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 Sundance Film Festival 2022 brings in renewed hopes for movies, both that challenge and comfort The best thing about Sundance Film Festival is that I do not have to choose. The 2022 line-up includes movies that reflect the miserable realities of contemporary life or movies that conjure alternative realities. There was a time not so long ago when the Sundance Film Festival was in danger of being overwhelmed by swag, hype, and other extra-cinematic preoccupations. One year, if I remember right, there were stickers all over its Park City, Utah, home reminding those of us in attendance to “focus on films” rather than parties, celebrity sightings, industry buzz, and tabloid gossip. That is not much of a problem now. For the second year in a row, Sundance is not in Park City at all. Instead of traipsing up and down Main Street or piling into shuttle buses, the audience is exactly where it has been for most of the past two years: at home, in front of a screen, scrolling through a menu in sea