Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kogonada’s After Yang

Published on November 25, 2021

Having had its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Kogonada‘s After Yang (starring Haley Lu Richardson, Colin Farrell, Justin H. Min and Jodie Turner-Smith) was a lot of critics’ cup of tea and yet, no other major film festival has had the opportunity to show it. Kogonada was a major break out Sundance back in 2017 with Columbus, and so we think that a return to Park City is a strong possibility for a Spotlight section showing.

Gist: Based on a short story by Alexander Weinstein, After Yang follows a father and daughter as they try to save the life of their robotic family member.

Production Co./Producers: Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey, Per Capita Productions’ Theresa Park.

Prediction: SPOTLIGHT.

U.S. Distributor: A24.

Eric Lavallée

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 1976 (Manuela Martelli), Godland (Hlynur Pálmason), Corsage (Marie Kreutzer), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen).

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Festival Predictions

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kogonada’s After Yang