Sundance Festival will be back in person in 2022

The new event plan will give priority to the physical edition, although it will allow access to certain movie screenings and meetings with filmmakers through an internet platform.

The Sundance Festival , the most important event for independent cinema and the first annual show of the movie-goer circuit, will once again organize a face-to-face edition in 2022 after the hiatus caused by the coronavirus.

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The event will return to the state of Utah (USA) between January 20 and 30, although it will adopt some of the changes caused by the pandemic, since it will maintain an online program after its virtual edition had more than 600,000 viewers this year.

“We are designing a safe and accessible festival where our audience and artists can come together to discover new work,” the organization said in a statement.

After the film industry adapted to virtual formats, many wondered if some of the assumed changes would be installed forever.

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Sundance’s new plan will give priority to physical editing, although it will allow access to certain movie screenings and meetings with filmmakers through an internet platform, a model that could mark the future of other events such as the Toronto Film Festival or the Berlinae.

When closing its virtual edition of 2021, the organization assured that its audience had tripled and reached 120 countries.

European cinema triumphed in international categories.

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“Hive”, a co-production from Kosovo, Switzerland, North Macedonia and Albania, won the triple prize: the jury’s prize in the international section, the audience prize and the best director prize.

Another European co-production, “Flee” (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and France), won the award for best documentary.

In other editions Sundance has discovered important titles such as “Minari” and “Promising Young Woman” , both nominated for an Oscar for best picture at the last gala.