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.
Ahead of the world premiere at Sundance Film Festival, here is the first look – clip for Rains Over Babel (Llueve sobre Babel), the debut feature by writer-director Gala del Sol. Rains Over Babel will premiere in the Next Competition on Sunday, January 26, 2025.
Magnolia Pictures has acquired the documentary One to One: John & Yoko, an inside look at the 18 months John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent living in Greenwich Village in the early 1970.
Sundance Film Festival announced the 16 jurors granting awards along with the five jury members who present the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the upcoming festival.
Sundance Film Festival announced the lineup for the annual Beyond Film programming, a series of talks and events.
Two feature films – the world premieres of the documentaries The Alabama Solution and The Stringer, both in the Premieres category have been added to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival program, bringing the total feature films at this year’s Festival to 88 projects.
The Julian Assange documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man directed by Eugene Jarecki has withdrawn from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival as the film will not be completed in time. The feature film was playing as a Special Screening in the feature film lineup.
A Complete Unknown director James Mangold and award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo, currently starring as Elphaba in Universal Pictures’ Wicked, will be honored at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s gala fundraiser, Celebrating Sundance Institute. This year’s gala will take place on January 24, 2025.
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival announced the 57 short films screening as part of eight curated Short Film Programs presented by Vimeo that will include fiction, nonfiction, and animated titles from the U.S. and international.
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival, taking place from January 23–February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, unveiled the lineup of 87 feature films and six episodic projects.
