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2024 Sundance Film Festival

Location	Park City, Utah
Founded	1978
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 18 to 28, 2024
Language	English
Website	festival.sundance.org
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The 2024 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to 28, 2024. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 6, 2023.

Among the highlighted events included the premiere of a documentary about the 1980s rock band Devo.

Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

U.S. Documentary Competition

World Documentary Competition

Premieres

Next

Midnight

Spotlight

Special Screenings

Episodic

Anniversary Screenings

U.S. Fiction Short Films

International Fiction Short Films

Animated Short Films

Nonfiction Short Films

Awards

The following awards were given out:

Grand Jury Prizes

• U.S. Dramatic – In the Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza)
• U.S. Documentary – Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev)
• World Cinema Dramatic – Sujo (Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez)
• World Cinema Documentary – A New Kind of Wilderness (Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó)
• Short Film – The Masterpiece (Alex Lora Cercos)

Audience Awards

• Festival Favorite – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
• U.S. Dramatic – Dìdi (弟弟) (Sean Wang)
• U.S. Documentary – Daughters (Angela Patton and Natalie Rae)
• World Cinema Dramatic – Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati)
• World Cinema Documentary – Ibelin (Benjamin Ree)
• NEXT – Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt)

Directing, Screenwriting and Editing

• U.S. Dramatic – Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers
• U.S. Documentary – Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane
• World Cinema Dramatic – Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers
• World Cinema Documentary – Benjamin Ree for Ibelin
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain
• Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Carla Gutiérrez for Frida
• NEXT Innovator Prize – Little Death

Special Jury Prizes

• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Dìdi (弟弟)
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance – Nico Parker for Suncoast
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Art of Change – Union (Stephen Maing and Brett Story)
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Sound – Gaucho Gaucho
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Original Music – Peter Raeburn for Handling the Undead
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Cinematic Innovation – Johan Grimonprez for Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Craft – Nocturnes
• NEXT Special Jury Award – Desire Lines
• Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Masha Ko for The Looming
• Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing – Makoto Nagahisa for Pisko the Crab Child is in Love

Short Film Jury Awards

• U.S. Fiction: Say Hi After You Die (Kate Jean Hollowell)
• International Fiction: The Stag (An Chu)
• Nonfiction: Bob's Funeral (Jack Dunphy)
• Animation: Bug Diner (Phoebe Jane Hart)

Sundance Institute Awards

• NHK Award: Saim Sadiq for We Are Never Going to Die
• Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Pamela Martin
• Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Kristina Motwani
• Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Brad Becker-Parton for Stress Positions
• Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Toni Kamau for The Battle for Laikipia
• Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Love Me

Acquisitions

• Kneecap: Sony Pictures Classics
• Ibelin: Netflix
• A Real Pain: Searchlight Pictures
• It's What's Inside: Netflix
• Presence: Neon
• Ghostlight: IFC Films and Sapan Studios
• My Old Ass: Amazon MGM Studios
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: Warner Bros. Discovery (under DC Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO, CNN Films and Max)
• Skywalkers: A Love Story: Netflix
• Thelma: Magnolia Pictures
• Dìdi: Focus Features
• Daughters: Netflix
• Will & Harper: Netflix
• Between the Temples: Sony Pictures Classics
• Good One: Metrograph Pictures
• Sugarcane: National Geographic Documentary Films
• Sebastian: Kino Lorber
• Your Monster: Vertical
• Girls Will Be Girls: Juno Films
• Never Look Away: Greenwich Entertainment
• Exhibiting Forgiveness: Roadside Attractions
• Winner: Vertical
• Black Box Diaries: MTV Documentary Films
• Love Me: Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures
• Luther: Never Too Much: CNN Films and Oprah Winfrey Network
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Kino Lorber
• Agent of Happiness: Film Movement
• Rob Peace: Republic Pictures
• In the Summers: Music Box Films
• The Outrun: Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films

Gallery

• The Marquis
• Filmmaker Lodge
• Library Center Theatre
• Cast and crew of the Devo documentary
• Film writer and producer Jonathan Nolan interviewed by astrophysics professor Janna Levin
• Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, at the opening press conference

References

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