title: 2018 Sundance Film Festival
text: # 2018 Sundance Film Festival
  
  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.
  
  ## Awards
  
  The following awards were presented:
  
  * 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
  
  ## Films
  
  ### U.S. Dramatic Competition
  
  | Film | Director |
  | - | - |
  | American Animals | Bart Layton |
  | Blaze | Ethan Hawke |
  | Blindspotting | Carlos López Estrada |
  | Burden | Andrew Heckler |
  | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
  | I Think We're Alone Now | Reed Morano |
  | The Kindergarten Teacher | Sara Colangelo |
  | Lizzie | Craig William Macneill |
  | The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Desiree Akhavan |
  | Monster | Anthony Mandler |
  | Monsters and Men | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
  | Nancy | Christina Choe |
  | Sorry to Bother You | Boots Riley |
  | The Tale | Jennifer Fox |
  | Tyrel | Sebastián Silva |
  | Wildlife | Paul Dano |
  
  ### U.S. Documentary Competition
  
  | Film | Director |
  | - | - |
  | Bisbee 17 | Robert Greene |
  | 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 Premieres
  
  * Arizona by Jonathan Watson
  * Assassination Nation by Sam Levinson
  * Hereditary by Ari Aster
  * Lords of Chaos by Jonas Åkerlund
  * 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)
  * A Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter (Hungary)
  
  ## Juries
  
  Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018.
  
  