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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 | Moshe Rosenthal | Israel, France | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist | Daniel Roher, Charlie Tyrell | United States | |
| Antiheroine | Edward Lovelace, James Hall | United Kingdom, United States | |
| The Brittney Griner Story | Alexandria Stapleton | United States | |
| Chasing Summer | Josephine Decker | ||
| THE DISCIPLE | Joanna Natasegara | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Frank & Louis | Petra Biondina Volpe | Switzerland, United Kingdom | |
| Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass | David Wain | United States | |
| The Gallerist | Cathy Yan | ||
| Give Me the Ball! | Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff | ||
| The History of Concrete | John Wilson | ||
| I Want Your Sex | Gregg Araki | ||
| In The Blink of an Eye | Andrew Stanton | ||
| The Invite | Olivia Wilde | ||
| Jane Elliott Against the World | Judd Ehrlich | ||
| Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie | Alex Gibney | ||
| The Last First: Winter K2 | Amir Bar-Lev | United Kingdom, United States | |
| The Moment | Aidan Zamiri | United States | |
| The Oldest Person in the World | Sam Green | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Harlem | William Greaves, David Greaves | ||
| The Only Living Pickpocket in New York | Noah Segan | ||
| Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story | Judd Apatow, Neil Berkeley | ||
| Queen of Chess | Rory Kennedy | ||
| See You When I See You | Jay Duplass | ||
| The Shitheads | Macon Blair | ||
| Time and Water | Sara Dosa | United States, Iceland | |
| Troublemaker | Antoine Fuqua | South Africa, United States, United Kingdom | |
| The Weight | Padraic McKinley | United States | |
| When a Witness Recants | Dawn Porter | ||
| Wicker | Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer | United States, United Kingdom | |
| English title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] | Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil | United States, Denmark |
| BURN | 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 |
| The Undertone | Ian Tuason | 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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