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A Ghost Sto­ry to close Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val: Lon­don 2017

25 Apr 2017

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A person, likely a young child, standing in a dimly lit room, wearing a green shirt.
A person, likely a young child, standing in a dimly lit room, wearing a green shirt.
David Lowery’s haunt­ing dra­ma is among the high­lights of this year’s programme.

Return­ing to the UK cap­i­tal for its fifth edi­tion, the 2017 Sun­dance Lon­don Film Fes­ti­val boasts an impres­sive pro­gramme of fea­tures and shorts most­ly culled from its par­ent fes­ti­val in Park City, Utah.

This year’s fes­ti­val will open with the inter­na­tion­al pre­mière of Miguel Arteta’s Beat­riz at Din­ner, and will close four days lat­er with the UK pre­mière of David Lowery’s A Ghost Sto­ry, star­ring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. In our first look review we describe the film as a ​“qui­et­ly haunt­ing tale of loss and redemption”.

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Low­ery will be attend­ing the fes­ti­val to take part in a spe­cial ​‘In Con­ver­sa­tion’ event, where his acclaimed debut fea­ture Ain’t Them Bod­ies Saints will also screen.

Else­where there’s UK pre­mieres for Mar­i­an­na Palka’s Bitch, Jeff Orlowski’s Chas­ing Coral, Craig Johnson’s Wil­son, adapt­ed from Daniel Clowes’ graph­ic nov­el, and for the first time fes­ti­val­go­ers will be treat­ed to a Sur­prise Film.

Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val: Lon­don takes place 1 – 4 June at Pic­ture­house Cen­tral. Check out the full pro­gramme here.

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