Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.

At Sundance


It Felt Like Love

The Color Wheel

You Won't Miss Me

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Waste Land

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

St. Nick

Potiche

The Oath

Christo in Paris

Ida

Museum Hours

The Cool School

Below Dreams

Bad Fever

The Hands That Shaped Me

Teenage

Lore

Arranged

Homegoings
Directors Featured at Sundance 2017
Finally Sundance is on the horizon, taking place this year from January 19 - 29, and we at Fandor are walking on air (and booking flights). Close to our hearts, Sundance calls Park City, Utah, home and independent film its family. Discovering great films and filmmakers, and propelling them into the limelight, is what we have come to expect from Sundance. For those of us not pulling out our puffy jackets and attending, we have composed a selection of past films by the directors who are featured this year at Sundance Film Festival 2017. Here is a taste from the filmmakers whose work is screening right now!
Selected Films
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The Color Wheel
THE COLOR WHEEL is the story of JR (Carlen Altman), an increasingly transient aspiring news-anchor, as she forces her disappointing younger brother Colin (Alex Ross Perry) to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s apartment (Bob Byington). Traveling...Watch Movie -
You Won't Miss Me
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the...Watch Movie -
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
With arresting insight, vulnerability and a delightful sense of humor, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY utilizes a mix of live action and animation to capture the relationship between Terence (Nance) and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide...Watch Movie -
St. Nick
When ST. NICK premiered at SXSW in 2009, it announced the arrival of Dallas-based filmmaker David Lowery as a storyteller and image-maker to watch. An intimate portrait of two young runaways wandering the beautiful and desolate landscape of East Texas, ST. NICK drops us into a lonely world seen...Watch Movie
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Bad Fever
Alternatively quiet and delirious, always desperate, BAD FEVER is a witness to one man’s broken American dream and his eternal longing to find someone, anyone, who understands or even pretends to understand. Eddie (Kentucker Audley) bumbles his way through an agonizing courtship with Irene...Watch Movie -
The Hands That Shaped Me
This short twelve minute music film is a collaboration between filmmaker Mark Pellington and the New York rock band The Indecent. Focusing on a true story of loss and dissonance, the film features the triplets Emily, Maddie and Bo Brout. The film is part musical eulogy and...Watch Movie -
At Sundance
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directed by Amy Hobby. [Filmed in Pixelvision...Watch Movie