Sundance Institute Popular Movie

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Damson Idris

Two biologists set out on an undertaking as colossal as their subjects—deciphering the complex communication of whales. Dr. Michelle Fournet...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ellen Garland

In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cătălin Tolontan

The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes...

Genre: Documentary

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Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zana Briski

Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Coyote

When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother's well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sergio Chamy

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joy Buolamwini

A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jim Belushi

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Farmer

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Naomi Fontanos

Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: David Jensen

On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tommy Lee Jones

A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they...

Genre: Documentary

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Afghan documentary maker Najiba Noori offers not only a loving and intimate portrait of her mother Hawa, but also shows in detail how the arduous...

Genre: Documentary

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The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Amber Kumar Gurung

"The Pearl" explores the raw emotional and physical experience of being a middle aged to senior transgender woman against the backdrop of...

Genre: Documentary

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Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.

Genre: Documentary

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A willful young boy follows his just and obstinate grandmother on a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shazada Hussein

After Rhoda’s husband passed away, she was thrown off the land and endured seven tough years living in an outdoor market with her children....

Genre: Documentary

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