Sundance Film Festival announce the 2015 U.S. Dramatic Competition Films

JamesArthurArmstrong The Sundance Institute has announced the films selected for the U.S. Cinema Dramatic Competition for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

The festival begins on the 22nd January and runs until the 1st February 2015. Only 185 selections were made from an incredible 12,166 submissions. This is the third consecutive year in which submissions for the festival surpassed 12,000 entries. Below is a list of the movies selected in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category, which premieres 16 narrative feature films, giving audiences the chance to experience new voices in American independent film.

U.S. Dramatic Competition

• Advantageous | Director: Jennifer Phang

• The Bronze | Director: Bryan Buckley

• The D Train | Directors: Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel

• The Diary of a Teenage Girl | Director: Marielle Heller

• Dope | Director: Rick Famuyiwa

• I Smile Back | Director: Adam Salky

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

• The Overnight | Director: Patrick Brice

• People, Places, Things | Director: James C. Strouse

• Results | Director: Andrew Bujalski

• Songs My Brothers Taught Me | Director: Chloé Zhao

• The Stanford Prison Experiment | Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez

• Stockholm, Pennsylvania | Director: Nikole Beckwith

• Unexpected | Director: Kris Swanberg

• The Witch | Director: Robert Eggers

• Z for Zachariah | Director: Craig Zobel