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49th Sundance Film Festival 22 JANUARY - 1 FEBRUARY 2026 in Park City, Utah
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U. S. D R A M A T I CGrand Jury Prize: JOSEPHINE Audience Award: JOSEPHINE Directing: Josef Kubota Wladyka (HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!) Screenwriting: Liz Sargent (TAKE ME HOME) Ensemble: THE FRIEND'S HOUSE IS HERE Debut Feature: Stephanie Ahn (BEDFORD PARK) W O R L D C I N E M A D R A M A Grand Jury Prize: SHAME AND MONEY Audience Award: HOLD ONTO ME Writing: Andrius Blazevicius (HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR) Ensemble: LADY Creative Vision: FILIPINANA N E X T Audience Award: AANIKOOBIJIGAN Innovator: THE INCOMER Creative Expression: THEYDREAM |
U. S. D O C U M E N T A R YGrand Jury Prize: NUISANCE BEAR Audience Award: AMERICAN PACHUCO: THE LEGEND OF LUIS VALDEZ Directing: JM Harper (SOUL PATROL) Editing: Matt Hixon (BARBARA FOREVER) Journalistic Excellence: WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH? Impact for Change: THE LAKE W O R L D C I N E M A D O C Grand Jury Prize: TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN Audience Award: ONE IN A MILLION Directing: Itab Azzam & Jack MacInnes (ONE IN A MILLION) Journalistic Impact: BIRDS OF WAR Civil Resistance: EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET S U N D A N C E I N S T I T U T E NHK Award: Leo Aguirre (VERANO) Nonfiction: Dawne Langford (WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH?) Alfred P Sloan Prize: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE | ||
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AANIKOOBIJIGAN (Khalil/Khalil, Den)THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST (Roher/Tyrell, US) ALL ABOUT THE MONEY (O'Shea, Ire) AMERICAN DOCTOR (Teng, Pal) AMERICAN PACHUCO: THE LEGEND OF LUIS VALDEZ (Alvarado, US) ANTIHEROINE (Lovelace/Hall, UK) BAIT (Tariq, UK) BARBARA FOREVER (O'Connor, US) BEDFORD PARK (Ahn, US) THE BEST SUMMER (Davis, Aus) BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY (Schneideman, NZ) BIRDS OF WAR (Boulos/Habak, Syr) THE BRITTNEY GRINER STORY (Stapleton, US) BUDDY (Kelly, US) BURN (Nagahisa, Jpn) CAROUSEL (Lambert, US) CHASING SUMMER (Decker, US) CLOSURE (Marczak, Pol) COOKIE QUEENS (Nahmias, US) THE DISCIPLE (Natasegara, UK) * EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET (Sierra, UK) EXTRA GEOGRAPHY (Manners, UK) FILIPINANA (Manuel, Sin) FING! (Walker, UK) FRANK & LOUIS (Volpe, Swi) FREELANCE (Turner, US) THE FRIEND'S HOUSE IS HERE (Keshavarz/Ataei, Irn) GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS (Wain, US) THE GALLERIST (Yan, US) GHOST IN THE MACHINE (Veatch, US) GIVE ME THE BALL! (Garbus/Wolff, US) HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! (Wladyka, US) HANGING BY A WIRE (Naqvi, Pak) THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE (Wilson, US) HOLD ONTO ME (Aristidou, Cyp) HOT WATER (Bashour, US) HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR (Blazevicius, Lit) THE HUNTRESS (Correa, Mex) I WANT YOUR SEX (Araki, US) IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME (Thompson-Hernandez, US) IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE (Stanton, US) THE INCOMER (Paxton, UK) THE INVITE (Wilde, US) JANE ELLIOTT AGAINST THE WORLD (Ehrlich, US) JARIPEO (Mojica,/Zweig, Mex) JOSEPHINE (de Araujo, US) JOYBUBBLES (Morrison, US) KIKUYU LAND (Brown/Wangondu, Ken) |
KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE (Gibney, US)LADY (Nwosu, Ngr) THE LAKE (Ellis, US) THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2 (Bar-Lev, UK) LEVITATING (Bhanuteja, Ina) LEVITICUS (Chiarella, Aus) THE MOMENT (Zamiri, US) MUM, I'M ALIEN PREGNANT (Thunderlips, NZ) MURDER 101 (Lee, US) THE MUSICAL (Bonilla, US) NIGHT NURSE (Bernstein, US) NUISANCE BEAR (Vanden/Weisman, US) THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Green, US) THE OLIGARCH AND THE ART DEALER (Dalsgaard, Den) ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM (Greaves/Greaves, US) ONE IN A MILLION (Azzam/MacInnes, UK) THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK (Segan, US) PARALYZED BY HOPE: THE MARIA BAMFORD STORY (Apatow/Berkeley, US) PUBLIC ACCESS (Smith, US) QUEEN