Movies: Sundance Institute

  • 2021
    Fathom

    Fathom (2021)

    Fathom

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    Two biologists set out on an undertaking as colossal as their subjects—deciphering the complex communication of whales. Dr. Michelle Fournet and Dr. Ellen Garland journey to opposite hemispheres to uncover a culture eons older than our own....

    Fathom
  • 2018
    Farming

    Farming (2018)

    Farming

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    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 the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang....

    Farming
  • 2017
    Bending the Arc

    Bending the Arc (2017)

    Bending the Arc

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    About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural Haitian village grew into a global battle in the halls of power for the right to health for all....

    Bending the Arc
  • 1984
    The River Rat

    The River Rat (1984)

    The River Rat

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    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 whereabouts of the stolen loot, and those who come looking for it......

    The River Rat
  • 2024
    Agent of Happiness

    Agent of Happiness (2024)

    Agent of Happiness

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    The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with their questionnaires in isolated villages in the Himalayas. The filmmakers undertake to provide an intim...

    Agent of Happiness
  • 1994
    Parallel Lives

    Parallel Lives (1994)

    Parallel Lives

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    A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a long list of stars....

    Parallel Lives
  • 2021
    Ascension

    Ascension (2021)

    Ascension

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    The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes humorous—imagery, this observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation...

    Ascension
  • 2011
    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

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    Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who w...

    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
  • 2004
    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)

    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

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    Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons...

    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
  • 2020
    The Mole Agent

    The Mole Agent (2020)

    The Mole Agent

    7.82020HD

    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 who becomes a new resident—and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with bec...

    The Mole Agent
  • 2019
    Collective

    Collective (2019)

    Collective

    7.62019HD

    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 investigative journalists move into action uncovering the mass corruption of the health system and of t...

    Collective
  • 2020
    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias (2020)

    Coded Bias

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    Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in th...

    Coded Bias
  • 2009
    Son of Babylon

    Son of Babylon (2009)

    Son of Babylon

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    A willful young boy follows his just and obstinate grandmother on a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war....

    Son of Babylon
  • 2021
    Writing with Fire

    Writing with Fire (2021)

    Writing with Fire

    7.32021HD

    In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues and within the confines o...

    Writing with Fire
  • 2023
    President

    President (2023)

    President

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    Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile.” The election tests both the ruling party and the opposition – how do they inter...

    President
  • 1990
    Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

    Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990)

    Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

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    Documentary is about the life and work of American screenwriter Waldo Salt who won two Academy Awards and was put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s. The story is told through interviews with collaborators and friends such as Dustin Hoffman, Rob...

    Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
  • 2012
    Flood

    Flood (2012)

    Flood

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    Miriam is an unemployed journalist who has a beat on a story that could turn her bad luck around. Her dad is an evangelical who believes the fossil record derived from Noah's Flood. For ten years, he has lived in the Mojave Desert, running a paleonto...

    Flood
  • 2013
    At Berkeley

    At Berkeley (2013)

    At Berkeley

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    Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate taking place over tuition hikes, budget cuts, and the future of higher education in the United Stat...

    At Berkeley
  • 2019
    Always in Season

    Always in Season (2019)

    Always in Season

    6.82019HD

    When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present....

    Always in Season
  • 1991
    Reservoir Dogs

    Reservoir Dogs (1991)

    Reservoir Dogs

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    Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film....

    Reservoir Dogs