“Jimpa”
Director: Sophie Hyde
Cast: Olivia Colman, John Lithgow, Aud Mason-Hyde
Premiere Date: Thursday, January 23
Lowdown: Hyde returns to Sundance after 2022’s Searchlight pickup “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.” This story centers on a mother (Colman), who has to come to grips with her non-binary child (Mason-Hyde), wanting to spend a year with their grandfather (Lithgow) in Europe. This is prime prestige awards bait for a slew of distributors…if it’s good.
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“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Director: Mary Bronstein
Cast: Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Ivy Wolk, Daniel Zolghadri
Premiere Date: Friday, January 24
Lowdown: Byrne plays a therapist attempting to keep her sanity after a gigantic hole makes her apartment unlivable and her young daughter refuses to eat. The word is it makes “Nightbitch” seem tame. A24, No Release Date Announced
“Magic Farm”
Director: Amalia Ulman
Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff, Joe Apollonio, Camila del Campo, Simon Rex
Premiere Date: Sunday, January 26
Lowdown: Already acquired by MUBI, this is Ulman’s follow-up to her acclaimed debut “El Planeta,” which premiered in the 2021 online-only edition of the festival. She also stars alongside Sevigny and Wolff as members of a video crew assigned to profile a musical artist land who arrives in the wrong country. MUBI, No Release Date Announced
“Brides”
Director: Nadia Fall
Cast: Ebada Hassan, Safiyya Ingar, Yusra Warsama, Cemre Ebuzziya, Aziz Capkurt
Premiere Date: Friday, January 24
Lowdown: The official description is “Two teenage girls in search of freedom, friendship, and belonging run away from their lives in the UK with a dangerous plan of traveling to Syria.” And note, it’s set in the war-torn, dictatorship Syria. Not the recently liberated nation. Acquisition Title
“Omaha”
Director: Cole Webley
Cast: John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam
Premiere Date: Thursday, January 23
Lowdown: Magaro follows up his celebrated turn in “September 5” in this tearjerker about a father who takes his two sons on a cross-country road trip after they lose their home. This is the feature directorial debut for Webley who has helmed some of the most “cinematic” commercials out there.
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