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

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

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 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

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

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

Genre: Documentary

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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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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

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

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

In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jenna Marvin

From the outside, the DeHart’s were an All-American family. Parents Paul and Leann were U.S. Military members, and son Matt was obsessed with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joel Widman

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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When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Naomi Fontanos

An intimate portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, Q depicts the influence of a secretive matriarchal religious order on filmmaker...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hiba Khodr

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

Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Timotei Duma

About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Farmer

An epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marty Walsh

A filmmaker ventures into the archives of her photographer mother to construct a personal story of love, loss, and finding someone in the work they...

Genre: Documentary

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