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This Sundance Film Festival was my first time Sundancing (as the cooler regulars definitely DO NOT call it) and I had a few realizations and knee-jerk reactions to the experience. First and foremost, it’s cold — like really, really cold in Park City, and it never seemed to stop snowing.

First there was natural conception. Then medicine discovered artificial insemination.

Childhood innocence is a beautiful thing that should be sought to be reasonably protected. But too often, both within families and on a macro level, a mistake is made in thinking that the best way to achieve this is through sheer avoidance rather than engagement.

How does a yoga school morph into a political movement, and eventually a doomsday cult responsible for a terrorist nerve gas attack? That’s the darkly fascinating transformation put under the microscope by AUM: The Cult at the End of the World, a world premiere and U. S.

Elle Márjá Eira is an artist-composer-producer-director from Kautokeino, northern Norway, who is preparing to release her debut feature, Stolen, adapted from the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by author Ann-Helén Laestadius. Based on actual events, Stolen is a coming-of-age story told from the perspective of a young Sámi girl who struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd while grappling with xenophobic issues that face her culture.

For some, the first thing that comes to mind about film festivals and their award galas is the glamour of the red carpet, the festive atmosphere or the love for cinema that binds the majority of the festival goers. It is precisely this love for film that rewards people who look for something that goes beyond the glittering events.

Teachers as heroes has long been a popular subject for movies. Think Sidney Poitier in To Sir, With Love, Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, Jack Black in The School of Rock, Hilary Swank in Freedom Writers, Denzel Washington in The Great Debaters, Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver, Morgan Freeman in Lean on Me, and J.

More than “Tutti Frutti. ” More than flamboyance.

Little did attendees of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival realize that events that were happening at the exact same time down in Orange County, California, would be recreated later for the audiences of the 2023 edition. In January of 2016, Long Hoang Ma, a 74-year-old Vietnamese cab driver, reluctantly picked up a late-night call for passengers.

A young man is interrogated by the father of his lover, who has disappeared without a trace during the couple’s trip to a secluded island. This is the premise of Danish director Martin Skovbjerg’s feature film Copenhagen Does Not Exist.