December 4
Searching For Sugar Man (2012) - US ONLY - ONLY ON SUNDANCE NOW
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
- Director: Malik Bendjelloul
- Cast: Rodriguez, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman
- Awards: Academy Awards, BAFTA, Cinema Eye Honors, DGA Awards, PGA Awards, WGA Awards, IDA Awards, Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, National Board Of Review, Broadcast Film Critics, Alliance Of Women Film Journalists
The Shape Of Things (2003) - US ONLY - ONLY ON SUNDANCE NOW
A quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way as a result of meeting a new, art-student girlfriend, and his friends are unsettled by the transformation.
- Director: Neil LaBute
- Cast: Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Gretchen Mol
December 5
Cruising Electric 1980 (2014) - US & CANADA - SUNDANCE NOW SHORTS
A controversial film gets the children’s playset it deserves.
- Director: Brumby Boylston
- Cast: Peter Giles, Richard Van Slyke, Wil Wesley
December 7
New Collection: Must Watch Series
Liar - Season 1 (2017) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE
British psychological thriller in which school teacher Laura Nielson accuses renowned surgeon Andrew Earlham of rape.
- Creator: Harry Williams, Jack Williams
- Director: Samuel Donovan, James Strong
- Cast: Joanne Froggatt, Ioan Gruffudd
December 11
Aferim! (2015) - US & CANADA - ONLY ON SUNDANCE NOW
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
- Director: Radu Jude
- Cast: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin, Alexandru Dabija, Luminita Gheorghiu
- Awards: Gopo Awards (Romanian Academy Awards), Berlin International Film Festival, Beijing International Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival
Short Term 12 (2013) - US & CANADA
A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
- Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
- Cast: Brie Larson, Rami Malek, Lakeith Stanfield, Melora Walters
- Awards: Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards, SXSW, Locarno International Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, National Board Of Review, Austin Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics, Detroit Film Critics, Seattle Film Critics, Black Film Critics Circle, GALECA
December 14
Canners (2017) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE
In an ode to the men and women who earn their daily bread by diligently collecting New York City's cans and bottles. They talk about their struggles, their families, and their dreams.
- Director: Manfred Kirchheimer
December 18
Melancholia (2011) - US ONLY
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
- Director: Lars von Trier
- Cast: KIrsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Brady Corbet, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgard, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier
- Awards: Independent Spirit Awards - nominee, Cannes Film Festival, European Film Awards, Hamptons International Film Festival, National Society Of Film Critics, Alliance Of Women Film Journalists, Women Film Critics Circle
December 21
New Collection: Kids Collection
Circus Kid (2016) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE
Lorenzo Pisoni, at age 2, began in the family business by walking into the ring of his parents' Pickle Family Circus. By 6 years old he had signed a contract to be his father's clown partner. CIRCUS KID centers on the familial dynamics that develop in the demanding environment of the circus when your father's a clown and you're the straight man.
- Director: Lorenzo Pisoni
- Producers: Jon Hamm, Jennifer Westfeldt, Daniel Radcliffe
- Cast: Lorenzo Pisoni, Bill Irwin, Geoff Hoyle
Tale Of A Lake (2016) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE
A documentary about Finnish lakes, the nature around them, circulation of water and ancient Finnish mythology.
- Director: Kim Saarniluoto, Marko Rohr
Tale Of A Forest (2012) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE
A documentary that unveils the primeval forests of Northern Finland, some of Europe's sole remaining, old-growth forests.
- Director: Kim Saarniluoto, Ville Suhonen
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