# 2024 Sundance Film Festival

The 2024 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to 28, 2024. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 6, 2023.
Among the highlighted events included the premiere of a documentary about the 1980s rock band Devo.

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

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Between the Temples | Between the Temples | Nathan Silver | United States |
| Dìdi | 弟弟 | Sean Wang | United States |
| Exhibiting Forgiveness | Exhibiting Forgiveness | Titus Kaphar | United States |
| Good One | Good One | India Donaldson | United States |
| In the Summers | In the Summers | Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio | United States |
| Love Me | Love Me | Sam Zuchero, Andy Zuchero | United States |
| Ponyboi | Ponyboi | Esteban Arango | United States |
| A Real Pain | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg | United States |
| Stress Positions | Stress Positions | Theda Hammel | United States |
| Suncoast | Suncoast | Laura Chinn | United States |

### World Cinema Dramatic Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Jianjie Lin [ca] | China, France, Denmark, Qatar |
| Girls Will Be Girls | Girls Will Be Girls | Shuchi Talati | India, France, United States, Norway |
| Handling the Undead | Handling the Undead | Thea Hvistendahl | Norway |
| In the Land of Brothers | در سرزمین برادر | Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli | Iran, France, Netherlands |
| Layla | Layla | Amrou Al-Kadhi | United Kingdom |
| Malu | Malu | Pedro Freire | Brazil |
| Reinas | Reinas | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland, Peru, Spain |
| Sebastian | Sebastian | Mikko Mäkelä | United Kingdom, Finland, Belgium |
| Sujo | Sujo | Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez [es; fr; ca] | Mexico, United States, France |
| Veni Vidi Vici  [de; fr] | Veni Vidi Vici  [de; fr] | Daniel Hoesl | Austria |

### U.S. Documentary Competition

| Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| As We Speak | J.M. Harper | United States |
| Daughters | Angela Patton, Natalie Rae | United States |
| Every Little Thing | Sally Aitken | Australia |
| Frida | Carla Gutiérrez | United States, Mexico |
| Gaucho Gaucho | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | United States, Argentina |
| Love Machina  [d] | Peter Sillen | United States |
| Porcelain War | Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev | United States, Ukraine |
| Skywalkers: A Love Story | Jeff Zimbalist, Maria Bukhonina | United States |
| Sugarcane | Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie | United States, Canada |
| Union | Stephen Maing, Brett Story | United States |

### World Documentary Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Agent of Happiness | Agent of Happiness | Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Bhutan, Hungary |
| The Battle for Laikipia | The Battle for Laikipia | Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi | Kenya, United States |
| Black Box Diaries | Black Box Diaries | Shiori Itō | Japan, United States, United Kingdom |
| Eternal You | Eternal You | Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck | Germany, United States |
| Ibelin | Ibelin | Benjamin Ree | Norway |
| IGUALADA | IGUALADA | Juan Mejía Botero | Colombia, United States, Mexico |
| Never Look Away | Never Look Away | Lucy Lawless | New Zealand |
| A New Kind of Wilderness  [de] | A New Kind of Wilderness  [de] | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen | Norway |
| Nocturnes | Nocturnes | Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan | India |
| Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat | Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat | Johan Grimonprez | Belgium, France, Netherlands |

### Premieres

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The American Society of Magical Negroes | The American Society of Magical Negroes | Kobi Libii | United States |
| And So It Begins | And So It Begins | Ramona Diaz | United States, Philippines |
| DEVO | DEVO | Chris Smith | United Kingdom, United States |
| A Different Man | A Different Man | Aaron Schimberg | United States |
| Freaky Tales | Freaky Tales | Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck | United States |
| Ghostlight | Ghostlight | Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson | United States |
| Girls State | Girls State | Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss | United States |
| Look into My Eyes | Look into My Eyes | Lana Wilson | United States |
| Luther: Never Too Much | Luther: Never Too Much | Dawn Porter | United States |
| My Old Ass | My Old Ass | Megan Park | United States |
| The Outrun | The Outrun | Nora Fingscheidt | United Kingdom, Germany |
| Power | Power | Yance Ford | United States |
| Presence | Presence | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| Rob Peace | Rob Peace | Chiwetel Ejiofor | United States |
| Sasquatch Sunset | Sasquatch Sunset | David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | United States |
| Sue Bird: In The Clutch | Sue Bird: In The Clutch | Sarah Dowland | United States |
| Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui | United Kingdom, United States |
| Thelma | Thelma | Josh Margolin | United States |
| Will & Harper | Will & Harper | Josh Greenbaum | United States |
| Winner | Winner | Susanna Fogel | United States, Canada |

