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| Location | Park City, Utah and Salt Lake City, Utah |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1978 |
| Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
| Festival date | January 22 to February 1, 2026 |
| Language | English |
| Website | festival |
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival is scheduled to be held in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 22 to February 1, 2026. [1] [2]
Film premieres at the festival will be held from January 22 to January 27, 2026. [1] The first selection lineup was announced on December 10, 2025. [3]
The festival is slated to be the last Sundance Film Festival held in Utah before the festival relocates to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. [2]
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Bedford Park | Stephanie Ahn | United States |
| Carousel | Rachel Lambert | |
| The Friend's House Is Here | Hossein Keshavarz, Maryam Ataei | United States, Iran |
| Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! | Josef Kubota Wladyka | United States |
| Hot Water | Ramzi Bashour | |
| Josephine | Beth de Araújo | |
| The Musical | Giselle Bonilla | |
| Run Amok | NB Mager | |
| Take Me Home | Liz Sargent | |
| Union County | Adam Meeks |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Girls Don't Cry | Paloma Schneideman | New Zealand | |
| Extra Geography | Molly Manners | United Kingdom | |
| Filipiñana | Rafael Manuel | Singapore, United Kingdom, Philippines, France, Netherlands | |
| HOLD ONTO ME | Κράτα Με | Myrsini Aristidou | Cyprus, Denmark, Greece |
| How to Divorce During the War | Skyrybos karo metu | Andrius Blaževičius | Lithuania, Luxembourg, Ireland, Czech Republic |
| The Huntress | La Cazadora | Suzanne Andrews Correa | Mexico, United States |
| LADY | Olive Nwosu | United Kingdom, Nigeria | |
| Levitating | Para Perasuk | Wregas Bhanuteja | Indonesia, Singapore, France |
| Shame and Money | Visar Morina | Germany, Kosovo, Slovenia, Albania, North Macedonia, Belgium | |
| Tell Me Everything | עצמאות | Moshe Rosenthal | Israel, France |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| American Doctor | Poh Si Teng | United States, State of Palestine, Malaysia, Qatar |
| American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez | David Alvarado | United States |
| Barbara Forever | Brydie O'Connor | United States |
| Joybubbles | Rachael J. Morrison | United States |
| The Lake | Abby Ellis | United States |
| Nuisance Bear | Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman | United States, Canada |
| Public Access | David Shadrack Smith | United States |
| Seized | Sharon Liese | United States |
| Soul Patrol | J.M. Harper | United States |
| Who Killed Alex Odeh? | Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans | United States |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| All About the Money | Sinéad O'Shea | Ireland |
| Birds of War | Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak | United Kingdom, Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon |
| Closure | Michał Marczak | Poland |
| Everybody To Kenmure Street | Felipe Bustos Sierra | United Kingdom |
| Hanging by a Wire | Mohammed Ali Naqvi | United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan |
| Kikuyu Land | Andrew H. Brown and Bea Wangondu | Kenya |
| One in a Million | Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes | United Kingdom |
| Sentient | Tony Jones | Australia |
| Silenced | Selina Miles | Australia |
| To Hold a Mountain | Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić | Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] | Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil | United States, Denmark | |
| BURN | 炎上 | Makoto Nagahisa | Japan |
| Ghost in the Machine | Valerie Veatch | United States | |
| If I Go Will They Miss Me | Walter Thompson-Hernández | ||
| The Incomer | Louis Paxton | United Kingdom | |
| Jaripeo | Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig | Mexico, United States, France | |
| Night Nurse | Georgia Bernstein | United States | |
| TheyDream | William David Caballero | ||
| zi | Kogonada | ||
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| The Best Summer | Tamra Davis | United States, Australia, Indonesia |
| Buddy | Casper Kelly | United States |
| Leviticus | Adrian Chiarella | Australia |
| Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant | THUNDERLIPS | New Zealand |
