Sundance Film Festival 2012

2 Days in New York (2011)

Cast: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Vincent Gallo, Dylan Baker, Kate Burton

Director: Julie Delpy

Synopsis: Marion and Mingus live cozily—perhaps too cozily—with their cat and two young children from previous relationships. However, when Marion’s jo... [MORE]

Arbitrage (2012)

Cast: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Nate Parker

Director: Nicholas Jarecki

Synopsis: Nicholas Jarecki makes an auspicious directorial debut with this taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty, and high finance. Arbitra... [MORE]

Bachelorette (2012)

Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, James Marsden, Lizzy Caplan, Adam Scott

Director: Leslye Headland

Synopsis: Regan is used to being first at everything. Imagine her horror and chagrin when she finds out the girl everyone called Pig Face in high school is g... [MORE]

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2011)

Cast: Ai Dan, Ai Lao, Ai Weiwei, Lee Ambrozy, Danqing

Director: Alison Klayman

Synopsis: Ai Weiwei is known for many things—great architecture, subversive in-your-face art, and political activism. He has also called for greater transp... [MORE]

The Atomic States of America (2012)

Cast: Kelly McMasters, Karl Grossman, Neil Sheehan, Alec Baldwin, Helen Caldicott

Director: Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce

Synopsis: Based on Kelly McMasters’s memoir about growing up in a nuclear-reactor community, this stirring film illustrates the dire health consequences fo... [MORE]

Chasing Ice (2011)

Director: Jeff Orlowski

Synopsis: When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to... [MORE]

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry

Director: Benh Zeitlin

Synopsis: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in “the Bathtub,” a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. W... [MORE]

The Comedy (2012)

Cast: Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alexia Rasmussen, Gregg Turkington

Director: Rick Alverson

Synopsis: A memorably repulsive prologue depicts a bunch of guys carousing in and out of their underwear, sloshing their chubby, pasty-white bodies with beer... [MORE]

The End of Love (2012)

Cast: Mark Webber, Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Cera, Jason Ritter, Amanda Seyfried, Frankie Shaw

Director: Mark Webber

Synopsis: Mark is a struggling actor stuck between the life he once knew and the one waiting for him. When the mother of his two-year-old son suddenly passes... [MORE]

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

Director: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

Synopsis: Shot largely by local man Emad Burnat on the titular quintet of wrecked rigs, docu "Five Broken Cameras" is an undeniably powerful record of the Pa... [MORE]

Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011)

Cast: Alex Rivera, Bart Simpson, Charlotte Lundgren, Dan Koeppel, David Magdael

Director: Fredrik Gertten

Synopsis: In April 2009, Swedish filmmakers Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangård learned that the world premiere of BANANAS!*—their documentary about a l... [MORE]

About the Pink Sky (2011)

Cast: Ai Ikeda, Ena Koshino, Reiko Fujiwara, Tsubasa Takayama, Hakusyu Togetsuan

Director: Keiichi Kobayashi

Synopsis: Izumi, a headstrong high-school girl with a cheerfully cynical outlook—she routinely “rates” the newspaper by assigning articles positive or ... [MORE]

Can (2011)

Cast: Selen Ucer, Serdar Orcin, Berkan Demirbag, Erkan Avci

Director: Rasit Çelikezer

Synopsis: Loving Istanbul couple Ayşe and Cemal need only a child to complete their life together, but they cannot conceive. To salvage Cemal’s pride, the... [MORE]

Father's Chair (2011)

Cast: Wagner Moura, Mariana Lima, Lima Duarte, Bras Antunes

Director: Luciano Moura

Synopsis: The old fortune-cookie wisdom about the journey being more important than the destination is emphatically underscored by Brazilian Sundance entry "... [MORE]