PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The warfare satire “Atropia,” about actors in a army role-playing facility, gained the grand jury prize within the Sundance Movie Competition’s U.S. dramatic competitors, whereas the Dylan O’Brien film “Twinless” bought the coveted viewers award. Juries and programmers for the forty first version of the impartial movie competition introduced the key prizewinners Friday in Park Metropolis, Utah.
Different grand jury winners included the documentaries “Seeds,” about farmers in rural Georgia and “Cutting Through the Rocks,” in regards to the first elected councilwoman in an Iranian village. The Indian drama “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” a couple of metropolis dweller mourning his father within the western Indian countryside, gained the highest prize on the earth cinema competitors.
“It’s for my dad,” mentioned author and director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade. His late father, he mentioned, was the one who inspired him to pursue filmmaking.
Audiences additionally get to vote on their very own awards, the place James Sweeney’s “Twinless,” in regards to the bromance between two males who meet in a twin bereavement assist group, triumphed within the U.S. dramatic class. O’Brien additionally gained a particular jury award for his performing.
The U.S. documentary viewers award went to “André is an Idiot,” a life-affirming movie about dying of colon most cancers. Different viewers picks had been “Prime Minister,” about former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and “DJ Ahmet,” a coming-of-age movie a couple of 15-year-old boy in North Macedonia.
Mstyslav Chernov, the Oscar-winning Related Press journalist, gained the world cinema documentary directing award for his newest dispatch from Ukraine, “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a joint manufacturing between the AP and PBS Frontline.
“Here’s to all documentary directors who are risking their lives in Ukraine trying to tell the stories of people who protect the land that I call home,” Chernov mentioned onstage.
Others singled out for steering embody Geeta Gandbhir for “The Perfect Neighbor,” a documentary a couple of homicide in Florida advised via using police physique digicam footage, and Rashad Frett for “Ricky,” a drama about life post-incarceration.
The world cinema documentary jury additionally gave particular prizes to “Coexistence, My Ass!” a couple of comic who creates a one-woman present in regards to the wrestle for equality in Israel and Palestine, and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” through which a Russian instructor goes undercover to show what’s taking place in his faculty in the course of the invasion of Ukraine.
“Our programming team is so thrilled to have introduced these moving and impactful works to our audiences this Festival, and we look forward to following the journeys of each of these talented artists and their projects,” mentioned competition programming director Kim Yutani.
The Sundance Movie Competition runs via Sunday.
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