Sundance 2025: JLo, Sly Stone, Putin, Ayo Edebiri, André Holland, & Ex-NZ PM Jacinda Ardern Films Among Park City Festival Offerings
deadline.comThe Sundance Film Festival is considering a big move for 2027, but the 2025 feature film and episodic programs find the Robert Redford founded gathering very much in its traditional wheelhouse with a mix of big-name projects, politics, and what might just be the next big thing. See the full list of Sundance 2025 feature films (including world premieres) and episodic projects below. “The Sundance Film Festival remains steadfast in its commitment to elevating unique and urgent voices in independent storytelling,” the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star said today of the 41st iteration of the festival kicking off on January 23. “Audiences can expect a 2025 program that showcases varied and vibrant filmmaking globally,” Redford added of the 87 features and six episodic projects selected for screenings in Park City, Salt Lake City and online next month.
It wouldn’t be Sundance without stars in plushy hooded ski coats, and they’ll be aplenty with Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna in the feature take of the Broadway musical and film, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Olivia Colman and John Lithgow in Jimpa, Melanie Griffth and Juliette Lewis in By Design, Benedict Cumberbatch in The Thing With Feathers, Andre Holland in Love, Brooklyn; Felicity Jones, Joel Edgerton and Kerry Condon in Train Dreams, the return of Dylan O’Brien in Twinless, and Dave Franco (Together and Bubble & Squeak) and Chloë Sevigny (Atropia and Magic Farm) both doing double duty at this year’s fest.
Politics, as well, are de rigueur in the ski slopes of Park City in late January with such titles as the Kim A. Snyder directed ITV doc, The Librarians, about librarians’ crusade to fend off book banning in Texas and Florida, as well as David Borenstein’s Mr.
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