The winners of Sundance are declared

The 30th Festival of Independent Cinema Sundance ended in Park City (Utah). The best films are recognized by “Whiplash” Damien Shazella (USA) and “To Kill A Man” Alejandro Fernandez Almens (Chile).

In addition to the main prize , “Whiplash” , which opened the festival on January 16, received a prize of spectator sympathies, reports The Los Angeles Times . A year ago, at Sundance, the young director received a reward for a short version of this film.

Whiplash talks about the difficult relationship between the young jazz drummer and his teacher at the prestigious New York Music College. According to the critic Variety , the film "Destroying genre cliches of the stories of the success of a musical child prodigy."

The picture of Alejandro Fernandez Almens “To Kill a Man” is the story of a “little man” that decides to go to the last in order to hold the bandits who killed his son accountable.

The best American documentary is recognized by Rich Hill Andrew Droz Palermo, which tells about the life of a provincial town in Missouri.

The prize to the best foreign drama film is awarded to the painting “Blind” ( Blind ) Eskil Vogt (Norway). The film “Return To Homs” Talala Derki (Syria), about a famous football player fighting in the ranks of the Syrian opposition, won the section of foreign non -game cinema. The Sundance prize in this category was also claimed by the painting by Maxim Pozdorovkin and Tony Gerbera “The Notorious Mr. Bout ” , about Russian citizen Viktor Bute, who is serving as a sentence in the United States for arms trafficking.

All winners of Sundance 2014 are given in the text of the broadcast from the award ceremony published on the festival website .