Sundance 2025 Lineup: Jennifer Lopez, Benedict Cumberbatch and a Boatload of First-Timers Head to Penultimate Park City Edition
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic With snow on the ground and a cloud of uncertainty hanging over its next-to-last edition in Park City, the 41st annual Sundance Film Festival returns to its high-altitude Utah home, where the country’s most important showcase for independent cinema will unspool in person from Jan.
23-Feb. 2, 2025. While “discovery” remains the focus of the programming team — to the extent that 36 of the 87 features were directed by first-time filmmakers, and three of the six episodic selections — the upcoming edition marks a homecoming for a handful of big names.
Twenty-seven years after “Gods and Monsters,” director Bill Condon returns with his starry take on “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” an adaptation of the stage musical featuring Diego Luna, Tonatiuh and Jennifer Lopez.
Festival regular Ira Sachs is back, paying homage to an underground art hero with “Peter Hujar’s Day,” with Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. “Jockey” helmer Clint Bentley welcomes audiences aboard “Train Dreams,” with Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones.
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