For the second year in a row, Bay Area film fans can attend the Sundance 2022 Film Festival from home. The 83 feature films—which include 78 world premieres—have multiple screening times throughout the festival, and all will offer closed captioning, with post-film Q&As.

Sundance director of programming Kim Yutani said “this year’s program reflects the unsettling and uncertain times we’ve been living in for the past year and a half.”

Bay Area Talent
As is true each year, the festival has a healthy sampling of Bay Area talent.

• San Francisco filmmaker Sara Dosa’s documentary Fire of Love profiles the life and work of the late French volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft.
• Bay Area comedian and television host W. Kamau Bell’s Bill Cosby docuseries, We Need to Talk About Cosby
• Oakland filmmaker Reid Davenport’s documentary I Didn’t See You There explores the origins and legacy of the circus freak show from a perspective of disability
• Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s documentary Free Chol Soo Lee is a social justice story that springs from San Francisco’s Chinatown.
• You’ve Never Been Completely Honest from Redwood City native Joey Izzo
• Long Line of Ladies is a documentary set in the Northern Californian Karuk community by Rayka Zehtabchi and Shaandiin Tome
• The 2009 Harvey Milk short 575 Castro Street was directed by Berkeley’s Jenni Olson.

How to Fest Online
You’ll have the opportunity to watch premieres, attend talks and other online events, discuss projects with fellow film fans, and in general participate in the Sundance community. You can purchase tickets to individual films that you want to screen.
Tickets are first-come, first-served. So, make your reservation in advance.

The festival runs from January 20th through 30th.

Check out the Sundance Festival programs page for a schedule of showings. And, you can purchase tickets on the Sundance Festival website.