2019 Sundance Film Festival
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 24 to February 3, 2019. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 28, 2018.
Films
U.S. Dramatic Competition
- Before You Know It by Hannah Pearl Utt
- Big Time Adolescence by Jason Orley
- Brittany Runs a Marathon by Paul Downs Colaizzo
- Clemency by Chinonye Chukwu
- The Farewell by Lulu Wang
- Hala by Minhal Baig
- Honey Boy by Alma Har'el
- Imaginary Order by Debra Eisenstadt
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco by Joe Talbot
- Luce by Julius Onah
- Ms. Purple by Justin Chon
- Native Son by Rashid Johnson
- Share by Pippa Bianco
- The Sound of Silence by Michael Tyburski
- Them That Follow by Britt Poulton and Dan Savage
- To the Stars by Martha Stephens
U.S. Documentary Competition
- Always in Season by Jacqueline Olive
- American Factory by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
- Apollo 11 by Todd Douglas Miller
- Bedlam by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
- ' by A.J. Eaton
- Hail Satan? by Penny Lane
- Jawline by Liza Mandelup
- Knock Down the House by Rachel Lears
- Midnight Family by Luke Lorentzen
- Mike Wallace Is Here by Avi Belkin
- ' by Irene Taylor Brodsky
- One Child Nation by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang
- Pahokee by Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan
- TIGERLAND by Ross Kauffman
- Untitled Amazing Johnathan Documentary by Ben Berman
- Where’s My Roy Cohn? by Matt Tyrnauer
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- Dirty God by Sacha Polak
- Divine Love by Gabriel Mascaro
- Dolce Fine Giornata by Jacek Borcuch
- Judy and Punch by Mirrah Foulkes
- Koko-di Koko-da by Johannes Nyholm
- The Last Tree by Shola Amoo
- Monos by Alejandro Landes
- Queen of Hearts by May el-Toukhy
- The Sharks by Lucía Garibaldi
- The Souvenir by Joanna Hogg
- This is not Berlin by Hari Sama
- We Are Little Zombies by Makoto Nagahisa
World Cinema Documentary Competition
- Advocate by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche
- Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Mads Brügger
- The Edge of Democracy by Petra Costa
- The Disappearance of My Mother by Beniamino Barrese
- Gaza by Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell
- Honeyland by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska
- Lapü by Juan Pablo Polanco and César Alejandro Jaimes
- The Magic Life of V by Tonislav Hristov
- Midnight Traveler by Hassan Fazili
- Sea of Shadows by Richard Ladkani
- Shooting the Mafia by Kim Longinotto
- Stieg Larsson – The Man Who Played With Fire by Henrik Georgsson
Premieres
- After the Wedding by Bart Freundlich
- Animals by Sophie Hyde
- Blinded by the Light by Gurinder Chadha
- Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile by Joe Berlinger
- Fighting with My Family by Stephen Merchant
- I Am Mother by Grant Sputore
- Late Night by Nisha Ganatra
- Mope by Lucas Heyne
- Official Secrets by Gavin Hood
- Paddleton by Alex Lehmann
- Photograph by Ritesh Batra
- Relive by Jacob Aaron Estes
- Sonja - The White Swan by Anne Sewitsky
- The Mustang by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Chiwetel Ejiofor
- The Report by Scott Z. Burns
- The Sunlit Night by David Wnendt
- The Tomorrow Man by Noble Jones
- Top End Wedding by Wayne Blair
- Troop Zero by Bert & Bertie
- Velvet Buzzsaw by Dan Gilroy
Documentary Premieres
- Ask Dr. Ruth by Ryan White
- Halston by Frédéric Tcheng
- Love, Antosha by Garret Price
- ' by Nick Broomfield
- ' by Heperi Mita
- ' by Stanley Nelson
- ' by Janice Engel
- The Brink by Alison Klayman
- The Great Hack by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim
- ' by Alex Gibney
- ' by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
- Untouchable by Ursula Macfarlane
- Words from a Bear by Jeffrey Palmer
Special Events
- Documentary Now! Original Cast Album: Co-Op by Alex Buono
- Documentary Now! Season 52 Preview
- Documentary Now! Waiting for the Artist by Alex Buono and Rhys Thomas
- Leaving Neverland by Dan Reed
- Lorena by Joshua Rofe
- Now Apocalypse by Gregg Araki
- Pop-Up Magazine
- This Is Personal by Amy Berg
Next
- Adam by Rhys Ernst
- Give Me Liberty by Kirill Mikhanovsky
- Light from Light by Paul Harrill
- Paradise Hills by Alice Waddington
- Premature by Rashaad Ernesto Green
- Selah and the Spades by Tayarisha Poe
- Sister Aimee by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann
- The Death of Dick Long by Daniel Scheinert
- The Infiltrators by Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra
- The Wolf Hour by Alistair Banks Griffin
Awards
The winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Award was One Child Nation, directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang.
The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was The Souvenir, directed by Joanna Hogg.
The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was Honeyland, directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov.
The winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award was Monos directed by Alejandro Landes.
Juries
Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 17, 2019.;U.S. Documentary Jury
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