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The festival will also feature Richard Linklater’s Slacker in the framework of its “collection” poster.Today, Sundance has announced the films playing in the lineups outside the jurisdiction of “NEXT (<=>)”, Spotlight, Showcase natives, and Park City at midnight. Among the films are playing Hobo with a shotgun, the critically acclaimed submarine, new horror film by Lucky McKee is the woman, and cutting Meek, starring Michelle Williams and Paul Dano. Yesterday it was reported the game films in competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Each poster has its own mission statement that relates to the selected films.
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 20 – 30.Hit the jump to see the new films announced.
Here is the press release and alignment:
2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILMS IN FOCUS (<=>), NEXT, NEW FRONTIER AND PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT
Native Showcase Festival Adds New
As previously announced, the screen Slacker Collection
NATIVE SHOWS
After the original vision of the president and founder, Robert Redford, Sundance Institute has maintained its commitment to support indigenous cinema. This exhibition shows new work that contributes to global understanding and appreciation of these artists.
REC / USA (Director: Billy Luther) – Three families of the Laguna Pueblo tribe Grab prepare for the day when food is thrown from a roof to the community waiting below – an annual prayer of the whole community of abundance, grace and renewal. World premiere.Documentary, narrated by Parker Posey.
Indian Court, a program of shorts from around the world for Native American and indigenous filmmakers. The seven short films to be presented together as part of the native sample will be announced on 6 December.
FOCUS
Movies we love.
U.S. PremiereAttenberg v Greece (Director and Screenwriter: Athina Rachel Tsangari) – Marina, a young woman who lives with his father in a decaying industrial city by the sea, acquires a new perspective on the mysteries of human nature after she meets a stranger. Cast: Ariane Lanthimos Labed, Yorgos, Mourikis Vangelis, Evangelia Randou.
Cast: Wagner Moura, Seu Jorge, Taina Muller, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortazar. International Premiere2 Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite 2) / Brazil (Director: José Padilha; Screenwrtiers: Braulio Mantovani, José Padilha and Rodrigo Pimentel) – Captain Nascimento from Rio de Janeiro special operations unit of the police has a new enemy : widespread corruption within the city.
U.S. PremiereI saw the Devil (Akma Reul-bo-attda) / South Korea (written and directed by Kim Jee-woon) – A young secret agent tracking a brutal serial murderer who killed his girlfriend. Starring: Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik.
In a better world (Hævnen) / Denmark (Director: Susanne Bier; History: Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen, Screenwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen) – The lives of two Danish families intertwine as an extraordinary friendship develops but risky. Cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Rygaard Nielsen Jøhnk Markus and William. U.S. Premiere
Fire / Canada, France (Director: Denis Villeneuve, Writers: Denis Villeneuve with the collaboration of Valeria Beaugrand-Champagne, based on a play Incendies by: Wajdi Mouawad) – The ultimate desire of the mother sends Jane and Simon, twins living in Canada, on a trip to the Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Cast: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Desormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard.
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida, the Temple of Juno. Kaboom / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Gregg Araki) – A science fiction story centered on the sexual awakening of a group of university students. U.S. Premiere
Cast: Lily Rabe, Jason Butler Harner, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Jim Cody Williams, Fiona Dourif. Letters from the Big Man / USA (Director and screenwriter Christopher Munch) – A hydrologist artist and the government lifted a remote part of southwestern Oregon man befriends a Sasquatch and should take strong measures to protect your privacy, as well as yours. World Premiere
Cast: Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Zoe Kaza, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley Henderson.Meek cut / USA (Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Jon Raymond) – In 1845, three families have hired Stephen Meek climber to guide their cars on the Cascade mountains are lost and face hunger, thirst and lack of faith in his instincts survival.
Old cats (Cats Old) / Chile (Director and Screenwriter: Pedro Peirano and Sebastian Silva) – An elderly woman who realizes that his mind is deteriorating quickly tries desperately to hide the condition of his daughter, who looks forward for any signs of senility in order to take into his apartment. Cast: Belgium Castro, Claudia Celedon, Catalina Saavedra, Alejandro Sieveking.
Underwater / UK (Director: Richard Ayoade, Writer: Richard Ayoade from the novel by Joe Dunthorne) – Oliver Fifteen years Tate has two main goals: to save the marriage of their parents and losing his virginity before his next birthday. Cast: Craig Roberts, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor, Sally Hawkins, Yasmin Paige. U.S. Premiere
Starring: Kent Osborne. World PremiereUncle Kent / USA (Director: Joe Swanberg; Writers: Joe Swanberg and Kent Osborne) – A Pothead cartoonist in Los Angeles spend a weekend trying to sleep with his visiting guest house – a woman from New York met Chatroulette.
