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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.[1]

Location

January 18 to January 28, 2018

English

U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: , directed by Desiree Akhavan

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: , directed by Andrew Heckler

Burden

U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: , directed by Sara Colangelo

The Kindergarten Teacher

U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: , written by Christina Choe

Nancy

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: , directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green

Monsters and Men

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: , directed by Reed Morano

I Think We're Alone Now

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: , Blaze

Benjamin Dickey

U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: Kailash (later released as ), directed by Derek Doneen

The Price of Free

U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence, directed by

Rudy Valdez

U.S. Documentary Directing Award, , directed by Alexandria Bombach

On Her Shoulders

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: , directed by Stephen Maing

Crime + Punishment

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: , directed by RaMell Ross

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: , directed by Bing Liu

Minding the Gap

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: , directed by Tim Wardle

Three Identical Strangers

World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: , directed by Tolga Karacelik

Butterflies

World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: , directed by Gustav Möller

The Guilty

World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: , directed by Ísold Uggadóttir

And Breathe Normally

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: , The Queen of Fear

Valeria Bertuccelli

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: (Tiempo Compartido), written by Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann

Time Share

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: , directed by Cathy Yan

Dead Pigs

World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: , directed by Talal Derki

Of Fathers and Sons

World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: , directed by Alexandra Shiva

This is Home

World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: , directed by Sandi Tan

Shirkers

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: , presented to director Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A.

Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: , Peter Indergand and Maxim Arbugaev

Genesis 2.0

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: , Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov

Our New President

NEXT Audience Award: , directed by Aneesh Chaganty

Searching

NEXT Innovator Award: (tie) , directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar

Night Comes On

Short Film Grand Jury Prize: , directed by Alvaro Gago

Matria

Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: , directed by Mariama Diallo

Hair Wolf

Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: , directed by Goran Stolevski

Would You Look at Her

Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: , directed by Tamta Gabrichidze

The Trader (Sovdagari)

Short Film Jury Award: Animation: , directed by Jeron Braxton

Glucose

Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; , directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by Luis De Filippis

Fauve

Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: (Syria), directed by Talal Derki; Untitled film (India), directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; and Night on Fire, directed by Tatiana Huezo

Of Fathers and Sons

Sundance Institute / NHK Award: , directed by Remi Weekes

His House

Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: , Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian

Searching

Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award:

Sev Ohanian

The following awards were presented:[2][3]

by Brad Anderson

Beirut

by Ben Lewin

The Catcher Was a Spy

by Wash Westmoreland

Colette

by Joshua Marston

Come Sunday

by David Zellner

Damsel

by Gus Van Sant

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

by David Wain

A Futile and Stupid Gesture

by Rupert Everett

The Happy Prince

by Brett Haley

Hearts Beat Loud

by Jesse Peretz

Juliet, Naked

by Silas Howard

A Kid Like Jake

by Debra Granik

Leave No Trace

by Hannah Fidell

The Long Dumb Road

by Claire McCarthy

Ophelia

by Tamara Jenkins

Private Life

by Marc Turtletaub

Puzzle

by Jason Reitman

Tully

by Elizabeth Chomko

What They Had

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