2025 Sundance Film Festival Lineup Announced: See the Full List of Movies
The Sundance Film Festival is considering a big move for 2027, but the 2025 feature film and episodic programs find the Robert Redford founded gathering very much in its traditional wheelhouse with a mix of big-name projects, politics, and what might just be the next big thing.
Politics, as well, are de rigueur in the ski slopes of Park City in late January with such titles as the Kim A. Snyder directed ITV doc, The Librarians, about librarians’ crusade to fend off book banning in Texas and Florida, as well as David Borenstein’s Mr. Nobody Against Putin which follows a Russian school teacher questioning this institution’s penchant for propaganda and violence during the Ukraine war. There’s also Prime Minister about former New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern.
“There is resilience in the festival world and the arthouse marketplace,” exclaimed Eugene Hernandez, Director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming pointing toward the promising ticket sales for the upcoming edition. “There is a resilience to the audience, and they are coming back. If there was a collapse that happened out of the early days of the pandemic, we got through that, and festivals and arthouses have been building back.”
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
These nonfiction feature films from emerging talent around the world showcase some of the most courageous and extraordinary filmmaking today. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include A New Kind of Wilderness, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, The Eternal Memory, 20 Days in Mariupol, All That Breathes, Flee, Honeyland, Sea of Shadows, Shirkers, and Last Men in Aleppo.
Prime Minister / U.S.A. (Directors: Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz, Producers: Cass Avery, Leon Kirkbeck, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane, Katie Peck) — A view inside the life of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, capturing her through five tumultuous years in power and beyond as she redefined leadership on the world stage. World Premiere. Available online for Public.
