'Southside with You', a drama about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, and Wall Street drama 'Equity' are among movies making their world premieres at the festival.
AceShowbiz - The Sundance Institute has announced the lineups for U.S. Dramatic and Documentary Competition as well as the Next slate of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation", the drama about the rise of ISIS, "Jim", and the romantic drama focusing on Barack and Michelle Obama's love story, "Southside with You", are among movies to make their world premieres at the festival.
Joining "The Birth of a Nation" in U.S. dramatic competition are the drama focusing on the women of Wall Street, "Equity", Jason Lew's crime drama "The Free World" and "Swiss Army Man", a drama starring Daniel Radcliffe about a man who befriends a dead boy and together embark on an "epic journey" to get back home.
Also set to screen in the dramatic competition are "As You Are", "Christine", "The Free World", "Goat", "The Intervention", "Joshy", "Lovesong", "Morris from America", "Other People", "Spa Night", "Tallulah" and "White Girl".
Meanwhile, the genres on the documentary competition vary from psychological thriller and sexual assault film to nature documentary. "Kate Plays Christine", a film centering on Christine Chubbuck, a Florida television host who infamously died by suicide on air in 1974, is one of 16 films premiering in the U.S. documentary competition.
"When we were looking at the films this year, we were drawn to a New Wave, of sorts," Sundance's director John Cooper said. "For independent film, an evolution is happening. We're trying to keep step with this great leap forward."
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival is set to commence on January 21 and run through January 31, 2016 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
"As You Are" / U.S.A. (Director: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Screenwriters: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Madison Harrison)
"The Birth of a Nation" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Nate Parker)
"Christine" / U.S.A. (Director: Antonio Campos, Screenwriter: Craig Shilowich)
"Equity" / U.S.A. (Director: Meera Menon, Screenwriter: Amy Fox)
"The Free World" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Jason Lew)
"Goat" / U.S.A. (Director: Andrew Neel, Screenwriters: David Gordon Green, Andrew Neel, Michael Roberts) The Intervention%" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Clea DuVall)
"Lovesong" / U.S.A. (Director: So Yong Kim, Screenwriters: So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray)
"Morris from America" / U.S.A., Germany (Director and screenwriter: Chad Hartigan)
"Other People" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Chris Kelly)
"Southside with You" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Richard Tanne)
"Spa Night" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Andrew Ahn)
"Swiss Army Man" / U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan)
"Tallulah" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Sian Heder)
"White Girl" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Elizabeth Wood)
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
"Audrie & Daisy" / U.S.A. (Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk)
"Author: The JT LeRoy Story" / U.S.A. (Director: Jeff Feuerzeig)
"The Bad Kids" / U.S.A. (Directors: Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe)
"Gleason" / U.S.A. (Director: Clay Tweel)
"Holy Hell" / U.S.A. (Director: undisclosed)
"How to Let Go of the World" (and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change) / U.S.A. (Director: Josh Fox)
"Jim" / U.S.A. (Director: Brian Oakes)
"Kate Plays Christine" / U.S.A. (Director: Robert Greene)
"Kiki" / U.S.A., Sweden (Director: Sara Jordeno)
"Life, Animated" / U.S.A. (Director: Roger Ross Williams)
"Newtown" / U.S.A. (Director: Kim A. Snyder)
"NUTS!" / U.S.A. (Director: Penny Lane)
"Suited" / U.S.A. (Director: Jason Benjamin)
"Trapped" / U.S.A. (Director: Dawn Porter)
"Uncle Howard" / U.S.A., United Kingdom (Director: Aaron Brookner)
"Weiner" / U.S.A. (Directors: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg)
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
"Belgica" / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens)
"Between Sea and Land" / Colombia (Directors: Manolo Cruz, Carlos del Castillo, Screenwriter: Manolo Cruz)
"Brahman Naman" / United Kingdom, India (Director: Q, Screenwriter: S. Ramachandran)
"A Good Wife" / Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia (Director: Mirjana Karanovic, Screenwriters: Mirjana Karanovic, Stevan Filipovic, Darko Lungulov)
"Halal Love (and Sex)" / Lebanon, Germany, United Arab Emirates (Director and screenwriter: Assad Fouladkar)
"The Lure" / Poland (Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska, Screenwriter: Robert Bolesto)
"Male Joy, Female Love" / China (Director and screenwriter: Yao Huang)
"Mammal" / Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands (Director: Rebecca Daly, Screenwriters: Rebecca Daly, Glenn Montgomery)
"Mi Amiga del Parque" / Argentina, Uruguay (Director: Ana Katz, Screenwriters: Ana Katz, Ines Bortagaray)
"Much Ado About Nothing" / Chile (Director: Alejandro Fernandez, Screenwriters: Alejandro Fernandez, Jeronimo Rodri��guez)
"Sand Storm" / Israel (Director and screenwriter: Elite Zexer)
"Wild" / Germany (Director and screenwriter: Nicolette Krebitz)
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
"All These Sleepless Nights" / Poland (Director: Michal Marczak)
"A Flag Without a Country" / Iraq (Director: Bahman Ghobadi)
"Hooligan Sparrow" / China, U.S.A. (Director: Nanfu Wang)
"The Land of the Enlightened" / Belgium (Director: Pieter-Jan De Pue)
"The Lovers and the Despot" / United Kingdom (Directors: Robert Cannan, Ross Adam)
"Plaza de la Soledad" / Mexico (Director: Maya Goded)
"The Settlers" / France, Canada, Israel, Germany (Director: Shimon Dotan)
"Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang" / U.S.A. (Director: Kevin Macdonald)
"Sonita" / Germany, Iran, Switzerland (Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami)
"We Are X" / United Kingdom, U.S.A., Japan (Director: Stephen Kijak)
"When Two Worlds Collide" / Peru (Directors: Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel)
NEXT
"THE 4TH" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Andre Hyland)
"Dark Night" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Tim Sutton)
"The Eyes of My Mother" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Nicolas Pesce)
"First Girl I Loved" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Kerem Sanga)
"The Fits" / U.S.A., Italy (Director: Anna Rose Holmer, Screenwriters: Anna Rose Holmer, Saela Davis, Lisa Kjerulff)
"How To Tell You're A Douchebag" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Tahir Jetter)
"Jacqueline (Argentine)" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Bernardo Britto)
"The Land" / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Steven Caple Jr.)
"Operation Avalanche" / U.S.A., Canada (Director: Matt Johnson, Screenwriters: Matt Johnson, Josh Boles)
"Sleight" / U.S.A. (Director: JD Dillard, Screenwriters: JD Dillard, Alex Theurer)
