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Time and Water Premieres at Sundance in Park City

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Sara Dosa, directory, writer, producer

Sara Dosa, directory, writer, producer

Time and Water premiered January 27, 2026, at the Library Center Theatre in Park City as part of the Premieres section of the Sundance Film Festival.

Before the screening, director Sara Dosa and Icelandic writer and subject Andri Snær Magnason stepped out for a press line alongside members of the producing team, a quiet, unhurried moment that felt entirely in keeping with the film they were there to present.

The documentary grew out of Magnason’s deeply personal reckoning with two parallel losses, the death of Iceland’s glaciers and the passing of his grandparents. Rather than approaching climate grief through data or alarm, Dosa weaves together science, myth, and personal history, using Magnason’s own generational archives to craft something closer to a time capsule than a traditional environmental documentary.

At its core, the film traces a striking paradox: while Magnason’s family were among the first to explore Iceland’s glaciers, he has become one of the first to witness their disappearance.

The atmosphere around the premiere matched the film’s tone — contemplative and intimate, circling the question at the heart of Dosa’s work: how do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? National Geographic Documentary

Films is set to release Time and Water in theaters globally beginning May 29.

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One Battle After Another Leads Online Film Critics Society Awards

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onebattle-after-anotherPaul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another emerged as a major winner at the 2025 Online Film Critics Society Awards, taking Best Picture and Best Director among five total wins. The film’s strong showing places it firmly among the most critically embraced releases of the year.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ultimately led the awards overall, collecting 10 wins across major categories including acting, writing, cinematography, score, and multiple technical honors. With more than 38 films recognized across 22 categories, this year’s OFCS awards reflected an unusually broad spread of genres, from studio releases to international and independent titles.

One notable takeaway from this year’s results is how concentrated the wins were at the top: just two films accounted for nearly half of all awards handed out, underscoring a rare level of consensus among the Society’s nearly 300 voting critics worldwide.

The organization also presented Lifetime Achievement Awards to Colleen Atwood, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Vittorio Storaro, and Walter Murch, alongside Special Achievement Awards recognizing sustainability efforts in filmmaking and advocacy within the industry.

Here’s the complete list of Online Film Critics Society Award winners and nominations for 2025.

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Sundance Producers Celebration Honors Apoorva Guru Charan and Dawne Langford

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sundanceThe 2026 Sundance Film Festival Producers Celebration took place January 25 in Park City, bringing together filmmakers and industry guests to recognize producing excellence across this year’s festival lineup. Presented in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios, the event was held at The Park and centered on the Sundance Institute Producers Awards.

Two producers were honored with $10,000 grants during the ceremony. Apoorva Guru Charan received the Fiction Producers Award for Take Me Home, premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, while Dawne Langford was awarded the Nonfiction Producers Award for Who Killed Alex Odeh?, debuting in the U.S. Documentary Competition. Both films are part of the 2026 Sundance program.

The celebration also featured a keynote from producer Shane Boris, whose recent work includes Navalny and Fire of Love. Boris spoke about collaboration, uncertainty, and the often unseen role producers play in sustaining creative work. The event highlighted producers as connective forces within independent filmmaking, emphasizing long-term relationships and shared risk rather than outcomes or accolades.

The Producers Celebration is an annual Sundance tradition, offering a moment to pause amid premieres and screenings to spotlight the behind-the-scenes work that brings films to the festival.

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Levitating (Para Perasuk) Makes Its Sundance Debut at World Cinema Dramatic Competition Red Carpet

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Wregas Bhanuteja

Director Wregas Bhanuteja
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Levitating (Para Perasuk) premiered today at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, with a press line and red carpet held at The Yarrow Theatre in Park City ahead of its first public screening.

Director Wregas Bhanuteja appeared alongside cast members Angga Yunanda, Maudy Ayunda, Anggun, Bryan Domani, and Chicco Kurniawan, joined by producers and executive producers representing the film’s international production team. The group paused for photographs and brief press moments before heading inside for the morning screening.

Set in a town where trance possession is both ritual and livelihood, Levitating follows Bayu, a gifted spirit channeler whose flute music guides dancers into altered states as he struggles to protect his community and his home amid growing outside pressures. The film blends music, movement, and spirituality into a coming-of-age story rooted in tradition and collective survival.

The premiere marks Indonesia’s presence in this year’s competition lineup, with additional in-person and online screenings scheduled later in the festival’s run.

Photos from the red carpet capture the filmmakers and cast moments before the film’s Sundance journey officially began.

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Filipiñana Debuts at Sundance with Red Carpet Screening in Park City

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Writer director Rafael Manuel

Rafael Manuel’s feature debut Filipiñana premiered at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, screening at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah.

The screening was preceded by a red carpet event, where the filmmakers paused for photos and interviews ahead of the film’s first public showing.

The film stars Isabel Sicat and centers on a teenage girl working at an elite country club who becomes drawn to its powerful president, only to uncover a darker history beneath the institution’s polished surface. Set across multiple languages including Filipino, English, and Ilokano, Filipiñana explores class tension, identity, and inherited power through a stylized and unsettling lens.

In attendance at the premiere were writer-director Rafael Manuel, supporting cast member Isabel Sicat, producers Jeremy Chua and Alex Polunin, and executive producer Farhana Bhula. Filipiñana continues its Sundance run in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, with in-person and online screenings scheduled through the festival.

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Hot Water Premieres at Sundance 2026 With Red Carpet Debut in Park City

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Hot Water writer-director Ramzi Bashour

Ramzi Bashour’s feature debut Hot Water premiered Friday, January 23, in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, screening at Eccles Theatre in Park City, Utah. The premiere was accompanied by a red carpet appearance from the filmmaker and members of the creative team, marking the film’s first public unveiling.

