The Sundance Film Festival opens today in Park City (Utah) and will continue until the 27th, screening 119 films from 32 countries, according to organizers.
Of the films on the schedule, 27 are in competition, including 51 first-time film productions.
According to the programme, the festival will exhibit four Chilean films. Among them, “No,” by Pablo Larrain which is a nominee for the upcoming Oscars, for best foreign language film. “Crystal Fairy,” written and directed by Sebastian Silva is another.
“The Future” will also join the list, a German, Italian and Spanish co-production directed and written by Alicia Scherson and “Magic magic,” also by Silva about a young American woman’s vacation in a remote area of Chile.
For its part, Mexico will be represented with “Halley,” by Sebastian Hofmann, a very particular reflection about death.
The organizers of the event predicted that one of the films to create the biggest buzz will be “Jobs,” chosen for the closing night.
Starring Ashton Kutcher, the film about the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, will be in American cinemas in April and was produced by Open Road Films.
Another highly anticipated offering is “Before Midnight,” the third in the romantic saga directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
Also “Big South,” a film about Jack Kerouac’s alcoholism, with Kate Bosworth and Josh Lucas; “Don Jon’s Addiction,” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt making his debut as director and screenwriter, and the spy thriller “The East,” with Alexander Skarsgard and Ellen Page.
“Stoker,” starring Nicole Kidman, by screenwriter Wentworth Miller, the star of the series Prison Break will also be screened. “Sweetwater, deals with a murder in New Mexico in the late nineteenth century, and stars Ed Harris, January Jones and the Spanish Eduardo Noriega.
Jane Campion will return to the screens with “Top of the Lake,” in her reunion with Holly Hunter, the star of her film “The Piano.”
According to Sundance Institute President and founder, Robert Redford, “every great film starts with an idea,” highlighting the fact that artists are continually watching new films, developing new stories, new perspectives and new ways to share them, year after year.
Via PL