Sundance Institute Movies

  • 2004
    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

    6.92004HD

    Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the pros...

    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
  • 2018
    Farming

    Farming

    Farming

    6.2312018HD

    Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in th...

    Farming
  • 2024
    No Other Land

    No Other Land

    No Other Land

    7.42024HD

    Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this documentary shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlik...

    No Other Land
  • 2020
    The Mole Agent

    The Mole Agent

    The Mole Agent

    7.92020HD

    When a daughter becomes concerned about her mother's well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who...

    The Mole Agent
  • 2019
    Collective

    Collective

    Collective

    7.62019HD

    In the aftermath of a tragic fire in a Romanian club, burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life threatening. A team of inv...

    Collective
  • 2017
    Bending the Arc

    Bending the Arc

    Bending the Arc

    8.72017HD

    About the extraordinary doctors and activists—including Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Ophelia Dahl—whose work 30 years ago to save lives in a rural H...

    Bending the Arc
  • 2006
    The Way I Spent the End of the World

    The Way I Spent the End of the World

    The Way I Spent the End of the World

    62006HD

    Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and...

    The Way I Spent the End of the World
  • 1991
    Reservoir Dogs

    Reservoir Dogs

    Reservoir Dogs

    7.4791991HD

    Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.

    Reservoir Dogs
  • 2023
    Queendom

    Queendom

    Queendom

    9.72023HD

    In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin’s r...

    Queendom
  • 2021
    Ascension

    Ascension

    Ascension

    6.82021HD

    The absorbingly cinematic Ascension explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes humorous—imagery, this observatio...

    Ascension
  • 2015
    In Jackson Heights

    In Jackson Heights

    In Jackson Heights

    6.52015HD

    Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman (At Berkeley, National Gallery) explores the culture, politics and daily life of the Queens, NYC dis...

    In Jackson Heights
  • 2020
    76 Days

    76 Days

    76 Days

    7.22020HD

    Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.

    76 Days
  • 1994
    Parallel Lives

    Parallel Lives

    Parallel Lives

    5.81994HD

    A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a lo...

    Parallel Lives
  • 2018
    People's Republic of Desire

    People's Republic of Desire

    People's Republic of Desire

    6.32018HD

    In China’s popular live-streaming showrooms, three millennials – a karaoke singer, a migrant worker and a rags-to-riches comedian – seek fame, fortune...

    People's Republic of Desire
  • 2015
    Among the Believers

    Among the Believers

    Among the Believers

    72015HD

    An unsettling and eye opening exploration into the spread of the radical Islamic school Red Mosque, which trains legions of children to devote their l...

    Among the Believers
  • 2024
    Writing Hawa

    Writing Hawa

    Writing Hawa

    02024HD

    Afghan documentary maker Najiba Noori offers not only a loving and intimate portrait of her mother Hawa, but also shows in detail how the arduous impr...

    Writing Hawa
  • 2021
    Fathom

    Fathom

    Fathom

    5.72021HD

    Two biologists set out on an undertaking as colossal as their subjects—deciphering the complex communication of whales. Dr. Michelle Fournet and Dr. E...

    Fathom
  • 2021
    Writing with Fire

    Writing with Fire

    Writing with Fire

    7.32021HD

    In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and he...

    Writing with Fire
  • 2024
    Agent of Happiness

    Agent of Happiness

    Agent of Happiness

    62024HD

    The documentary team follows two happiness agents in their forties who spend a month and a half on the road twice a year, going door-to-door with thei...

    Agent of Happiness
  • 2020
    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    Coded Bias

    7.12020HD

    Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurat...

    Coded Bias