This year’s Sundance Film Festival promises a somewhat elegiac atmosphere. For starters, this is the last time the festival will take place in snowy Park City, Utah, its home since 1981. (Next year, Sundance will take up residence in similarly snowy Boulder, Colorado.) Adding to the mournful vibe is the still fresh loss of Robert Redford, the festival’s founder and presiding spirit, who died in September. Another devastating loss came with the passing of Tammie Rosen, Sundance’s dedicated Chief Communications Officer, who died in December after a lengthy battle with cancer. Amid these many lamentations, it’s heartening to see that […]
by Natalia Keogan on Jan 22, 2026
The Sundance Institute announced today 90 feature films, including the competition titles, and seven episodic projects that will screen at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, the final edition to be held in Park City, UT. (Eight other projects were previously announced as part of the Park City Legacy program.) Among them are new films from John Wilson, Josephine Decker, Kogonada, Gregg Araki, Alex Gibney and Antoine Fuqua; three films featuring Charli xcx (Araki’s I Want Your Sex, Aidan Zamiri’s A24 release, The Moment, and Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist), and, as always, a number of first-time features, including films from Ramzi […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 10, 2025