SunLive Competition

Winter's Bone R-13 (contains violence, drug use and offensive language)

In the harsh backwoods of Missouri, 17-year-old Ree (Jennifer Lawrence), smart beyond her years, takes care of her incapacitated mother and her younger brother and sister. When her crystal meth-cooking father puts up the house as security for bail, she sets out to find him to ensure he shows up in court. At every house she visits she’s stonewalled by some woman on the porch fronting for some guy inside. Her determination to uncover the truth behind her father’s disappearance only increases, inseparable from her determination to deliver her young siblings from the bleak expectations of their impoverished, drug-raddled kin. This dramatic ode to tough, persistent goodness was the big winner at Sundance this year and it is not hard to understand why. Reviewed by the New Zealand International Film Festival, 2010.

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Competition Results

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Judea