Other films that took home prizes at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival include Porcelain War,” “Sujo,” “Sugarcane” and “Daughters”
“In The Summers,” Alessandra Lacorazza’s film about two sisters and their relationship with their father, won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic category at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Lacorazza also won the Directing Award. “Dìdi,” directed by Sean Wang (a 2024 Oscar nominee for “Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó”), won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. The awards ceremony took place on Friday at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah.
“Dìdi,” which focuses on a Taiwanese American boy’s final summer before high school, also won a special award for its ensemble, which includes Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua. Nico Parker, from “Suncoast,” won a special award for Breakthrough Performance.
Jesse Eisenberg won the screenwriting prize for “A Real Pain.” Jack Begert’s “Little Death” won the NEXT award for innovation.
In the U.S. Documentary section, “Porcelain War” claimed the Grand Jury award, while the directing prize went to Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for “Sugarcane.” “Daughters,” Angela Patton and Natalie Rae’s documentary about young girls preparing for a dads-and-daughters dance with their incarcerated fathers, won both the Festival Favorite Award (selected by the audience from all feature films at the festival) and the Audience Award. Carla Gutiérrez won the documentary editing award for “FRIDA.”
In the World Cinema Dramatic category, the jury chose “Sujo” as the best film, and in World Cinema Documentary, “A New Kind of Wilderness” took the top prize.
Audience Awards in the international categories went to the Indian/French production “Girls Will Be Girls” for dramatic feature, while “Ibelin,” from Norway, took home the prize for documentary. “Ibelin” director Benjamin Ree also won for directing.
Additional winners included “Girls Will Be Girls,” “Ibelin,” “Little Death,” “Kneecap,” “In the Land of Brothers,” “Gaucho Gaucho” and “Union.
