Tag: 2025 Sundance Film Festival
Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili – April
After making its debut at the Venice Film Festival and touring other prestigious autumn festivals like Toronto, San Sebastian, London BFI, and NYFF, it...
Interview: Alexandra Qin – Thirstygirl / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
She wowed us (and Sundance programmers) with the short film (check out our Top 10 Short Films From Sundance 2024 article) on which this...
Interview: Chloe Sarbib – Trou Normand / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year's Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and among them we found Chloe Sarbib,...
Interview: Katla Sólnes – Eruption / 2025 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow
We had the chance to speak to a small sampling of this year's Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellows and first up was a filmmaker from...
Interview: Natalia León – Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado (2025 Sundance Short)
A touching, sober, political and poignant text on femicide, Mexican filmmaker Natalia León's debut Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado plunges us...
Interview: Dominic Yarabe – Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune (2025 Sundance Short)
Flush with this overall sense that story emerges from the psyche and the shadows, storytelling is passed down for fear of being lost in...
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 -...
Interview: Gerardo Coello Escalante & Amandine Thomas – SUSANA (2025 Sundance Short)
Of all the major film festivals, it's perhaps the Sundance folks who have built the deepest ties with the filmmaker community and much of...
Interview: Yuxuan Ethan Wu – Death Education (2025 Sundance Short)
Among the select few documentary short films chosen for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival is Death Education, a poignant story set in China in...
2025 Sundance Film Festival: Jianjie Lin, Lennert Madou & Dominic Yarabe Among Our Top Shorts
For the second consecutive year, we reviewed all the shorts from the eight program lineups that make up the Short Film selections and narrowed...
2025 Sundance Film Festival: Hailey Gates’ Atropia is the Surprise Win for the U.S. Grand Jury Prize
The acerbic war film comedy that doesn't really take place in a war zone (Iraq) but instead, a manufactured training base landed the top...
Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
Ripe Fruits: Kanawade Taps the Bittersweet Rind of Going Home Again
While there’s been an uptick in contemporary LGBTQ+ films from India over the past...
Sauna | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
Love Me If You Dare: Broe Explores Love in a Hopeless Place
Harlan Ellison’s publication Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled might be a more...
DJ Ahmet | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
All DJs, Great and Small: Unkovski’s Debut Can’t Stop the Music
While its location might feel inherently unique, the happenings in Georgi M. Unkovski’s narrative...
2025 Sundance Video Diaries Days 1-3: April, Twinless, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Atropia & More!
One of the only two films selected for the Spotlight section (films that have premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit), Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili...
The Things You Kill | 2025 Sundance Film Festival Review
A Poison Tree: Khatami Deconstructs the Psychoses of Patriarchy
For his third feature, Iranian American director Alireza Khatami formulates a powerful psychodrama unspooling through the...
2025 Sundance: Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Bryn Chainey, Hailey Gates & Eva Victor in our Top 5 Most Anticipated
We’re just moments away from the 41st edition of the Sundance Film Festival. This marks our 18th time attending the iconic American indie supply...
2025 Sundance: Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin Macdonald & Elijah Wood Among Jury Folks
Lots of Sundance alumni will be trekking back to Park City next week with the likes of Past Song's Celine Song, Daniel Kaluuya, Kevin...
2025 Sundance: Last Minute Docu Additions from Andrew Jarecki & Bao Nguyen
Making for a cool 88-title 2025 edition, the Sundance Film Festival have added two last minute additions to the line-up in the Premieres category....
2025 Sundance: Jianjie Lin, Jorge Thielen Armand & Robert Machoian/Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck Among Selected Shorts
57 films selected from a whopping 11,153 submissions (4,909 U.S. submissions and 6,244 international) packed into eight curated Short Film Programs. Among the more...
2025 Sundance: Hailey Gates, Katarina Zhu & Eva Victor in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the batch of ten 2025 U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings we find the likes of actress Hailey Gates' feature debut Atropia - produced by...
2025 Sundance: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Masterwork ‘April’ Selected for Spotlight Section
With only two films selections it looks like Sundance's Spotlight section is about to be snuffed out but among the pair of films programmed...
2025 Sundance: Laura Casabé, Flora Lau, Vladimir de Fontenay & Chloé Robichaud in World Cinema Dramatic Comp
The long-awaited film by Flora Lau (LUX), Chloé Robichaud's take on a Quebec classic (1970's Deux Femmes en or) in Two Women, Vladimir de...
2025 Sundance: Cherien Dabis, Mary Bronstein, Amalia Ulman, Clint Bentley, Ira Sachs & Bill Condon in Premieres Section
On paper, this year's Premieres section offerings (fiction and non-fiction) should be all the hyope and talked about well into awards season. Some of...
2025 Sundance: Grace Glowicki, Meera Menon & Bryn Chainey Projects in the Midnight Section
Long-time indie actress Grace Glowicki, Sundance alumni in Meera Menon (2016's Equity) and Bryn Chainey are among the seven film projects selected for the...
2025 Sundance: Kahlil Joseph, Amanda Kramer & Albert Birney in Next Section
Always our go-to section for truly unique singular voices working in micro cinema, Kahlil Joseph (a major music video filmmaker who needs no introduction)...
2025 Sundance: U.S. & World Documentary Competition
The U.S. Documentary Competition consistently showcases some of the most talked-about documentaries of the year. Year after year, it delivers at least a quartet...
