Trent Staggs

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

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
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