Traveling from bar mitzvahs and hotel rooms to volcanoes and haunted colleges, the Letterboxd crew highlights the Sundance premieres that made the biggest impact out of the year’s first major festival.

The Letterboxd team selects the fifteen titles we’re most excited to see at this year’s all-virtual Sundance Film Festival.

Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi on traversing murky moral territory in A Hero, writing characters one crisis at a time, and creating classical stories for modern audiences. 

As his Tilda Swinton-starring film Memoria begins its infinite, one-cinema-at-a-time U.S. tour,  Apichatpong Weerasethakul wants us to stop obsessing about ourselves.

The writer and director of C’mon C’mon on the beauty of therapy, grief as a superpower, and the maddening toxicity of “manspreading whiteness”. Plus: his film faves, from Lanthimos to Campion, Keaton to Wenders.

A conversation with filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi about emotional tidal waves, unique relationships, conversational car rides, and Cassavetes. 

Zeros and Ones writer-director Abel Ferrara opens up about images as weapons, fourth-wall breaker Ethan Hawke, and being an optimist in spite of it all.

As the Covid-era festival landscape shifts yet again, our Festiville team picks the best of the films that premiered at the major fall film festivals.

Away from the breathtaking island of Fårö, Mitchell Beaupre speaks with Bergman Island filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve about all things Bergman, finding the balance between your art and relationships, and the sex appeal of Elliott Gould.

Titane filmmaker Julia Ducournau speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about destroying societal expectations of gender, the unspoken nature of love, and finding art in a bunch of dancing firefighters.

Taking on a rare leading role in his decades-spanning career, national treasure Tim Blake Nelson speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about demystifying heroes, reinventing genres and something called a quiche Western.

With his latest film Prisoners of the Ghostland now in theaters and on VOD, one-of-a-kind filmmaker Sion Sono speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about working with Nicolas Cage, fusing Eastern and Western influences, and drawing from Japanese history for his madcap new creation.