PARK CITY, Utah – The conflict satire “Atropia,” about actors in a navy role-playing facility, received the grand jury prize within the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competitors, whereas the Dylan O’Brien film “Twinless” acquired the coveted viewers award. Juries and programmers for the forty first version of the unbiased movie pageant introduced the most important prizewinners Friday in Park City, Utah.
Different grand jury winners included the documentaries “Seeds,” about farmers in rural Georgia and “Slicing By the Rocks,” in regards to the first elected councilwoman in an Iranian village. The Indian drama “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” a couple of metropolis dweller mourning his father within the western Indian countryside, received the highest prize on the earth cinema competitors.
“It’s for my dad,” stated author and director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade. His late father, he stated, was the one who inspired him to pursue filmmaking.
Audiences additionally get to vote on their very own awards, the place James Sweeney’s “Twinless,” in regards to the bromance between two males who meet in a twin bereavement assist group, triumphed within the U.S. dramatic class. O’Brien additionally received a particular jury award for his performing.
The U.S. documentary viewers award went to “André is an Fool,” a life-affirming movie about dying of colon most cancers. Different viewers picks had been “Prime Minister,” about former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and “DJ Ahmet,” a coming-of-age movie a couple of 15-year-old boy in North Macedonia.
Mstyslav Chernov, the Oscar-winning Related Press journalist, received the world cinema documentary directing award for his newest dispatch from Ukraine, “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a joint manufacturing between the AP and PBS Frontline.
“Right here’s to all documentary administrators who’re risking their lives in Ukraine making an attempt to inform the tales of people that shield the land that I name house,” Chernov stated onstage.
Others singled out for steering embrace Geeta Gandbhir for “The Good Neighbor,” a documentary a couple of homicide in Florida instructed via the usage of police physique digital camera footage, and Rashad Frett for “Ricky,” a drama about life post-incarceration.
The world cinema documentary jury additionally gave particular prizes to “Coexistence, My Ass!” a couple of comic who creates a one-woman present in regards to the wrestle for equality in Israel and Palestine, and “Mr. No one Towards Putin,” through which a Russian instructor goes undercover to reveal what’s taking place in his faculty through the invasion of Ukraine.
“Our programming crew is so thrilled to have launched these transferring and impactful works to our audiences this Competition, and we look ahead to following the journeys of every of those proficient artists and their tasks,” stated pageant programming director Kim Yutani.
The Sundance Movie Competition runs via Sunday.
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