Sundance Interest List 2015
A list of the movies in alphabetical order which I am interested in seeing at Sundance in 2015. Titles are moved over to my Sundance Film Festival 2015 list as I watch them.
Note that I am on the jury at Sundance for the World Dramatic Competition this year so to remain impartial I have listed all of those titles separately.
Note that I am on the jury at Sundance for the World Dramatic Competition this year so to remain impartial I have listed all of those titles separately.
1.
Advantageous
(2015)
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter Jules do all they can to hold on to their joy together, despite the instability surfacing in their world. (90 mins.)
Director: Jennifer Phang
2.
Aloft
(2014)
Aloft tells of a struggling mother who encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier. (112 mins.)
Director: Claudia Llosa
3.
The Bronze
(2015)
A foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist must fight for her local celebrity status when a new young athlete's star rises in town. (108 mins.)
Director: Bryan Buckley
4.
Brooklyn
(2015)
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries. (105 mins.)
Director: John Crowley
5.
Cop Car
(2015)
A small town sheriff sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride. (86 mins.)
Director: Jon Watts
6.
The D Train
(2015)
The head of a high school reunion committee travels to Los Angeles to track down the most popular guy from his graduating class and convince him to go to the reunion. (97 mins.)
Director: Andrew Mogel, Jarrad Paul
7.
The End of the Tour
(2015)
A magazine reporter recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour.
Director: James Ponsoldt
8.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
(2015)
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend. (102 mins.)
Director: Marielle Heller
9.
Digging for Fire
(2015)
The discovery of a bone and a gun send a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend. (85 mins.)
Director: Joe Swanberg
10.
Don Verdean
(2015)
Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land...
Director: Jared Hess
11.
Eden
(2014)
The life of a French DJ who's credited with inventing "French house" or the "French touch," a type of French electronic music that became popular in the 1990s. (131 mins.)
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
12.
Entertainment
(2015)
En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert. (110 mins.)
Director: Rick Alverson
13.
Experimenter
(2015)
Famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority. (90 mins.)
Director: Michael Almereyda
14.
Girlhood
(2014)
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme... (112 mins.)
Director: Céline Sciamma
15.
Grandma
(2015)
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter... (78 mins.)
Director: Paul Weitz
16.
The Woods
(2015)
A family who move into a remote milllhouse in Ireland find themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods. (92 mins.)
Director: Corin Hardy
17.
Hellions
(2015)
A teenager must survive a Halloween night from Hell when malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door. (80 mins.)
Director: Bruce McDonald
18.
I Am Michael
(2015)
A gay activist and magazine founder is 'saved' from his homosexuality after turning to God. (98 mins.)
Director: Justin Kelly
19.
I Smile Back
(2015)
Laney Brooks does bad things. Married with kids, she takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants... (85 mins.)
Director: Adam Salky
20.
It Follows
(2014)
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter... (100 mins.)
Director: David Robert Mitchell
21.
Knock Knock
(2015)
A pair of femme fatales wreak havoc on the life of a happily married man. (96 mins.)
Director: Eli Roth
22.
Last Days in the Desert
(2015)
An imagined chapter from Jesus' forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis.
Director: Rodrigo García
23.
Lila & Eve
(2015)
Two distraught mothers, whose children were gunned down in a drive-by, team up to avenge their deaths after local authorities fail to take action. (94 mins.)
Director: Charles Stone III
24.
Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
(2015)
A teenage filmmaker befriends a classmate with cancer. (104 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
25.
Mississippi Grind
(2015)
Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost.
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
26.
Mistress America
(2015)
A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside down by her impetuous, adventurous soon-to-be stepsister.
Director: Noah Baumbach
27.
Nasty Baby
(2015)
A close-knit trio navigates the idea of creating life, while at the same time being confronted with a brutal scenario that causes them to take a life. (100 mins.)
Director: Sebastián Silva
29.
The Overnight
(2015)
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family "playdate" becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on. (80 mins.)
Director: Patrick Brice
30.
People, Places, Things
(2015)
Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing parenting his young twin daughters and a classroom full students while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him. (85 mins.)
Director: James C. Strouse
31.
Sleeping with Other People
(2015)
A good-natured womanizer and a serial cheater form a platonic relationship that helps reform them in ways, while a mutual attraction sets in.
Director: Leslye Headland
32.
Results
(2015)
Two mismatched personal trainers' lives are upended by the actions of a new, wealthy client. (105 mins.)
Director: Andrew Bujalski
33.
Reversal
(2015)
A young girl, chained in the basement of a sexual predator, escapes and turns the tables on her captor.
Director: José Manuel Cravioto
34.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
(2015)
Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. (122 mins.)
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez
35.
Stockholm, Pennsylvania
(2015)
A young woman, kidnapped when she was a child, returns home to the family she barely remembers and struggles to feel at home. (99 mins.)
Director: Nikole Beckwith
36.
Tangerine
(2015)
A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart. (88 mins.)
Director: Sean Baker
37.
Ten Thousand Saints
(2015)
Set in the 1980s, a teenager from Vermont moves to New York City to live with his father in East Village. (113 mins.)
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
38.
The Tribe
(2014)
A deaf teenager struggles to fit into the boarding school system. (130 mins.)
Director: Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
39.
True Story
(2015)
The relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name. (100 mins.)
Director: Rupert Goold
40.
Unexpected
(2015)
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies. (90 mins.)
Director: Kris Swanberg
41.
A Walk in the Woods
(2015)
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Director: Ken Kwapis
42.
Wild Tales
(2014)
A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control. (122 mins.)
Director: Damián Szifron
43.
Z for Zachariah
(2015)
In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors. (95 mins.)
Director: Craig Zobel
44.
Zipper
(2015)
A family man who has it all until he risks losing everything due to his inability to fight off his obsessive temptation for other women. (103 mins.)
Director: Mora Stephens