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The Sundance Film Festival concluded yesterday, Saturday, January 31, in Park City (Utah). The Sundance Film Festival is a festival of independent cinema’s most famous and influential in the world that offers films, shorts, documentaries, and hybrid products, original and not mainstream.

Some of the big names present were Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, James Franco, Ewan Mc Gregor and more than 200 titles in competition.

The winner is “Me & Earl & the Dying Girl” by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, with Thomas Mann and Olivia Cooke who won both the audience award the Grand Jury prize.

“I want to dedicate this award to all the young filmmakers of my city, Laredo, Texas,” said Alfonso Gomez-Rejon receiving the prize.

The story, written by Jesse Andrews, starring Greg, a teenager who decides to spend the last year of high school remaining as anonymous as possible, avoiding all social interactions and in the meantime realizing crazy and bizarre movies with his unique friend, Earl.

His anonymity and his friendship is suddenly threatened when his mother forces him to become a friend of a classmate suffering from leukemia. The film also stars RJ Cyler, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon.

The prize for Best Director went to Robert Eggers for “The Witch”, set during the witch hunts of New England in 1630 when a family has to face frightening events, including the disappearance of their son.

“The Wolfpack” won the jury prize for best American documentary, and “The Chinese Mayor” for best documentary from the rest of the world.

Among the films in competition was also Italian Chlo and Chlorine by Lamberto Sanfelice, which tells the story of a young girl in synchronized swimming, who has to give up the dream to care for her sick father with leukemia and the brother of nine years after death the mother.