“But most important of all for us was just that it’s a stunning watch. It is joyful and vibrant and colorful and socially engaging and so beautifully crafted and put together.” Opening night will also see the premiere of Sian Heder’s film
CODA, about the hearing child of deaf parents co-starring Marlee Matlin. “I think it’s going to be one of the big stories out of the festival this year,” Yutani said. In addition to
CODA, the U.S. Dramatic Competition section will feature films with Tiffany Haddish and Jerrod Carmichael (
On the Count of Three) and Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson who co-star in
Two films, Fire In The Mountains and Writing With Fire, are the only Indian titles at the prestigious 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The lineup for the upcoming edition has 72 feature films, and 38 first-time directors, including Rebecca Hall, Robin Wright and Ajitpal Singh. Ajitpal s debut Hindi feature film Fire In The Mountains will have its world premiere at the fest in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition category.
Writing With Fire, directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, is selected in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section. The film is about the cluttered news landscape dominated by men, and how chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break tradition to come out with India s only newspaper run by Dalit women.
Sundance Film Festival 2021 lineup includes Indian titles Fire In The Mountains, Writing with Fire Produced by Jar Pictures, Fire In The Mountains is the only Indian title selected in the World Cinema Dramatic competition section of the Sundance Film Festival 2021 FP Staff December 16, 2020 13:46:23 IST A still from Fire in the Mountains | Press Release
Ajitpal Singh’s debut feature
Fire In The Mountains will be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2021 in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section. The Jar Pictures production is the only Indian title among the 10 movies in this section.
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Vinamrata Rai in Fire In The Mountains (2021) | Jar Pictures
Ajitpal Singh’s debut feature
Fire In The Mountains will be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2021 in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section. The Jar Pictures production is the only Indian title among the 10 movies in this section.
The 82-minute film is “about a mother who toils to save money to build a road in a remote Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiotherapy but her husband believes that a shamanic ritual (Jagar) is the remedy,” a press release stated.
Also selected in the World Cinema Documentary Competition section is the Indian production
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A Questlove-directed documentary about the other major music event of the summer of 1969 and documentaries about the creators of
Sesame Street and the coronavirus pandemic in China are among the 72 feature films debuting at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Organisers on Tuesday unveiled a robust and diverse slate for the festival, which will be largely virtual due to the pandemic.
Opening night films
The festival will kick off on Thursday, January 28, with the premieres of Nanfu Wang’s documentary about propaganda and Covid-19 in China,
In the Same Breath, and Ahmir Questlove Thompson’s
Summer of Soul (. Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) about the forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which celebrated black music and culture and attracted more than 300,000 people.