• By Mabel Pais, 

Featuring

Actor HIMESH PATEL in ‘BUBBLE AND SQUEAK’

Director/Co-Producer GEETA GANDBHIR’s ‘THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR’

Co-Producer SIMRAN SINGH’s ‘SELENA Y LOS DINOS’

Director/Screenwriter ROHAN PARASHURAM KANAWADE’s ‘SABAR BONDA’ (Cactus Pears) with Producers NEERAJ CHURI, MOHAMED KHAKI, KAUSHIK RAY, HAREESH REDDYPALLI, NAREN CHANDAVARKAR, SIDHARTH MEER

with Actors BHUSHAAN MANOJ, SURAAJ SUMAN, JAYSHRI JAGTAP

And many more

The SUNDANCE INSTITUTE has the list of 87 feature films and six episodic projects selected for the 2025 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL presenting its 41st year a revealing lineup of bold independent storytelling. The Festival (festival.sundance.org) will take place from January 23–February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with all of the competition films and more available online from January 30–February 2, 2025, for audiences across the country.

Single Film Tickets (festival.sundance.org/tickets/in-person) for in-person and online screenings are on sale from January 16 at 10 a.m. MT. Members (sundance.org/support) have access to a Single Film Ticket pre-sale, and limited quantities of passes and packages remain on sale (sundance.org/support). Visit the Sundance Film Festival site for more information @ festival.sundance.org.

The 2025 Festival will commence on Thursday, January 23, with premieres in Park City every day through the end of Tuesday, January 28. Additional showings will take place in Park City and Salt Lake City throughout the Festival until Sunday, February 2. Over 11 days, world debuts of projects across program categories will highlight fresh voices, entertaining stories, and groundbreaking works.

Beginning January 30, more than half the feature program will be available online for audiences nationwide to watch from home festival.sundance.org. 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 film lineup includes 87 feature-length films representing 33 countries and territories. The 2025 program is composed of 36 of 87 (41%) feature film directors who are first-time feature filmmakers. Ten of the feature films and projects selected were supported by Sundance Institute in development through direct granting or residency labs. This year the film and episodic slate includes 89 (or 96%) world premieres.

GALA AND HONOREES

The annual fundraising gala, Celebrating Sundance Institute (sundance.org/blogs/michelle-satter-to-be-honored-at-2025-sundance-film-festival-gala-celebrating-sundance-institute-presented-by-google-tv) presented by Google TV and honoring artists and art supporters, will take place on Friday, January 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. In addition to the feature film and episodic lineup, the 2025 Festival will offer short film programs, compelling conversations and talks, and special events. Festival updates will be available throughout January.

The winner of the 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, an annual juried award granted to an artist with the most outstanding depiction of science and technology in a feature-length film. The prize has gone to ‘SALLY,’ screening in the Premieres category.

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival program was curated from 15,775 submissions from 156 countries or territories, including 4,138 feature-length films. Of these feature film submissions, 1,591 were from the U.S. and 2,547 were international. The six episodic projects were selected from 484 submissions. Director demographics are available in an editor’s note below.

For the complete Film & Event lineup, visit festival.sundance.org

(Mabel Pais writes on The Arts and Entertainment, Social Issues, Spirituality, Cuisine, Health & Wellness, Business, and Education.)