It’s a cinephile’s favorite time of year! While some of the biggest and best films are released in the waning weeks of December, the Sundance Institute gets everyone excited about what’s to come in the new year. The 87 feature films and six episodic projects selected for the 2025Sundance Film Festivalwere recently announced, and it’s a great mix of bold independent storytelling. The festival will take place from Jan. 23 to Jul 16, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah.Single Film Ticketsfor in-person and online screenings go on sale Jan. 16 at 10 a.m. MT.Members of Sundancewill have access to a Single Film Ticket pre-sale, and limited quantities of passes and packages remainon sale. Visit theSundance Film Festival site herefor more info.
And for all of those who won’t be able to make it to snowy Utah, beginning Jan. 30, more than half the feature program will be available online for audiences nationwide to watch from home at the Sundance site. The curated online program will include all competition titles (U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic, World Cinema Documentary, and NEXT presented by Adobe), as well as additional selections from the feature, episodic, and Short Film Program presented by Vimeo.
The 2025 lineup includes 87 feature-length films representing 33 countries and territories, and is composed of 41% (36 of 87)first-time feature filmmakers. Ten of the feature films and projects selected were supported by the Sundance Institute in development through direct granting or residency labs. This year the film and episodic slate includes 89 world premieres (or 96% of all titles). The annual fundraising gala,Celebrating Sundance Institutepresented by Google TV and honoring artists and art supporters, will take place on Friday, Jan. 24, at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley in Utah. The Sundance Film Festival Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, January 31, in Park City.
While we don’t have room to include every single film, MovieWeb highlights some of the most hotly anticipated and interesting movies at Sundance 2025 below.
U.S. Movies at Sundance 2025
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.Cast: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy.(Director and Screenwriter: Hailey Gates, Producers: Naima Abed, Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Lana Kim, Jett Steiger).Find showtimes and tickets.
The Legend of Ochi
In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an animal species known as Ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby Ochi has been left behind, she escapes on an adventure to bring him home.Cast: Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe.(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Isaiah Saxon, Producers: Richard Peete, Traci Carlson, Jonathan Wang).Find showtimes and tickets here.
Bubble & Squeak
Accused of smuggling cabbages into a nation where cabbages are banned, Declan and Delores must confront the fragility of their new marriage while on the run for their lives.Cast: Himesh Patel, Sarah Goldberg, Steven Yeun, Dave Franco, Matt Berry.(Director and Screenwriter: Evan Twohy, Producers: Christina Oh, Steven Yeun).Find showtimes and tickets.
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A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.Cast: Katarina Zhu, Rachel Sennott, Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, Jack Kilmer.(Director and Screenwriter: Katarina Zhu, Producers: Tristan Scott-Behrends, Ani Schroeter, Rhianon Jones, Roger Mancusi, Rachel Sennott).Find showtimes and tickets
Love, Brooklyn
Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.Cast: André Holland, Nicole Beharie, DeWanda Wise, Roy Wood Jr., Cassandra Freeman, Cadence Reese.(Director: Rachael Abigail Holder, Screenwriter: Paul Zimmerman, Producers: André Holland, Kate Sharp, Patrick Wengler, Maurice Anderson, Liza Zusman).Find showtimes and tickets.
After a family tragedy, siblings Ella and Charlie are unexpectedly woken up by their dad and taken on a journey across the country, experiencing a world they’ve never seen before. As their adventure unfolds, Ella begins to understand that things might not be what they seem.Cast: John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam.(Director: Cole Webley, Screenwriter: Robert Machoian, Producer: Preston Lee).Find showtimes and tickets.
Plainclothes
A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies orders when he falls in love with a target.Cast: Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Amy Forsyth. (Director and Screenwriter: Carmen Emmi, Producers: Colby Cote, Arthur Landon, Eric Podwall, Vanessa Pantley).Find showtimes and tickets.
Rico’s summer is a mix of chasing girls and hustling homemade cocktails out of a cooler on Orchard Beach, the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place with his family, it’s only a matter of time before his carefree days come spiraling down.Cast: Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro.(Director and Screenwriter: Joel Alfonso Vargas, Producer: Paolo Maria Pedullà).Find showtimes and tickets.
Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.Cast: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley.(Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Albert Birney, Screenwriter and Producer: Pete Ohs, Producers: Emma Hannaway, James Belfer).Find showtimes and tickets.
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.Cast: Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Ivy Wolk, Daniel Zolghadri.(Director and Screenwriter: Mary Bronstein, Producers: Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Richie Doyle).Find showtimes and tickets.
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