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Human Factors. Klemens Hufnagl/Sundance Institute This year’s Sundance Film Festival was like no other. Thanks to the ongoing pandemic, the usual red-carpet premieres were replaced by at-home streaming supplemented by screenings at a handful of small venues and drive-ins around the country. That’s not the way most attendees preferred to experience the movies, of course. But the festival’s 2021 selections were still true to the spirit of Sundance, which fosters independent cinema and innovative voices: They served up exciting stories from around the world, mostly of the kind that Hollyw...

Sundance 2021: El Planeta, Pleasure, Judas and the Black Messiah — noteworthy films from the festival To wrap up our annual Sundance coverage, we've picked out our five favourite narrative features that were in the spotlight at the prestigious film festival this year. Prahlad Srihari February 08, 2021 08:01:17 IST With the jury winners announced, Sundance 2021 concluded on Wednesday after a week of minimum sleep, maximum cinema. This time around, it was an entirely virtual affair, one of the ...

El Planeta, 2021(Film still) Futuristic and reflective, AnOther’s picks of this year’s digital festival span Dior Saddle bag-toting grifters and hunted mythical creatures February 08, 2021 A recent Instagram post from the documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf summed up the current state of attending prestige film festivals globally very well: “I’m alone in a virtual Chinese restaurant at a Dutch documentary film festival,” he wrote, captioning a screenshot of his avatar enjoying “dumplings” and “karaoke” at an empty table. Surreal attempts to replicate physical festival mingling a...

From left: Ale and Amalia Ulman in 'El Planeta' Bittersweet 'n low. TWITTER Amalia Ulman's droll first feature stars the writer-director opposite her real-life mother as an impoverished pair shrugging off destitution in a post-financial crisis town on the Spanish coast. Multidisciplinary artist Amalia Ulman makes an appealingly idiosyncratic first foray into features with El Planeta, a captivating throwback to the shaggy aesthetic of micro-budget '90s New York indies that plays like Grey Gardens with a hint of early Almodóvar. Ulman and her real-life mother Ale play a reduced family unit i...

04/02/2021 - Centring on a mother and daughter scraping by in the midst of the crisis, the feature debut by artist Amalia Ulman is brimming with freshness, levity and a sense of humour