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2021 Sundance Film Festival

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 28 to February 3, 2021. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 15, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Utah, the festival combined in-person screenings at the Ray Theatre in Park City, with screenings held online as well as on screens and drive-ins in 24 states and territories across the United States.[1][2]

Location

Park City, Utah

1978

Sundance Institute

72

January 28 to February 3, 2021

English

sundance.org/festival

, written and directed by Siân Heder

CODA

, written and directed by Christopher Makoto Yogi

I Was a Simple Man

, directed and co-written by Clint Bentley

Jockey

, directed by Pascual Sisto

John and the Hole

, written, directed and co-produced by Karen Cinorre

Mayday

, directed by Jerrod Carmichael

On the Count of Three

, written, directed and produced by Rebecca Hall

Passing

, directed by Erin Vassilopoulos

Superior

, written and directed by Nikole Beckwith

Together Together

, written and directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.

Wild Indian

U.S. Dramatic Competition – (Siân Heder)

CODA

U.S. Documentary Competition – (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)

Summer of Soul

World Cinema Dramatic Competition – (Blerta Basholli)

Hive

World Cinema Documentary Competition – (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)

Flee

Ailey:

Neon

: Super LTD

All Light, Everywhere

Bring Your Own Brigade:

CBSN

Censor: (US distribution); Vertigo Releasing (UK distribution); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (worldwide)

Magnet Releasing

CODA:

Apple TV+

Cryptozoo:

Magnolia Pictures

Cusp:

Showtime Documentary Films

El Planeta: Utopia

Faya Dayi: (select territories, including UK and Latin America)

MUBI

First Date: Magnet Releasing

Flee: Neon and (US distribution); Curzon Artificial Eye (UK distribution); Haut et Court (French distribution)

Participant

A Glitch in the Matrix: Magnolia Pictures (US distribution); (UK distribution)

Dogwoof

Hive: and Kino Lorber (US distribution)

Zeitgeist Films

Homeroom: (US distribution)

Hulu

How It Ends: (US distribution; through United Artists Releasing)

American International Pictures

I Was a Simple Man:

Strand Releasing

Jockey:

Sony Pictures Classics

John and the Hole:

IFC Films

Luzzu: Kino Lorber (US distribution); (UK distribution)

Peccadillo Pictures

Marvelous and the Black Hole:

FilmRise

Mayday: Magnolia Pictures

Misha and the Wolves: (US distribution); BBC Storyville (UK distribution)

Netflix

: Juno Films

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

On the Count of Three: and Orion Pictures (US distribution; through United Artists Releasing)

Annapurna Pictures

Passing: Netflix

Playing with Sharks:

National Geographic Documentary Films

Pleasure: (Later acquired by NEON)

A24

Prisoners of the Ghostland:

RLJE Films

Rebel Hearts:

Discovery+

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It:

Roadside Attractions

: Focus Features (US distribution); Universal Pictures (International distribution)

The Sparks Brothers

: Music Box Films (US distribution); Alief (International distribution)

Strawberry Mansion

: Screen Media Films (US distribution); LevelFilm (Canada)

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

: Searchlight Pictures and Hulu (worldwide); Star (select territories)

Summer of Soul

Superior: (US distribution); Visit Films (international sales); Creative Artists Agency (US sales)

Factory 25

: Bleecker Street (US distribution); Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (International distribution)

Together Together

: Shudder

Violation

Wiggle Room: Searchlight Pictures

Wild Indian:

Vertical Entertainment

Sources:[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]