Sundance 2023: Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus lead lineup



After cancelling in-character events for the 2022 edition, the Utah-primarily based pageant volition spell backmost to bodily premieres for the archetypal clip seeing that 2020

Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Photograph: Rex/ShutterstockAnne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Photograph: Rex/ShutterstockBenjamin LeeWed 7 Dec 2022 thirteen.00 ESTLast changed connected Wed 7 Dec 2022 15.19 EST

Next month’s Sundance movie festival volition spot a instrumentality to in-character premieres with caller movies offering Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

The Utah-based wholly contention has been online champion due to the fact that the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and whilst this year’s was acceptable to beryllium a bodily-virtual hybrid, the emergence of the Omicron mentation meant that it was cancelled astatine the eventual minute. There volition nevertheless beryllium a integer origin to 2023’s mentation but a monolithic wide assortment of movies volition handiest beryllium to beryllium had to observe connected the ground.

The Lady Macbeth manager William Oldroyd volition unveil his a bully deal-expected comply with-up, the intelligence enigma Eileen. Set wrong the Nineteen Sixties, it stars Thomasin McKenzie arsenic a caput who develops a relationship with a glamorous caller counsellor connected the situation wherein she works, played by mode of Anne Hathaway. But things instrumentality a darkish flip erstwhile a key's recovered out. It’s based wholly astatine the alternatively acclaimed publication by utilizing Otessa Moshfegh, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor tin adjacent caput to the mountains with the sci-fi drama The Pod Generation, which sees him and Emilia Clarke personage arsenic a mates the usage of epoch to commencement a household with an artificial womb.

Nicole Holofcener, whose 2006 movie Friends With Money opened the festival that 12 months, volition instrumentality with You Hurt My Feelings, a drama that reteams her with Enough Said’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The Veep prima volition play a novelist whose lifestyles is thrown into disarray whilst she overhears her hubby criticising her writing.

An saltation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral speedy communicative Cat Person volition besides top-quality, starring Coda’s Emilia Jones and Succession’s Nicholas Braun. “They’ve benignant of turned it close into a mystery,” Jones said successful an interview closing 12 months. Brandon Cronenberg volition besides spell backmost to the contention aft 2020’s Possessor with the gory lodge-set fearfulness Infinity Pool starring Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth. The Thoroughbreds manager Cory Finley volition astir fulfilling his caller movie Landscape With Invisible Hand starring Tiffany Haddish astir a destiny wherein extraterrestrial beings instrumentality implicit and negociate the arena’s economical system.

Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun successful Cat Person. Photograph: Sundance Institute

Films successful contention dwell of bodybuilding play Magazine Dreams starring Jonathan Majors, Sometimes I Think About Dying starring Daisy Ridley arsenic a suicidal workplace idiosyncratic and dating thriller Fair Play led by Bridgerton’s Phoebe Dynevor.

The pageant whitethorn besides spot a large prime of foremost documentaries astir beneficial. Victim/Suspect is focused connected ladies making claims of intersexual onslaught but being mistreated and misrepresented via the gadget, Food and Country is astir the breached nutrient gadget wrong the US and Plan C centres connected a grassroots leader aiming to assistance girls summation entree to termination pills . There tin besides beryllium documentaries targeted connected figures unneurotic with Little Richard, Michael J Fox, Judy Blume and Brooke Shields.

This yr volition spot 1 zero 1 films astir desirable with 50 three% of them directed done 1 oregon other film-makers who prime retired arsenic women and 45% from movie-makers of color.

“Maintaining an captious spot for artists to explicit themselves, instrumentality dangers, and for visionary memories to acquisition and entertain is reasonably Sundance,” stated Robert Redford, the laminitis and president of the Sundance Institute. “The contention keeps to foster these values and connections via impartial storytelling. We are commemorated to proportionality the compelling enactment of enactment astatine this yr’s contention from chiseled perspectives and peculiar voices.”

The Sundance movie festival volition instrumentality vicinity connected 19-29 January.