The Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival has produced some notable hits in the last few years, including “The Babadook,” “Relic,” and “Hereditary.” Looking over the schedule for the virtual edition of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, I was concerned that the Midnight section this year felt the thinnest, unlikely to produce such a smash hit. There will be great horror movies in 2021, but it doesn’t feel like we’ll get one out of Sundance. (The most acclaimed is probably “Censor,” a film I liked a little less than Nick Allen but would probably agree is the best of this year’s program.)
11 Hot Movies for Sale at Virtual Sundance Film Festival
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All-night bidding wars are as much a staple of the Sundance Film Festival as snow drifts and thin air. The mountaintop gathering highlights the best of indie film and shines a light on the next generation of Tarantinos and Soderberghs. This year looks different. Sundance will go virtual in 2021 due to COVID-19. But that doesn’t mean that studio executives and agents aren’t going to be working the phones just as furiously. Here’s a look at films that have the goods to inspire streaming services and indies to go toe-to-toe in the hopes of landing the next “Palm Springs” or “Promising Young Woman.”
Captains of Zaatari Filmed over six years, debutant director Ali El Arabi’s documentary follows the fortunes of two best friends who live in Jordan’s Zaatari Refugee Camp. While facing the difficult reality of their lives, they have a dream of becoming professional footballers that will just not die. Practising virtually every day, when a world-renowned sports academy visits, both have a chance to turn wishful thinking into reality.
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The Virtues’ Niamh Algar stars in this British horror about a film censor who sets out to solve the mystery of her sister’s disappearance after viewing an oddly familiar video nasty. However, it’s a quest that will begin to dissolve the line between fiction and reality. Kiwi Ant Timpson (who made his directorial debut with last year’s
18 movies you can see at Sidewalk during Sundance Film Festival
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Posted Jan 11, 2021 Philly D.A., a documentary about Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s district attorney, will be screened in Birmingham on Feb. 2, 2021, at the Sidewalk Cinema and Sidewalk Starlite Pop-Up Drive-In. The screenings are part of the Sidewalk lineup as a satellite venue for the Sundance Film Festival.(PBS)
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The Sidewalk Film Festival has announced the lineup of movies that will screen in Birmingham as part of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Fifteen films will be presented, Jan. 28-Feb. 3, at the Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema, 1821 Second Ave. North, and the Sidewalk Starlite Pop-Up Drive-In, 1801 First Ave. North.