--- description: The Utah festival has announced its slate for next year title: Sundance 2015 Slate features Sarah Silverman, Chiwetel Ejiofor image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d15fa7bf7a072b3/69876c95428a9e069ecc5cdf/ap829814820752.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sundance 2015 Slate Features Sarah Silverman, Chris Pine and More  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2014 4:04 PM CUT  Sarah Silverman arrives at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) Sarah Silverman arrives at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)Richard Shotwell—Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2014 4:04 PM CUT Next year’s Sundance Film Festival, set to begin Jan. 22 in Park City, Utah, has announced an impressive slate of films featuring stars ranging from Kristen Wiig and Sarah Silverman to Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Ejiofor, the actor best known for _12 Years a Slave_, may be in the festival’s most-anticipated film, the post-apocalyptic drama _Z for Zachariah_; he plays one of two male survivors of a cataclysmic disaster competing for the affections of what may be the last woman on earth. (The other stars are Chris Pine, in the midst of a mini-career-renaissance that includes _Into the Woods_, and _The Wolf of Wall Street_ star Margot Robbie.) Films joining _Zachariah_ in the U.S. dramatic competition include _I Smile Back_, starring Sarah Silverman as a depressed suburban mother; _Results_, the “mumblecore” director Andrew Bujalski’s take on personal training; and Billy Crudup and Ezra Miller in a dramatization of _The Stanford Prison Experiment_. The world cinema dramatic competition features Kidman in _Strangerland_, an Australian film about the disappearance of two teenagers in the desert, as well as Vincent Cassel in _Partisan_, about a father-son duo in which the son is a trained assassin. Meanwhile, the documentary competition features looks at the lives of peace activist Barry Crimmins (_Call Me Lucky_), of AIDS activist Larry Kramer (_Larry Kramer in Love and Anger_), and of restaurant critic Jonathan Gold (_City of Gold_). The full slate can be found [here](http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/us-world-and-next-films-announced-for-2015-festival "undefined"). Sundance is famous as a launching-pad for independent films: This year, _Obvious Child_, _The Skeleton Twins_, _Whiplash_, and _Love is Strange_, among others, all screened at the festival; past acquisitions from the fest have included Oscar-nominated films like _Beasts of the Southern Wild, Winter’s Bone_, and _Man on Wire._ While we’ll have to wait to see how the films are received, anyone looking for a breakout star at the 2015 festival could look no farther than Kristen Wiig, who’s had mixed success redefining herself as a seriocomic actress since _Bridesmaids._ Wiig’s two projects at the festival, the period tale _The Diary of a Teenage Girl_ and _Nasty Baby_, about a gay couple enlisting their female friend to have a child, both have promise that could evaporate into a puff of quirk, or could result in the sort of breakout Sundance has a history of enabling. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3617928/sundance-2015-slate-sarah-silverman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3617928/sundance-2015-slate-sarah-silverman/"},"headline":"Sundance 2015 Slate Features Sarah Silverman, Chris Pine and More","datePublished":"2014-12-04T16:04:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:34:29.160Z","description":"The Utah festival has announced its slate for next year","url":"https://time.com/3617928/sundance-2015-slate-sarah-silverman/","keywords":["movies","Sundance","Kristen Wiig","Sarah Silverman","Nicole Kidman"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d15fa7bf7a072b3/69876c95428a9e069ecc5cdf/ap829814820752.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9d15fa7bf7a072b3/69876c95428a9e069ecc5cdf/ap829814820752.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sarah Silverman","caption":"Sarah Silverman","creditText":"Richard Shotwell—Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3617928/sundance-2015-slate-sarah-silverman/","name":"Sundance 2015 Slate Features Sarah Silverman, Chris Pine and More"}}]}] ```