Ultimately, Sundance programmers had to sift through 3,762 feature-length films, compared to 3,500 for the 2021 festival. Programmers also were not sure how many films would be submitted - because they didn’t how many filmmakers would have the wherewithal to make movies while the pandemic was still raging, Yutani said. “By keeping the program tight, we’re best serving the films that we’re showing,” Yutani said. But it is far fewer than the 120 or so features that played in the years before the pandemic. 20-30, are more than the 73 titles that played in the shortened, online-only festival in 2021.
The 82 films chosen for the 2022 festival, running Jan. (Antti Savolainen | Sundance Institute) Sister McKenna Field, a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is one of the subjects of a Finnish documentary, "The Mission," directed by Tania Anderson, an official selection of the World Cinema Documentary competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. “The Mission” follows four American teens as they arrive in Finland to serve their missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Utah audiences will see something familiar in a documentary from Finland. (That last one, “Lucy and Desi,” is the directing debut of another comedy icon, “Parks & Recreation” star Amy Poehler.)
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Among the documentaries are profiles of rapper Kanye West, singer Sinead O’Connor, Princess Diana, and TV pioneers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Not everything at Sundance is so serious. Another drama, “Happening” (in the Spotlight section), follows a college student in France in 1963, before abortion was legal there. Two films - the documentary “The Janes” and the drama (in the Premieres section) “Call Jane,” starring Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver - recall an underground abortion referral service that ran in Chicago before the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v.
Three films tackle a timely topic: The process of getting an abortion before it was legal. “There are so many ways where our everyday lives sometimes feel like a horror film,” Yutani said. Dramatic competition, “Master” and “Nanny,” incorporate supernatural themes in stories about racial inequality. One of those forms, she said, is the horror genre. Many of the films, Yutani said, “are looking for new forms, and finding new ways, of telling stories about racial injustice and misogyny.” “We saw a lot of films you could see as being reactions to our times … really questioning the system, fighting the system, really calling into question institutions and corporations.” “What we noticed this year was just how living through the past 20 months has really influenced the work of these artists,” said Kim Yutani, the festival’s program director. “We’ll be guided by the science,” she said.ĬOVID-19 doesn’t pop up much as a central topic of the films selected for the festival - compared to the 2021 festival, when the COVID-in-China documentary “In the Same Breath” and quarantine allegories like “The Pink Cloud” and “In the Earth” played. Sundance has hired its own epidemiologist and a COVID-19 compliance officer, Jackson said, and she is listening to the guidelines from public health officials. Jackson said that she and her staff have not felt panic over news of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, “because we designed a festival with flexibility in mind - assuming that there was going to be the likelihood of something popping up as we hit winter.” We haven’t had an adverse response to anything that we said, which has been wonderful.” “We wanted to make sure that we weren’t leaving a void of confusion or speculation. “It just seems like common sense,” said Jackson, who announced the policy this summer so attendees would have plenty of time to get their shots. Masks also will be required in all indoor venues and in line to get into screenings and events. Every title will be screened at the in-person venues, then debut online.Īnyone attending the festival in person - ticket-buyers, filmmakers, volunteers and staff - will be required to show proof that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute announced Thursday the 82 feature films that will screen in venues - and on the festival’s online platform - from Jan. This year is another complete re-imagination, to have a festival which is both IRL and URL, both in-person and online.” “Last year was a complete re-imagination, to go online. “I’m resisting the ‘back’ word,” Tabitha Jackson, the festival’s director, told The Salt Lake Tribune this week. The Sundance Film Festival is preparing a return to Park City and Salt Lake City venues in January after going online-only in 2021 - but don’t call it a comeback, organizers say.
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