Mud
The second Sundance London festival is heading our way at the end of the month with another exciting programme of movies.
The festival brings together feature films, documentaries and shorts from all over the world and we take a look at a handful of films that you should watch out for.
Mud - directed by Jeff Nichols.
Mud is set to hit the big screen next month and the film will get it's UK premiere at the festival.
This is the first directorial outing for Nichols since the terrific Take Shelter and he has also penned the screenplay.
The movie has already been screen at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Sundance and now UK audiences are going to enjoy this coming of age story.
Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi.
The boys agree to help him to evade the bounty hunters on his trail so he can reunite with his true love.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepard, Michael Shannon, Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland.
A.C.O.D. - directed by Stuart Zicherman
Stuart Zicherman has made a names for himself as a producer and a writer at the start of his career and A.C.O.D. marks his directorial debut.
Zicherman has teamed up with Ben Karlin to pen the comedy that brings together a terrific cast that balances dramatic talent with comic ability.
Carter is a well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce. So he thinks. When he discovers he was part of a divorce study as a child, it wreaks havoc on his family and forces him to face his chaotic past.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Adam Scott, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jane Lynch, Amy Poehler, Richard Jenkins.
In a World - director Lake Bell
Actress Lake Bell is back known for her roles in the likes of How to Make It in America, Boston Legal as well as movies What Happens In Vegas.
But now she is moving behind the camera for the very first time as feature length directorial debut In a World...
As well as directing the film Bell has also penned the screenplay and will lead the cast.
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star.
Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
Starring: Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Demetri Martin, Michaela Watkins.
Upstream Colour - director Shane Carruth
Upstream Colour has already been whipping up a storm on the festival circuit and the film will receive it's UK premiere at the festival.
The movie is the first directorial outing for Carruth since Primer back in 2004 - he has also penned the screenplay and set to star in the film.
Upstream Colour is a romance movie come sci-fi film and it picked up the Special Jury Award for Sound Design at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year.
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism.
Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Starring: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins
Running From Crazy - director Barbara Kopple
One of the documentaries to watch out for at the festival comes in the form of Running From Crazy - the latest project from Barbara Kopple.
Kopple has been behind Woodstock: Now & Then and a Force of nature in recent years but this movie follows actress Mariel Hemingway - granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway - as she strives for a greater understanding of her family history of suicide and mental illness.
As tragedies are explored and deeply hidden secrets are revealed, Mariel searches for a way to overcome a similar fate.
The Summit - director Nick Ryan
The Summit is another documentary to watch out for as Nicky Ryan makes his feature length directorial debut.
The movie has already been a hit on the festival circuit and picked up the Editing Award: U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
Twenty-four climbers converged at the last stop before summiting the most dangerous mountain on Earth.
Forty-eight hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished. Had one, Ger McDonnell, stuck to the climbers' code, he might still be alive.
The Sundance London film and music festival 2013 run 25-28 April.