Starring Lubna Azabal (Incendies) and Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages, Lurker), Hot Water centers on a Lebanese mother and her American teenage son who set out on a cross-country drive after the boy is expelled from high school. What begins as a reluctant journey gradually opens into a series of encounters that test their relationship and challenge their sense of home. Dale Dickey appears in a supporting role.

Shot across multiple states, the production moved through new locations week by week before wrapping in California. Around the Sundance premiere, members of the creative team spoke about the intensity of the schedule and the collaborative effort behind making a first feature under lean conditions, with the emphasis throughout remaining on the script rather than any assumptions about where the film might land.

Hot Water marks Bashour’s debut as a writer-director and unfolds as a restrained road comedy, using everyday spaces, highways, motels, diners, to explore family tension, cultural distance, and uneasy connection. The film moves between English, Arabic, and French, reflecting the layered identities at the center of the story.

The film continues its Sundance run as part of the festival’s U.S. Dramatic Competition lineup.

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Returns to NYC in New 4K Restoration: Can She Bake a Cherry Pie

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can-she-bakeHenry Jaglom’s quietly offbeat 1983 film Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is getting a new 4K restoration and a theatrical run at Metrograph beginning February 20.

Shot entirely on the Upper West Side, the film stars Karen Black as a woman navigating love and loneliness in Jaglom’s loose, conversational style. The movie favors lived-in moments over plot, letting scenes wander in ways that feel more like real life than scripted drama.

The film has picked up cult status over the years, helped by an unusual supporting cast that includes Orson Welles, Frances Fisher, and a pre-Seinfeld Larry David. The new restoration, sourced from a 4K scan of the original 35mm materials, preserves the film’s rough, intimate feel while giving it new clarity on the big screen.

For fans of New York–set cinema and indie films that play by their own rules, Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? is a welcome return.

 

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‘Spacewoman’ Trailer Arrives Ahead of March Theatrical Release

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spacewomanA new documentary centered on astronaut Eileen Collins is headed to theaters this spring. ‘Spacewoman’ , directed by Hannah Berryman, opens in cinemas beginning March 20, 2026, with an official trailer now released.

The film traces Collins’ career as the first woman to both pilot and command a Space Shuttle, following her path from a working-class upbringing in upstate New York to four increasingly complex NASA missions. Along the way, SPACEWOMAN looks not just at professional milestones, but at the personal cost of pushing into high-risk territory, for Collins and for the people closest to her.

Built around archival footage and first-hand interviews, the documentary features Collins alongside fellow astronauts, engineers, and family members, offering a grounded look at decision-making, responsibility, and the realities behind historic achievements. The score is composed by Marcelo Zarvos.

‘Spacewoman’ has already screened at several major festivals, including DOC NYC, CPH:DOX, Athena Film Festival, and the Boulder International Film Festival.

The film is produced by Keith Haviland and Natasha Dack Ojumu, with Berryman also credited as writer. Collins and Berryman are expected to participate in select interviews ahead of the release.

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Sundance ’26: BURN Brings Hyper-Color and Chaos to the NEXT Section

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burnOne of the films at Sundance this year that feels like it’s daring people to either love it or walk out is BURN, the new feature from Makoto Nagahisa, who previously made We Are Little Zombies. It’s premiering in the festival’s NEXT section, which feels like exactly where it belongs.

The movie centers on Ju-Ju (played by Nana Mori), a runaway teen who ends up in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district, falling in with a loose group of kids living on the edge. At first, it feels like she’s finally found somewhere to land. That doesn’t last. What starts as freedom slowly turns into something tighter, darker, and harder to escape.

Visually, BURN is doing a lot, neon colors, hyper-stylized shots, constant motion. It’s bright, almost playful on the surface, even when the story underneath is clearly heading somewhere painful. That contrast is the point. The movie looks fun right up until it very much isn’t, and it doesn’t really warn you when the switch happens.

Nagahisa has always been good at capturing youth culture in a way that feels chaotic instead of nostalgic, and BURN seems to push that even further. It’s not trying to explain its characters or soften their choices. It just drops you into their world and lets things unravel.

Director Bong Joon Ho has already weighed in on the film, calling it intense and even frightening, which tracks. This feels like one of those Sundance titles people will be arguing about afterward, not whether it’s good or bad, but whether they were ready for it at all.

BURN premieres January 25, with additional screenings throughout the festival.

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‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Hamnet’ Come Out on Top at the 2026 Golden Globes

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goldenglobes2026The Golden Globes did what they usually do best this year: set the tone for the rest of awards season while reminding everyone which films are actually building momentum.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another walked into the night as a frontrunner and walked out looking even stronger, picking up Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) along with wins for directing, screenplay, and Teyana Taylor’s supporting performance. The film’s mix of political satire and emotional stakes clearly connected with voters, and Anderson used his moment to spotlight the kind of filmmaker-driven studio support that made the film possible.

On the drama side, Hamnet took Best Motion Picture, with Jessie Buckley also winning for her performance. Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel continues to quietly build awards-season credibility, leaning into intimacy and grief rather than spectacle.

The TV categories followed a similar pattern, rewarding shows that already felt unavoidable this year. Netflix’s Adolescence had the biggest night overall, while The Pitt and The Studio took top series honors, with Noah Wyle and Seth Rogen winning acting prizes. The wins reinforced how much streaming dramas and sharp industry satire continue to dominate the conversation.

Elsewhere, Sinners, KPop Demon Hunters, and The Secret Agent all picked up multiple awards, underscoring how wide the Globes’ tastes have become, from genre films to international titles to animated hits.

Hosted by Nikki Glaser, the ceremony aired January 11 from the Beverly Hilton on CBS and Paramount+. With the Globes now behind us, the field is narrowing, and the next stretch of the awards season is officially underway.

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