Craig Macneill Surveillant the Monkeys U.S.A., 2011, 12 min., color Director: Yan Giroux Director: Jens Assur Canada, 2011, 17 min., color Sweden, 2011, 24 min., color OK BREATHE AURALEE Director: Brooke Swaney Pluto Declaration U.S.A., 2011, 16 min., color Friday, January 20, 6:30 p.m. - SHRT320RE Director: Travis Wilkerson Redstone Cinema 8, Park City U.S.A., 2011, 4 min., color & b/w The Return (Kthimi) Saturday, January 21, noon - SHRT321BD Director: Blerta Zeqiri Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC The Thing Kosovo, 2011, 21 min., color Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. - SHRT324PD Director: Rhys Ernst Prospector Square Theatre, Park City U.S.A., 2011, 14 min., color Thursday, January 26, 2:30 p.m. - SHRT326PA Friday, January 20, noon - SHRT220YD Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Spoonful Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Director: Jenée LaMarque Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. - SHRT220BN U.S.A., 2011, 12 min., color m s progra s h orts Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Sunday, January 22, 3:30 p.m. - SHRT222RA Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. - SHRT421BE Thursday, January 26, 4:00 p.m. - SHRT2264A Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC G/FESL TI VA

Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Sunday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. - SHRT422YM OR Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 p.m. - SHRT425PN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City

Thursday, January 26, 10:00 p.m. - SHRT4264N NC E.S UN DA Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City 67 from Fourplay: Tampa from It’s Such a Beautiful Day from The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Shorts Program V Animation Spotlight Documentary Spotlight 95 min. 90 min. 101 min.

Welcome to the edge of cinema. Shorts Forget power—it’s absolute truth that From troubled families to illnesses, Program V will make your jaw drop. Here you leads to corruption. Life is all about from learning survival skills to climbing will find extreme laughter, sex, irreverent perspective. Context. Your hot bath is my insurmountable peaks, from natural religious commentary, and beautiful cold ocean. He thinks robots are the bee’s disasters to the infuriating realities of art—all depicted in ways you won’t knees. She gets off on cicadas, moths, dealing with humanity and life, we all have expect. Investigating the edges of people’s and . . . weirder stuff. (What about the obstacles to overcome. We find a way to boundaries takes more than simple clichés; robots? Did anyone even bother to ask their make it through, and, in Documentary these filmmakers have courage and skill. opinion?) Feel like the world is spinning out Spotlight, we experience the joy and They take their movies and their audience of control? Well, it all depends on where wonder of life. Come for a swim or a jaunt seriously, orchestrating whether you are you look—not to mention how. So keep in the woods. Time for a quick chess game? supposed to laugh or gasp. Administer some your friends close, but keep your invisible You won’t regret it. Experience a family eye drops before this show to get ready for friends closer. And don’t skip breakfast. you’ll never forget before we climb up for a a vibrant, visual ride that pushes color and spectacular view that reveals the wondrous camerawork to new levels. These stories duality of nature. The world can be cruel, sound crazy, but don’t leave your brain at 38–39°C but life is beautiful. Director: Kangmin Kim the door—you’ll need it. Just be warned: it’s U.S.A./South Korea, 2011, 8 min., color gonna get spongy. 663114 AQUADETTES Director: Isamu Hirabayashi Directors: Drea Cooper, BOBBY YEAH Japan, 2011, 8 min., color Zackary Canepari DIRECTOR: ROBERT MORGAN U.S.A., 2011, 11 min., color UNITED KINGDOM, 2011, 23 MIN., COLOR Avocados Director: Kataneh Vahdani Family Nightmare Famous Person Talent Agency: U.S.A., 2011, 7 min., color Director: Dustin Guy Defa Pearls of Asia U.S.A., 2011, 10 min., color Director: Ivan Hurzeler Belly U.S.A., 2010, 5 min., color Director: Julia Pott Into the Middle of Nowhere United Kingdom, 2011, 7 min., color Director: Anna Frances Ewert FOURPLAY: TAMPA United Kingdom/germany, 2011, Director: Kyle Henry Dr Breakfast 15 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 17 min., color Director: Stephen P. Neary U.S.A., 2011, 7 min., color Odysseus’ Gambit Juku Director: Àlex Lora Cercos Director: Kiro Russo It’s Such A Beautiful Day Spain/U.S.A., 2011, 12 min., color & b/w Bolivia, 2011, 18 min., color Director: Don Hertzfeldt U.S.A., 2011, 23 min., color Stick Climbing Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke Director: Daniel Zimmermann Director: Jillian Mayer Night Hunter Austria/Switzerland, 2010, 14 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 13 min., color Director: Stacey Steers U.S.A., 2011, 16 min, color The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Moxie Director: Lucy Walker Director: Stephen Irwin Robots of Brixton U.S.A., 2011, 39 min., color United Kingdom, 2011, 6 min., b/w Director: Kibwe Tavares United Kingdom, 2011, 6 min., color & b/w Tumult Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. - DOCSP20BE Director: Johnny Barrington Slow Derek Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC United Kingdom, 2011, 13 min., color Director: Dan Ojari Sunday, January 22, noon - DOCSP22YD m s progra s h orts United Kingdom, 2011, 8 min., color Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. - DOCSP25TA Friday, January 20, 9:30 p.m. - SHRT520RN Temple Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Saturday, January 21, noon - ANIMA21YD Saturday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. - DOCSP28RE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City G/FESL TI VA Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - SHRT521BN Redstone Cinema 8, Park City

OR Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Monday, January 23, 12:30 p.m. - ANIMA23RD Tuesday, January 24, 2:30 p.m. - SHRT524PA Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. - ANIMA27BE Friday, January 27, 1:00 p.m. - SHRT5274D Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC NC E.S UN DA Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Saturday, January 28, 7:00 p.m. - ANIMA284E Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City 68