Full list of titles joining Sundance Now this January

Full list of titles joining Sundance Now this January:

January 2

The Best Of The Nitehawk Shorts Festival (2017) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE

The BEST OF NITEHAWK SHORTS FESTIVAL highlights exceptional short-form filmmaking from the 2017 festival at Nitehawk Cinema. More than ever before, the agility of short filmmaking allows filmmakers to address the increasingly unstable world in a remarkably relatable way. The short films in this program are a part of this array of voices that aren’t simply imbued with the political climate but also of the more humanizing aspects we need reminding of such as culture, family, and love.

• Director: UNPRESIDENTED (Jason Giampietro), AND THE MOON STANDS STILL (Yulia Ruditskaya), CURTIS (Tannis M. Spencer), ADOLESCENCIA (Jose Fernando Rodriguez), DAYTIME NOON (Micah Perta), NIGHT (Joosje Duk), REBUILDING IN MINIATURE (Veena Rao), YES, GOD, YES (Karen Maine), CLOUDY ALL DAY (Dylan Pasture), THE TABLES (Jon Bunning), THE RABBIT HUNT (Patrick Bresnan)
• Cast: Olivia Wilde, Lindsay Burdge, Natalia Dyer, Rachel Hilson, Dolly Wells, Keith Poulson

Viktoria (2014) - US ONLY - ONLY ON SUNDANCE NOW

The fall of communism in Bulgaria affects the relationship between a woman and her young daughter.

• Director: Maya Vitkova
• Cast: Irmena Chichikova, Daria Vitkova, Kalina Vitkova

January 4

New Collection: The Best Of The Sundance Film Festival

Safari (2016) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE

Provocateur Ulrich Seidl follows wealthy tourists going on safari to kill often endangered species. Some determinedly searching for trophies, others to enjoy. Even if every prey comes at a price, they always find a way to legitimize their own actions.

• Director: Ulrich Seidl

January 8

Medora (2013) - US & CANADA - ONLY ON SUNDANCE NOW

In America's basketball heartland, four boys from rural Medora, Indiana fight to end their high school's team's losing streak, as their dwindling town faces the threat of extinction.

• Director: Andrew Cohn, Davy Rothbart

The Penguin Counters (2017) - US & CANADA - ONLY ON SUNDANCE NOW

Field biologists travel to Antarctica to track climate change and ocean health by counting penguin populations.

• Director: Peter Getzels, Harriet Gordon Getzels

January 11

Trepalium (2016) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE

In a future version of France, the economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of the population is employed. The Actives live inside the city. On the fringes, in the Zone, live the Jobless. Separating them is a wall. A 6-episode series.

• Director: Antares Bassis, Sophie Hiet
• Cast: Ronit Elkabetz, Lubna Azabal, Olivier Rabourdin, Pierre Deladonchamps, Charles Berling

January 15

Frank (2014) - US ONLY

Jon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.

• Director: Lenny Abrahamson
• Cast: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy

Shadow Dancer (2012) - US ONLY

Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.

• Director: James Marsh
• Cast: Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Andrea Riseborough

January 18

Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders (2017) - US & CANADA - A SUNDANCE NOW EXCLUSIVE

The series focuses on the infamous crime that shocked the nation and was chronicled in Truman Capote's, In Cold Blood - the Nov. 15, 1959 brutal murder of four members of the Clutter family in their home in a small Kansas farming community, a crime seemingly without motive. The true crime documentary takes a fresh in-depth look at the legendary case – digging into the resulting investigation, and the convictions and executions of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. A 4-part true crime documentary series.

• Director: Joe Berlinger (Creator, Executive Producer), Allison Berg , Kahane Cooperman

January 22

It’s All So Quiet (2013) - US & CANADA - ONLY ON SUNDANCE NOW

A middle aged farmer, living with his old and bedridden father, tries to find truth in life.

• Director: Nanouk Leopold
• Cast: Jeroen Willems, Henri Garcin, Wim Opbrouck, Martjin Lakemeier, Lies Visschedijk

We Are The Best! (2013) - CANADA ONLY - already live in US

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

• Director: Lukas Moodysson
• Cast: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Live LeMoyne

January 25

Baroness Von Sketch Show - Season 1 (2016) - US ONLY - A SUNDANCE NOW PRESENTATION

Fast-paced and irreverent, Baroness von Sketch Show and its all-female cast draws upon 15 years of comedy experience and multiple collaborations to present an insightful, emotionally grounded series that captures the banalities and humor that comes from just trying to get along in the world. Offering a witty take on everyday concerns from the pretentiousness of ordering a fancy coffee to office and sexual politics, this satirical sketch comedy satirizes daily modern life. 

• Creators / Writers / Stars: Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen

January 29

Night Moves (2013) - US ONLY

Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

• Director: Kelly Reichardt
• Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat, Katherine Waterston, James Le Gros

Tall: The American Skyscraper & Louis Sullivan (2006) - US & CANADA - ONLY ON SUNDANCE NOW

America’s greatest contributions to world civilization are jazz, baseball, the musical—and the skyscraper. Using vintage postcards, photographs, and architectural renderings, Kirchheimer offers a lively account of the rise of this technological and aesthetic wonder in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, focusing on the rivalry between Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and other modernist architects to evoke the power, wealth, and progress of a newly ascendant nation in iron and steel, glass and stone.

• Director: Manfred Kirchheimer
• Cast: Dylan Baker (narrator)