2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come

She premiered her feature debut The Sleepwalker at Sundance back in 2014, and has been busy as a co-scribe working on all three of her partner’s features in The Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux and The Brutalist. With Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby toplining, Mona Fastvold‘s sophomore film was in the official competition at the Venice Film Festival. Bleecker Street Media landed the rights to The World to Come and have pegged it with a February 12th release which means Sundance could be the lieu of the North American premiere. In his review, our Nicholas Bell called this “a period piece which blazes with fierce intelligence and intention as much as it waxes poetically before dangling precariously into despair.”

Gist: Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.

Production Co./Producers: Killer Films’ David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler / Casey Affleck, Margarethe Baillou, Whitaker Lader.

Prediction: SPOTLIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: Bleecker Street.