Sundance 2025 lineup: Rachel Sennott, Chloë Sevigny, Steven Yeun

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival will have not one but two events potentially drawing eyeballs away from the programming. The festival, running from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2, will begin just days after the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. Then there will also be much anticipation and expectation around the upcoming announcement of where the festival will be moving beginning with its 2027 edition.

The program for the 2025 festival, which was announced on Wednesday, should provide a relief from the uncertainty: the usual mix of fresh talent and provocative subject matter.

“I think the program will do the work of putting aside for a moment the conversation about the long-term home,” said Eugene Hernandez, director of the festival, noting that a decision is expected to be announced after the festival concludes, in late winter or early spring. “This program really just underscores what Sundance is and has been for these 40-plus years. And that is just an incredible place for discovery.”

Other celebrity-portrait docs include Amy Berg’s “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” Shoshannah Stern’s “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore,” Isabel Castro’s “Selena y Los Dinos,” Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz’s “Prime Minister,” on former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Cristina Costantini’s “Sally,” on astronaut Sally Ride and Matt Wolf’s “Pee-wee as Himself,” on Pee-wee Herman performer Paul Reubens.