Sundance Film Festival Awards 2024 (Winners)
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- DirectorBrendan BellomoSlava LeontyevUnder roaring fighter jets, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it's easy to make people afraid, it's hard to destroy their passion for living.Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
- DirectorAlessandra Lacorazza SamudioStarsResidenteSasha CalleLio MehielOn a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic - DirectorSilje Evensmo JacobsenIn the Norwegian wilderness, a family seeks a wild free existence but a tragic turn of events shatters their isolation, compelling them to adapt to the demands of contemporary society.Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema - Documentary
- DirectorAstrid RonderoFernanda ValadezStarsJuan Jesús VarelaYadira PérezAlexis VarelaWhen a cartel gunman is killed, he leaves behind Sujo, his 4-year-old son. The shadow of violence surrounds Sujo during each stage of his life. As he grows into a man, Sujo finds that fulfilling his father's destiny may be inescapable.Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema - Dramatic
- DirectorEmily KassieJulian Brave NoiseCatStarsCharlene BelleauEd Archie NoisecatJulian Brave NoiseCatAn investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.Directing Award: U.S. Documentary
- DirectorBenjamin ReeStarsZoe CroftKelsey EllisonEd LarkinMats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.Directing Award: World Cinema, Documentary
Audience Award: World Cinema - Documentary - DirectorRaha AmirfazliAlireza GhasemiStarsHamideh JafariBashir NikzadMohammad HosseiniThree members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be "at home".Directing Award: World Cinema, Dramatic
- DirectorRich PeppiattStarsMóglaí BapMo CharaDJ PróvaiWhen fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise and Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.Audience Award: NEXT
- DirectorAngela PattonNatalie RaeFour young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.Audience Award: U.S. Documentary
Festival Favorite Award - DirectorSean WangStarsIzaac WangJoan ChenShirley ChenIn 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble - DirectorShuchi TalatiStarsPreeti PanigrahiKani KusrutiKesav Binoy KironFollows the journey of 16 year old Mira, whose sexy, rebellious coming of age is disrupted by her young mother who never got to come of age herself.Audience Award: World Cinema - Dramatic
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting - DirectorAndrew ZucheroSam ZucheroStarsKristen StewartSteven YeunA postapocalyptic romance in which a buoy and a satellite meet online and fall in love after the end of human civilization.Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
- DirectorÀlex LoraStarsBabou ChamDaniel GraoGuido GraoLeo and Diana, a rich couple, bring a broken TV to a recycle point. They meet Salif and his son, two scrap dealers. Diana asks them to come to their house to get more objects.Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Best Short Film
- DirectorPhoebe Jane HartStarsPhoebe Jane HartJacob LevyA dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.Short Film Jury Award: Animation
- DirectorChien-An ChuStarsYung-He ChenWei-Jen ChenSi-Kai ChenShort Film Jury Award: International Fiction
- DirectorJack DunphyAn estranged man secretly films his grandfather's funeral, hoping to uncover the source of generational trauma in their family.Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction
- DirectorKate HollowellStarsDonald BarreGeorge BasilRuby CasterAfter her best friend dies, a woman sees visions of her friend appearing in the form of a portable toilet. She interacts with the toilet as if it is her deceased friend.Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
- DirectorThea HvistendahlStarsRenate ReinsveAnders Danielsen LieBahar ParsOn a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Original Music
- DirectorMakoto NagahisaStarsMaki FukudaAiko KanôKanta SatôIsko, daughter of a human mother and crab father, falls for her teacher but he leaves because she's half crab. Heartbroken, Pisko eventually finds love with her friend Kubokayo.Short Film Special Jury Award: Directing, International
- DirectorMasha KoStarsAlyssa AnthonyBrianne BuishasAudrey Del PreteTHE LOOMING is a horrific glimpse into aging and the fear of being forgotten by those we love. The film follows the story of Chester, a 70-year-old man who begins to be haunted by an eerie presence that only he can sense. Chester's cries for help are ignored, pushing him to investigate on his own. As he unravels the mystery, he discovers a heartbreaking truth that could change everything.Short Film Special Jury Award: Directing, U.S.
- DirectorJack BegertStarsDavid SchwimmerGaby HoffmannTalia RyderA middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.NEXT Innovator Award
- DirectorLaura ChinnStarsNico ParkerLaura LinneyWoody HarrelsonWhile caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up a friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Breakthrough Performance
- DirectorStephen MaingBrett StoryStarsChris SmallsAngelika MaldonadoConnor SpenceA group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City's Staten Island challenges one of the world's largest companies in a unionization battle.U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Art of Change
- DirectorMichael DweckGregory KershawA celebration of Argentine Gauchos, a community of cowboys and cowgirls living beyond the modern world's boundaries.U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Sound
- DirectorCarla GutierrezStarsPablo AlarsonJeanne AlbaneseTizoc ArroyoA raw and magical journey into the life of iconic artist Frida Kahlo, told through her own words from diaries, letters, essays, and interviews. Vividly brought to life with lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary
- DirectorDaphne MatziarakiPeter MurimiUnresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.Amazon Studios Nonfiction Producers Award
- DirectorTheda HammelStarsJohn EarlyQaher HarhashElizabeth DementTerry, in strict quarantine in his ex-husband's Brooklyn home, cares for his injured nephew, a 19-year-old Moroccan model named Bahlul, drawing attention from everyone in his life.Amazon Studios Fiction Producers Award
- DirectorJules RosskamStarsAndré Alan PérezAngel PiedraEvin Hunter LuehrsAn Iranian American trans man travels back in time to an LGBTQ+ archive to understand his sexuality. He encounters his past and present selves during an erotic journey of self-discovery.EXT Special Jury Award Presented by Adobe