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PARK CITY. The Sundance Independent Film Festival has begun.

The Sundance Film Festival, founded by the famous Hollywood actor Robert Redford in 1981, is being held in Utah for the 33rd time. The program of the two-week marathon announced more than 60 feature and documentary films. An independent look at current problems, the search for new forms and unattended paths - this is what the public, critics and the largest "players" of Hollywood expect from the festival. They are ready to lay out tidy sums for another independent movie masterpiece, as happened in 2006 with the indie comedy Little Miss Sunshine. The fees from the screenings of the picture at the global box office then amounted to about $ 100 million.

Ecology, military conflicts, human rights, the fight against terrorism - a wide range of relevant topics and the possibility of their free discussion without any limitations whatsoever. Russian films are not in the list of participants in the international competition of documentaries and foreign films.

Among the films that deserve attention, we can name the pilot project Manifesto Julian Rosenfeld (Julian Rosefeldt) with Cate Blanchett (Cate Blanchett) in the title role. The actress shows brilliant ability to transform into a variety of characters. A Ghost story is a continuation of the creative collaboration of director David Lowery with actors Casey Affleck as a ghost and Rooney Mara as a lover of a restless ghost. Beach Rats is another attempt by Eliza Hittman, author of It Felt Like Love, to reflect on teenage identity issues. At the festival, you can see the multi-drama My Life as a Zucchini about a boy who ended up in an orphanage after the sudden death of his mother. In 2016, she won the 40th Annecy Animation Film Festival, winning the Audience Award there as well. The Yellow Birds (Alexandre Moors) - the war in Iraq, which appeared before the recruits in his hellish guise, but does not cancel the moral obligations to himself. Sundance results will be announced on January 29th.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru