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

Documentary feature about 11-time Jeopardy! champion and Internet iconoclast, Arthur Chu.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arthur Chu

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

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

Genre: Documentary

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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

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

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

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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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

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Meera Devi

Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved...

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

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

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

Three brave cheerleaders take on the NFL, battling the massive, male-dominated sports league for recognition — and a raise.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lacy Thibodeaux-Fields

Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nelson Chamisa

As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport is often either the subject of an unwanted gaze — gawked at by strangers — or...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Reid Davenport

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

The Spokeswoman narrates the trip of María de Jesús Patricio, the first indigenous woman to run for president in Mexico, revealing the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: María de Jesús Patricio Martínez