
Ed Harris and Gyula Gazdag, long time contributors to the Sundance Institute, will be honored at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert Redford.

Ed Harris and Gyula Gazdag, long time contributors to the Sundance Institute, will be honored at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert Redford.

As it prepares to bid goodbye to Park City, Utah, the 2026 Sundance Film Festival has unveiled a Park City Legacy Program celebrating the Festival’s history in Utah through archival and restoration screenings of iconic films from previous editions, artists talks with notable Festival alumni, and a special event for the community.

The second edition of Sundance Film Festival: CDMX 2025 taking place from May 29 to June 1, 2025, in Mexico City, announced the lineup of 15 feature films and the Short Film program – all films originally premiering at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year in the United States.

Cinépolis and the Sundance Institute have partnered for the second edition of Sundance Film Festival: CDMX 2025 in Mexico City, as well as upcoming editions in 2026 and 2027.

Sundance Institute has selected Boulder, Colorado, as the Sundance Film Festival’s new home beginning in 2027.

Come See Me in the Good Light directed by Ryan White bested some strong contenders to win Festival Favorite Award, voted for by the audiences from all the new feature films presented at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, directed by Theo Panagopoulos took home the Grand Jury Prize in the short film competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Hulu shared the official trailer for SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), the documentary film on Sly & The Family Stone, the funk band known for Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits such as Dance to the Music (1968), Everyday People (1968), and Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).

Directed by Alex Heller (The Year Between) following her feature film directorial debut, Debaters is a comedy short film telling the story of high school debaters and their unqualified adult judges played by Succession’s J. Smith-Cameron and Oscar-winning director Kenneth Lonergan. The film is set to have its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Update (January 25, 2025): BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions may make its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, after James Shani’s Rich Spirit acquired the film by buying Participant Media out of all rights, with hopes of selling the film to a new distributor, reports Variety.