‘Opus’ and ‘The Legend of Ochi’ Headline 2025 Sundance Film Festival Lineup

With 2024 coming to a close, it’s time to look forward to the year ahead for cinema, and more specifically, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The full slate of featured films and series has been announced at the latest edition of the largest independent film festival in the US, where 93 are scheduled to participate A title in each category. Spanning the festival circuit from Salt Lake City and Park City, Utah, the event serves as an annual spotlight on the best in filmmaking around the world, from emerging voices to established names debuting highly anticipated new projects. Celebrating its 40th anniversary last year, the line-up remains as stacked as ever with no shortage of stars to be on display throughout the festival from January 23 to February 2.

The 2025 Sundance program includes 86 feature-length projects, 36 of them represent the filmmakers’ directorial debut. These titles include some of the most promising and talked-about films competing in all categories including the US Drama & Documentary Competitions, World Cinema Dramatic & Documentary Competitions, and NEXT. Some notable figures will make their debut at the midnight portion of the event, including star-studded horror film A24 Authorship from Mark Anthony Green And heroically Ayo Edbury and John Malkovich Among other things. Green is also looking to repeat the success Danny and Michael Filippo‘s Talk to me In 2023, Dev Patel-He drove Rabbit trap from Brian Cheney and Dave Franco-He drove together from Michael Shanks It will also bring fears. In the main categories, other highlights include In civilian clothes with Tom Blythe, Bonilever with Rachel Sinnottand Atropia with Alia Shawkat. A24 animation film The legend of OchiChampionship Willem Dafoe, Emily Watsonand Finn Wolfhardis also scheduled to be shown privately as a family viewing before hitting theaters in February.

In terms of the festival’s alumni, some notable names will be presenting titles that are sure to be discussed in more depth as 2025 moves on. Good luck to you, Leo Grande exit Sophie Hyde A new LGBTQ+ drama will debut Jimba Includes Olivia Colman and John Lithgowwhile Andrew Ahn I will deliver to him Wedding feast A remake was announced earlier this year. Keep the train new, the Diego Luna and Jennifer Lopez Musical adaptation Spider Woman Kiss He is one to watch. If documentaries are more your speed, Red “Questlove” Thompson He also crafted his new feature Cunning life! (also known as Burden of Black Genius) All about the titular leader of Foxy and the family stone. We’ll see next too Charlie Shackleton He returns to the festival with his untitled experimental project Zodiac Killer, which promises a treat for true crime fans.

Sundance boasts some stellar spin-off entries in 2025

Although the features are vastly outnumbered, the spin-off projects should not be ignored, as they pack star power in abundance. The key between them is Real smooth cha cha exit Cooper Rafe‘s Hull and Harper. Work on Project Passion was underway in 2023 thanks to a temporary deal at the height of the double strike, with Mark Ruffalo He played the role of a father to two children Lili Reinhart Raif is growing up very quickly. Max of two parts Paul Robbins Documentary series He pees himself They will also appear and be captured Natasha Lyonne, Laurence Fishburneand Tim Burton As guests.

Rounding out the big announcement are the winners of the Sundance Institute’s annual Vanguard Prize. Each year, the festival honors directors for their creative independence in the fiction and non-fiction fields, with last year’s winners being… Celine song and Mighty Alberdi. this time, Didi Writer-director Shawn Wang will receive fiction honors sugar-cane NoiseCat co-directors Julian Brave and Emily Casey won the nonfiction award. More honorees will be named in the lead-up to the festival.

The full lineup for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is now available to view on the official website. It all starts in Salt Lake City and Park City, Utah, from January 23 through February 2. Stay tuned here at Collider for more coverage of the event and everything showcased there.