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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jenny Slate reunites with her "Obvious Child" director in in the 90s-set "Landline," Sam Elliott plays a stoner Western film icon in "The Hero," Aubrey Plaza gets serious in "Ingrid Goes West" and Jennifer Aniston teams up with the future Han Solo Alden Ehrenreich in the Gulf War drama "The Yellow Birds" in some of the films in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. At the 2017 Festival, Lily Collins stars in the anorexia drama "To the Bone" from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" writer Marti Noxon, Jason Schwartzman reteams with his "Listen Up Philip" director Alex Ross Perry in "Golden Exits" and "Moonlight" breakout Trevante Rhodes stars alongside Alfre Woodward in "Burning Sands," about violent fraternity hazing. "From the passion and chaos of creativity, independent filmmakers make decisions to harness that energy, break new ground and tell their stories," Redford said in a statement.