Three UK co-productions – Zeina Durra’s romance Luxor [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Zeina Durra
scheda film], Aneil Karia’s robbery yarn Surge [+leggi anche:
recensione
intervista: Aneil Karia
scheda film] and Brandon Cronenberg’s avatar thriller Possessor [+leggi anche:
recensione
scheda film] – make up a quarter of the films selected for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival (23 January-2 February 2020).

They shall be competing against the Swedish divorce drama Charter [+leggi anche:
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trailer
intervista: Amanda Kernell
scheda film] by Amanda Kernell; writer-director Maïmouna Doucouré’s Cuties [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Maïmouna Doucouré
scheda film], about young French dancers; writer-director Zoé Wittock’s Jumbo [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Zoé Wittock
scheda film], a French-Luxembourgish-Belgian tale set in an amusement park; and the German-Belgian-Kosovar co-production about bullying in the workplace Exile [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Visar Morina
scheda film], written and directed by Visar Morina. There is also Italian involvement in Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s African-set story This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film], and French, German and Swiss involvement in Massoud Bakhshi’s Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Massoud Bakhshi
scheda film].

Ten of the 12 films in the World Cinema Documentary Competition have European involvement. Radu Ciorniciuc’s Acasa, My Home follows children in the Bucharest delta, Iryna Tsilyk introduces us to kids making a film as a way to cope with living in a war zone in The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, Hubert Sauper takes a look at Cuba as a romantic vision and a warning in Epicentro [+leggi anche:
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trailer
scheda film], Emma Sullivan’s Into the Deep is about the murder of Danish journalist Kim Wall, Anabel Rodríguez Ríos visits the town of Congo Mirador in Once Upon a Time in Venezuela [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film], Benjamin Ree tells the story of an unlikely friendship in The Artist and the Thief, Jerry Rothwell takes a look at autism in The Reason I Jump [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film], Susanne Regina Meures takes aim at patriarchy in Saudi Runaway [+leggi anche:
recensione
scheda film], and the rare Alba truffle is being tracked down in Michael Dweck’s The Truffle Hunters [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Gregory Kershaw e Michael …
scheda film].

There is also a UK co-production in the US Documentary Competition, Be Water by Bao Nguyen, which is a documentary about martial-arts legend Bruce Lee.

The non-competitive Premieres section has a number of UK-co-produced narrative world premieres. They are Euros Lyn’s Dream Horse [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film], starring Toni Collette and Damian Lewis; Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut, Falling [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film]; Florian Zeller’s London-set The Father [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Florian Zeller
scheda film]; Phyllida Lloyd’s house-building yarn Herself [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Clare Dunne
scheda film]; Dominic Cooke’s Cuban Missile Crisis spy-drama The Courier [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film]; and Sean Durkin’s The Nest [+leggi anche:
recensione
scheda film], starring Jude Law.

Showing in Documentary Premieres is the Irish co-production The Go-Go's, helmed by Alison Ellwood. Meanwhile, there are two UK productions in the Midnight section: Romola Garai’s debut, Amulet, and Remi Weekes’ refugee tale His House.

In the Kids section is Frederike Migom’s excellent Belgian drama Binti [+leggi anche:
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trailer
scheda film] and the world premiere of Brenda Chapman’s Come Away, starring Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo and Michael Caine.

Here is the full list of titles in Sundance 2020’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition:

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Charter [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Amanda Kernell
scheda film] – Amanda Kernell (Sweden)
Cuties [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Maïmouna Doucouré
scheda film] – Maïmouna Doucouré (France)
Exile [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Visar Morina
scheda film] – Visar Morina (Germany/Belgium/Kosovo)
High Tide – Verónica Chen (Argentina)
Jumbo [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Zoé Wittock
scheda film] – Zoé Wittock (France/Luxembourg/Belgium)
Luxor [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Zeina Durra
scheda film] – Zeina Durra (Egypt/UK)
Possessor [+leggi anche:
recensione
scheda film] – Brandon Cronenberg (Canada/UK)
Non Distinguishing Features [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] – Fernanda Valadez (Mexico/Spain) 
Summer White – Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson (Mexico)
Surge [+leggi anche:
recensione
intervista: Aneil Karia
scheda film] – Aneil Karia (UK)
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] – Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (Lesotho/South Africa/Italy)
Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Massoud Bakhshi
scheda film] – Massoud Bakhshi (France/Germany/Luxembourg/Switzerland/Iran/Lebanon)

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Acasă - My Home [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Radu Ciorniciuc
scheda film] – Radu Ciorniciuc (Romania/Germany/Finland)
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Iryna Tsilyk
scheda film] – Iryna Tsilyk (Ukraine/Lithuania)
Epicentro [+leggi anche:
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trailer
scheda film] – Hubert Sauper (Austria/France/USA)
Influence – Diana Neille (South Africa/Canada)
Into the Deep – Emma Sullivan (Denmark)
The Mole Agent [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Maite Alberdi
scheda film] – Maite Alberdi (Chile/USA/Germany/Netherlands/Spain)
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
scheda film] – Anabel Rodríguez Ríos (Venezuela/UK/Brazil/Austria)
The Painter and the Thief [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Benjamin Ree
scheda film] – Benjamin Ree (Norway)
The Reason I Jump [+leggi anche:
trailer
scheda film] – Jerry Rothwell (UK)
Saudi Runaway [+leggi anche:
recensione
scheda film] – Susanne Regina Meures (Switzerland)
Softie – Sam Soko (Kenya)
The Truffle Hunters [+leggi anche:
recensione
trailer
intervista: Gregory Kershaw e Michael …
scheda film] – Michael Dweck (Italy/USA/Greece)