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.
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
3.
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
4.
The End of the Tour
(2015)
A magazine reporter recounts his travels and conversations with author David Foster Wallace during a promotional book tour. (106 mins.)
Director: James Ponsoldt
5.
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
6.
Don Verdean
(2015)
Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land... (90 mins.)
Director: Jared Hess
7.
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
8.
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
9.
Girlhood
(2014)
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme... (113 mins.)
Director: Céline Sciamma
10.
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
11.
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
12.
I Am Michael
(2015)
A gay activist and magazine founder is 'saved' from his homosexuality after turning to God. (98 mins.)
Director: Justin Kelly
13.
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
14.
James White
(2015)
A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self-destructive behavior in the face of momentous family challenges.
Director: Josh Mond
15.
Knock Knock
(2015)
A pair of femme fatales wreak havoc on the life of a happily married man. (96 mins.)
Director: Eli Roth
16.
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
17.
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. (108 mins.)
Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
18.
Mistress America
(2015)
A lonely college freshman's life is turned upside down by her impetuous, adventurous soon-to-be stepsister. (86 mins.)
Director: Noah Baumbach
19.
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
20.
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
21.
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
22.
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
23.
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
24.
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
25.
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
26.
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. (98 mins.)
Director: Ken Kwapis
27.
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