2016: 6. SUNDANCE
by pedrobarrosfafe | created - 28 Apr 2016 | updated - 12 Feb 2018 | PublicMy shortlist from Sundance 2016.
* EXCLUDING: Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Independent Spirits, Critics' Choice, SAG, HFA, BIFA and LCCFA 2016 nominees.
(Complete Sundance 2016 lists in my public lists:
«2016: 6.01» to «2016: 6.12»)
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1. Captain Fantastic (2016)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Director: Matt Ross | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso
Votes: 235,018 | Gross: $5.88M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
2. Sing Street (2016)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A young lad notices a beautiful girl who begins to occupy his thoughts. While struggling with poverty, personal relationships and life's woes, he starts a band, hoping to catch her attention.
Director: John Carney | Stars: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor
Votes: 100,897 | Gross: $3.24M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
3. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
R | 137 min | Drama
A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
Director: Kenneth Lonergan | Stars: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges
Votes: 313,602 | Gross: $47.70M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
4. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
PG-13 | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House
Votes: 141,840 | Gross: $5.20M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
5. The Hollars (2016)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man returns to his small hometown after learning that his mother has fallen ill and is about to undergo surgery.
Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Charlie Day, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick
Votes: 14,491 | Gross: $1.02M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
6. Indignation (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
Director: James Schamus | Stars: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tijuana Ricks, Sue Dahlman
Votes: 12,621 | Gross: $3.40M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
7. Love & Friendship (2016)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica--and herself too, naturally.
Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell
Votes: 26,421 | Gross: $14.01M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
8. Certain Women (2016)
R | 107 min | Drama
The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, James Le Gros
Votes: 15,622 | Gross: $1.03M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
9. Little Men (2016)
PG | 85 min | Drama
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García, Theo Taplitz
Votes: 7,812 | Gross: $0.70M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
10. Ali and Nino (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance, War
Love story of a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku from 1918 to 1920.
Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Adam Bakri, María Valverde, Mandy Patinkin, Riccardo Scamarcio
Votes: 5,547
Sundance 2016: Premieres
11. The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
TV-MA | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A man suffering a family loss enrolls in a class about care-giving that changes his perspective on life.
Director: Rob Burnett | Stars: Craig Roberts, Paul Rudd, Selena Gomez, Alex Huff
Votes: 79,714
Sundance 2016: Premieres
12. The Innocents (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Votes: 11,603 | Gross: $1.06M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
13. Complete Unknown (2016)
R | 91 min | Drama, Mystery
As a man contemplates moving to a new state with his wife for her graduate program, an old flame - a woman who often changes identities - reenters his life at a birthday dinner party.
Director: Joshua Marston | Stars: Michael Shannon, Rachel Weisz, Hansel Tan, FaTye
Votes: 6,537 | Gross: $0.17M
Sundance 2016: Premieres
14. Green Room (2015)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.
Director: Jeremy Saulnier | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 139,197 | Gross: $3.22M
Sundance 2016: Spotlight
15. Land of Mine (2015)
R | 100 min | Drama, History, War
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
Director: Martin Zandvliet | Stars: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Votes: 45,758 | Gross: $0.44M
Sundance 2016: Spotlight
16. Maggie's Plan (2015)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maggie wants to have a baby, raising him on her own, but when she gets romantically involved with John, a married man, things get complicated and all the balance of Maggie's plans may collapse.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Maya Rudolph
Votes: 18,310 | Gross: $3.35M
Sundance 2016: Spotlight
17. Miles Ahead (2015)
R | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Music
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Director: Don Cheadle | Stars: Don Cheadle, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 10,556 | Gross: $2.61M
Sundance 2016: Spotlight
18. The Birth of a Nation (2016)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Director: Nate Parker | Stars: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley
Votes: 21,820 | Gross: $15.86M
Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic
- Audience Award - Dramatic
19. Swiss Army Man (2016)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Antonia Ribero
Votes: 133,545 | Gross: $4.21M
Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Directing Award - Dramatic
20. Goat (2016)
R | 96 min | Drama
Reeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there in the name of "brotherhood" tests him and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.
Director: Andrew Neel | Stars: Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper, Danny Flaherty
Votes: 8,107 | Gross: $0.02M
Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
21. As You Are (2016)
110 min | Drama, Mystery
Set in the early 1990s, the telling and retelling of a friendship between three teenagers, as a police investigation prompts disparate memories.
Director: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte | Stars: Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg, John Scurti
Votes: 2,840
Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - Dramatic
22. The Intervention (I) (2016)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
Director: Clea DuVall | Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter, Skylar Bernon, Kira Pozehl
Votes: 6,537 | Gross: $0.03M
Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - Dramatic - Individual Performance
23. Morris from America (2016)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The romantic and coming-of-age misadventures of a 13-year-old American living in Germany.
