2021 Sundance Film Festival: Day 2 highlights By David Morgan
Updated on: January 30, 2021 / 12:13 AM / CBS News
Friday, day 2 of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival (presented online for the first time), featured some exceptional documentaries capturing their subjects aspirations, disappointments and achievements, and the sometimes painful costs of pursuing one s goals.
The festival runs through February 3. [See below for program and ticket information.]
Highlights for day 2:
For nearly 40 years President Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe as a dictator, with rigged elections and violence keeping him in the seat of power, until 2017, when a military coup forced him from office. Mugabe was nonetheless succeeded by his own vice president, Emmanuel Mnangagwa, and the stage was set the following year for an election to determine whether Mugabe s ZANU-PF party would maintain control, despite decades of corruption.
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Eerily bizarre and deadly serious, John and the Hole is a film with a lot of questions. Notably: What if the kid from Home Alone was kind of a sociopath, a kid who manipulated his circumstances so he didn't have to be around his family? The answers John and the Hole gives its questions aren't exactly satisfying, but this kid, who keeps doing inexplicably awful things just because he can, is definitely, uh, interesting. The.
Here's your daily evening round-up of the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to The Stranger to keep it comin'!) (Digital!) Sundance 2021 kicked off tonight and runs through next Wednesday (Feb. 3): It's a big and unique year for the festival because its hybrid presentation model makes it a truly global event for the first time. In Seattle, the fest is partnering with Northwest Film Forum.
Ciara Lacy’s documentary short “This Is the Way We Rise,” which is currently screening virtually during the Sundance Film Festival, follows a slam poet and activist to a protest in Hawaii.