The life and career of lesbian avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer is the subject of a kaleidoscopic exploration in director Byrdie O’Connor’s documentary, Barbara Forever. It premiered at this year’s Sundance, where it won the Joshua Oppenheim Editing Award in the […]

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Casper Kelly, the director of the popular horror short Too Many Cooks and other numerous segments for Adult Swim, brought his twisted feature debut to this year’s Sundance, which blends our childhood TV memories with terror. Buddy follows the titular […]

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Having premiered at this year’s Sundance, writer-director Adam Meeks has packed some star power for his feature debut, Union County. Based on his short film of the same name, the drama stars Will Poulter and Noah Centineo as brothers and […]

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Having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a documentary you should not sleep on this year. The film consists entirely of footage shot in 1972 at a party that took […]

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Many of us have come across Girl Scout cookies at some point in our lives. But what happens behind the scenes as these girls try to sell these cookies and shape their futures? Director Alysa Nahmias (Art By Krimes) premiered […]

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Following her Oscar-nominated documentary Fire of Love, Sara Dosa returned to the Sundance Film Festival this year for her newest documentary, which captures the toll global warming is taking on Arctic regions. Time and Water documents the life of Icelandic […]

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One of the exciting emerging voices in Australian horror is writer-director Adrian Chiarella. His terrifying and unnerving feature debut, Leviticus, will no doubt shake up audiences with terror this summer. Named after the Old Testament book that inspires homophobia, it […]

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The first hot film festival of 2026 is almost here! Ahead of its move to Boulder, Colorado in 2027, Sundance Film Festival will be returning to Park City, Utah, one final time from January 22–February 1, 2026. The online portion […]

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