Sundance 2022 First Looks: Rebecca Hall In ‘Resurrection,’ Elizabeth Banks In ‘Call Jane’ & More

With 2021 coming to a close and everyone putting their best-of lists together, the Sundance Film Festival is on the horizon giving us a wave of new movies to look forward to. The festival has released a batch of first-look images (see below) for the upcoming slate of festival entries including films such as “Resurrection,” “Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul,” and “Call Jane.” All three projects will have their World Premiere at Sundance alongside many other feature films and documentaries.

The festival takes place January 20-30 of next year.

‘Resurrection’ stars Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, and Angela Wong Carbone, which focuses on a woman’s past coming back to haunt her as her teenage daughter is heading off to university. Andrew Semans is both the film’s director and screenwriter.

“Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined, and successful. Soon, her teenage daughter, who Margaret raised by herself, will be going off to a fine university, just as Margaret had intended. Everything is under control. That is, until David returns, carrying with him the horrors of Margaret’s past.”

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“Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul” is a fictional religious drama with a scandal at the center starring Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown trying to rebuild their congregation. It was written/directed by Adamma Ebo.

“In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist megachurch, attempts to help her pastor husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.”

“Call Jane” is a drama focused on a housewife attempting to help give other women access to safe abortions in the 1960s and hails from director Phyllis Nagy with a script penned by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi. The fantastic seasoned cast consists of Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, and Cory Michael Smith.

“Chicago, 1968: after having a life-saving secret abortion, a suburban housewife seeks to give women access to healthy and safe abortions through an underground collective of women known as ‘Jane.'”