OF CHESS (Kennedy, US) ROCK SPRINGS (Miao, US) RUN AMOK (Mager, US) SACCHARINE (James, Aus) THE SCREENER (Cummings/McCabe, US) SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU (Duplass, US) SEIZED (Liese, US) SENTIENT (Jones, Aus) SHAME AND MONEY (Morina, Kos) THE SHITHEADS (Blair, US) SILENCED (Miles, Aus) SOFT BOIL (US) SOUL PATROL (Harper, US) TAKE ME HOME (Sargent, US) TELL ME EVERYTHING (Rosenthalm, Isr) THEYDREAM (David Caballero, US) TIME AND WATER (Dosa, US) TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN (Tutorov/Glomazic, Ser) TROUBLEMAKER: THE STORY BEHIND THE MANDELA TAPES (Fuqua, SA) UNDERTONE (Tuason, Can) UNION COUNTY (Meeks, US) THE WEIGHT (McKinley, US) WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS (Porter, US) WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH? (Osder/Youmans, US) WICKER (Wilson/Fischer, US) WORRIED (US) ZI (Kogonada, US) | ||
48th Sundance Film Festival 23 JANUARY - 2 FEBRUARY 2025 in Park City, Utah
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U. S. D R A M A T I CGrand Jury Prize: ATROPIA Audience Award: TWINLESS Directing: Rashad Frett (RICKY) Screenwriting: Eva Victor (SORRY, BABY) Acting: Dylan O'Brien (TWINLESS) Ensemble: PLAINCLOTHES W O R L D C I N E M A D R A M A Grand Jury Prize: CACTUS PEARS Audience Award: DJ AHMET Writing: Chloe Robichaud & Catherine Leger (TWO WOMEN) Creative Vision: Georgi M Unkovski (DJ AHMET) N E X T Audience Award: EAST OF WALL Innovator: ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT Ensemble: MAD BILLS TO PAY Festival Favorite Award: COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT Alfred P Sloan Prize: SALLY |
U. S. D O C U M E N T A R YGrand Jury Prize: SEEDS Audience Award: ANDRE IS AN IDIOT Directing: Geeta Gandbhir (THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR) Editing: Parker Laramie (ANDRE IS AN IDIOT) Archival Storytelling: SELENA Y LOS DINOS Jury Award: LIFE AFTER W O R L D C I N E M A D O C Grand Jury Prize: CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS Audience Award: PRIME MINISTER Directing: Mstyslav Chernov (2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA) Freedom of Expression: COEXISTENCE, MY ASS Just Award: MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN S U N D A N C E I N S T I T U T E NHK Award: Lloyd Lee Choi (YAKULT AJUMMA) Nonfiction: Danielle Varga (SEEDS) Fiction: Joe Pirro (THE WEDDING BANQUET) | ||
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2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA (Chernov, Ukr)THE ALABAMA SOLUTION 
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF YOU (Dabis, Pal)ANDRE IS AN IDIOT
APRIL (Kulumbegashvili, Geo)ATROPIA
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND (Griffiths, UK)
BRIDES (Fall, UK)BUBBLE & SQUEAK BUCKS COUNTY, USA BULLDOZER BUNNYLOVR BY DESIGN
CACTUS PEARS (Kanawade, Ind)CHASERS COEXISTENCE, MY ASS!
COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT (White, US)CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS THE DATING GAME DEAD LOVER DEAF PRESIDENT NOW! DIDN'T DIE DJ AHMET EAST OF WALL ENDLESS COOKIE ENIGMA
FOLKTALES (Ewing/Grady, Nor)FREE LEONARD PELTIER GEN_ HAL & HARPER HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY HOW TO BUILD A LIBRARY
IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU (Bronstein, US)IT'S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY
JIMPA (Hyde, Aus)KHARTOUM
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (Condon, US)LAST DAYS THE LEGEND OF OCHI
THE LIBRARIANS (Snyder, US)LIFE AFTER LOVE, BROOKLYN
LURKER (Russell, US)LUZ MAD BILLS TO PAY |
MAGIC FARMMARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE MIDDLETOWN MOVE YA BODY: THE BIRTH OF HOUSE
MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN (Borenstein, Den)NEVER GET BUSTED! OBEX
OH, HI (Brooks, US)OMAHA
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (Macdonald, UK)
OPUS (Green, US)PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF
THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR (Gandbhir, US)
PETER HUJAR'S DAY (Sachs, US)
PLAINCLOTHES (Emmi, US)PREDATORS PRIME MINISTER RABBIT TRAP RAINS OVER BABEL
REBUILDING (Walker-Silverman, US)RICKY SALLY
SAUNA (Broe, Den)SEEDS SELENA Y LOS DINOS SLY LIVES!
