Feature documentary Prime Minister has been set as the opening film for this year’s Sundance Film Festival: CDMX in Mexico City.
The documentary about former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz, won the Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary at this year’s Sundance festival in the US.
Launched last year by Sundance and Latin American exhibition giant Cinepolis, CDMX will have its second run from May 29 to June 1 at several Cinepolis sites around the city. The line-up will comprise 15 features and a programme of shorts selected from titles that screened at Sundance in the US in January.
Along with Prime Minister, the seven other documentaries in the line-up include Ukranian war chronicle 2000 Meters to Andriivka, whose director Mstyslav Chernov won the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary at this year’s Sundance; Mr Nobody Against Putin, winner of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award; and Selena y Los Dinos, about the Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla, winner of Sundance’s US Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling.
The seven narrative features in the CDMX line-up include DJ Ahmet, winner of Sundance’s Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, and Twinless, which won the US festival’s Audience Award: US Dramatic and US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting.
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