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Sundance 2024: the biggest films to look out for from this year’s festival

Films starring Saoirse Ronan and Kristen Stewart and documentaries on US policing and Amazon union to premiere

With the festival’s Covid-era digital element retreating further into the background and a new head honcho hoping to bring back a more independent spirit, the 2024 lineup teases some provocative on-the-ground question marks with fewer known properties and more what ifs, an excitingly rather unknowable set of films to open the new year with. Photograph: The Outrun Film Ltd/Roy Imer.Four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan might have suffered a bit of a misstep with the one-two punch of See How They Run and Foe but she’s entering 2024 with two surer things, the first of which unfurls out of competition in the premieres section. Before we see her in Steve McQueen’s wartime drama Blitz later in the year, Ronan will headline The Outrun, an adaptation of journalist turned author Amy Liptrot’s memoir, detailing her move back home to the Orkney Islands after struggling with alcoholism in London.

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