It's time once again for the Sundance Film Festival which starts Thursday in Park City. Yesterday we brought you a look at the the US Narrative, World Narrative, and NEXT competitions. Today we turn to the documentaries on offer at this year's festival in the US Documentary and World Documentary competitions as well as those films in the Documentary Premieres program.
Lo And Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Werner Herzog's latest is this collection of stories about the internet age.
Docu Premieres
Sonita
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami's follow-up to Going Up Stairs is this story of an 18-year old rapper in Afghanistan who faces being sold off as a bride.
World Docu
Under the Gun
Fed Up and Tapped director Stephanie Soechtig turns her attention to the issue of gun legislation in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings.
Docu Premieres
All These Sleepless Nights
Fuck For Forest director Michal Marczak turns from nudist weirdos to Polish young people in this docu that is said to blur the lines between docu and fiction.
World Docu
Audrie & Daisy
Docu directors Bonni Cohen (Rape of Europa) and Jon Shenk (The Island President) team up for this look at "assault in the social media age" through two high school girls' story.
US Docu
NUTS!
Our Nixon director Penny Lane follows up that film with this "mostly true story" of a 1920s goat-testicle impotence cure-toting doctor.
US Docu
The Lovers and the Despot
This one truly belongs in the stranger than fiction category. Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's film tells the story of a celebrity director and actress ex-wife who are kidnapped and force to make movies by Kim Jong-il.
World Docu
Richard Linklater - Dream is Destiny
Louis Black and Karen Bernstein give us a look at the iconic director and Austin film scene he helped define.
Docu Premieres
We Are X
Veteran director Stephen Kijak takes us inside the Japanese 80s glam metal band "X."
World Docu
Life, Animated
Roger Ross Williams's second feature (God Loves Uganda) is this inspirational sounding story of an autistic boy learning to speak through Disney films.
US Docu
Kate Plays Christine
Veteran indie editor Robert Greene takes us behind the scenes with Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for the titular role in Christine, a film also playing at the Sundance 2016 fest. Good timing.
US Docu
Tickled
A ticking contest. A journalist. An exposé.
World Docu
Eat That Question - Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Thorsten Schütte takes us inside the weird and wonderful world of avant-garde rocker Frank Zappa.
Docu Premieres
Plaza de la Soledad
Photographer Maya Goded makes her directorial debut with this docu looking at the prostitutes working the streets in Mexico City.
World Docu
Trapped
Gideon's Army director Dawn Porter continues her reporting on abortion with this look at the legal system attacks and protections of the practice.
US Docu
Gleason
Clay Tweel of Make Believe, Print the Legend, and Finders Keepers fame, turns his cameras on Steve Gleason, a former NFL back now living with ALS.
US Docu
Hooligan Sparrow
Wang Nanfu's directorial feature debut is a story of a female activist in China dangerously speaking out about sexual assault in schools.
World Docu
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Spike Lee continues his King of Pop series (Bad 25) with this look at the very early days of Michael Jackson.
Docu Premieres