# 2019 Sundance Film Festival

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 24 to February 3, 2019. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 28, 2018.

## Films
### U.S. Dramatic Competition

* Before You Know It by Hannah Pearl Utt
* Big Time Adolescence by Jason Orley
* Blush by Debra Eisenstadt festival titled Imaginary Order
* Brittany Runs a Marathon by Paul Downs Colaizzo
* Clemency by Chinonye Chukwu
* The Farewell by Lulu Wang
* Hala by Minhal Baig
* Honey Boy by Alma Har'el
* The Last Black Man in San Francisco by Joe Talbot
* Luce by Julius Onah
* Ms. Purple by Justin Chon
* Native Son by Rashid Johnson
* Share by Pippa Bianco
* The Sound of Silence by Michael Tyburski
* Them That Follow by Britt Poulton and Dan Savage
* To the Stars by Martha Stephens

### U.S. Documentary Competition

* Always in Season by Jacqueline Olive
* American Factory by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
* Apollo 11 by Todd Douglas Miller
* Bedlam by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
* David Crosby: Remember My Name by A.J. Eaton
* Hail Satan? by Penny Lane
* Jawline by Liza Mandelup
* Knock Down the House by Rachel Lears
* Midnight Family by Luke Lorentzen
* Mike Wallace Is Here by Avi Belkin
* Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements by Irene Taylor Brodsky
* One Child Nation by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
* Pahokee by Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan
* TIGERLAND by Ross Kauffman
* Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary by Ben Berman
* Where’s My Roy Cohn? by Matt Tyrnauer

### World Cinema Dramatic Competition

* Dirty God by Sacha Polak
* Divine Love by Gabriel Mascaro
* Dolce Fine Giornata by Jacek Borcuch
* Judy and Punch by Mirrah Foulkes
* Koko-di Koko-da by Johannes Nyholm
* The Last Tree by Shola Amoo
* Monos by Alejandro Landes
* Queen of Hearts by May el-Toukhy
* The Sharks by Lucía Garibaldi
* The Souvenir by Joanna Hogg
* This is not Berlin by Hari Sama
* We Are Little Zombies by Makoto Nagahisa

### World Cinema Documentary Competition

* Advocate by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche
* Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Mads Brügger
* The Edge of Democracy by Petra Costa
* The Disappearance of My Mother by Beniamino Barrese
* Gaza by Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell
* Honeyland by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska
* Lapü by Juan Pablo Polanco and César Alejandro Jaimes
* The Magic Life of V by Tonislav Hristov
* Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili
* Sea of Shadows by Richard Ladkani
* Shooting the Mafia by Kim Longinotto
* Stieg Larsson – The Man Who Played With Fire by Henrik Georgsson

### Premieres

* After the Wedding by Bart Freundlich
* Animals by Sophie Hyde
* Blinded by the Light by Gurinder Chadha
* Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile by Joe Berlinger
* Fighting with My Family by Stephen Merchant
* I Am Mother by Grant Sputore
* Late Night by Nisha Ganatra
* Mope by Lucas Heyne
* Official Secrets by Gavin Hood
* Paddleton by Alex Lehmann
* Photograph by Ritesh Batra
* Relive by Jacob Aaron Estes
* Sonja - The White Swan by Anne Sewitsky
* The Mustang by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
* The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Chiwetel Ejiofor
* The Report by Scott Z. Burns
* The Sunlit Night by David Wnendt
* The Tomorrow Man by Noble Jones
* Top End Wedding by Wayne Blair
* Troop Zero by Bert & Bertie
* Velvet Buzzsaw by Dan Gilroy

### Midnight

* Greener Grass by Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe
* Little Monsters by Abe Forsythe
* Memory: The Origins of Alien by Alexandre O. Philippe
* Mope by Lucas Heyne
* Sweetheart by J. D. Dillard
* The Hole in the Ground by Lee Cronin
* The Lodge by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala

### Documentary Premieres

* Ask Dr. Ruth by Ryan White
* Halston by Frédéric Tcheng
* Love, Antosha by Garret Price
* Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love by Nick Broomfield
* MERATA: How Mum Decolonised The Screen by Heperi Mita
* Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool by Stanley Nelson
* Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins by Janice Engel
* The Brink by Alison Klayman
* The Great Hack by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim
* The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley by Alex Gibney
* Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
* Untouchable by Ursula Macfarlane
* Words from a Bear by Jeffrey Palmer

### Special Events

* Documentary Now! Original Cast Album: Co-Op by Alex Buono
* Documentary Now! Season 52 Preview
* Documentary Now! Waiting for the Artist by Alex Buono and Rhys Thomas
* Leaving Neverland by Dan Reed
* Lorena by Joshua Rofe
* Now Apocalypse by Gregg Araki
* Pop-Up Magazine
* This Is Personal by Amy Berg

### Next

The following 10 films were selected for a world premiere in the Next program to highlight American cinema.
* Adam by Rhys Ernst
* Give Me Liberty by Kirill Mikhanovsky
* Light from Light by Paul Harrill
* Paradise Hills by Alice Waddington
* Premature by Rashaad Ernesto Green
* Selah and the Spades by Tayarisha Poe
* Sister Aimee by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann
* The Death of Dick Long by Daniel Scheinert
* The Infiltrators by Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra
* The Wolf Hour by Alistair Banks Griffin

## Awards

The winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Award was Clemency (2019), directed by Chinonye Chukwu.
The winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Award was One Child Nation (2019), directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang.
The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was The Souvenir (2019), directed by Joanna Hogg.
The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was Honeyland (2019), directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov.
The winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award was Monos (2019) directed by Alejandro Landes.

## Juries

Jury members for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, were announced on January 17, 2019.

## Acquisitions

Sources:
* American Factory: Netflix
* Anthropocene: The Human Epoch: Kino Lorber
* Ask Dr. Ruth: Hulu
* Blinded by the Light: New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. Pictures (select territories)
* The Brink: Magnolia Pictures
* Brittany Runs a Marathon: Amazon Studios
* David Crosby: Remember My Name: Sony Pictures Classics
* Delhi Crime Story: Netflix
* The Dispossessed: New York Times Op-Docs
* The Farewell: A24
* Hala: Apple TV+
* Halston: 1091 Media
* Honey Boy: Amazon Studios
* Honeyland: Neon
* Late Night: Amazon Studios
* Lavender: Fox Searchlight Pictures
* Little Monsters: Neon and Hulu
* The Lodge: Neon
* Luce: Neon and Topic Studios
* Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love: Roadside Attractions
* Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen: ARRAY
* Monos: Neon
* The Mountain: Kino Lorber
* Native Son: HBO Films
* The Nightingale: IFC Films (US distribution); Transmission Films (Australia distribution)
* Official Secrets: IFC Films
* One Child Nation: Amazon Studios
* Quarter Life Poetry: FX
* The Report: Amazon Studios
* Sea of Shadows: National Geographic Documentary Films
* Share: HBO Films (in association with A24)
* Shooting the Mafia: Cohen Media Group
* The Souvenir: A24
* Them That Follow: 1091 Media
* The Tomorrow Man: Bleecker Street (US distribution); Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (international distribution)
* Them That Follow: 1091 Media
* Where’s My Roy Cohn?: Sony Pictures Classics
* Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men: Showtime