Mark Finchem

Sundance Film Festival 2026
The Lake
An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race the clock to save their home from unprecedented catastrophe.
Director(s) Abby Ellis
United States

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Meet the Artist 2026: Stephanie Ahn on “Bedford Park”

The 42nd Sundance Film Festival starts tomorrow, Thursday, January 22. It will be the festival’s last edition in Park City, Utah, before relocating to Boulder, Colorado, next year.

Sundance Film Festival 2026
Meet the Artist 2026: Brydie O’Connor on “Barbara Forever”

Meet the Artist 2026: Stacey Lee on “Murder 101”

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]