SORRY, BABY (Victor, US)SPEAK THE STRINGER SUGAR BABIES SUKKWAN ISLAND SUNFISH & OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE TEST YOUR TECH
THE THING WITH FEATHERS (Southern, UK)THE THINGS YOU KILL THE VIRGIN OF THE QUARRY LAKE THIRD ACT
TOGETHER (Shanks, Aus)TOUCH ME
TRAIN DREAMS (Bentley, US)
TWINLESS (Sweeney, US)
THE UGLY STEPSISTER (Blichfeldt, Nor)TWO WOMEN
THE WEDDING BANQUET (Ahn, US)WHERE THE WIND COMES FROM
ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT (Shackleton, US) | ||
47th Sundance Film Festival 18 - 28 JANUARY 2024 in Park City, Utah
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2 0 2 4 A W A R D S . . .• US Dramatic: IN THE SUMMERS Audience Award: DIDI • World Cinema Dramatic: SUJO Audience Award: GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS • US Doc: PORCELAIN WAR Audience Award: DAUGHTERS • World Cinema Doc: A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS Audience Award: IBELIN • NEXT: DESIRE LINES Audience Award: KNEECAP • Festival Favorite Award: DAUGHTERS
AMA GLORIA (Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Fr)
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES (Libii, US)
BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Silver, US)BLACK BOX DIARIES
BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY (Jin, Chn)DAUGHTERS
DESIRE LINES (Rosskam, US)
DIDI (Wang, US)
A DIFFERENT MAN (Schimberg, US)ENO
FREAKY TALES (Boden/Fleck, US)GAUCHO GAUCHO GHOSTLIGHT
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS (Talati, Ind)
GOOD ONE (Donaldson, US)THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP
HANDLING THE UNDEAD (Hvistendahl, Nor)
HIT MAN (Linklater, US)
HOW TO HAVE SEX (Walker, UK) |
I SAW THE TV GLOW (Schoenbrun, US)IBELIN IN A VIOLENT NATURE IN THE SUMMERS
KNEECAP (Peppiatt, Ire)
LAYLA (Al-Kadhi, UK)LOOK INTO MY EYES
LOVE LIES BLEEDING (Glass, US)LOVE ME
LUTHER: NEVER TOO MUCH (Porter, US)
MY OLD ASS (Park, US)
NEVER LOOK AWAY (Lawless, NZ)NOCTURNES
THE OUTRUN (Fingscheidt, UK)
PONYBOI (Arango, US)
PRESENCE (Soderbergh, US)
A REAL PAIN (Eisenberg, US)REINAS
ROB PEACE (Ejiofor, US)
SASQUATCH SUNSET (Zellner/Zellner, US)
SEBASTIAN (Makela, UK)SEEKING MAVIS BEACON SKYWALKERS: A LOVE STORY SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT
SUGARCANE (NoiseCat/Kassie, Can)
SUPER/MAN: THE CHRISTOPHER REEVE STORY (Bonhote/Ettedgui, UK)
THELMA (Margolin, US)UNION
WILL & HARPER (Greenbaum, US)
YOUR MONSTER (Lindy, US) | ||
46th Sundance Film Festival 19 - 29 JANUARY 2023 in Park City, Utah
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2 0 2 3 A W A R D S . . .• US Dramatic: A THOUSAND AND ONE Audience Award: THE PERSIAN VERSION • World Cinema Dramatic: SCRAPPER Audience Award: SHAYDA • US Doc: GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT Audience Award: BEYOND UTOPIA • World Cinema Doc: THE ETERNAL MEMORY Audience Award: 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL • Festival Favorite Award: RADICAL
20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (Chernov, Ukr)ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT
THE AMAZING MAURICE (Genkel, UK)
BAD BEHAVIOUR (Englert, NZ)
BEYOND UTOPIA (Gavin, US)
CASSANDRO (Williams, Mex)
CAT PERSON (Fogel, US)THE DEEPEST BREATH EARTH MAMA
THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS (van Groeningen/Vandermeersch, It)
EILEEN (Oldroyd, US)
THE ETERNAL MEMORY (Alberdi, Chl)
FLORA AND SON (Carney, Ire)
