Sundance 2024

Under roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it"s easy to make people afraid, it"s hard to destroy their passion for living.

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can"t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

A Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they struggle and learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.

During a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam navigates the clash of egos between her father and his oldest friend.

A postapocalyptic romance in which a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love after the end of human civilization.

Unfolding over the course of Valentine"s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up a friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

Amber, a happiness agent, travels the Bhutanese Himalayas surveying people"s happiness. On his remote mountain journey, he searches for fulfillment.

Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan"s outdated judicial and societal systems.

In the Norwegian wilderness, a family seeks a wild free existence but a tragic turn of events shatters their isolation, compelling them to adapt to the demands of contemporary society.

When a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father"s destiny may be inescapable.

A middle-class family"s fate becomes intertwined with their only son"s enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.

On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?

Three members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be "at home".

Two teenage sisters are about to leave their country forever when they unexpectedly reconnect with an absent father. This relationship will both amplify and ease their pain of change.

Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.

The Maynards and their children lead an almost perfect billionaire family life. Amon is a passionate hunter, but doesn"t shoot animals, as the family"s wealth allows them to live totally free from consequences.

Leo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects.

An unexpected request and a terrible loss bring attention to the intense and complex relationship between a mother and her son.

THE LOOMING is a horrific glimpse into aging and the fear of being forgotten by those we love. The film follows the story of Chester, a 70-year-old man who begins to be haunted by an eerie presence that only he can sense. Chester"s cries for help are ignored, pushing him to investigate on his own. As he unravels the mystery, he discovers a heartbreaking truth that could change everything.

A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

An estranged man secretly films his grandfather"s funeral, hoping to uncover the source of generational trauma in their family.