Festivals

Here are the 2023 Sundance Film Festival winners, as provided by the Sundance Institute:   GRAND JURY PRIZESThe U. S.

The Chapel, the new movie from Belgian director Dominique Deruddere, premiered this past Friday, January 27 as the opening film at the Ostend Film festival (FFO). The Chapel tells the story of a twenty-three-year-old virtuoso pianist, Jennifer Rogiers (Taeke Nicolaï).

Tom Cruise is famous enough for running in films that it’s sparked memes, YouTube supercuts, and a good-natured embrace from the actor himself on social media. Until one watches Still: A Michael J.

“In Short We Trust”: might seem provocative to some, but for Alessandro Loprieno, founder and CEO of the first worldwide distribution platform dedicated solely to shorts, there is nothing truer… and interest from the Sundance Film Festival, with its known attention to the short form, whether it be fiction or not, proves it.   WeShort, the company founded only two years ago in the Southern region of Puglia, Italy, is now an official partner of the Sundance Institute.

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.

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.

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.