Park City at Midnight
Top of horror films and comedies extreme, Black Dynamite, The Blair Witch Project and the Sierra are among the films that have screened here.
Starring: Steve Longstreet Little, Robert, Walter Dalton, Miki Ann Maddox, Lanham Koko. World PremiereThe Cataclysm Catechism / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Todd Rohal) – After becoming disinterested in the church, a priest keeps track of his former partner, a former metalhead who he idolized in high school. When the two embark on a canoe trip together, all hell breaks loose.
Codependent Lesbian Space alien seeks the same / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Madeleine Olnek) – A timid clerk greeting card store unwittingly falls for a lesbian alien, while two government officials are closely following their romance. World PremiereCast: Lisa Haas, Susan Ziegler, Jackie Monahan, Cynthia Kaplan, Dennis Davis, Wright C Karpovsky Alex Rae.
Corman world: a rebel attack in Hollywood / USA (Director: Alex Stapleton) – Bases of the triumphant rise of Hollywood’s most prolific, writer-director-producer, the true godfather of independent film. World PremiereStarring: Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, James Cameron, Roger Corman.
Hobo with a shotgun and Canada (Director: Jason Eisener; Screenwriter: Jonathan Davies) – A homeless man hops from a train with dreams of a new life in a new city, but is trapped in an urban hell. Cast: Rutger Hauer, Molly Dunsworth, Gregory Smith, Brian Downey. When you witness a brutal robbery, she realizes the only way to deliver justice with a shotgun in hand and two bullets in the chamber. World Premiere
World PremiereStarring: Lindsay Pulsipher, Robert Longstreet, Matt Olsen, Lynne Compton, Barlow Jacobs, Chadwick Brown, Roger Jed Maheu, M. Mayer. The Oregonian / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Calvin Lee Reeder) – After surviving a brutal car accident, a woman of simple farm on the road limping into the unknown nightmare.
Septién / USA (Director: Michael Tully) – A solo sport hustler returns home to his family farm after years of absence to join his two brothers eccentric, unhinged and emotionally damaged. World PremiereStarring: Robert Longstreet, noThukela Onur, Michael Tully, Rachel Korine, Mark Robinson, John Maringouin.
Cast: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Hans Morten Hansen, Johanna Mørch, Tomas Alf Larsen. International PremiereTroll Hunter (Trolljegeren) / Norway (Director: André Ovredal) – A group of film students get more than they bargained for when they mess with a man responsible for the protection of Norway from the giant trolls.
Starring: Rand Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridges, Angela Bettis, Ashley Lauren Carter, Zach. World PremiereWomen / USA (Director: Lucky McKee; Screenwriters: Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee) – When a successful country lawyer capture and attempts to “civilize” the last member of a clan violence that has toured the east coast for decades, gets life of his family in danger.
NEW FRONTIER
The works that push the boundaries of traditional film aesthetics and narrative structures of cinema.
A series of vignettes to evoke visceral memories of the company and sexual awakening in a summer shared together on their farm in Kentucky. World premiere.Jess Moss + / USA (Director: Clay Jeter, Screenwriters: Clay and Debra Jeter Jeter) – No immediate family members who can relate, and have no friends their own age, second cousins and Jess Moss only have each other. Cast: Sarah Vickers Hagan, Austin.
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Joanna Litwin. The Mill and the Cross / Poland, Sweden (Director: Lech Majewski, Screenwriters: Michael Francis Gibson and Lech Majewski) – A visually vibrant and masterful work that perfectly enhances pictorial compositions rich with digital effects, which paint Brugel Pedro 1564 , The Road to Calvary, to real life. World Premiere
The Nine Muses / UK (Director and Screenwriter: John Akomfrah) – An allegorical fable chapters divided into overlapping musical, this film tells the story of mass migration to post-war Britain through the lens suggestive of Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. North American Premiere
U.S. Premiere! Women Art Revolution / USA (Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson) – A part of a transmedia project including RAW interactive video installation presented at New Frontier War, this documentary’s seminal history of women artists who have used art as an activist practice to combat against gender oppression and protest and racial exclusion – creating what many historians feel is the most important artistic movement of the late 20.
World premiere.Starring: Justin Phillips, Toby David, Mortemore Adam Persky Nicola, Chris Edley. Forest / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Lessner) – A satirical nod to fashion a critical ethnographic film on the dependence of technology media, when eight young Americans are moving deeper into the forest to create their own utopia.
COLLECTION
A selection of the Sundance Collection at UCLA to preserve and restore independent films.
Slacker / USA 1991 (Director and Screenwriter: Richard Linklater) – In praising the film at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1991, Roger Ebert wrote, Slacker is “a film with an appeal almost impossible to describe, although the method of the director, Richard Linklater, is as clear as day “Cast:. Richard Linklater, Marc James, Stella Weir, John Slater, Louis Mackey