Acquisitions at Sundance 2021: Searchlight buys worldwide rights for “The Night House”

An immigrant family from Senegal is waiting for their father to join them. Meanwhile, Amy, the eleven-year-old girl in the family is fascinated by her free-spirited neighbor Angelica. Her traditional value set system is in contrast to Angelica’s free and disobedient nature. Amy, however, gains some of their attention and urges the group to take […]

Magdalena, who has not heard from her son in a very long time, cannot force herself to sign the death certificate of her son. She wants to know how his fate dealt with him. So she travels and crosses Mexico, where she faces turmoils of their own kind, with life bare at the hands of […]

Sundance Festival 2021 lineup for the World Cinema Documentary Competition has some amazing work to showcase. Some of the films that have premiered in this category in recent years are; Honeyland, Sea of Shadows, Shirkers, This is Home, Last Men in Aleppo, and Hooligan Sparrow. This year, 12 documentaries from new and emerging directors from […]

When Laetitia’s twin sister finds her scooter turned over in front of her foster parent’s house, she knows something is up. French police hurriedly trace her final hours which leads to the arrest of a long-time criminal Tony Meilhon. Though they are relieved of catching the right guy but a sordid piece of evidence: her […]

The Sundance Film festival 2021 is featuring some remarkably stunning pieces by acclaimed directors. Bryan Fogel’s “The Dissident” was among such highly anticipated films. The film made its debut at the festival and had names such as Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin in its attendees at the premiere.  “I hope that this film will make […]