With the Sundance Film Festival (January 21-31) preparing to enter a new chapter in 2027, and is moving to its new home in Boulder, Colorado, Robert Redford’s pioneering event finds itself at a moment that might be more than a simple relocation…but more like a potential rebirth. For Festival Director Eugene Hernandez and Director of Programming Kim Yutani, the transition also brings a chance to expand the competition sections back to a more robust slate of films (we now have a dozen slots times four) and with multiple venues available to best showcase the lineup, we can expect a festival with renewed capacity and a broader sense of possibility and … responsibility. We are mere weeks away from those announcements so in the mean time, we naturally wanted to see what titles might be flirting with the fest via our predictions. Welcome to our annual Sundance Film Festival predictions list, where we comb through hundreds of American independent film (plus a dollop of international titles) offerings across budgets and size to arrive at our 2027 fiction-film prognostications. And yes, the A24 folks have a lot of world premiere options at their disposal.
As per usual, we’ll provide the gist of each project, identify its principal producers, flag any attached distributors or sales agents (domestic and international, where applicable), and suggest the section in which we think each film might find its best fit.
We’re grateful, once again, to the fantastic team at the American Film Festival in Wrocław for their continued support of our site. Every year, approximately eight to ten projects receive some serious backing at the US in Progress co-production forum – and items such as 2023’s India Donaldson’s Good One, 2024’s Katarina Zhu’s Bunnylovr and Amanda Kramer’s By Design, and 2025’s Liz Sargent’s Take Me Home and Georgia Bernstein’s Night Nurse all made the Wrocław to Sundance jump. As Sundance programmers put the finishing touches on their lineup and begin making those congratulatory phone calls, we’ll be rolling out our predictions next week. Here are 60 potentials:
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