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Sundance Film Festival 2025 in the US Reveals Jury Members Across Competitions
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival, held in Park City, Utah, from January 23 to February 2, has announced its 16 jurors for competitions and 5 jurors for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. Notable n…
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The Alabama Solution and The Stringer Join 2025 Sundance Film Festival Program
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival in Utah has added two new documentaries, The Alabama Solution and The Stringer, bringing the total feature lineup to 88 films. The Festival runs January 23–February 2,…
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James Mangold and Cynthia Erivo to Be Honored at 2025 Sundance Film Festival Gala in Utah
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser in Utah will honor James Mangold with the Trailblazer Award and Cynthia Erivo with the Visionary Award. The event, presented by Google TV, raises fund…
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2025 Sundance Shorts Program Unveiled with 57 Films Across Genres and Countries
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival, held January 23–February 2 in Utah and online, will feature 57 short films from 28 countries in a Vimeo-sponsored program. These selections span genres, styles, and th…
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Sundance Film Festival Reveals 93 World Premieres for 2025 Edition in Utah
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival, held January 23–February 2 in Utah and online, will feature 87 feature-length films and six episodic projects from 33 countries, including 96% world premieres. Online…
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Michelle Satter to Be Honored at 2025 Sundance Film Festival Gala in Utah
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival Gala in Utah will honor Michelle Satter, a key figure in independent film, and present Vanguard Awards to filmmakers Sean Wang, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and Emily Kassie.…
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Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship 2025 Invites Global Filmmakers Aged 18–25
The 2025 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship is open to filmmakers aged 18–25 worldwide. Applicants must submit a one- to 15-minute short film by February 14, 2025, showcasing their artistic vision. Se…
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10 Filmmakers Selected for “One House Fund” Highlighting Underrepresented Talent with Support from East West Bank Foundation
The Sundance Institute and Gold House announced the second cohort of 10 filmmakers for the “One House Filmmakers Fund,” an initiative to support diverse storytellers, backed by the East West Bank Foun…
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Sundance Institute and Sandbox Fund Announce Grants for 15 Science-Driven Documentary Projects
The Sundance Institute | Sandbox Fund has selected 15 documentary projects to receive funding in 2024, expanding annual grants to $500,000 to foster nonfiction storytelling on science and culture. The…
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Sundance Institute Opens Applications for 2025 Artist Fellowships
Sundance Institute opens applications for its 2025 artist programs, including the Merata Mita Fellowship for Indigenous women, Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship for emerging filmmakers, Producers Tra…
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Animated Short Film Program

Flower Show

Elli Vuorinen

Flower Show The opening of an annual flower show sets the stage for this elusive, hand-drawn…

Inkwo for When the Starving Return

Amanda Strong

Inkwo for When the Starving Return Two lifetimes from now the world hangs in the balance. Dove, a young, enigmatic,…

Luz Diabla

Gervasio Canda and 2 co-directors

Luz Diabla Martin, a flamboyant urban raver, is involved in a strange car accident on his way to a…

Caries

Aline Höchli

Caries Eager to create a monumental work of art, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is…

Field Recording

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Quinne Larsen

Field Recording A meandering joke about three dreams.

As if the earth had swallowed them

Natalia León

As if the earth had swallowed them Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of…

Paradise Man (ii)

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Jordan Michael Blake

Paradise Man (ii)Paradise Man searches for meaning in an unknowable universe.

Hurikán

Jan Saska

Hurikán Hurikán rushes out to save his favourite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to…

Documentary Short Film Program

Death Education

Yuxuan Ethan Wu

Death Education In China, a high school teacher has introduced a death education class for young…

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Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver

Hold Me Close A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana,…

Tiger

Loren Waters

Tiger A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana…

Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune

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Dominic Yarabe

Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune An Ivorian father and daughter attempt to complete his unfinished book about his…

View From the Floor

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Megan Griffiths, Mindie Lind

View From the Floor A singer confronts inspiration porn, exploitation, and impostor syndrome in pursuit of a…

Deadlock

Lucien Beucher, Mahdi Boucif

Deadlock Overlooking the sea, two young men contemplate what is beyond the horizon as their…

The Reality of Hope

Joe Hunting

The Reality of Hope Virtual reality creator Hiyu is facing kidney failure. His online friend Photographotter…

Episodic

Bucks County, USA

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Robert May, Barry Levinson

Bucks County, USA Evi and Vanessa, two 14-year-olds living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, are best friends…

Bulldozer

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Andrew Leeds

Bulldozer An under-medicated, chronically impassioned young woman lurches from crisis to crisis of…

Chasers

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Erin Brown Thomas

Chasers At an LA house party, an aspiring musician pursues her crush through a crowd of hopeful…

Episodic Pilot Showcase

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Erin Brown Thomas and 2 co-directors

Episodic Pilot Showcase Featuring a mix of fiction and nonfiction, our Episodic Pilot Showcase lets viewers…

Hal & Harper

Cooper Raiff

Hal & Harper Two siblings try to preserve their childhood even though their single father forces them…

Never Get Busted!