FREMONT (Jalali, US)
L'IMMENSITA (Crialese, It)
INFINITY POOL (Cronenberg, Can)
JOYLAND (Sadiq, Pak) |
KOKOMO CITY (Smith, US)
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING (Cortes, US)
MAGAZINE DREAMS (Bynum, US)MAMI WATA
MUTT (Lungulov-Klotz, US)
NAVALNY (Roher, US)
OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN (Zlotowski, Fr)
PASSAGES (Sachs, Fr)
PAST LIVES (Song, US)THE PERSIAN VERSION
POLITE SOCIETY (Manzoor, UK)
PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS
RADICAL (Zalla, Mex)
ROTTING IN THE SUN (Silva, Mex)
RYE LANE (Allen-Miller, UK)
SCRAPPER (Regan, UK)
SHAYDA (Niasari, Aus)
SHORTCOMINGS (Park, US)
SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD (Hints, Est)
SORCERY (Murray, Chl)
SQUARING THE CIRCLE: THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS (Corbijn, UK)
STILL: A MICHAEL J FOX MOVIE (Guggenheim, US)
THE STROLL (Lovell/Drucker, US)
TALK TO ME (Philippou/Philippou, Aus)
THEATER CAMP (Gordon/Lieberman, US)
A THOUSAND AND ONE (Stockwell, US)
YOU HURT MY FEELINGS (Holofcener, US)* review coming | ||
Sundance Film Festival: London | |||
 11th Sundance Film Festival: London 6-9 JUNE 2024 at Picturehouse Central Opening Film: KNEECAP Closing Film: DIDI Surprise Film: KINDS OF KINDNESS Audience Award: YOUR MONSTER Note: Sundance London was not held in 2025 | 2 0 2 4 F I L M S | ||
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DIDI (Wang, US)
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS (Talati, Ind)
HANDLING THE UNDEAD (Hvistendahl, Nor)
I SAW THE TV GLOW (Schoenbrun, US)
KINDS OF KINDNESS (Lanthimos, UK)
KNEECAP (Peppiatt, Ire)
MY OLD ASS (Park, US) |
NEVER LOOK AWAY (Lawless, NZ)
ROB PEACE (Ejiofor, US)
SASQUATCH SUNSET (Zellner/Zellner, US)SKYWALKERS: A LOVE STORY (Zimbalist, US)
YOUR MONSTER (Lindy, US) | 2 0 2 3 F I L M S | |
Audience Award: PAST LIVESFAIRYLAND (Durham, US) FANTASTIC MACHINE (Danielson/Van Aertryck, Swe) GOING VARSITY IN MARIACHI (Vasquez/Osborn, US) INVISIBLE BEAUTY (Hardison/Tcheng, US)
MUTT (Lungulov-Klotz, US) |
PAST LIVES (Song, US)
PASSAGES (Sachs, US)
RYE LANE (Allen-Miller, UK)
SCRAPPER (Regan, UK)
SQUARING THE CIRCLE: THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS (Corbijn, UK)
TALK TO ME (Philippou/Philippou, Aus)
THEATER CAMP (Gordon/Lieberman, US)
YOU HURT MY FEELINGS (Holofcener, US) | 2 0 2 2 F I L M S | |
BODIES BODIES BODIES (Reijn, US)
BRIAN AND CHARLES (Archer, UK)
FIRE OF LOVE (Dosa, Can)
FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Ha/Yi, US)
GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE (Hyde, UK)
HATCHING (Bergholm, Fin) |
HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL. (Ebo, US)A LOVE SONG (Walker-Silverman, US)
THE PRINCESS (Perkins, UK)
RESURRECTION (Semans, UK)
SHARP STICK (Dunham, US)
WATCHER (Okuno, US)
WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY (Hunting, UK) | 2 0 2 1 F I L M S | |
THE BLAZING WORLD (Young, US)
CENSOR (Baily-Bond, UK)
CODA (Heder, US)
CRYPTOZOO (Shaw, US)
FIRST DATE (Crosby/Knapp, US)
HERSELF (Lloyd, Ire) - Surprise Film
HUMAN FACTORS (Trocker, Ger)IN THE SAME BREATH (Wang, US)
MISHA AND THE WOLVES (Hobkinson, UK) |
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (Lindstrom/Petri, Swe)
THE NEST (Durkin, UK)
PLEASURE (Thyberg, Swe)
THE SPARKS BROTHERS (Wright, UK)
TOGETHER TOGETHER (Beckwith, US)
WRITING WITH FIRE (Thomas/Ghosh, Ind)
ZOLA (Bravo, US)
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