| Rock Springs | Vera Miao | United States, Canada |
| Saccharine | Natalie Erika James | Australia |
| undertone | Ian Tuason | Canada |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Bait | Bassam Tariq | United Kingdom |
| Episodic Fiction Pilot Showcase | Various | United States |
| Episodic Nonfiction Pilot Showcase | Various | United States |
| FreeLance | The Turner Brothers | United States |
| Murder 101 | Stacy Lee | United States |
| The Oligarch and the Art Dealer | Andreas Dalsgaard | Denmark, France |
| The Screener | Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe | United States |
| Soft Boil | United States | |
| Worried | United States |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Cookie Queens | Alysa Nahmias | United States |
| Fing! | Jeffrey Walker | United Kingdom |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Albatross | Amandine Thomas | United States |
| Balloon Animals | Anna Baumgarten | |
| Birdie | Praise Odigie Paige | |
| Callback | Matthew Puccini | |
| The Creature of Darkness | Lisa Malloy, Ray Whitaker | |
| Crisis Actor | Lily Platt | |
| Don't Tell Mama | Chloe Leigh King | |
| Gender Studies | Jamie Kiernan O’Brien | |
| The Oracle | JJ Adler | |
| Pankaja | Anooya Swamy | United States, India |
| Prime | Meagan Coyle | United States |
| Radiant Frost | Hannah Schierbeek | |
| Seniors | Adam Curley | |
| Stairs | Riley Donigan | |
| Taga | Jill Marie Sachs | United States, Philippines |
| Together Forever | Gregory Barnes | United States |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Agnes | Leah Vlemmiks | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Blue Heart | Samuel Suffren | Haiti, France |
| Candy Bar | Nash Edgerton | Australia |
| Faux Bijoux | Jessy Moussallem | France, Lebanon |
| Fruit (Buah) | Jen Nee Lim | Singapore |
| How Brief | Kelly McCormack | Canada |
| I'm Glad You're Dead Now | Tawfeek Barhom | France, Greece, Palestine |
| Ivar | Markus Tangre | Norway |
| Jazz Infernal | Will Niava | Canada |
| The Liars | Eduardo Braun Costa | Argentina |
| Marga en el DF | Gabriela Ortega | Mexico, United States |
| Norheimsund | Ana A. Alpizar | Cuba, United States |
| O’Sey Balamma | Raman Nimmala | India |
| ¡PIKA! | Alex Fischman Cárdenas | Peru |
| Sauna Sickness | Malin Barr | Sweden |
| Without Kelly (Utan Kelly) | Lovisa Sirén | |
| The Worm | Tom Noakes | Australia |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Andy London, Carolyn London | United States |
| The Bird’s Placebo | Rami Jarboui | Tunisia |
| Busy Bodies | Kate Renshaw-Lewis | United States |
| Cabbage Daddy | Grace An | Canada |
| Homemade Gatorade | Carter Amelia Davis | United States |
| HUGS | Nicolas Fong | Belgium |
| Living with a Visionary | Stephen P. Neary | United States |
| Mangittatuarjuk (The Gnawer of Rocks) | Louise Flaherty | Canada |
| Once in a Body | María Cristina Pérez | Colombia, United States |
| Paper Trail | Don Hertzfeldt | United States |
| Sorrow Doesn't Sleep at Night | Josefina Montino, Martín André | Chile |
| UM | Nieto | France |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| The Baddest Speechwriter of All | Ben Proudfoot, Stephen Curry | United States |
| The Boys and the Bees | Arielle C. Knight | |
| The Chimney Sweeper | Jack Raese | |
| Going Sane: The Rise and Fall of the Center For Feeling Therapy | Joey Izzo | |
| The Home of the Brave (La Tierra del Valor) | Cristina Costantini | |
| Luigi | Liza Mandelup | |
| Some Kind of Refuge | Alexandra Kern | |
| Still Standing | Victor Tadashi Suarez, Livia Albeck-Ripka | |
| Tuktuit : Caribou | Lindsay Aksarniq McIntyre | Canada |
To commemorate the final Sundance in Park City, the 2026 festival will include several special screenings of classic films that screened at festivals in years past, along with the 1969 film Downhill Racer as a tribute to founder Robert Redford, who died in September 2025. [4]
| Title | Director(s) | Production Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Dream | Barbara Kopple | United States, United Kingdom | 1990 |
| Downhill Racer | Michael Ritchie | United States | 1969 |
| Half Nelson | Ryan Fleck | United States | 2006 |
| House Party | Reginald Hudlin | United States | 1990 |
| Humpday | Lynn Shelton | United States | 2009 |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | United States | 2006 |
| Mysterious Skin | Gregg Araki | United States, Netherlands | 2004 |
| Saw | James Wan | United States | 2004 |
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