The Eight Mountains and The Immensity will be presented at the Sundance Film Festival

It has lost some of the charm of the alternative rendezvous, the Mecca for independent cinema, but the Sundance Film Festival remains event crucial to the North American film season outside the majors. In Utah in January there will be, as usual, sections dedicated to American and international cinema, documentaries and premieres.

There will also be one Italian representationwith two titles in the section Spotlight: The immensity by Emanuele Crialese, presented in Venice and then released in theaters in the autumn with uninspiring results, e The eight mountains by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, winner of the jury prize at Cannes, in cinemas on December 22nd.

Among the other non-American stocks we point out the Australian Bluebacks from Robert Connolly with Mia Wasikowska, Eric Bana and Radha Mitchellpresented in Toronto, Other people’s children by Rebecca Zlotowski with an excellent Virginie Efira, the Oscar nominee for Pakistan, Joyland, The Pod Generation by Sophie Barthes, with Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Passages by Ira Sachs with Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Bad Behaviour from Alice Englert, with Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw. Among the American films, the following will be presented: Infinity pool from Brandon Cronenberg, with Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth, Sometimes I Think About Dying with Daisy Ridiley and Divinityproduced by Steven Soderbergh, with Bella Thorne, Scott Bakula and Stephen Dorff.