shows on Sundance

Rectify is a TV series that follows Daniel Holden's life after he is released from jail due to DNA evidence disputing the State's original case. The show explores the challenges Daniel faces as he tries to adjust to life outside of prison after serving nineteen years on death row in Georgia.

In a near future, non-humans fight for survival as humans seek to silence, exploit, and kill them. Two estranged indigenous brothers unite to survive. The dystopian landscape is filled with otherworldly dreamtime creatures. Cleverman premiered on television to critical acclaim.

Hap Collins is a white laborer who avoids violence and lovesick relationships. He works for a private investigator and often tries to talk his friend Leonard out of violence. Leonard is Hap's quick-to-anger friend who often resorts to violence. They work for a former police officer and their stories are told from Hap's point of view.

Nessa Stein inherits her father's arms business and promotes reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, leading to an international maelstrom. The Honourable Woman follows Nessa's journey as she navigates the complexities of the arms trade and the political landscape of the Middle East.

State of the Union follows a couple who meet in a pub before their weekly therapy session. Each episode explores their past and present struggles. The series pieces together how their lives were, what drew them together, and what has started to pull them apart. A captivating exploration of modern relationships.

A hard-hitting drama that revolves around a sheriff struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small town where he grew up and the neighboring Ramapo Mountains, home of the Ramapo Mountain Indians. After a terrible tragedy and coverup occurs involving the sheriff's wife, an unholy alliance is forged between the sheriff and a dangerous member of the tribe that will come back to haunt all involved.

Inspired by true events, Clean Sweep follows Shelly Mohan, a housewife, mother of three, married to a Garda detective, who kills her former partner in crime when he threatens to expose her dark past. With her unsuspecting husband hunting for the killer, Shelly must cope with pressures of the tightening noose as well as continue caring for an ailing son, her unfaithful husband, and all usual burdens of motherhood. 

This Close is a TV series about a woman and a man who are hearing-impaired and close friends. The woman is engaged, while the man is trying to move on from his ex-fiancée. The show explores the challenges and joys of their friendship, as well as their individual struggles and triumphs. This Close premiered in 2018.

A true crime documentary series that examines an unsolved murder in the Heartland and the corrosive effects of vigilantism in small town America. The case garnered international attention in the early 1980s after a resident was shot dead in front of almost 60 townspeople. These witnesses deny having seen anything, to this very day.

The show focuses on a small town that is turned upside down when several local people who have been long presumed dead suddenly reappear, having not aged and unaware of their own fatality. As they attempt to resume their lives, strange phenomena and gruesome murders begin to occur. The Returned takes an incredibly unique approach, filled with suspense and twists and turns, to the subject of the living dead.