Sundance Grand Jury Award
The Sundance Grand Jury Award recognizes a film in both the Dramatic and Documentary Competitions as the best from the independent film community of the year.
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![Adam [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46231@2x.jpg)
Adam2010
Summary: Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has Asperger's syndrome and has led a sheltered existence. Then he meets his new neighbor, Beth. She is a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls... more »- place hold (0)
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![Beasts Of The Southern Wild [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68170@2x.jpg)
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
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![Being Elmo [DVD] : a puppeteer's journey](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63339@2x.jpg)
Being Elmo : a puppeteer's journey2012
Summary: Follows the man behind the beloved children's icon, Elmo, examining the life of puppeteer Kevin Clash. Provides behind-the-scenes views of Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop and featuring... more »- place hold (0)
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![The birth of a nation [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/160853@2x.jpg)
The birth of a nation2017
Summary: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he... more »- place hold (0)
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![Blood brother [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/104241@2x.jpg)
Blood brother2014
Summary: Rocky went to India as a disillusioned tourist with no close family of his own. When he met a group of children with HIV, he decided to stay and devote his life to them. To the children, he becomes... more »- place hold (0)
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![The cove [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/47020@2x.jpg)
The cove2009
Summary: In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan is a highly guarded secret. During the night, Taiji fishermen engage in an unseen hunt for thousands of dolphins. The work is so horrifying, the fishermen... more »- place hold (0)
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![Cutie and the boxer [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/101269@2x.jpg)
Cutie and the boxer2014
Summary: In New York City in 1969, nineteen-year-old art student Noriko fell in love with 41-year-old avant-garde artist Ushio Shinohara and put her career on hold to marry and support this rising star of the... more »- place hold (0)
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![Dark Matter [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42174@2x.jpg)
Dark Matter
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![Dear white people [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/118612@2x.jpg)
Dear white people2015
Summary: A sharp and funny comedy about a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial boundaries at a predominately white college. A sly, provocative satire about being a black face in a white place.- place hold (0)
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![Dope [Blu-ray]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/141470@2x.jpg)
Dope2015
Summary: Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him... more »- place hold (0)
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![Fruitvale Station [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/100963@2x.jpg)
Fruitvale Station2014
Summary: Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Then he encounters police officers in a transit station. They kill him.- place hold (0)
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![Hell and back again [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63342@2x.jpg)
Hell and back again2011
Summary: From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old... more »- place hold (0)
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![The House I Live In [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/109648@2x.jpg)
The House I Live In
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![How to die in Oregon [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/64043@2x.jpg)
How to die in Oregon2010
Summary: In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Since then, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. Filmmaker Peter Richardson gently... more »- place hold (0)
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![The law in these parts [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/115057@2x.jpg)
The law in these parts2013
Summary: Explores the four-decade-old Israeli military legal system in the Occupied Territories. Since Israel conquered the territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 War, the military has... more »- place hold (0)
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![Like crazy [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/62605@2x.jpg)
Like crazy2012
Summary: Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is fragile. When a British college student falls for her American classmate, they embark on a passionate... more »- place hold (0)
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![Me and Earl and the dying girl [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/142052@2x.jpg)
Me and Earl and the dying girl2015
Summary: A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes... more »- place hold (0)
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![Meru [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/142259@2x.jpg)
Meru2015
Summary: Three renowned climbers navigate nature's harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas.- place hold (0)
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![Minari [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/238923@2x.jpg)
Minari2021
Summary: A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, this story follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes... more »- place hold (0)
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![The overnighters [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/118614@2x.jpg)
The overnighters2014
Summary: An intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow... more »- place hold (0)
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![Precious [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46791@2x.jpg)
Precious2010
Summary: In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers... more »- place hold (0)
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![Project Nim [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/62825@2x.jpg)
Project Nim
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![The queen of Versailles [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68019@2x.jpg)
The queen of Versailles2012
Summary: The Queen of Versailles is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. The film follows two unique characters, whose... more »- place hold (0)
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![Restrepo [DVD] : one platoon, one valley, one year](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/51392@2x.jpg)
Restrepo : one platoon, one valley, one year2010
Summary: This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was... more »- place hold (0)
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![Safety not guaranteed [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/67774@2x.jpg)
Safety not guaranteed2012
Summary: Three co-workers at a magazine seek to interview someone who placed an ad for time travel companionship.- place hold (0)
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![Searching for Sugar Man [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/69595@2x.jpg)
Searching for Sugar Man2013
Summary: In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long... more »- place hold (0)
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![Senna [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/63189@2x.jpg)
Senna2012
Summary: Spanning his years as a Formula One racing driver from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later, Senna explores the life and work of the triple world champion, his physical and spiritual... more »- place hold (0)
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![The September issue [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/50574@2x.jpg)
The September issue2010
Summary: A behind-the-scenes look at Vogue magazine (U.S.) as editor-and-chief Anna Wintour and her staff prepare the September 2007 issue.- place hold (0)
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![The Sessions [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/69923@2x.jpg)
The Sessions
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![Short Term 12 [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/100976@2x.jpg)
Short Term 122014
Summary: SHORT TERM 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, 21 Jump Street), a twenty-something supervisor at a group home for troubled teens. She s passionate, tough... more »- place hold (0)
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![Sleepwalk With Me [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/70196@2x.jpg)
Sleepwalk With Me
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![The souvenir [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/215303@2x.jpg)
The souvenir2019
Summary: A shy but ambitious film student begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man. She defies her protective mother and concerned... more »- place hold (0)
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![The spectacular now [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/107076@2x.jpg)
The spectacular now2014
Summary: While teenager Aimee dreams of the future, Sutter lives in the now, and yet somehow, they're drawn together. What starts as an unlikely romance becomes a sharp-eyed, straight-up snapshot of the heady confusion and haunting passion of youth.- place hold (0)
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![The Diary Of A Teenage Girl [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/147012@2x.jpg)
The Diary Of A Teenage Girl2016
Summary: In 1976 San Francisco, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is growing up at the crossroads of the fading hippie movement and the dawn of punk rock. Like most teenage girls, Minnie is longing for love,... more »- place hold (0)
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![The witch [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/150772@2x.jpg)
The witch2016
Summary: A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall... more »- place hold (0)
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Waiting For "Superman"
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![Waste Land [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55938@2x.jpg)
Waste Land
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![Watchers of the sky [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/127774@2x.jpg)
Watchers of the sky2015
Summary: With his provocative question, 'why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?' Raphael Lemkin changed the course of history. An extraordinary testament to one... more »- place hold (0)
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![Weiner [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/156255@2x.jpg)
Weiner2016
Summary: An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's disastrous 2013 mayoral campaign.- place hold (0)
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![Whiplash [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/126302@2x.jpg)
Whiplash2015
Summary: Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father,... more »- place hold (0)
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