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Sundance Film Festival 2026
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
LADY
In the sprawling African metropolis of Lagos, a fiercely independent young cab driver meets a band of radiantly reckless sex workers whose sisterhood pulls her into danger and joy, setting her on a journey toward her own transformation.
Director(s) Olive Nwosu
Cast Jessica…[Leggi tutto]

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie

Previously unseen footage captured by Salman Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, documents his journey. Following not just his physical rehabilitation, but also the restoration of his spirit and optimism. Inspired by Rushdie’s memoir Knife: Meditations After an Att…[Leggi tutto]

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Kikuyu Land
As a Nairobi journalist probes a land battle entangling the local government and a powerful multinational corporation, covered wounds are revealed and family secrets are exposed.
Directors Andrew H. Brown, Bea Wangondu
Kenya

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Joybubbles
Joybubbles discovers he can manipulate the telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession unwittingly lays the groundwork for a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.
Director(s) Rachael J. Morrison
United States

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Jaripeo
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
Director(s) Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig
Mexico/United States/France

Jane Elliott Against the World
A rural Iowa schoolteacher becomes a national voice against racism after leading a controversial 1968 lesson in discrimination with her all-white third-grade class. Now nearly 90, she refuses to hold back amid today’s fights about race, history, and power.
Director J. Ehrlich
U.S.

Sundance Film Festival 2026
The Invite
Joe and Angela are on thin ice, and tonight might be when it all falls apart. Unfortunately, their upstairs neighbors are about to arrive for dinner, and everything that can go wrong goes worse.
Director(s) Olivia Wilde
Principal Cast Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton
United States

Sundance Film Festival 2026
The Incomer
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy hunt birds and talk to mythical beings while fighting off outsiders. Their lives change when Daniel, an awkward official, arrives to relocate them.
Director(s) Louis Paxton
Cast Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O’Rourke
United Kingdom

In The Blink of An Eye
Three storylines, spanning thousands of years, intersect and reflect on hope, connection, and the circle of life.
Director Andrew Stanton
Cast Rashida Jones, Kate McKinnon, Daveed Diggs
United StateS

If I Go Will They Miss Me
Twelve-year-old Lil Ant struggles to connect with his father when he begins to see surreal, almost spectral visions of boys drifting around his neighborhood. Their presence reveals a link between father and son, laying bare the threads that bind family, legacy, and place.
Director W. Thompson-Hernández
Cast D.…[Leggi tutto]

Sundance Film Festival 2026
I Want Your Sex
When fresh-faced Elliot lands a job with artist and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true as she taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal, and murder.
Director(s) Gregg…[Leggi tutto]

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Josephine
After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.
Director(s) Beth de Araújo
Cast Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan
United States

Sundance Film Festival 2026
The Huntress (La Cazadora)
In the border city of Juárez, Mexico, where violence against women is perpetrated with impunity, an unlikely defender emerges with a desperate call for change. Inspired by true events.
Director Suzanne Andrews Correa
Cast Adriana Paz, Teresa Sánchez, Jennifer Trejo

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
Meet the Artist 2026: Jack Raese on “The Chimney Sweeper”

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Meet the Artist 2026: JJ Adler on “The Oracle”

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