Not exact matches
The 2016 Sundance Film
Festival may be months away from kicking off in snowy Park City, Utah, but the annual
festival has begun rolling out its various
lineups, including today's announcement of its
competition sections — including U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic and World Documentary offerings — along with its out of
competition NEXT
lineup.
Announced yesterday, the 2018
competition lineup includes the highest number of films from female filmmakers since 2011 (17.6 %, three out of 17 currently announced films), and the
festival will play home to new works from Nadine Labaki, Eva Husson, and Alice Rohrwacher.
The international
competition section does not attract a strong
lineup, with even the winners of the Grand Prize rarely breaking out beyond the Asian
festivals, and unlike Busan, there are few major films from European
festivals.
Eighty - two women are set to walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film
Festival on Saturday to highlight the limited number of female filmmakers who have been selected for the
festival's
competition lineup over its 71 years.
The
festival revealed the films in this year's
Competition lineup, as well as in sidebars such as Un Certain Regard, Midnight Section, and Special Screenings.