Nate von Zumwalt

A pair of Sundance breakout films coming to theaters in October examine the disparate but mesmerizing charades carried out by their subjects. In the documentary (T)ERROR, cameras infiltrate a real life counterterrorism sting carried out by a veteran FBI informant, and in I Smile Back, Sarah Silverman secretly inhabits a world of compulsion and duplicity that belies her idyllic family life. Check out all that October has to offer below.

IN THEATERS

Friday, October 2

Partisan, directed by Ariel Kleiman

Wednesday, October 7

The Forbidden Room, directed by Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson

(T)ERROR, directed by Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe

Friday, October 9

Knock Knock, directed by Eli Roth

Friday, October 16

The Russian Woodpecker, directed by Chad Gracia

Experimenter, directed by Michael Almereyda 

The Bronze, directed by Bryan Buckley

Friday, October 23

I Smile Back, directed by Adam Salky