From deep dives into the fraught history of safe abortion access and the backstories of comedy legends, to inventive takes on fantastic horrors and authentic coming-of-age stories the 2022 Sundance Film Festival is once again brimming with films by talented storytellers and artists. Within this year's lineup, we're honored to be stacked with cutting-edge projects by women and non-binary filmmakers that highlight everything from social media apps influence on culture and politics, to the climate crisis and the militarization of police.
These films - screening at the Fest from January 20-30, 2022 - expand the lens of storytelling and perspectives to more accurately represent our world and our future. This list, which you should pour over below, is one of the many results of the Sundance Institute's year-round mission to amplify the voices of storytellers and audiences across ethnicities, genders, abilities, sexual orientations, and geographic regions-work we do in part through our Women at Sundance and Outreach & Inclusion programs.
Packages are on sale for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival now and single film tickets will be available starting in early January. Check out the full list of films by women and non-binary filmmakers below and make sure to favorite the films that speak to you to make sure you don't miss them.
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION 892 United States; Director: Abi Damaris Corbin; Screenwriters: Abi Damaris Corbin, Kwame Kwei-Armah; Producers: Ashley Levinson, Salman Al-Rashid, Sam Frohman, Kevin Turen, Mackenzie Fargo
When Brian Brown-Easley's disability check fails to materialize from Veterans Affairs, he finds himself on the brink of homelessness and breaking his daughter's heart. No other options, he walks into a Wells Fargo Bank and says, I've got a bomb.
Alice United States; Director/Screenwriter: Krystin Ver Linden; Producer: Peter Lawson; Cast: Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles
When a woman in servitude in 1800s Georgia escapes the 55-acre confines of her captor to discover the shocking reality that exists beyond the tree line it's 1973. Inspired by true events.
Master United States; Director/Screenwriter: Mariama Diallo; Producers: Joshua Astrachan, Brad Becker-Parton, Andrea Roa; Cast: Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam, Amber Gray
Three women strive to find their place at an elite New England university. As the insidious specter of racism haunts the campus in increasingly supernatural fashion, each fights to survive in this space of privilege.
Nanny United States; Director/Screenwriter: Nikyatu Jusu; Producers: Nikkia Moulterie, Daniela Taplin Lundberg; Cast: Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, Leslie Uggams
Aisha is an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent supernatural presence invades her reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
Palm Trees and Power Lines United States; Director: Jamie Dack; Screenwriters: Jamie Dack, Audrey Findlay; Producers: Leah Chen Baker, Jamie Dack; Cast: Lily McInerny, Jonathan Tucker, Gretchen Mol
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer aimlessly tanning with her best friend, tiptoeing around her fragile mother, and getting stoned with a group of boys from school. This monotony is disrupted by an encounter with Tom, a man twice her age, who promises an alternative to Lea's unsatisfying adolescent life.
Watcher United States; Director: Chloe Okuno; Screenwriter: Zack Ford; Producers: Roy Lee, Steven Schneider, Derek Dauchy, John Finemore, Aaron Kaplan, Mason Novick, Sean Perrone; Cast: Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Ciubuciu Bogdan Alexandru
A young woman moves into a new apartment with her fianc and is tormented by the feeling that she is being stalked by an unseen watcher in an adjacent building.
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Aftershock United States; Directors/Producers: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee
Following the preventable deaths of their partners due to childbirth complications, two bereaved fathers galvanize activists, birth workers, and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time - the U.S. maternal health crisis.
Descendant United States; Director: Margaret Brown; Producers: Essie Chambers, Kyle Martin, Margaret Brown
Clotilda, the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to the United States, arrived in Alabama 40 years after African slave trading became a capital offense. It was promptly burned and its existence denied. After a century shrouded in secrecy and speculation, descendants of the Clotilda's survivors are reclaiming their story. *
Fire of Love United States; Director: Sara Dosa; Producers: Shane Boris, Ina Fichman, Sara Dosa
Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded. A doomed love triangle between Katia, Maurice, and volcanoes, told through their archival footage.
Free Chol Soo Lee United States; Directors: Julie Ha, Eugene Yi; Producers: Su Kim, Jean Tsien, Sona Jo, Julie Ha, Eugene Yi
After a Korean immigrant is wrongly convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder, Asian Americans unite as never before to free Chol Soo Lee. A former street hustler becomes the symbol for a landmark movement. But once out, he self-destructs, threatening the movement's legacy and the man himself
The Exiles United States; Directors: Ben Klein, Violet Columbus; Producers: Maria Chiu, Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find
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