The romantic thriller drama, directed by Carmen Emmi and starring Russell Tovey and Tom Blyth, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 26, 2025.
Set in 1990s, the film’s logline says: “A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies orders when he falls in love with a target.”
See photos from the premiere below.
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Directed and written by Alireza Khatami, “The Things You Kill” stars Ekin Koç, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, and Hazar Ergüçlü.
Khatami’s third feature is premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic competition, and is considered one of the year’s best entries.
The film follows Ali, a university professor who, haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance. As long-buried family secrets resurface, the police tighten their noose, and doubts begin eroding his conscience. Ali has no choice but to look into the abyss of his own soul.
Watch the intense trailer for “The Things You Kill” below:
Directed by Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver, the Canadian animated documentary film premiered at 2025 Sundance Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre, Saturday Jan 25, 2025
The film’s logline says: Through a series of vignettes – some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre – this animated documentary explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa.
Endless Cookie will screen on Jan. 26, Jan. 31 and Feb. 2 in Park City and on Jan. 28 in Salt Lake City, and will be available online from Jan. 30-Feb. 2.
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Director Emilie Blichfeldt
2025 comedy horror film “The Ugly Stepsister” premiered on Thurs, Jan 23, 2025, day one of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Co-written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt in her directorial debut, the film reimagines the Cinderella fairytale.
The film’s synopsis says: “In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.”
Leading to its premiere, the “tongue-in-cheek body horror” has been one of the festival’s buzziest titles.
The film’s cast includes Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, and Malte Gårdinger.
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The Carey Mulligan starrer is set to premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, before it hits select US theaters.
The film tells the of Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer back together, says the official synopsis.
“His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.”
Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford, Akemnji Ndifornyen
“The Ballad of Wallis Island” is set to premiere on March 28 in limited theaters. Check out the trailer below.
Psychological horror film “Rabbit Trap” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan 24, 2025 in the Midnight section, with producer Elijah Wood, writer-director Bryn Chainey and cast and crew in attendance.
Logline says: “When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door who is intent on infiltrating their lives.”
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Subject Matter announced their first grants of 2025 today, awarding $25,000 to Kim A. Snyder’s film The Librarians which will world premiere in the Premieres category at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. In addition, a $25,000 grant will go to PEN America, a 103-year-old writers’ organization that defends free expression.
As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy in Kim A. Snyder’s The Librarians.
PEN America has documented the rise of book bans and educational gag orders erasing subject matter in public schools since 2021. The organization has documented more than 15,000 instances of book bans during these years, censorship not seen since the Red Scare period of the 1950s. The most frequently targeted books are those that have long fought for a place on shelves–books by authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors, and women, which examine racism, sexuality, gender, and the history of marginalized groups. PEN America has mobilized the public against this censorship and the intolerance and exclusion that undergird it.
Subject Matter’s grant will help PEN America leverage its expertise to connect, support, and protect brave librarians fighting for intellectual freedom.
Kidnapping Inc., the explosive film from director Bruno Mourral, unveils a brand-new trailer ahead of its release on February 7th, 2025 from Dark Star Pictures. The film held its world premiere at Sundance 2024 to critical acclaim, with Mourral reuniting with collaborators Jasmuel Andri and Rolapthon Mercure, as well as co-writer Gilbert Jr. Mirambeau, for the high-octane, action comedy-thriller.
Anabel Lopez (Emilia Pérez) and Gessica Geneus (Freda) co-star alongside lead actors Andri and Mercure as Doc and Zoe, two hapless kidnappers who are plunged into a high-speed misadventure through the perilous streets of Port-au-Prince, where they discover a political conspiracy that transforms their seemingly simple abduction job into a deadly serious, darkly funny thriller that exposes the rampant corruption, class inequality, and insecurity in Haitian society.
See the new trailer below:
Top Row L–R: Kaniehtiio Horn, Vinnie Malhotra, Celine Song, Sam and Andy Zuchero, Kevin Macdonald, Wanuri Kahiu Second Row L–R: Nicholas Ma, Arian Moayed, Daniel Kaluuya, Elijah Wood, Nia Imara, Michael Almereyda Third Row L–R: Dr. Monica Lopez, Maggie Mackay, Marcia Smith, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Daniela Alatorre, Ava Cahen Bottom Row L–R: Steven Bognar, Kibwe Tavares, Laura Kim
The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the 16 jurors granting awards honoring excellence in cinematic and artistic achievement at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, along with the five jury members who present the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. The 2025 Festival will kick off on Thursday, January 23, with premieres in Park City every day through the end of Tuesday, January 28. Additional showings will take place in Park City and Salt Lake City throughout the Festival until Sunday, February 2. Over 11 days, world debuts of projects across program categories will highlight fresh voices, entertaining stories, and groundbreaking works.
Select awarded films in competition will be screened in person from February 1–2. Single Film Tickets for in-person and online screenings go on sale Thursday, January 16, at 10 a.m. MT. Visit the Sundance Film Festival website for more information: festival.sundance.org.
The 16 jury members, reflecting a range of diverse and influential perspectives, will select the winners to be announced during the Awards Ceremony held at The Ray Theatre on Friday, January 31. The 2025 Sundance Film Festival jury includes: Reinaldo Marcus Green, Arian Moayed, and Celine Song for the U.S. Dramatic Competition; Steven Bognar, Vinnie Malhotra, and Marcia Smith for the U.S. Documentary Competition; Ava Cahen, Wanuri Kahiu, and Daniel Kaluuya for the World Cinema Dramatic Competition; Daniela Alatorre, Laura Kim, and Kevin Macdonald for the World Cinema Documentary Competition; Kaniehtiio Horn, Maggie Mackay, and Kibwe Tavares for the Short Film Program Competition; and Elijah Wood for the NEXT section.
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“Hold Me Close” will have its world premiere in the Documentary Short Film category at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Emmy Award-winner Aurora Brachman (2020 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship) & LaTajh Simmons-Weaver, Hold Me Close is “a chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share”
Watch the “Meet The Artist” feature below:
