Ardent cinephiles might already be aware that the 2024 edition of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 18th January 2024 to 28th January 2024 at Park City, Utah. A host of films from across the globe were shortlisted from a massive list of submissions. Out of these titles, a couple of Indian films are also a part of the Sundance Film Festival. Here is a brief description of these two Indian films.
Girls Will Be Girls (Segment: World Cinema Dramatic Competition)
Directed by Shuchi Talati and set in an elite boarding school located in the breathtaking Himalayas, the film revolves around the story of a 16-year-old girl named Mira and how she deals with love and desires despite interference by her mother, who was never able to come of age in her own life. The Indo-French project has been produced by Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha’s production house Pushing Buttons.
Nocturnes (Segment: World Cinema Documentary Competition)
Directed by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan, the documentary film centres around a female scientist and a young man and how they try to decipher what nocturnal creatures – moths are whispering to us in a remote place located somewhere in the forests in Eastern Himalayas on the India-Bhutan border.
Besides, the Sundance 2024 program consists of a number of interesting films including Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun starrer ‘Love Me’, Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘A Real Pain’, Laura Linney and Woody Harrelson starrer ‘Suncoast’, Sebastian Stan’s ‘A Different Man’, Pedro Pascal starrer ‘Freaky Tales’, Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’, and Friends star David Schwimmer’s ‘Little Death’, amongst others.