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2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Ambitious Program | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert

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The Sundance Film Festival unveils an ambitious, diverse program for 2025, with a lineup promising groundbreaking new voices and cinematic discoveries.
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  • The U.S. Dramatic Competition will feature the world premieres of films from fresh, boundary-pushing American independent filmmakers, including Alia Shawkat, Steven Yeun, and Rachel Sennott.
  • The World Cinema Documentary Competition showcases courageous and extraordinary nonfiction storytelling from emerging global talents, with films tackling topics like Russia's Ukraine invasion, gender identity, and Black generational farmers.
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Hailey Gates, Naima Abed, Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Lana Kim, Jett Steiger, Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy, Evan Twohy, Christina Oh, Steven Yeun, Himesh Patel, Sarah Goldberg, Dave Franco, Matt Berry, Katarina Zhu, Rachel Sennott, Austin Amelio, Perry Yung, Jack Kilmer, Rachael Abigail Holder, Paul Zimmerman, André Holland, Kate Sharp, Patrick Wengler, Maurice Anderson, Liza Zusman, Nicole Beharie, DeWanda Wise, Roy Wood Jr., Cassandra Freeman, Cadence Reese, Cole Webley, Robert Machoian, Preston Lee, John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam, Carmen Emmi, Colby Cote, Arthur Landon, Eric Podwall, Vanessa Pantley, Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia, Christian Cooke, Gabe Fazio, Amy Forsyth, Rashad Frett, Lin Que Ayoung, Pierre M. Coleman, Simon TaufiQue, Sterling Brim, Josh Peters, DC Wade, Cary Fukunaga, Stephan James, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Titus Welliver, Maliq Johnson, Imani Lewis, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack, Sierra Falconer, Grant Ellison, Maren Heary, Jim Kaplan, Karsen Liotta, Dominic Bogart, Tenley Kellogg, Emily Hall, James Sweeney, David Permut, Dylan O'Brien, Lauren Graham, Aisling Franciosi, Tasha Smith, Chris Perfetti, Sundance Film Festival, Dìdi (弟弟), A Real Pain, In The Summers, Nanny, CODA, Minari, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Farewell, Clemency, Eighth Grade, Sorry to Bother You, Atropia, Bubble & Squeak, Bunnylovr, Love, Brooklyn, Omaha, Plainclothes, Ricky, Sorry, Baby, Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), Twinless, Andre is an Idiot, Life After, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, The Perfect Neighbor, Predators, Seeds, Selena y Los Dinos, Speak., Sugar Babies, Third Act, Brides, DJ Ahmet, LUZ, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears), Sauna, Sukkwan Island, The Things You Kill, Two Women, The Virgin of Quarry Lake, Where the Wind Comes From, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Coexistence, My Ass!, Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار), The Dating Game, Endless Cookie, GEN_, How to Build a Library, Khartoum, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Prime Minister, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions, By Design, East of Wall, Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo), OBEX, Rains Over Babel, Serious People, Zodiac Killer Project, All That's Left of You (اللي باقي منك), April & Amanda, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Come See Me in the Good Light, Deaf President Now!, FOLKTALES, Free Leonard Peltier, Heightened Scrutiny, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, Jimpa, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Last Days, The Librarians, Lurker, Magic Farm, Middletown, Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, Oh, Hi!, Peter Hujar's Day, Rebuilding, SALLY, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, The Wedding Banquet, Dead Lover, Didn't Die, Opus, Rabbit Trap, Together, Touch Me, The Ugly Stepsister, Bucks County, USA, Hal & Harper, Pee-wee as Himself, BULLDOZER, Chasers, Never Get Busted!, April, One to One: John & Yoko, The Legend of Ochi, The Six Billion Dollar Man, El Norte, Unzipped
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