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David Anthony Ngo

Never Get Busted!Barry Cooper was a highly decorated Texas narcotics officer — until he turned on the…

Pee-wee as Himself

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Matt Wolf

Pee-wee as Himself A chronicle of the life of artist and performer Paul Reubens and his alter ego Pee-wee…

Family Matinee

The Legend of Ochi

Isaiah Saxon

The Legend of Ochi In a remote northern village, a young girl, Yuri, is raised to never go outside after…

From the Collection

Unzipped

Douglas Keeve

Unzipped One of the most successful designers in high fashion plans his fall 1994 collection.…

Midnight

Dead Lover

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Grace Glowicki

Dead Lover A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their…

Didn’t Die

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Meera Menon

Didn’t Die As the zombie apocalypse unfolds, a podcast host struggles to maintain their dwindling…

Opus

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Mark Anthony Green

Opus A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously…

Rabbit Trap

Bryn Chainey

Rabbit Trap When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make…

The Ugly Stepsister

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Emilie Blichfeldt

The Ugly Stepsister In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with…

Together

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Michael Shanks

Together A couple's move to the countryside triggers a supernatural incident that drastically…

Touch Me

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Addison Heimann

Touch Me Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien…

Midnight Short Film Program

The Things We Keep

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Joanna Fernandez

The Things We Keep Forced into a caretaker position, Kate comes home to pack up her estranged mother’s…

Bunnyhood

Mansi Maheshwari

Bunnyhood Mum would never lie to me, would she? Innocent Bobby discovers the answer to this…

Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting

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Alexander Thompson

Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting In the Depression-ravaged countryside of 1930s America, adolescent girls are expected to…

Swollen

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Roxy Sophie Sorkin

Swollen Roxy and Lily survive the night after botched plastic surgery.

Jesus 2

Jesse Moynihan

Jesus 2 In a future where no one can die and no one wants to live anymore, two space pirate…

Platanero

Juan Frank Hernandez

Platanero Two Haitian brothers in a Dominican shantytown risk stealing from a plantation guarded by…

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BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Kahlil Joseph

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The…

By Design

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Amanda Kramer

By Design A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.

East of Wall

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Kate Beecroft

East of Wall After the death of her husband, Tabatha — a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer —…

OBEX

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Albert Birney

OBEX Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing…

Rains Over Babel

Gala del Sol

Rains Over Babel In a retro-futuristic, tropical-punk twist on Dante’s Inferno, a group of misfits…

Serious People

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Pasqual Gutierrez, Ben Mullinkosson

Serious People A successful music video director and expectant father pushes his work/life balance to…

Zodiac Killer Project

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Charlie Shackleton

Zodiac Killer Project Against the backdrop of deserted spaces, a filmmaker explores his abandoned Zodiac Killer…

Premieres

All That’s Left of You

Enigma

Come See Me in the Good Light

Deaf President Now!

Folktales

Free Leonard Peltier

Heightened Scrutiny

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley

Short Film Program

Debaters

Hoops, Hopes & Dreams

Unholy

A Round of Applause for Death

Sweetheart

Susana

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

Out for Delivery

The Eating of an Orange

Spotlight

April

Dea Kulumbegashvili

April A powerful convergence of existence and womanhood, April is the timely second feature of…

One to One: John & Yoko

Kevin Macdonald

One to One: John & Yoko Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent…

U.S. Documentary Competition

André is an Idiot

Life After

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

Predators

Seeds

Selena y Los Dinos

Speak.

Sugar Babies

The Perfect Neighbor

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Atropia

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Hailey Gates

Atropia Follows an aspiring actress working on a U.S. military base that simulates an Iraqi war…

Bubble & Squeak

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Evan Twohy

Bubble & Squeak Accused of smuggling cabbages into a nation where cabbages are banned, Declan and Delores…

Bunnylovr

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Katarina Zhu

Bunnylovr A cam girl navigates a toxic client relationship while reconnecting with her estranged,…

Love, Brooklyn

Rachael Abigail Holder

Love, Brooklyn Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the…

Omaha

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Stephen Cole Webley

Omaha After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are woken up by their dad and taken on…

Plainclothes

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Carmen Emmi

Plainclothes A promising undercover agent assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies professional…

Also screened

¡PIKA!

1981

Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

Agnes

Agnes

Agnes

Albatross

All About the Money

American Doctor