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The 2023 Sundance Film Festival lineup has arrived. Here are the highlights

The path that led “CODA” and “Summer of Soul” to Oscars this year began when both won prizes at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. A new crop of films began its own march forward Wednesday, when Sundance announced the program for the 2023 festival — the first in-person gathering for the event since the pre-pandemic days of January 2020. Organizers had planned to bring in-person screenings back ...
Little Richard performs during the halftime show at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee, on Dec. 31, 2004.

The path that led “CODA” and “Summer of Soul” to Oscars this year began when both won prizes at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

A new crop of films began its own march forward Wednesday, when Sundance announced the program for the 2023 festival — the first in-person gathering for the event since the pre-pandemic days of January 2020.

Organizers had planned to bring in-person screenings back at last year’s festival, but switched to an online-only event a few weeks before it was set to begin due to a COVID surge. So this year the festival — which runs from Jan. 19-29 — looks to be a mixture of a strong return and something new.

“The organization and the festival is a

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