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Finnish director Alli Haapasalo's Girl Picture was honoured at the leading US film festival on Friday and has earned positive early reviews in the US.

The Sundance Film Festival concluded with a virtual awards show with no host this year, just a series of statements and videos parcelled out across two hours

Goran Stolevski’s feature debut You Won’t Be Alone, produced by Causeway Films, will make its world premiere at the renowned Sundance Film Festival

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...

Alerts Sundance is ending exactly as it began: with the virtual equivalent of a standing ovation for the film that kicked off the whole fest. Last night, organizers handed out their annual Jury and Audience awards (the ceremony, naturally held via video chat this year, was hosted by Patton Oswalt), and to almost no one’s surprise, the big winner is Coda, Siân Heder’s unabashed crowd-pleaser about a teenager who’s the only hearing member of her family. Advertisement Coda, the first film that became available to watch through the fest’s virtual screening system last Thursday night, p...