Best of Sundance 2025?: Eva Victor’s “Sorry, Baby” & Geeta Gandbhir’s “The Perfect Neighbor” Top Critics Chart

We imagine it’ll be extra champagne uncorking for some of the A24 folks who landed the film for a cool 8 million dollars – today’s IndieWire poll of the Best of Sundance (as voted on by 176 critics) further confirms that the breakout film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Sorry, Baby – which placed highest not only in the Best Film category but also topped the Best Performance, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best First Film lists. Eva Victor‘s debut did not claim the GRand Jury Prize but did manage to win the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and had several distributors on the chase to land the rights. While this is not the best scientific poll (not all critics saw all films) and should be taken with a grain of salt, it nonetheless say plenty about what we should be watching out for leading up all the way to more film fest premieres and eventual indie awards season galas. Twinless, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Train Dreams had several mentions in the different categories while Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor appears to have cemented itself as the Best American Docu to come out of the fest. Here are the rankings below:

BEST FILM
1. “Sorry, Baby”
2. “Twinless”
3. “Train Dreams”
4. “Omaha”
5. “The Things You Kill”
6. “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
7. “Plainclothes”
8. “Together”
9. “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)”
10. “The Ballad of Wallis Island”

BEST DOCUMENTARY
1. “The Perfect Neighbor”
2. “Predators”
3. “Zodiac Killer Project”
4. “2000 Meters to Andriivka”
5. “Seeds”
6. “Andre Is an Idiot”
7. “Come See Me in the Good Light”
8. “Cutting Through Rocks”
9. “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore”
10. “BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions”

BEST PERFORMANCE
1. Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby”
2. Dylan O’Brien, “Twinless”
3. Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
4. John Magaro, “Omaha”
5. Joel Edgerton, “Train Dreams”
6. Tonatiuh, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”
7. Stephan James, “Ricky”
8. James Sweeney, “Twinless”
9. Tom Blyth, “Plainclothes”
10. Ben Whishaw, “Peter Hujar’s Day”

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby”
2. Clint Bentley, “Train Dreams”
3. Geeta Gandbhir, “The Perfect Neighbor”
4. Alireza Khatami, “The Things You Kill”
5. Mary Bronstein, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
6. Khalil Joseph, “BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions”
7. James Sweeney, “Twinless”
8. Mstyslav Chernov, “2000 Meters to Andriivka”
9. Michael Shanks, “Together”
10. Hailey Gates, “Atropia”

BEST SCREENPLAY
1. “Sorry, Baby”
2. “Twinless”
3. “The Things You Kill”
4. “Train Dreams”
5. “Atropia”
6. “Lurker”
7. “Plainclothes”
8. “Omaha”
9. “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
10. TIE: “Rebuilding”/“Two Women”

BEST INTERNATIONAL FICTION FILM
1. “The Things You Kill”
2. “Two Women”
3. “The Ugly Stepsister”
4. “Brides”
5. “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)”
6. “All That’s Left of You”
7. “The Virgin of Quarry Lake”
8. “DJ Ahmet”
9. “Where the Wind Comes From”
10. “Sauna”

BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM
1. “2000 Meters to Andriivka”
2. “Cutting Through Rocks”
3. “The Dating Game”
4. “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
5. “Prime Minister”
6. “GEN_”
7. “How to Build a Library”
8. “Khartoum”
9. “Coexistence, My Ass!”
10. “Endless Cookie”

BEST FIRST FILM
1. “Sorry, Baby”
2. “Plainclothes”
3. “Together”
4. “Omaha”
5. “Twinless”
6. “Lurker”
7. “Atropia”
8. “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)”
9. “Brides”
10. “Seeds”