Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Hot Water
After he’s kicked out of his Indiana high school, an American kid and his Lebanese mom hit the road west.
Director Ramzi Bashour
Cast Lubna Azabal, Daniel Zolghadri, Dale Dickey
United States

HOLD ONTO ME
11-year-old Iris learns her estranged father, Aris, is back in town for his own father’s funeral. Determined to know him, Iris tracks him down to a dilapidated shipyard, where he’s been keeping to himself.
Director Myrsini Aristidou
Cast Christos Passalis, Maria Petrova
Cyprus/Denmark/Greece

Sundance Film Festival 2026
The History of Concrete
After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, filmmaker John Wilson tries to use the same formula to sell a documentary about concrete.
Director(s) John Wilson
United States

Hanging by a Wire
A routine school commute turns terrifying when a cable car’s wire snaps, leaving eight passengers — including six schoolboys — dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them.
Director M. Ali Naqvi
U.S./U. K./Pakistan

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Half Nelson
A New York City middle school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
Director(s) Ryan Fleck
Cast Shareeka Epps, Ryan Gosling, Tina Holmes
United States

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.
Director(s) Josef Kubota W…[Leggi tutto]

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Ghost in the Machine
The untold origins of artificial intelligence lie not in machines but in power, revealing the fantasies behind the hype that got us here and where we go next.
Director(s) Valerie Veatc
United States

Sundance Film Festival 2026
The Gallerist
A desperate gallerist conspires to sell a dead body at Art Basel Miami.
Director(s)Cathy Yan
Cast Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega, Sterling K. Brown, Zach Galifianakis, Catherine Zeta-Jones
United States

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
Midwestern bride-to-be Gail Daughtry has a “free celebrity pass” agreement with her fiancé — who uses it. With her relationship in crisis, Gail sets out on an epic journey through Hollywood to even the scales.
Director(s) David Wain
CAST Zoey Deutch, Jon Hamm, John Slatte…[Leggi tutto]

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Birds of War
The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.
Director(s) Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak
United Kingdom/Syrian Arab Republic/Lebano

Sundance Film Festival 2026
The Friend’s House is Here
In Tehran’s underground art scene, two young women build a blissful world of freedom and sisterhood. But when their creative circle is exposed, they must fight to save each other.
Director(s) Hossein Keshavarz, Maryam Ataei
Cast, Mahshad Bahram, Hana Mana, Farzad Karen
United Sta…[Leggi tutto]

Frank & Louis
Frank, serving a life sentence, takes a prison job caring for aging inmates with Alzheimer’s and dementia. What begins as a self-interested bid for parole becomes a profound, transformative bond with fellow inmate Louis, offering Frank a glimpse of redemption in an unforgiving place.
Director Petra Biondina Volpe
Cast Kingsley B…[Leggi tutto]

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Fing!
A demanding little girl and her parents, the Meeks, battle an outrageously entitled viscount to protect their rare, furry, one-eyed Fing from those fixated on exploiting this wondrous creature.
Director(s) Jeffrey Walker
Cast Taika Waititi, Mia Wasikowska, Penelope Wilton, Blake Harrison, Iona…[Leggi tutto]

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Extra Geography
In an English girls boarding school, two teenage best friends grapple with the challenges of girlhood — friendship, boys, studies, and growing up — and embark on their school project, falling in love.
Director(s) Molly Manners
Cast Marni Duggan, Galaxie Clear, Alice Englert, Aoife Riddell
United Kingdom

Sundance 2026
Everybody To Kenmure Street
In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighborhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbors.
Director Felipe Bustos Sierra
U. K.

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Episodic Nonfiction Pilot Showcase
Experience the premiere episodes of two outstanding new documentary series on the big screen before they hit small screens around the world.
The Oligarch and the Art Dealer- Unavailable Online
Murder 101

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Episodic Fiction Pilot Showcase
Discover the latest in independently produced episodic work with these three comedic pilots that span the scope of the human experience.
FreeLance
Soft Boil
Worried

Sundance Film Festival 2026

Downhill Racer

An ambitious American skier gains a place on the U.S. Olympic ski team competing in Europe.

Director Michael Ritchie

Cast Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler, Jim McMullan, Kathleen Crowley

United States

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Documentary Short Film Program
Going Sane: The Rise and Fall of the Center For Feeling Therapy
The Boys and the Bees
Luigi
Tuktuit : Caribou
The Chimney Sweeper
STILL STANDING
The Baddest Speechwriter of All

Sundance Film Festival 2026
THE DISCIPLE
An outsider fueled by relentless determination works his way into the inner circle of the Wu-Tang Clan, where his ambition and creativity converge in the making of an album poised to ignite global controversy.
Director(s) Joanna Natasegara
United States/United Kingdom