Sundance returns in-person to Park City — with more submissions than ever

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Filmmakers and film lovers are gathering in Park City, Utah, for the Sundance Film Festival, which returned after two years.

This year, nearly half the films at the festival were made by first-time filmmakers. The programming team sifted through more than 16,000 submissions — the most Sundance has ever had. The result is a record number of works by indigenous filmmakers , and 28 countries are represented as well.

"Artists are exploring how we're coming out of the pandemic, how we're reassessing our place in the world," says Kim Yutani, the festival's director of programming. She notes that many of the narrative films have characters who are complicated, not all of them likeable.She points to the character Jonathan Majors plays, a body builder in the drama

 

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