### Next

| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Desire Lines | Jules Rosskam | United States |
| Kneecap | Rich Peppiatt | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Little Death | Jack Begert | United States |
| Realm of Satan | Scott Cummings | United States |
| Seeking Mavis Beacon | Jazmin Renée Jones | United States |
| Tendaberry | Haley Elizabeth Anderson | United States |

### Midnight

| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| In a Violent Nature | Chris Nash | Canada |
| I Saw the TV Glow | Jane Schoenbrun | United States |
| It's What's Inside | Greg Jardin | United States |
| Kidnapping Inc. | Bruno Mourral | Haiti, France, Canada |
| Krazy House | Steffen Haars, Flip van der Kuil | Netherlands |
| Love Lies Bleeding | Rose Glass | United States, United Kingdom |
| The Moogai | Jon Bell | Australia |
| Your Monster | Caroline Lindy | United States |

### Spotlight

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Àma Gloria | Àma Gloria | Marie Amachoukeli | France |
| Hit Man | Hit Man | Richard Linklater | United States |
| How to Have Sex | How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom |
| The Mother of All Lies | كذب أبيض | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar |

### Special Screenings

| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| War Game | Jesse Moss, Tony Gerber | United States |
| Family Matinee: 10 Lives | Christopher Jenkins | United Kingdom |
| Family Matinee: Out of My Mind | Amber Sealey | United States |
| New Frontier: Being (the Digital Griot) | Rashaad Newsome | United States |
| New Frontier: Eno | Gary Hustwit | United States, United Kingdom |

### Episodic

| Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Fiction |||
| Me/We (episode 1) | Nzingha Stewart | United States |
| La Mesías (episode 1) | Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi | Spain |
| Penelope (episode 1) | Mel Eslyn, Mark Duplass | United States |
| Non-Fiction |||
| Better Angels: The Gospel According To Tammy Faye (episodes 1 and 2) | Dana Adam Shapiro | United States |
| Conbody vs Everybody (episodes 1 and 2) | Debra Granik | United States |
| Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza (episodes 1 and 2) | Michael John Warren | United States |
| God Save Texas (3 episodes) | Richard Linklater, Iliana Sosa, Alex Stapleton | United States |
| The Synanon Fix (episode 1) | Rory Kennedy | United States |

### Anniversary Screenings

| Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Babadook | Jennifer Kent | Australia |
| Dig! XX | Ondi Timoner | United States |
| Go Fish | Rose Troche | United States |
| Mississippi Masala | Mira Nair | United States |
| Napoleon Dynamite | Jared Hess | United States |
| Pariah | Dee Rees | United States |
| The Times of Harvey Milk | Rob Epstein | United States |
| Three Seasons | Tony Bui | Vietnam, United States |

### U.S. Fiction Short Films

| Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Bay of Herons | Jared James Lank | United States |
| Boi de Conchas (The Shell Covered Ox) | Daniel Barosa | United States |
| Border Hopper | Nico Casavecchia | United States |
| BUST | Angalis Field | United States |
| Didn’t Think I’d See You Here | Dylan Guerra | United States |
| Dream Creep | Carlos A.F. Lopez | United States |
| Flail | Ben Gauthier | United States |
| Grace | Natalie Jasmine Harris | United States |
| guts | Margaux Susi | United States |
| The Heart | Malia Ann | United States |
| The Looming | Masha Ko | United States |
| The Looming Cloud | Matthew Tyler | United States |
| The Lost Season | Kelly Sears | United States |
| Pasture Prime | Diffan Sina Norman | United States |
| Pathological | Alison Rich | United States |
| The Rainbow Bridge | Dimitri Simakis | United States |
| Say Hi After You Die | Kate Jean Hollowell | United States |
| Shé (Snake) | Renee Zhan | United States |
| Thirstygirl | Alexandra Qin | United States |

### International Fiction Short Films

| Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy | Khozy Rizal | Indonesia, United States |
| Bold Eagle | Whammy Alcazaren | Philippines |
| Bye Bye, Bowser | Jasmin Baumgartner | Austria |
| Dreams like paper boats | Samuel Frantz Suffren | Haiti |
| Essex Girls | Yero Timi-Biu | United Kingdom |
| Lea Tupu’anga / Mother Tongue | Vea Mafile’o | New Zealand |
| The Masterpiece | Alex Lora Cercos | Spain |
| Phoebe | Vaggelio Soumeli | Greece/Cyprus |
| Pisko the Crab Child is in Love | Makoto Nagahisa | Japan |
| Shalal | Amir Ali Sisipour | Iran |
| The Stag | An Chu | Taiwan |
| Terra Mater | Kantarama Gahigiri | Rwanda/Switzerland |
| Viaje de Negocios | Gerardo Coello Escalante | Mexico |
| Voice Ever | Céline Perreard | France |

