Sundance To Exhume The Ghost Of Jim Morrison One Last Time

The highlight of the upcoming Sundance Film Festival’s lineup is clearly that guy from The Office‘s take on Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, but there are a few films in the mix that have musical themes ranging from Afghani Idols to huge Canadian rock concerts in the late ’80s. Oh, and there’s some Jim Morrison content in there as well.

The World Cinema Documentary Competition features Afghan Star, which is about four contestants in the Afghani version of American Idol:

That competition will also feature Tibet in Song, which is about the Tibetan’s people attempt to hang on to their cultural identity, particularly through their music. Meanwhile, the World Cinema Dramatic Competition will include Lulu And Jimi, which pairs “bright garish colors, rock and roll and wild dance numbers” with a tale of two lovers escaping bigotry in 1950s Germany:

Also in that competition will be the Canadian film Victoria Day, which pairs a 16-year-old’s sexual awakening with a “rock concert of the century” that happened in the Great White North in 1988.

Of interest to probably nearly anyone but me is When You’re Strange, a documentary about the Doors from Living in Oblivion‘s Tom DiCillo that only uses footage shot between 1966 and 1971 to tell its story. While the movie’s already finished, I assume, may I pitch as an alternative a full-length version of the Kids in the Hall sketch about the Lizard King and his cronies?

Sundance Sets Slate: 64 Films To Compete In Park City [indieWIRE]