As the documentary “Barbara Forever” opens, iconic filmmaker Barbara Hammer, the subject of the film, can be heard saying, “I’m creating a lesbian history in a world where we’re invisible.”
“We built this from our lives, two Midwest kids figuring it out with a crew of friends who were doing the same,” say Julien and Justen Turner.
Set in a town where trance dance hypnosis is a common pastime, “Levitating (Para Perasuk),” invites audiences into a world where pleasure, belief, and survival intertwine.
“Once Upon a Time in Harlem” transports us back to 1972, when William Greaves orchestrated an afternoon gathering of the architects of the Harlem Renaissance at Duke Ellington’s apartment.
Using archival footage and reenactments interspersed with film and photos shot in Vietnam by the young men comprising the “soul patrol,” J.M. Harper crafts a backdrop of a country that was readily sending Black men to risk their lives in the jungle even as their civil rights were being disputed back home.
By Jessica Herndon Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival have always had a look and energy that signal something new is about to break
PARK CITY, UTAH, December 17, 2026 — The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced additional honorees for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance
Even though The Weight is a period piece, don’t be surprised if the echoes of history start to get louder and more familiar as you watch the film.
For documentary storytellers Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak, the sweet message behind their film, “Birds of War,” set amid the perils of the Syrian civil war, is that against all odds, love wins.
“I’ve always needed to tell my stories,” says filmmaker William David Caballero. “Growing up, American media sent a clear message that the lives of low-income people of color didn’t matter.”
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When it came to depicting the lives of misfit runaway teens in the twisted drama “BURN,” writer-director Makoto Nagahisa was determined to shoot in Tokyo locations that felt unmistakably authentic to the world he was building.