### Animated Short Films

| Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 27 | Flóra Anna Buda | France/Hungary |
| Lake Baikal (Baigal Nuur) | Alisi Telengut | Canada/Germany |
| The Bleacher | Nicole Daddona, Adam Wilder | United States |
| Bug Diner | Phoebe Jane Hart | United States |
| Dona Beatriz Ñsîmba Vita | Catapreta | Brazil |
| Drago | Daniel Zvereff | United States |
| Larry | Takeshi Murata | United States |
| Martyr’s Guidebook | Maks Rzontkowski | Poland |
| Matta and Matto | Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp | Switzerland |
| Miisufy | Liisi Grünberg | Estonia |

### Nonfiction Short Films

| Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 14 Paintings | Dongnan Chen | China |
| ALOK | Alex Hedison | United States |
| Bob’s Funeral | Jack Dunphy | United States |
| Ekbeh | Mariah Hernandez-Fitch | United States |
| Merman | Sterling Hampton IV | United States |
| Object 817 | Olga Lucovnicova | Belgium |
| Salone Love | Tajana Tokyo | United States/United Kingdom/Sierra Leone |
| The Smallest Power | Andy Sarjahani | Iran |
| To Be Invisible | Myah Overstreet | United States |
| Winding Path | Alexandra Lazarowich, Ross Kauffman | United States |

## Awards

The following awards were given out:

### Grand Jury Prizes

* U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza)
* U.S. Documentary – Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev)
* World Cinema Dramatic – Sujo (Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez)
* World Cinema Documentary – A New Kind of Wilderness (Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó)
* Short Film – The Masterpiece (Alex Lora Cercos)

### Audience Awards

* Festival Favorite – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
* U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang)
* U.S. Documentary – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
* World Cinema Dramatic – Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati)
* World Cinema Documentary – Ibelin (Benjamin Ree)
* NEXT – Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)

### Directing, Screenwriting and Editing

* U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
* U.S. Documentary – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane
* World Cinema Dramatic – Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers
* World Cinema Documentary – Benjamin Ree for Ibelin
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
* Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Carla Gutiérrez for Frida
* NEXT Innovator Prize – Little Death

### Special Jury Prizes

* U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Dìdi (弟弟)
* U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance – Nico Parker for Suncoast
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Art of Change – Union (Stephen Maing and Brett Story)
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Sound – Gaucho Gaucho
* World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls
* World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Original Music – Peter Raeburn for Handling the Undead
* World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematic Innovation – Johan Grimonprez for Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
* World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Craft – Nocturnes
* NEXT Special Jury Award – Desire Lines
* Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Masha Ko for The Looming
* Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Makoto Nagahisa for Pisko the Crab Child is in Love

### Short Film Jury Awards

* U.S. Fiction: Say Hi After You Die (Kate Jean Hollowell)
* International Fiction: The Stag (An Chu)
* Nonfiction: Bob's Funeral (Jack Dunphy)
* Animation: Bug Diner (Phoebe Jane Hart)

### Sundance Institute Awards

* NHK Award: Saim Sadiq for We Are Never Going to Die
* Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Pamela Martin
* Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Kristina Motwani
* Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Brad Becker-Parton for Stress Positions
* Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Toni Kamau for The Battle for Laikipia
* Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Love Me

## Acquisitions

* Kneecap: Sony Pictures Classics
* Ibelin: Netflix
* A Real Pain: Searchlight Pictures
* It's What's Inside: Netflix
* Presence: Neon
* Ghostlight: IFC Films and Sapan Studios
* My Old Ass: Amazon MGM Studios
* Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: Warner Bros. Discovery (under DC Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO, CNN Films and Max)
* Skywalkers: A Love Story: Netflix
* Thelma: Magnolia Pictures
* Dìdi: Focus Features
* Daughters: Netflix
* Will & Harper: Netflix
* Between the Temples: Sony Pictures Classics
* Good One: Metrograph Pictures
* Sugarcane: National Geographic Documentary Films
* Sebastian: Kino Lorber
* Your Monster: Vertical
* Girls Will Be Girls: Juno Films
* Never Look Away: Greenwich Entertainment
* Exhibiting Forgiveness: Roadside Attractions
* Winner: Vertical
* Black Box Diaries: MTV Documentary Films
* Love Me: Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures
* Luther: Never Too Much: CNN Films and Oprah Winfrey Network
* Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Kino Lorber
* Agent of Happiness: Film Movement
* Rob Peace: Republic Pictures
* In the Summers: Music Box Films
* The Outrun: Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films

## Gallery

* The Marquis
* Filmmaker Lodge
* Library Center Theatre
* Cast and crew of the Devo documentary
* Film writer and producer Jonathan Nolan interviewed by astrophysics professor Janna Levin
* Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, at the opening press conference