Festival Predictions
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bernal/Kashyap/Khan/Silva/Sono/Wasikowska’s Madly

Not your run-of-the-mill future film festival selection, filmmakers Gael García Bernal (Déficit), Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby), Shion Sono (Suicide Club), Natasha Khan and actress Mia Wasikowska each supplied a short supply with one overriding thematic that was commissioned by MTV World. While Madly doesn’t “scream” Sundance, we can’t help but think that the curious mix of filmmakers (including Park City habituals Silva and Bernal) adds enough clout to warrant a possible inclusion.
Gist: This is a global anthology film featuring innovative love stories from the some of the world’s most visionary directors.
Production Co./Producers: Eric Mahoney. Executive producer: Nusrat Durrani.
Prediction: World Dramatic Comp.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)
[related]2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions[/related]
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
And here we are with the third part in our top 100 predictions. Chad Chenouga‘s third...
With Michael Grandage’s My Policeman now being confirmed as a non-Venice title (it was just been...
As we enthusiastically await the make-up of the major fall film festivals there is one theory...
Only hours before TIFF unveil what should be a sizeable amount of their line-up (and in...
This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and...