Dramatic Competition category. Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category, scoring top honors for a film that started life as a documentary. Produced by Luca Guadagnino, the film stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent.
The U. Dramatic for her acclaimed feature debut. Director and Screenwriter: Hailey Gates, Producers: Naima Abed, Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Lana Kim, Jett Steiger β When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
World Premiere. Jury citation: For its singular directing, writing, and vision, this timely and timeless first feature was both hilarious and damning in its portrayal of the theater of war. Its biting criticism of American imperialism and boundary-pushing storytelling led all three of the jurors to unanimously award the U. Jury citation: It is our great honor to award the U. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary to a truly special film that evokes and illustrates all that we come to Sundance to discover β a new voice with something powerful, rich, and poignant to say.
From its directing, cinematography, and dreamlike immersion, this film takes us deep inside an essentially overlooked pocket of our country, whose residents struggle to hold onto their heritage as their way of life has come under threat. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary goes to Seeds.
As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress. Jury citation: This is the great modern love story. We cried, we laughed, and we wished to be loved in the same way. It is exactly what the world needs right now. This authentic point of view opens the door to an intimate language we all understand.
