From Mariupol to Mars, jurors and audiences at the Sundance Film Festival largely rewarded stories of strivers in adversity. Here are the big winners.
Grand Jury prizesA homeless mom kidnaps her son from foster care and builds a home in a gentrifying New York City. But the secret of her final crime hangs over the family's hard-won success.Directors Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson follow the imagination of renowned poet Nikki Giovanni on an Afrofuturistic journey of Black liberation as Giovanni explores her own memories.
Based on a true story, a teacher experiments with pedagogy to break through to his neglected, over-punished sixth graders in a Mexican border town.In this mother-daughter dramedy with generational echoes, the prodigal daughter finds herself pregnant when she gathers with her Iranian-American family at her father's hospital bed. Flashbacks between Iran and the U.S. show she has more in common with her estranged mother than she thought.
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