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Things will be very different for the largely virtual 2021 Sundance festival. Here's how to get the most out of the experience from wherever you are.

MLK/FBI (2020) Another record-breaking, history-making week in America has managed to squeeze in a bit of movie news as well. Specifically, festival news. Bong Joon Ho, whose Parasite won the Palme d’Or in 2019 and four Oscars last year, will preside over the jury in Venice. The seventy-eighth edition is set to run from September 1 through 11. Sundance, whose hybrid 2021 edition opens on January 28, has added two films to its lineup. Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah stars Daniel Kaluuya as Black Panther party leader Fred Hampton and Lakeith Stanfield as the man the FBI has sent...

ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images; teve Granitz/WireImage The U.S. indie film showcase is turning mostly to online forums for moments and buzz during its pandemic-era 2021 edition. With more streaming than screening, the Sundance Film Festival is looking to virtual panels and forums to generate audience moments and momentum for its upcoming pandemic-era 2021 edition. In place of red carpets and screaming paparazzi, Sundance festival director Tabitha Jackson will host a half-hour "Opening Night Welcome" on Jan. 28 via her event's bespoke digital platform. And as it lo...

Home/News from NPR/In ‘Funny Boy,’ A Young Sri Lankan Gay Man Comes Of Age As Ethnic Tensions Explode In ‘Funny Boy,’ A Young Sri Lankan Gay Man Comes Of Age As Ethnic Tensions Explode By Bilal Qureshi  December 16, 2020 In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. He’d rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join the girls’ make-believe wedding. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai‘s gay coming of age novel became a critical and commercial sensation in Canada when it was first publi...

In the opening pages of the 1994 Canadian novel Funny Boy, a young Sri Lankan boy named Arjie refuses to play cricket with the boys as his father insists. He'd rather bedazzle in bridal reds and join the girls' make-believe wedding. Novelist Shyam Selvadurai's gay coming of age novel became a critical and commercial sensation in Canada when it was first published, enduring as a pioneering story of queerness, politics, and South Asian history. As the new film adaptation opens with the sound of the ocean — establishing the lush seafront tropical landscape of Sri Lanka — a group of girls ru...