# 2017 Sundance Film Festival

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29, 2017. The first lineup of competition films was announced November 30, 2016.

## Awards

The following awards were presented:
* Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair
* Audience Award: Dramatic – Crown Heights by Matt Ruskin
* Directing Award: Dramatic – Eliza Hittman for Beach Rats
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer for Ingrid Goes West
* U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Chanté Adams for Roxanne Roxanne
* U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director – Maggie Betts for Novitiate
* U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Daniel Landin for The Yellow Birds
* Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Dina by Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini
* Directing Award: Documentary – Peter Nicks for The Force
* U.S. Documentary Orwell Award - Icarus by Bryan Fogel
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista for Unrest
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling – Yance Ford for Strong Island
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking – Amanda Lipitz for Step
* World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh
* World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Francis Lee for God's Own Country
* World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Kirsten Tan for Pop Aye
* World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Visions – Geng Jun for Free and Easy
* World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Manuel Dacosse for Axolotl Overkill
* World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad
* World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Pascale Lamche for Winnie
* World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling – Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
* World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva for Machines
* World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Ramona S. Diaz for Motherland
* Audience Award: Documentary – Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski
* World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – I Dream in Another Language by Ernesto Contreras
* World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella
* Best of NEXT Audience Award – Gook by Justin Chon
* Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Marjorie Prime by Michael Almereyda

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

* Band Aid by Zoe Lister-Jones
* Beach Rats by Eliza Hittman
* Brigsby Bear by Dave McCary
* Burning Sands by Gerard McMurray
* Crown Heights by Matt Ruskin
* Golden Exits by Alex Ross Perry
* The Hero by Brett Haley
* I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair
* Ingrid Goes West by Matt Spicer
* Landline by Gillian Robespierre
* Novitiate by Maggie Betts
* Patti Cake$ by Geremy Jasper
* Roxanne Roxanne by Michael Larnell
* To the Bone by Marti Noxon
* Walking Out by Alex & Andrew Smith
* The Yellow Birds by Alexandre Moors

### U.S. Documentary Competition

* Casting JonBenet by Kitty Green
* Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski
* City of Ghosts by Matthew Heineman
* Dina by Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini
* Dolores by Peter Bratt
* The Force by Pete Nicks
* ICARUS by Bryan Fogel
* The New Radical by Adam Bhala Lough
* Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (originally titled NOBODY SPEAK: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press but the title was changed after publication of the Sundance catalogue and before the world premiere of the film) by Brian Knappenberger
* Quest by Jonathan Olshefski
* STEP by Amanda Lipitz
* Strong Island by Yance Ford
* Trophy by Shaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau
* Unrest by Jennifer Brea
* Water & Power: A California Heist by Marina Zenovich
* Whose Streets? by Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis

### Premieres

* Beatriz at Dinner by Miguel Arteta
* Before I Fall by Ry Russo-Young
* The Big Sick by Michael Showalter
* Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino
* The Discovery by Charlie McDowell
* Fun Mom Dinner by Alethea Jones
* Get Out by Jordan Peele
* The Incredible Jessica James by Jim Strouse
* The Last Word by Mark Pellington
* Manifesto by Julian Rosefeldt
* Marjorie Prime by Michael Almereyda
* Mudbound by Dee Rees
* Newness by Drake Doremus
* The Polka King by Maya Forbes
* Rebel in the Rye by Danny Strong
* Rememory by Mark Palansky
* The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (originally titled "Sidney Hall"; changed before theatrical release) by Shawn Christensen
* Where Is Kyra? by Andrew Dosunmu
* Wilson by Craig Johnson
* Wind River by Taylor Sheridan

### Next

* Columbus by Kogonada
* Dayveon by Amman Abbasi
* A Ghost Story by David Lowery
* Gook by Justin Chon
* Lemon by Janicza Bravo
* Menashe by Joshua Z Weinstein
* Person to Person by Dustin Guy Defa
* Thoroughbreds by Cory Finley

### Spotlight

* Colossal by Nacho Vigalondo
* Frantz by François Ozon
* Lady Macbeth by William Oldroyd
* Raw by Julia Ducournau

### Midnight

* 78/52 by Alexandre O. Philippe
* Bad Day for the Cut by Chris Baugh
* Bitch by Marianna Palka
* Bushwick by Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott
* Killing Ground by Damien Power
* Kuso by Steve
* The Little Hours by Jeff Baena
* XX by Annie Clark, Karyn Kusama, Roxanne Benjamin & Jordana Vuckovic

### World Cinema Dramatic Competition

* Axolotl Overkill by Helene Hegemann
* Berlin Syndrome by Cate Shortland
* Carpinteros by José María Cabral
* Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! by Felipe Bragança
* Family Life by Alicia Scherson & Cristián Jiménez
* Free and Easy by Geng Jun
* My Happy Family by Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross
* God's Own Country by Francis Lee
* The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh
* Pop Aye by Kirsten Tan
* I Dream in Another Language by Ernesto Contreras
* The Wound by John Trengove

### World Cinema Documentary Competition

* The Good Postman by Tonislav Hristov
* In Loco Parentis by Neasa Ní Chianáin & David Rane
* It's Not Yet Dark by Frankie Fenton
* Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella
* Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad
* Machines by Rahul Jain
* Motherland by Ramona Diaz
* Plastic China by Jiu-liang Wang
* RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World by Catherine Bainbridge
* Tokyo Idols by Kyoko Miyake
* WINNIE by Pascale Lamche
* The Workers Cup by Adam Sobel

### New Frontier

* 18 Black Girls / Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $X in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion by Terence Nance
* Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? by Travis Wilkerson
* World Without End (No Reported Incidents) by Jem Cohen
* NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism by Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Ashley Baccus-Clark, Ece Tankal and Nitzan Bartov

## Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 11, 2017.