Since 1981, January in Park City, Utah has meant that the ski town transforms into a hub for filmmakers and film-lovers from all over the globe. Started by actor Robert Redford and named after his titular role in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Sundance Film Festival is one of the most renowned film festivals in the world, and perhaps the most well-known out of the major festivals based in the United States. Films screened and bought at Sundance often go on to become immensely critically acclaimed and commercially successful — some of last year’s selection includes “Dìdi,” “I Saw the TV Glow,” “A Real Pain,” and “Hit Man.”
This year’s festival selection includes over 85 feature films and six episodic projects. A selection of the lineup is below — the full programming and in-depth descriptions are available to read online.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Fiction films from American filmmakers.
• “Atropia” — dir. by Hailey Gates
• “Bubble & Squeak” — dir. by Evan Twohy
• “Bunnylovr” — dir. by Katarina Zhu
• “Love, Brooklyn” — dir. by Rachael Abigail Holder
• “Omaha” — dir. by Cole Webley
• “Plainclothes” — dir. by Carmen Emmi
• “Ricky” — dir. by Rashad Frett
• “Sorry, Baby” — dir. by Eva Victor
• “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)” — dir. by Sierra Falconer
• “Twinless” — dir. by James Sweeney
U.S. Documentary Competition
Documentary films from American filmmakers or covering American stories.
• “Andre is an Idiot” — dir. by Anthony Benna
• “Life After” — dir. by Reid Davenport
• “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore” — dir. by Shoshannah Stern
• “The Perfect Neighbor” — dir. by Geeta Gandbhir
• “Predators” — dir. by David Osit
• “Seeds” — dir. by Brittany Shyne
• “Selena y Los Dinos” — dir. by Isabel Castro
• “Speak.” — dir. by Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman
• “Sugar Babies” — dir. by Rachel Fleit
• “Third Act” — dir. by Tadashi Nakamura
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
International fiction films.
• “Brides” (U.K.) — dir. by Nadia Fall
• “DJ Ahmet” (North Macedonia/Czech Republic/Serbia/Croatia) — dir. by Georgi M. Unkovski
• “LUZ” (Hong Kong/China) — dir. by Flora Lau
• “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)” (India/United Kingdom/Canada) — dir. by (Rohan Parashuram Kanawade)
• “Sauna” (Denmark) — dir. by Mathias Broe
• “Sukkwan Island” (France) — dir. by Vladimir de Fontenay
• “The Things You Kill” (Turkey/France/Poland/Canada) — dir. by Alireza Khatami
• “Two Women” (Canada) — dir. by Chloé Robichaud
• “The Virgin of Quarry Lake” (Argentina/Spain/Mexico) — dir. by Laura Casabé
• “Where the Wind Comes From” (Tunisia/France/Qatar) — dir. by Amel Guellaty
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Nonfiction films covering international topics.
• “2000 Meters to Andriivka” (Ukraine) — dir. by Mstyslav Chernov
• “Coexistence, My Ass!” (United States/France) — dir. by Amber Fares
• “Cutting Through Rocks” (Iran/Germany/United States/Netherlands/ Qatar/Chile/Canada) — dir. by Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
• “The Dating Game” (United States/United Kingdom/Norway) — dir. by Violet Du Feng
• “Endless Cookie” (Canada) — dir. by Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver
• “GEN_” (France/Italy/Switzerland) — dir. by Gianluca Matarrese
• “How to Build a Library” (Kenya) — dir. by Maia Lekow, Christopher King
• “Khartoum” (Sudan/United Kingdom/Germany/Qatar) — dir. by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox
• “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” (Denmark/Czech Republic) — dir. by David Borenstein
• “Prime Minister” (United States) — dir. by Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz
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Films from US-based filmmakers that are “pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling.”
• “BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions” — dir. by Kahlil Joseph
• “By Design” — dir. by Amanda Kramer
• “East of Wall” — dir. by Kate Beecroft
• “Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)” — dir. by Joel Alfonso Varga
• “OBEX” — dir. by Albert Birney
• “Rains Over Babel” — dir. by Gala del Sol
• “Serious People” — dir. by Pasqual Gutierrez, Ben Mullinkosson
• “Zodiac Killer Project” — dir. by Charlie Shackleton
Premieres
Films by directors from all over the world, premiering publicly for the first time.
• “All That’s Left of You” — dir. by Cherien Dabis
• “April & Amanda” — dir. by Zackary Drucker
• “The Ballad of Wallis Island” — dir. by James Griffiths
• “Come See Me in the Good Light” — dir. by Ryan White
• “Deaf President Now!” — dir. by Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim
• “FOLKTALES” — dir. by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
• “Free Leonard Peltier” — dir. by Jesse Short Bull, David France
• “Heightened Scrutiny” — dir. by Sam Feder
• “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” — dir. by Mary Bronstein
• “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” — dir. by Amy Berg
• “Jimpa” — dir. by Sophie Hyde
• “Kiss of the Spider Woman” — dir. by Bill Condon
• “Last Days” — dir. by Justin Lin
• “Lurker” — dir. by Alex Russell
• “The Librarians” — dir. by Kim A. Snyder
• “Magic Farm” — dir. by Amalia Ulman
• “Middletown” — dir. by Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine
• “Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” — dir. by Elegance Bratton
• “Oh, Hi!” — dir. by Sophie Brooks
• “Peter Hujar’s Day” — dir. by Ira Sachs
• “Rebuilding” — dir. by Max Walker-Silverman
• “SALLY” — dir. by Cristina Costantini
• “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” — dir. by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
• “The Thing with Feathers” — dir. by Dylan Southern
• “Train Dreams” — dir. by Clint Bentley
• “The Wedding Banquet” — dir. by Andrew Ahn
Midnight
Genre films, particularly thrillers and horror movies, for late-night audiences.
• “Dead Lover” — dir. by Grace Glowicki
• “Didn’t Die” — dir. by Meera Menon
• “Opus” — dir. by Mark Anthony Green
• “Rabbit Trap” — dir. by Bryn Chainey
• “Together” — dir. by Michael Shanks
• “Touch” — dir. by Addison Heimann
• “The Ugly Stepsister” — dir. by Emilie Blichfeldt
In the months leading up to and following this year’s festival, cinephiles and general audiences alike can look forward to reactions from critics and the film community at large about these films and more. The 2025 Sundance Film Festival will take place in person in Utah from January 23 - February 2, with select screenings available online.