December 8, 2015 - 12:14 AMT
Sundance Fest unveils lineups for Premieres, Doc Premieres sections

The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the lineups for the annual festival's Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections, AceShowbiz reports. One of the movies in the Premieres section is Todd Solondz's "Wiener-Dog", a comedy that features characters from his 1996 Sundance grand jury prizewinner, "Welcome to the Dollhouse".

Joshua Marston's "Complete Unknown", a drama starring Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover, is another film to make its world premiere at the festival. Other titles in Premieres include Kelly Reichardt's "Certain Women", psychosexual noir love story "Frank & Lola" and Anna Kendrick-starrer "The Hollars".

"The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving" will be the closing-night film. The comedy about a caregiver and an 18-year-old suffering from muscular dystrophy stars Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, Selena Gomez as well as Jennifer Ehle, and is directed by Rob Burnett.

Meanwhile, in the festival's Documentary Premieres, there are several movies from veteran directors, including Werner Herzog's "Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World" and Spike Lee's "Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown to Off the Wall". Also in the mix are "Richard Linklater - Dream Is Destiny", "Maya Angelou and Still I Rise" and Liz Garbus' "Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper".

As for the Spotlight category, it consists of films which have previously screened at other festivals around the world. "Cemetery of Splendor", "Embrace of the Serpent", "Green Room", "The Lobster" and "Rams" had previously screened at Cannes, while "Land of Mine" and "Maggie's Plan" made their premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival is set to commence on January 21 and run through January 31, 2016 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.