Here Are Our Editors' Picks From the 2023 Sundance Film Festival

"A coming-of-age tale and the complicated bond between a father and daughter collide in 'Fairyland.' Directed by Andrew Durham, the 1970s-set film based on Alysia Abbott's 2013 memoir follows Nessa Doughterty's Alysia and her father, Steve (Scoot McNairy), to San Francisco after her mother dies in a car crash. While Steve tries to find himself in San Francisco's gay scene amid the AIDS epidemic, Alysia wrestles with having too much independence and a distant parent. The heart of 'Fairyland' focuses on this single father-lost daughter narrative while also speaking truth to the AIDS crisis and its impact on the community that helped raise Alysia." — Njera Perkins, associate editor, celebrity and entertainment