Top 15 Most Anticipated Sundance Feature Films

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Every new year brings in one of our favorite film festivals, the Sundance Film Festival, it will take place from January 23-February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah. Also returning this year is the festival’s online component, which lets you catch all of the competition films and more (if the film opts in), starting January 30-February 2, 2025. You can check out ticketing information here.

The festival this year is returning with some indie darlings like Molly Gordon and Rachel Sennott. Whether you are in the mood to watch Josh O’Connor as a rancher in Rebuilding, Dev Patel in the British folk horror Rabbit Trap, or Alison Brie act alongside her husband Dave Franco in the spooky film Together. This year has a wide range of films for every movie lover.

Starting from 15,775 submissions to 4,138 feature-length films, down to its 86 feature film program, we now bring you our top 15 most anticipated films.

 

TWINLESS

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

James Sweeney’s directorial debut follows two young men (Dylan O'Brien and James Sweeney) in a unlikely bromance after meeting at a twin bereavement support group.

 

THE WEDDING BANQUET

PREMIERES

Andrew Ahn reimagines Ang Lee’s 1993 classic The Wedding Banquet with a codependent queer quad of young lovers. In this romantic comedy Min (Han Gi-chan) makes a proposal, a green card marriage in exchange for IVF treatments for Angela and her partner Lee. Plans take a turn when Min’s grandmother throws them an elaborate Korean wedding banquet. Starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone and Kelly Marie Tran

 
 

PETER HUJAR’S DAY

PREMIERES

Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall reenact this newly discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 giving us a glimpse into the personal struggles living in New York City’s downtown art scene.

 

JIMPA

PREMIERES

Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jimpa (John Lithgow). Frances wants to stay for a year, during their extended trip Hannah (Olivia Colman) struggles with her distant father, while Frances explores LGBTQ+ life in the city.

 

LOVE, BROOKLYN

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

First time feature director Rachael Abigail Holder brings us an intimate portrait of three longtime Brooklyn residents for a later-in-life coming-of-age story starring André Holland, DeWanda Wise and Nicole Beharie.

 

HAL & HARPER

EPISODIC

Hal & Harper is an eight episodic season centered on two siblings that consider their codependency their strength.

 

OPUS

MIDNIGHT

Ayo Edebiri stars in a horror musical as a young writer invited to a remote compound of a legendary pop star that had disappeared 30 years ago.

 

SERIOUS PEOPLE

NEXT

A successful music video director and expectant father pushes his work-life balance to the extreme as he hires a doppelgänger to work in his stead.

 

ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU

PREMIERES

After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.

 

MAGIC FARM

PREMIERES

A film crew working for an edgy media company travels to Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong country… where there’s a health crisis.

 

ATROPIA

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

Welcome to Atropia: a pretend city where an aspiring actress in a military facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent. Watch the Short here.

 

RICKY

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

After being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky (Stephan James) navigates the challenging realities of life after missing out on so many rites of passage from puberty, learning to talk to women, using smartphones, and understanding social media.

 

LURKER

PREMIERES

A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. It becomes a matter of life and death the closer he gets.

 

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

PREMIERES

Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to deal with her child’s mysterious illness, a husband who’s never there and a missing person as her life crashes down around her.

 

BY DESIGN

NEXT

A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair.