List of films at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
The following is a list of all films shown at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Feature competition
[edit]The following films were shown in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
U.S. Documentary
[edit]The following 16 films were selected for a world premiere in U.S. Documentary Competition program.[1][2] Dinosaur 13 by Todd Miller served as the opening film of the program.[3]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory | Michael Rossato-Bennett | 2013 | January 18 |
| All the Beautiful Things | John Harkrider | 2013 | January 20 |
| Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart | Jeremiah Zagar | 2014 | January 17 |
| The Case Against 8 | Ben Cotner and Ryan White | 2013 | January 18 |
| Cesar's Last Fast | Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee | 2013 | January 19 |
| Dinosaur 13 | Todd Miller | 2014 | January 16 |
| E-Team | Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman | 2013 | January 18 |
| Fed Up | Stephanie Soechtig | 2013 | January 19 |
| The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | Brian Knappenberger | 2014 | January 20 |
| Ivory Tower | Andrew Rossi | 2013 | January 18 |
| Marmato | Mark Grieco | 2014 | January 17 |
| No No: A Dockumentary | Jeffrey Radice | 2014 | January 20 |
| The Overnighters | Jesse Moss | 2013 | January 17 |
| Private Violence | Cynthia Hill | 2013 | January 19 |
| Rich Hill | Andrew Droz Palermo and Tracy Droz Tragos | 2014 | January 19 |
| Watchers of the Sky | Edet Belzberg | 2014 | January 20 |
U.S. Dramatic
[edit]The following 16 films were selected for a world premiere in U.S. Dramatic Competition program.[4][5] Whiplash by Damien Chazelle served as the opening film of the program.[3]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp X-Ray | Peter Sattler | 2014 | January 17 |
| Cold in July | Jim Mickle | 2014 | January 18 |
| Dear White People | Justin Simien | 2013 | January 18 |
| Fishing Without Nets | Cutter Hodierne | 2013 | January 17 |
| God's Pocket | John Slattery | 2013 | January 17 |
| Happy Christmas | Joe Swanberg | 2013 | January 19 |
| Hellion | Kat Candler | 2014 | January 17 |
| Infinitely Polar Bear | Maya Forbes | 2013 | January 18 |
| Jamie Marks Is Dead | Carter Smith | 2014 | January 19 |
| Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter | David Zellner | 2014 | January 20 |
| Life After Beth | Jeff Baena | 2014 | January 19 |
| Low Down | Jeff Preiss | 2013 | January 19 |
| The Skeleton Twins | Craig Johnson | 2013 | January 18 |
| The Sleepwalker | Mona Fastvold | 2013 | January 20 |
| Song One | Kate Barker-Froyland | 2014 | January 20 |
| Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | 2014 | January 16 |
World Cinema Documentary
[edit]The following 12 films were selected for a world premiere in World Cinema Documentary Competition program.[6][7] The Green Prince by Nadav Schirman served as the opening film of the program.[3]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20,000 Days on Earth | Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard | 2014 | January 20 |
| Concerning Violence | Göran Hugo Olsson | 2014 | January 17 |
| The Green Prince | Nadav Schirman | 2014 | January 16 |
| Happiness | Thomas Balmès | 2014 | January 17 |
| Love Child | Valerie Veatch | 2014 | January 17 |
| Mr. Leos caraX | Tessa Louise-Salomé | 2014 | January 20 |
| My Prairie Home | Chelsea McMullan | 2014 | January 17 |
| The Notorious Mr. Bout | Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin | 2014 | January 17 |
| The Return to Homs | Talal Derki | 2014 | January 17 |
| Sepideh – Reaching for the Stars | Berit Madsen | 2014 | January 17 |
| We Come as Friends | Hubert Sauper | 2014 | January 18 |
| Web Junkie | Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia | 2014 | January 19 |
World Cinema Dramatic
[edit]The following 12 films were selected for a world premiere in World Cinema Dramatic Competition program.[8][9] Lilting by Hong Khaou served as the opening film of the program.[3]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 Tuesdays | Sophie Hyde | 2013 | January 18 |
| Blind | Eskil Vogt | 2013 | January 17 |
| Difret | Zeresenay Berhane Mehari | 2014 | January 18 |
| The Disobedient | Mina Djukic | 2014 | January 20 |
| God Help the Girl | Stuart Murdoch | 2013 | January 18 |
| Liar's Dice | Geetu Mohandas | 2013 | January 18 |
| Lilting | Hong Khaou | 2013 | January 16 |
| Lock Charmer (Spanish: El cerrajero) | Natalia Smirnoff | 2013 | January 21 |
| To Kill a Man | Alejandro Fernández Almendras | 2013 | January 17 |
| Viktoria | Maya Vitkova | 2013 | January 19 |
| Wetlands | David Wnendt | 2013 | January 18 |
| White Shadow | Noaz Deshe | 2013 | January 17 |
Short Programs
[edit]The following 66 short films were selected from a record 8,161 submissions.[10][11]
USA Narrative Short Films
[edit]| Title | Country | Director | Year | Minutes | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130919 • A Portrait of Marina Abramović | USA | Matthu Placek | 2013 | 7 | January 21 |
| Afronauts | USA | Frances Bodomo | 2014 | 13 | January 18 |
| The Big House (Al Bayt Al Kabeer) | USA, Yemen | Musa Syeed | 2013 | 5 | January 17 |
| The Bravest, the Boldest | USA | Moon Molson | 2014 | 17 | January 17 |
| Catherine | USA | Dean Fleischer-Camp | 2013 | 13 | January 17 |
| Chapel Perilous | USA | Matthew Lessner | 2013 | 14 | January 17 |
| Cruising Electric (1980) | USA | Brumby Boylston | 2013 | 2 | January 18 |
| Dawn | USA | Rose McGowan | 2013 | 17 | January 16 |
| Dig | USA | Toby Halbrooks | 2013 | 10 | January 18 |
| The End of Eating Everything | USA | Wangechi Mutu | 2013 | 8 | January 17 |
| Funnel | USA | Andre Hyland | 2013 | 8 | January 19 |
| Gregory Go Boom | USA | Janicza Bravo | 2013 | 17 | January 16 |
| Here Come the Girls | USA, Norway | Young Jean Lee | 2013 | 20 | January 17 |
| I'm a Mitzvah | USA | Ben Berman and Josh Cohen | 2014 | 19 | January 17 |
| The Immaculate Reception | USA | Charlotte Glynn | 2013 | 16 | January 17 |
| Jonathan's Chest | USA | Christopher Radcliff | 2014 | 14 | January 17 |
| Kekasih | USA, Malaysia | Diffan Sina Norman | 2013 | 9 | January 18 |
| Master Muscles | USA | Efrén Hernández | 2013 | 14 | January 17 |
| Me + Her | USA | Joseph Oxford | 2014 | 13 | January 18 |
| Person to Person | USA | Dustin Guy Defa | 2014 | 18 | January 18 |
| Rat Pack Rat | USA | Todd Rohal | 2014 | 19 | January 17 |
| Verbatim | USA | Brett Weiner | 2013 | 7 | January 17 |
International Narrative Short Films
[edit]| Title | Country | Director | Year | Minutes | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Girls 1 Cake | Denmark | Jens Dahl | 2013 | 13 | January 17 |
| Best | United Kingdom | William Oldroyd | 2012 | 3 | January 17 |
| Black Mulberry | Georgia, France | Gabriel Razmadze | 2012 | 22 | January 17 |
| Burger | United Kingdom, Norway | Magnus Mork | 2013 | 11 | January 17 |
| Butter Lamp | France, China | Hu Wei | 2013 | 16 | January 16 |
| The Cut | Canada | Geneviève Dulude-De Celles | 2013 | 15 | January 17 |
| Exchange & Mart | United Kingdom | Cara Connolly and Martin Clark | 2013 | 15 | January 18 |
| Here I Am...There You Are... | Israel | Dikla Jika Elkaslassy | 2013 | 12 | January 18 |
| Life's a Bitch | Canada | François Jaros | 2013 | 5 | January 17 |
| Metube: August Sings Carmen (Habanera) | Austria | Daniel Moshel | 2013 | 4 | January 17 |
| Mi nina mi vida | Canada | Yan Giroux | 2013 | 19 | January 17 |
| More Than Two Hours | Iran | Ali Asgari | 2013 | 15 | January 17 |
| My Sense of Modesty | France | Sébastien Bailly | 2013 | 21 | January 16 |
| Mystery | Spain | Chema García Ibarra | 2013 | 11 | January 19 |
| Pleasure | Sweden | Ninja Thyberg | 2013 | 15 | January 17 |
| Syndromeda | Sweden | Patrik Eklund | 2013 | 22 | January 17 |
| Wakening | Canada | Danis Goulet | 2013 | 9 | January 19 |
Documentary Short Films
[edit]| Title | Country | Director | Year | Minutes | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choreography | USA | David Redmon and Ashley Sabin | 2013 | 9 | January 17 |
| Fe26 | USA | Kevin Jerome Everson | 2014 | 7 | January 18 |
| Godka Cirka (A Hole in the Sky) | Spain, France, USA | Alex Lora and Antonio Tibaldi | 2013 | 10 | January 18 |
| Hacked Circuit | USA | Deborah Stratman | 2014 | 15 | January 18 |
| I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked | Israel | Yuval Hameiri and Michal Vaknin | 2012 | 9 | January 17 |
| The Last Days of Peter Bergmann | Ireland | Ciaran Cassidy | 2013 | 20 | January 18 |
| The Lion's Mouth Opens | USA | Lucy Walker | 2013 | 14 | January 18 |
| Love. Love. Love. | Russia | Sandhya Daisy Sundaram | 2013 | 12 | January 18 |
| Notes on Blindness | United Kingdom, USA, Australia | Peter Middleton and James Spinney | 2014 | 13 | January 17 |
| Of God and Dogs | Syrian Arab Republic | Abounaddara Collective | 2013 | 12 | January 18 |
| One Billion Rising | USA | Eve Ensler and Tony Stroebel | 2013 | 9 | January 19 |
| Remembering the Artist, Robert De Niro, Sr. | USA | Perri Peltz and Geeta Gandbhir | 2013 | 40 | January 17 |
| Tim and Susan Have Matching Handguns | USA | Joe Callander | 2013 | 2 | January 17 |
| Untucked | USA | Danny Pudi | 2013 | 15 | January 16 |
Animated Short Films
[edit]| Title | Country | Director | Year | Minutes | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allergy to Originality | USA | Drew Christie | 2012 | 4 | January 16 |
| Astigmatismo | Spain | Nicolai Troshinsky | 2013 | 4 | January 17 |
| Blame It on the Seagull | Norway | Julie Engaas | 2013 | 13 | January 17 |
| Crime: The Animated Series (Marcus McGhee) | USA, Canada | Alix Lambert and Sam Chou | 2013 | 5 | January 18 |
| Marilyn Myller | USA, United Kingdom | Mikey Please | 2013 | 6 | January 17 |
| The Obvious Child | United Kingdom | Stephen Irwin | 2013 | 12 | January 17 |
| Passer Passer | USA | Louis Morton | 2013 | 4 | January 17 |
| Phantom Limb | United Kingdom, Australia | Alex Grigg | 2013 | 5 | January 17 |
| Piece, Peace | South Korea | Jae-in Park | 2013 | 7 | January 17 |
| The Present | Taiwan | Joe Hsieh | 2013 | 15 | January 17 |
| Subconscious Password | Canada | Chris Landreth | 2013 | 11 | January 16 |
| White Morning | United Kingdom | Paul Barritt | 2013 | 12 | January 17 |
| Yearbook | USA | Bernardo Britto | 2013 | 6 | January 17 |
Non-competition features
[edit]The following films were shown out of competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Premieres
[edit]The following 19 feature films were selected for a world premiere in non-Competition program.[12][13]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyhood | Richard Linklater | 2013 | January 19 |
| Calvary | John Michael McDonagh | 2013 | January 19 |
| Frank | Lenny Abrahamson | 2013 | January 17 |
| Hits | David Cross | 2014 | January 21 |
| I Origins | Mike Cahill | 2014 | January 18 |
| Laggies | Lynn Shelton | 2013 | January 17 |
| Little Accidents | Sara Colangelo | 2014 | January 22 |
| Love Is Strange | Ira Sachs | 2014 | January 18 |
| A Most Wanted Man | Anton Corbijn | 2013 | January 19 |
| Nick Offerman: American Ham | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | 2013 | January 23 |
| The One I Love | Charlie McDowell | 2014 | January 21 |
| The Raid 2: Berandal | Gareth Evans | 2013 | January 21 |
| Rudderless | William H. Macy | 2013 | January 24 |
| They Came Together | David Wain | 2014 | January 24 |
| The Trip to Italy | Michael Winterbottom | 2014 | January 20 |
| The Voices | Marjane Satrapi | 2013 | January 19 |
| White Bird in a Blizzard | Gregg Araki | 2014 | January 20 |
| Wish I Was Here | Zach Braff | 2013 | January 18 |
| Young Ones | Jake Paltrow | 2013 | January 18 |
Documentary Premieres
[edit]The following 12 films were selected for Documentary Premieres program.[14][15]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Battered Bastards of Baseball | Chapman Way and Maclain Way | 2014 | January 20 |
| Finding Fela | Alex Gibney | 2014 | January 17 |
| Freedom Summer | Stanley Nelson Jr. | 2013 | January 17 |
| Happy Valley | Amir Bar-Lev | 2013 | January 19 |
| Lambert & Stamp | James D. Cooper | 2014 | January 20 |
| Last Days in Vietnam | Rory Kennedy | 2013 | January 17 |
| Life Itself | Steve James | 2014 | January 19 |
| Mitt | Greg Whiteley | 2013 | January 17 |
| This May Be the Last Time | Sterlin Harjo | 2013 | January 19 |
| To Be Takei | Jennifer M. Kroot | 2014 | January 18 |
| We Are the Giant | Greg Barker | 2014 | January 18 |
| Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger | Joe Berlinger | 2014 | January 18 |
Spotlight
[edit]The following 8 films were selected for Spotlight program.[16][17]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Ruin | Jeremy Saulnier | 2013 | January 17 |
| The Double | Richard Ayoade | 2013 | January 17 |
| Ida | Pawel Pawlikowski | 2013 | January 21 |
| Locke | Steven Knight | 2013 | January 17 |
| The Lunchbox | Ritesh Batra | 2013 | January 19 |
| Only Lovers Left Alive | Jim Jarmusch | 2013 | January 20 |
| R100 | Hitoshi Matsumoto | 2013 | January 18 |
| Stranger by the Lake | Alain Guiraudie | 2013 | January 17 |
Next
[edit]The following 11 films were selected for a world premiere in Next program to highlight the American cinema.[18][19]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriate Behavior | Desiree Akhavan | 2014 | January 18 |
| Drunktown's Finest | Sydney Freeland | 2013 | January 18 |
| The Foxy Merkins | Madeleine Olnek | 2013 | January 20 |
| A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | Ana Lily Amirpour | 2014 | January 19 |
| Imperial Dreams | Malik Vitthal | 2014 | January 20 |
| Land Ho! | Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz | 2014 | January 19 |
| Listen Up Philip | Alex Ross Perry | 2014 | January 20 |
| Memphis | Tim Sutton | 2014 | January 17 |
| Obvious Child | Gillian Robespierre | 2013 | January 17 |
| Ping Pong Summer | Michael Tully | 2014 | January 18 |
| War Story | Mark Jackson | 2014 | January 19 |
Park City at Midnight
[edit]The following 8 films were selected for Park City at Midnight program.[20][21]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Babadook | Jennifer Kent | 2014 | January 17 |
| Cooties | Jonathan Millott and Cary Murnion | 2014 | January 18 |
| Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead | Tommy Wirkola | 2014 | January 19 |
| The Guest | Adam Wingard | 2014 | January 17 |
| Killers | The Mo Brothers | 2014 | January 20 |
| The Signal | William Eubank | 2014 | January 20 |
| EDC 2013: Under the Electric Sky | Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz | 2013 | January 18 |
| What We Do in the Shadows | Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement | 2014 | January 19 |
From the Collection
[edit]The following 2 films were selected for From the Collection program.[22]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clerks | Kevin Smith | 1994 | January 24 |
| Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 1994 | January 20 |
New Frontier Films
[edit]The following 7 films were selected for New Frontier Films program.[23][24]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Better Angels | A.J. Edwards | 2013 | January 18 |
| The Girl from Nagasaki | Michel Comte | 2013 | January 21 |
| HitRecord on TV | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | 2014 | January 17 |
| Living stars | Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn | 2013 | January 17 |
| The Measure of All Things | Sam Green | 2014 | January 20 |
| This World Made Itself; Myth and Infrastructure; Dreaming of Lucid Living | Miwa Matreyek | 2013 | January 19 |
| Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People | Thomas Allen Harris | 2013 | January 17 |
Sundance Kids
[edit]The following 2 films were selected for Sundance Kids program.[25][26]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest & Celestine | Stéphane Aubier, Benjamin Renner and Vincent Patar | 2013 | January 18 |
| Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang | Óskar Santos | 2013 | January 18 |
Free Fail Film
[edit]The following film was shown at Free Fail Film program.[27][28][29]
| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | 1996 | January 20 |
Surprise Screenings
[edit]| Title | Director | Year | First showing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nymphomaniac: Vol. I | Lars von Trier | 2013 | January 21 |
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