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The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29, 2017.[1]
| Location | Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah |
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| Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
| Festival date | January 18 to January 28, 2018 |
| Language | English |
| Website | sundance |
The following awards were presented:[2][3]
- U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan
- U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Burden, directed by Andrew Heckler
- U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Kindergarten Teacher, directed by Sara Colangelo
- U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nancy, written by Christina Choe
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: Monsters and Men, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: I Think We're Alone Now, directed by Reed Morano
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: Benjamin Dickey, Blaze
- U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: Kailash (later released as The Price of Free), directed by Derek Doneen
- U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence, directed by Rudy Valdez
- U.S. Documentary Directing Award, On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Crime + Punishment, directed by Stephen Maing
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Hale County This Morning, This Evening, directed by RaMell Ross
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle
- World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Butterflies, directed by Tolga Karacelik
- World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: The Guilty, directed by Gustav Möller
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: And Breathe Normally, directed by Ísold Uggadóttir
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Time Share (Tiempo Compartido), written by Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: Dead Pigs, directed by Cathy Yan
- World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki
- World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: This is Home, directed by Alexandra Shiva
- World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Shirkers, directed by Sandi Tan
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., presented to director Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A.
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Genesis 2.0, Peter Indergand and Maxim Arbugaev
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Our New President, Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov
- NEXT Audience Award: Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty
- NEXT Innovator Award: (tie) Night Comes On, directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Matria, directed by Alvaro Gago
- Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Hair Wolf, directed by Mariama Diallo
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Would You Look at Her, directed by Goran Stolevski
- Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: The Trader (Sovdagari), directed by Tamta Gabrichidze
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Glucose, directed by Jeron Braxton
- Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; Fauve, directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by Luis De Filippis
- Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Of Fathers and Sons (Syria), directed by Talal Derki; Untitled film (India), directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; and Night on Fire, directed by Tatiana Huezo
- Sundance Institute / NHK Award: His House, directed by Remi Weekes
- Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Searching, Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian
- Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award: Sev Ohanian
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U.S. Dramatic Competition
U.S. Documentary Competition
| Film | Director |
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| Bisbee 17 | Robert Greene[4] |
| Crime + Punishment | Stephen Maing |
| Dark Money | Kimberly Reed |
| The Devil We Know | Stephanie Soechtig |
| Hal | Amy Scott |
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross |
| Inventing Tomorrow | Laura Nix |
| Kailash | Derek Doneen |
| Kusama: Infinity | Heather Lenz |
| The Last Race | Michael Dweck |
| Minding the Gap | Bing Liu |
| On Her Shoulders | Alexandria Bombach |
| The Price of Everything | Nathaniel Kahn |
| Seeing Allred | Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman |
| The Sentence | Rudy Valdez |
| Three Identical Strangers | Tim Wardle |
Premieres
- Beirut by Brad Anderson
- The Catcher Was a Spy by Ben Lewin
- Colette by Wash Westmoreland
- Come Sunday by Joshua Marston
- Damsel by David Zellner
- Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by Gus Van Sant
- A Futile and Stupid Gesture by David Wain
- The Happy Prince by Rupert Everett
- Hearts Beat Loud by Brett Haley
- Juliet, Naked by Jesse Peretz
- A Kid Like Jake by Silas Howard
- Leave No Trace by Debra Granik
- The Long Dumb Road by Hannah Fidell
- Ophelia by Claire McCarthy
- Private Life by Tamara Jenkins
- Puzzle by Marc Turtletaub
- Tully by Jason Reitman
- What They Had by Elizabeth Chomko
Documentary Premieres
- Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock by Cody Lucich
- Bad Reputation by Kevin Kerslake
- Believer by Don Argott
- Chef Flynn by Cameron Yates
- The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos
- Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield
- Half the Picture by Amy Adrion
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts by Susan Lacy
- King in the Wilderness by Peter Kunhardt
- Quiet Heroes by Jenny Mackenzie
- RBG by Betsy West and Julie Cohen
- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind by Marina Zenovich
- Studio 54 by Matt Tyrnauer
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? by Morgan Neville
Midnight
- Arizona by Jonathan Watson
- Assassination Nation by Sam Levinson
- Hereditary by Ari Aster[5]
- Lords of Chaos by Jonas Åkerlund[5]
- Mandy by Panos Cosmatos
- Never Goin' Back by Augustine Frizzell
- Piercing by Nicolas Pesce
- Revenge by Coralie Fargeat
- Summer of 84 by RKSS
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- And Breathe Normally by Ísold Uggadóttir (Iceland-Sweden-Belgium)
- Butterflies by Tolga Karaçelik (Turkey)
- Dead Pigs by Cathy Yan (China)
- The Guilty by Gustav Möller (Denmark)
- Holiday by Isabella Eklöf (Denmark-Netherlands-Sweden)
- Loveling by Gustavo Pizzi (Brazil-Uruguay)
- Pity by Babis Makridis (Greece-Poland)
- The Queen of Fear by Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia (Argentina-Denmark)
- Rust by Aly Muritiba (Brazil)
- Time Share (Tiempo Compartido) by Sebastián Hofmann (Mexico-Netherlands)
- Un Traductor by Rodrigo Barriuso and Sebastián Barriuso (Canada-Cuba)
- Yardie by Idris Elba (U.K.)
World Cinema Documentary Competition
- Anote's Ark by Matthieu Rytz (Canada)
- The Cleaners by Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block (Germany/Brazil)
- Genesis 2.0 by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev (Switzerland)
- Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. by Stephen Loveridge (Sri Lanka/United Kingdom/United States)
- Of Fathers and Sons by Talal Derki (Germany/Syria/Lebanon/Qatar)
- The Oslo Diaries by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan (Israel/Canada)
- Our New President by Maxim Pozdorovkin (Russia/United States)
- A Polar Year by Samuel Collardey (France)
- Shirkers by Sandi Tan (United States)
- This Is Home by Alexandra Shiva (Jordan/United States)
- Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist by Lorna Tucker (United Kingdom)[6]
- A Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter (Hungary)
Special Events
- The King by Eugene Jarecki
- Pass Over by Spike Lee
- The Trade by Matthew Heineman
- Wild Wild Country by Chapman Way and Maclain Way[7]
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Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018.[8]
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