2026 Sundance Film Festival

2026 Sundance Film Festival

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.sundance.org
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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]

Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

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

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

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

U.S. Documentary Competition

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

World Cinema Documentary Competition

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

Premieres

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 and 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 and 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

Next

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

Midnight

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

Episodic

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
BAIT	Bassam Tariq	United States
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

Family Matinee

English title	Director(s)	Production Country
Cookie Queens	Alysa Nahmias	United States
Fing!	Jeffrey Walker	United Kingdom

Special Screenings

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

References

1. "What to Know About the 2026 Sundance Film Festival". Sundance Institute. July 14, 2025. Retrieved July 14, 2025.
2. McGowan, Andrew (July 14, 2025). "Sundance Film Festival Reveals Dates, Events and More for Last Hurrah In Park City". Variety . Retrieved July 14, 2025.
3. D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 10, 2025). "Sundance 2026 Lineup Includes Films With Jenna Ortega, Charli XCX, Seth Rogen, Russell Crowe, Ethan Hawke & More In Park City Finale". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved December 10, 2025.
4. Blauvelt, Christian (October 21, 2025). "Sundance Sets Tributes to Park City and Robert Redford — Plus 'Saw,' 'Little Miss Sunshine,' and More Restorations — for Utah Farewell". IndieWire . Retrieved November 2, 2025.

External links

• Official website

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