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Hive, which will receive its world premiere at Sundance. The film, which will play in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition, marks the feature directorial debut of Kosovo’s Blerta Basholli, who also wrote the script. Based on a true story, the film centres on a woman named Fahrije, whose husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo and who is forced to endure the patriarchal villagers around her, who do not support her small agricultural business. Basholli said: “Besides being a woman and a mother myself, I was intrigued by her will and power to not only survive, but to achie...

'Passing' The indie film showcase's pandemic-era program also has directorial debuts by Jerrod Carmichael, Pascual Sisto and Questlove with his Black Woodstock documentary. As Sundance director Tabitha Jackson's reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie U.S. film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC directors and more than half the 2021 program shot by first-time helmers. For Jackson, the focus on debut feature directors underlines how, despite the COVID-19 crisis pausing film production in Hollyw...

Save this story for later. When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah, there won’t be a long line of people standing outside the Eccles Theater, watching their breath catch in the cold winter air—and Main Street surely won’t be packed with revelers and sponsor activations, either. Instead, on account of the coronavirus pandemic, next year’s Sundance will actually expand amid the contraction of live events. Rather than relying solely on in-person experiences, the festival has plans that extend far beyond the theater: a digital platform where patro...