Director: Chad Hartigan | Stars: Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson, Carla Juri, Patrick Güldenberg
Votes: 5,631 | Gross: $0.09M
Sundance 2016: U.S. Dramatic
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
- Special Jury Award - Dramatic - Individual Performance
24. Sand Storm (2016)
87 min | Drama
When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
Director: Elite Zexer | Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari, Khadija Al Akel
Votes: 3,976 | Gross: $0.08M
Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Dramatic
25. Belgica (2016)
127 min | Drama
The drama follows two brothers who start a bar and get swept up in its success in the midst of Belgium's nightlife scene.
Director: Felix van Groeningen | Stars: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Stefaan De Winter, Dominique Van Malder
Votes: 4,768
Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Directing Award - World Cinema Dramatic
26. Between Sea and Land (2016)
98 min | Drama
A man yearns to go in to the ocean across the street from his house, but suffers from an illness that prevents hims from doing so.
Directors: Manolo Cruz, Carlos del Castillo | Stars: Jorge Cao, Manolo Cruz, Vicky Hernández, Alejandro Rubio
Votes: 270
Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Audience Award - World Cinema Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - World Cinema Dramatic - Acting
27. My Friend from the Park (2015)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
Running away from a bar without paying the bill is just the first adventure for Liz (mother to newborn Nicanor) and Rosa (supposed mother to newborn Clarisa). This budding friendship ... See full summary »
Director: Ana Katz | Stars: Julieta Zylberberg, Andrés Milicich, Mirella Pascual, Tomás Newkirk
Votes: 349
Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - World Cinema Dramatic - Screenwriting
28. The Lure (2015)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska | Stars: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis, Andrzej Konopka
Votes: 9,792 | Gross: $0.10M
Sundance 2016: World Cinema Dramatic
- Special Jury Award - World Cinema Dramatic - Unique Vision & Design
29. First Girl I Loved (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her LA public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend Clifton - who has always harbored a secret crush - he does his best to get in the way.
Director: Kerem Sanga | Stars: Dylan Gelula, Brianna Hildebrand, Mateo Arias, Pamela Adlon
Votes: 4,048
Sundance 2016: Next
- Audience Award: Best of Next.
30. Operation Avalanche (2016)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.
Director: Matt Johnson | Stars: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Andrew Appelle, Jared Raab
Votes: 7,960 | Gross: $0.06M
Sundance 2016: Next
31. Under the Shadow (2016)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Arash Marandi
Votes: 30,110 | Gross: $0.03M
Sundance 2016: Midnight
32. Yoga Hosers (2016)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Two teenage yoga enthusiasts must do battle with an evil presence that is threatening to rise from its underground lair and endanger their major party plans.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Quinn Smith, Johnny Depp, Adam Brody
Votes: 15,482
Sundance 2016: Midnight
33. Snowtime! (2015)
PG | 82 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
When winter break arrives, a boy and his friends are joined by the new girl in town for a prolonged snowball fight.
Directors: Jean-François Pouliot, François Brisson | Stars: Angela Galuppo, Mariloup Wolfe, Lucinda Davis, Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier
Votes: 1,515
Sundance 2016: Sundance Kids
34. Life, Animated (2016)
PG | 92 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A coming-of-age story about a boy and his family who overcame great challenges by turning Disney animated movies into a language to express love, loss, kinship and brotherhood.
Director: Roger Ross Williams | Stars: Owen Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Ron Suskind, Walter Suskind
Votes: 6,176 | Gross: $0.26M
Sundance 2016: U.S. Documentary
- Directing Award - Documentary
Tribeca 2016: Spotlight
35. Weiner (2016)
R | 96 min | Documentary
An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign and today's political landscape.
Directors: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg | Stars: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Jordan Zain Weiner, Barbara Morgan
Votes: 10,533 | Gross: $1.61M
Sundance 2016: U.S. Documentary
- Grand Jury Prize - Documentary
36. Sonita (2015)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
After her family attempts to sell her into marriage, a young Afghan refugee in Iran channels her frustrations and seizes her destiny through music. Grabbing the mic, she spits fiery rhymes in the face of oppressive traditions.
Director: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami | Stars: Sonita Alizadeh, Latifah Alizadeh, Fadia Alizadeh, Ahmad Ahmadi
Votes: 887
Sundance 2016: World Cinema Documentary
- Grand Jury Prize - World Cinema Documentary
- Audience Award - World Cinema Documentary
37. All These Sleepless Nights (2016)
R | 100 min | Documentary, Drama
A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. Art school classmates Christopher and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age, restlessly roam their city's ... See full summary »
Director: Michal Marczak | Stars: Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef, Natalia Atmanska
Votes: 1,857 | Gross: $0.02M
Sundance 2016: World Cinema Documentary
- Directing Award - World Cinema Documentary
38. Dazed and Confused (1993)
R | 103 min | Comedy
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 199,378 | Gross: $7.99M
Sundance 2016: Special Events
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