The 2022 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards were announced after nine days featuring 84 films and 59 short films, the juries have deliberated and the audience has voted.
The 26 jury-awarded and six audience-awarded prizes recognize achievement in global independent storytelling. Bold, intimate, and culture shifting stories prevailed across categories, with Grand Jury Prizes awarded to Nanny (U.S. Dramatic), The Exiles (U.S. Documentary), Utama (World Cinema Dramatic), and All That Breathes (World Cinema Documentary). Audience Awards were presented to Navalny (U.S. Documentary), Cha Cha Real Smooth (U.S. Dramatic), Girl Picture (World Cinema Dramatic), The Territory (World Cinema Documentary), Framing Agnes (NEXT), with Navalny winning the Festival Favorite Award.
Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente said, “The awards represent the determination of visionary individuals, whose dynamic work will continue to change the culture and create discourse throughout the year.”
Vincente added: “This year’s entire program has proven that no matter the context, independent storytelling remains a pivotal tool in expanding critical dialogues, and these stories will and must be shared.”
According to Sundance Film Festival Director Tabitha Jackson, “the 2022 Sundance Film Festival once again met our audience wherever they happened to be. Whether you watched from home or one of our seven satellite screens, this year’s Festival expressed a powerful convergence; we were present, together, as a community connected through the work. And it is work that has already changed those who experienced it.”
Festival’s Director of Programming Kim Yutani said, “We are so grateful for this year’s jurors who brought their expertise and passion to their decision-making process. We congratulate the award winners and we’re so thankful to each and every film in the program that made the 2022 Sundance Film Festival such a huge success.”
The awards announcement marks a key point of the 2022 Festival, where 84 feature-length and 59 short films — selected from 14,849 submissions — were showcased online via the Festival’s online platform; a selection of the program will play at 7 Satellite Screen locations across the United States, starting tonight.
Here’s the full list of Sundance Film Festival 2022 winners
Navalny
Director: Daniel Roher
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Director-Writer: Cooper Raiff
Nanny
Director-Writer: Nikyatu Jusu
Directing
Jamie Dack
Palm Trees and Power Lines
K.D. Dávila
Emergency
John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, London Covington and Michael K Williams
892
Bradley Rust Gray
blood
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Navalny
Director: Daniel Roher
The Exiles (U.S.)
Directors: Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
Directing
Reid Davenport
I Didn’t See You There
Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput
Fire Of Love
Aftershock
Directors: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee
Descendant
Director: Margaret Brown
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The Territory (Brazil/Denmark/U.S.)
All That Breathes (India/UK)
Director: Shaunak Sen
Directing
Simon Lereng Wilmont
A House Made Of Splinters (Denmark)
The Territory (Brazil/Denmark/U.S.)
Director: Alex Pritz
Midwives (Myanmar)
Director: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Girl Picture (Finland)
Director: Alli Haapasalo
Utama (Bolvia/Uruguay/France)
Director-Writer: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Directing
Maryna Er Gorbach
Klondike (Ukraine/Turkey)
Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines)
Director-Writer: Martika Ramirez Escobar
Teresa Sánchez
Dos Estaciones (Mexico)
NEXT
Framing Agnes (Canada/U.S.)
Director: Chase Joynt
Grand Jury Prize
The Headhunter’s Daughter (Philippines)
Director-Writer: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
If I Go Will They Miss Me (U.S.)
Director-writer: Walter Thompson-Hernández
Warsha (France/Lebanon)
Director-writer: Dania Bdeir
Displaced (Kosovo)
Director-writer: Samir Karahoda
Night Bus (Taiwan)
Director-writer: Joe Hsieh
Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Camila Rocha, Clarissa Ribeiro and Lorre Motta
A wild patience has taken me here (Brazil)
Director-writer: Érica Sarmet
Sara Driver
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver (U.S.)
Directors: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster; Writer: Sara Driver
After Yang
Su Kim, Free Chol Soo Lee (U.S. Documentary Competition)
Amanda Marshall, God’s Country (Premieres)
Toby Shimin
Dody Dorn
Hasan Hadi, The President’s Cake
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