PARK CITY, Utah — Beth de Araújo’s potent household drama “Josephine,” about an 8-year-old lady who witnesses a sexual assault, received prime prizes on the 2026 Sundance Movie Pageant. The juries introduced the winners Friday in Park Metropolis, Utah.
“Josephine,” starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan because the lady’s mother and father, grew to become one of many competition’s early consensus hits regardless of its tough material, which was primarily based on the filmmaker’s personal expertise at that age. The younger lady is performed by newcomer Mason Reeves, whom de Araújo found at a San Francisco farmer’s market. The movie received each the U.S. dramatic grand jury prize and the competition’s viewers award however doesn’t but have distribution.
Filmmakers Janicza Bravo, Nisha Ganatra and Azazel Jacobs had been the jury for the U.S. Dramatic Competitors. They cited the movie’s “depth and nuance of storytelling” and its “delicate and chic execution of a difficult material.” Different titles within the U.S. dramatic competitors included Josef Kubota Wladyka’s “Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!,” which bought a particular prize for steering.
The grand jury prize for greatest U.S. documentary was awarded to “Nuisance Bear,” a couple of polar bear navigating a human world. “To Maintain a Mountain,” a couple of mom and daughter within the distant highlands of Montenegro defending their land from turning into a NATO army coaching floor, took the worldwide documentary prize. “Disgrace and Cash,” a couple of Kosovar household who has to maneuver from a village to the capital, picked up the narrative world cinema award.
Louis Paxton’s quirky Scottish movie “The Incomer,” a couple of pair of siblings on a distant island whose lives are upended when an ungainly authorities official arrives to attempt to evict them, received the innovator award within the competition’s NEXT part.
Different movies that received viewers awards included documentaries “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez,” concerning the pioneering playwright and screenwriter, and “One in a Million,” which chronicled a household’s journey from Syria to Germany and again once more throughout 10 years.
The competition beforehand awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Function Movie Prize, which celebrates excellent movies representing science or know-how, to Andrew Stanton’s “Within the Blink of an Eye.”
Excessive profile Sundance movies like Olivia Wilde’s “The Invite,” the queer horror “Leviticus” and the Charli xcx film “The Second” didn’t premiere in competitors and weren’t eligible for jury or viewers awards.
Sundance prizes can typically be the primary cease for eventual Oscar nominees and winners, which notably occurred with “CODA” and “Summer time of Soul.” Documentaries extra so than narrative movies have a greater monitor report of constructing it to the Oscars stage. Three of final yr’s particular prize winners are nominated for greatest documentary this yr, “The Good Neighbor,” “Reducing By Rocks” and “Mr. No person Towards Putin” and the 2 others had been among the many competition favorites, “Come See Me within the Good Mild” and “The Alabama Answer.”
Final yr’s U.S. Dramatic grand jury prize went to the battle satire “Atropia,” whereas the viewers award was given to the darkish comedy “Twinless,” with Dylan O’Brien.
The Sundance Movie Pageant runs by way of Sunday.
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