2018 Sundance Film Festival

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29, 2017.

Awards

The following awards were presented:

U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan
U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Burden, directed by Andrew Heckler
U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Kindergarten Teacher, directed by Sara Colangelo
U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nancy, written by Christina Choe
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: Monsters and Men, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: I Think We're Alone Now, directed by Reed Morano
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: Benjamin Dickey, Blaze
U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: Kailash, directed by Derek Doneen
U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence, directed by Rudy Valdez
U.S. Documentary Directing Award, On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Crime + Punishment, directed by Stephen Maing
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Hale County This Morning, This Evening, directed by RaMell Ross
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle
World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Butterflies, directed by Tolga Karacelik
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: The Guilty, directed by Gustav Möller
World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: And Breathe Normally, directed by Ísold Uggadóttir
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Time Share , written by Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: Dead Pigs, directed by Cathy Yan
World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: This is Home, directed by Alexandra Shiva
World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Shirkers, directed by Sandi Tan
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., presented to director Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A.
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Genesis 2.0, Peter Indergand and Maxim Arbugaev
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Our New President, Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov
NEXT Audience Award: Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty
NEXT Innovator Award: Night Comes On, directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar
Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Matria, directed by Alvaro Gago
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Hair Wolf, directed by Mariama Diallo
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Would You Look at Her, directed by Goran Stolevski
Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: The Trader (Sovdagari), directed by Tamta Gabrichidze
Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Glucose, directed by Jeron Braxton
Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; Fauve, directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by Luis De Filippis
Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki; Untitled film, directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; and Night on Fire, directed by Tatiana Huezo
Sundance Institute / NHK Award: His House, directed by Remi Weekes
Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Searching, Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian
Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award: Sev Ohanian

Films

Premieres

Beirut by Brad AndersonThe Catcher Was a Spy by Ben LewinColette by Wash WestmorelandCome Sunday by Joshua MarstonDamsel by David ZellnerDon't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by Gus Van SantA Futile and Stupid Gesture by David WainThe Happy Prince by Rupert EverettHearts Beat Loud by Brett HaleyJuliet, Naked by Jesse PeretzA Kid Like Jake by Silas HowardLeave No Trace by Debra GranikThe Long Dumb Road by Hannah FidellOphelia by Claire McCarthyPrivate Life by Tamara JenkinsPuzzle by Marc TurtletaubTully by Jason ReitmanWhat They Had by Elizabeth Chomko

Documentary Premieres

Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock by Cody LucichBad Reputation by Kevin KerslakeBeliever by Don ArgottChef Flynn by Cameron YatesThe Game Changers by Louie PsihoyosGeneration Wealth by Lauren GreenfieldHalf the Picture by Amy AdrionJane Fonda in Five Acts by Susan LacyKing in the Wilderness by Peter KunhardtQuiet Heroes by Jenny MackenzieRBG by Betsy West and Julie CohenRobin Williams: Come Inside My Mind by Marina ZenovichStudio 54 by Matt TyrnauerWon't You Be My Neighbor? by Morgan Neville

Midnight

Arizona by Jonathan WatsonAssassination Nation by Sam LevinsonHereditary by Ari AsterLords of Chaos by Jonas ÅkerlundMandy by Panos CosmatosNever Goin' Back by Augustine FrizzellPiercing by Nicolas PesceRevenge by Coralie FargeatSummer of 84 by RKSS

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

And Breathe Normally by Ísold Uggadóttir Butterflies by Tolga Karaçelik Dead Pigs by Cathy Yan The Guilty by Gustav Möller Holiday by Isabella Eklöf Loveling by Gustavo Pizzi Pity by Babis Makridis The Queen of Fear by Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia Rust by Aly Muritiba Time Share by Sebastián Hofmann Un Traductor by Rodrigo Barriuso and Sebastián Barriuso Yardie by Idris Elba

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Anote's Ark by Matthieu Rytz The Cleaners by Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block Genesis 2.0 by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. by Stephen Loveridge Of Fathers and Sons by Talal Derki The Oslo Diaries by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan Our New President by Maxim Pozdorovkin A Polar Year by Samuel Collardey Shirkers by Sandi Tan This Is Home by Alexandra Shiva Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist by Lorna Tucker A Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter

Special Events

The King by Eugene JareckiPass Over by Spike LeeThe Trade by Matthew HeinemanWild Wild Country by Chapman Way and Maclain Way

Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018.
;U.S. Documentary Jury

Barbara Chai
Simon Chinn
Chaz Ebert
Ezra Edelman
Matt Holzman

;U.S. Dramatic Jury

;World Documentary Jury

;World Dramatic Jury

Joslyn Barnes
Billy Luther
Paulina Suárez

;Alfred P. Sloan Jury

;NEXT Jury

RuPaul Charles

;Short Film Jury