2018 Sundance Film Festival
# 2018 Sundance Film Festival

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29, 2017.

## Awards

The following awards were presented:

* U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan
* U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Burden, directed by Andrew Heckler
* U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Kindergarten Teacher, directed by Sara Colangelo
* U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nancy, written by Christina Choe
* U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: Monsters and Men, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
* U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: I Think We're Alone Now, directed by Reed Morano
* U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: Benjamin Dickey, Blaze
* U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: Kailash (later released as The Price of Free), directed by Derek Doneen
* U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence, directed by Rudy Valdez
* U.S. Documentary Directing Award, On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Crime + Punishment, directed by Stephen Maing
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Hale County This Morning, This Evening, directed by RaMell Ross
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu
* U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle
* World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Butterflies, directed by Tolga Karacelik
* World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: The Guilty, directed by Gustav Möller
* World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: And Breathe Normally, directed by Ísold Uggadóttir
* World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear
* World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Time Share (Tiempo Compartido), written by Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann
* World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: Dead Pigs, directed by Cathy Yan
* World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki
* World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: This is Home, directed by Alexandra Shiva
* World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Shirkers, directed by Sandi Tan
* World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., presented to director Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A.
* World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Genesis 2.0, Peter Indergand and Maxim Arbugaev
* World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Our New President, Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov
* NEXT Audience Award: Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty
* NEXT Innovator Award: (tie) Night Comes On, directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar
* Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Matria, directed by Alvaro Gago
* Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Hair Wolf, directed by Mariama Diallo
* Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Would You Look at Her, directed by Goran Stolevski
* Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: The Trader (Sovdagari), directed by Tamta Gabrichidze
* Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Glucose, directed by Jeron Braxton
* Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; Fauve, directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by Luis De Filippis
* Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Of Fathers and Sons (Syria), directed by Talal Derki; Untitled film (India), directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; and Night on Fire, directed by Tatiana Huezo
* Sundance Institute / NHK Award: His House, directed by Remi Weekes
* Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Searching, Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian
* Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award: Sev Ohanian

## Films

### U.S. Dramatic Competition

| Film | Director |
| - | - |
| American Animals | Bart Layton |
| Blaze | Ethan Hawke |
| Blindspotting | Carlos López Estrada |
| Burden | Andrew Heckler |
| Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
| I Think We're Alone Now | Reed Morano |
| The Kindergarten Teacher | Sara Colangelo |
| Lizzie | Craig William Macneill |
| The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Desiree Akhavan |
| Monster | Anthony Mandler |
| Monsters and Men | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| Nancy | Christina Choe |
| Sorry to Bother You | Boots Riley |
| The Tale | Jennifer Fox |
| Tyrel | Sebastián Silva |
| Wildlife | Paul Dano |

### U.S. Documentary Competition

| Film | Director |
| - | - |
| Bisbee 17 | Robert Greene |
| Crime + Punishment | Stephen Maing |
| Dark Money | Kimberly Reed |
| The Devil We Know | Stephanie Soechtig |
| Hal | Amy Scott |
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross |
| Inventing Tomorrow | Laura Nix |
| Kailash | Derek Doneen |
| Kusama: Infinity | Heather Lenz |
| The Last Race | Michael Dweck |
| Minding the Gap | Bing Liu |
| On Her Shoulders | Alexandria Bombach |
| The Price of Everything | Nathaniel Kahn |
| Seeing Allred | Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman |
| The Sentence | Rudy Valdez |
| Three Identical Strangers | Tim Wardle |

### Premieres

* Beirut by Brad Anderson
* The Catcher Was a Spy by Ben Lewin
* Colette by Wash Westmoreland
* Come Sunday by Joshua Marston
* Damsel by David Zellner
* Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by Gus Van Sant
* A Futile and Stupid Gesture by David Wain
* The Happy Prince by Rupert Everett
* Hearts Beat Loud by Brett Haley
* Juliet, Naked by Jesse Peretz
* A Kid Like Jake by Silas Howard
* Leave No Trace by Debra Granik
* The Long Dumb Road by Hannah Fidell
* Ophelia by Claire McCarthy
* Private Life by Tamara Jenkins
* Puzzle by Marc Turtletaub
* Tully by Jason Reitman
* What They Had by Elizabeth Chomko

### Documentary Premieres

* Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock by Cody Lucich
* Bad Reputation by Kevin Kerslake
* Believer by Don Argott
* Chef Flynn by Cameron Yates
* The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos
* Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield
* Half the Picture by Amy Adrion
* Jane Fonda in Five Acts by Susan Lacy
* King in the Wilderness by Peter Kunhardt
* Quiet Heroes by Jenny Mackenzie
* RBG by Betsy West and Julie Cohen
* Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind by Marina Zenovich
* Studio 54 by Matt Tyrnauer
* Won't You Be My Neighbor? by Morgan Neville

### Midnight Premieres

* Arizona by Jonathan Watson
* Assassination Nation by Sam Levinson
* Hereditary by Ari Aster
* Lords of Chaos by Jonas Åkerlund
* Mandy by Panos Cosmatos
* Never Goin' Back by Augustine Frizzell
* Piercing by Nicolas Pesce
* Revenge by Coralie Fargeat
* Summer of 84 by RKSS

### World Cinema Dramatic Competition

* And Breathe Normally by Ísold Uggadóttir (Iceland-Sweden-Belgium)
* Butterflies by Tolga Karaçelik (Turkey)
* Dead Pigs by Cathy Yan (China)
* The Guilty by Gustav Möller (Denmark)
* Holiday by Isabella Eklöf (Denmark-Netherlands-Sweden)
* Loveling by Gustavo Pizzi (Brazil-Uruguay)
* Pity by Babis Makridis (Greece-Poland)
* The Queen of Fear by Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia (Argentina-Denmark)
* Rust by Aly Muritiba (Brazil)
* Time Share (Tiempo Compartido) by Sebastián Hofmann (Mexico-Netherlands)
* Un Traductor by Rodrigo Barriuso and Sebastián Barriuso (Canada-Cuba)
* Yardie by Idris Elba (U.K.)

### World Cinema Documentary Competition

* Anote's Ark by Matthieu Rytz (Canada)
* The Cleaners by Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block (Germany/Brazil)
* Genesis 2.0 by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev (Switzerland)
* Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. by Stephen Loveridge (Sri Lanka/United Kingdom/United States)
* Of Fathers and Sons by Talal Derki (Germany/Syria/Lebanon/Qatar)
* The Oslo Diaries by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan (Israel/Canada)
* Our New President by Maxim Pozdorovkin (Russia/United States)
* A Polar Year by Samuel Collardey (France)
* Shirkers by Sandi Tan (United States)
* This Is Home by Alexandra Shiva (Jordan/United States)
* Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist by Lorna Tucker (United Kingdom)
* A Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter (Hungary)

## Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018.

