FILMS by Spike Lee and Werner Herzog will be among those premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

    Lee’s film revisits Michael Jackson’s life story in “Journey from Motown to Off the Wall,” while Herzog has made a documentary about online culture.

    Festival organizers announced the dramatic and documentary premieres days after revealing the competition titles. Kristen Stewart, Anna Kendrick and Danny DeVito are among the actors in the festival’s line-up.

    The festival kicks off Jan. 21 in Park City, Utah.

    Stewart appears in “Certain Women,” alongside Laura Dern and Michelle Williams, who also stars in “Manchester by the Sea” with Casey Affleck.

    Kendrick stars in “The Hollars,” about an aspiring New York City artist who returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery, while DeVito appears in the whimsical “Wiener-Dog.”

    (SD-Agencies) Beatles’ Indian retreat opened to publicAN abandoned spiritual retreat in the Indian town of Rishikesh where The Beatles learned to meditate has been opened to the public.

    The Beatles spent time at the 18-acre ashram, meditating and writing songs in 1968. Many of the songs made it onto the band’s iconic White Album. The ashram was run by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a flamboyant self-styled Indian guru, who died in 2008. It was abandoned by the guru and his followers in the 1970s.

    But the retreat remained a big draw for Beatles fans from all over the world. Authorities opened the ashram to visitors Tuesday, and are charging Indian and foreign tourists 150 (US$2.24) and 700 rupees respectively.

    (SD-Agencies)