The Grand Hyatt Deer Valley hosted a starry Celebrating Sundance Institute that also honored James Mangold, Cynthia Erivo and filmmakers Sean Wang, Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie.

This month, the Sundance Film Festival is once again providing a showcase for independent filmmakers and documentarians from around the world. But that isn't all that Sundance does. "Sunday Morning" goes behind the scenes.

Sundance Film Festival is officially underway with a wide variety of bold independent storytelling featured in the event's 86 feature-length films.

“Artists are the gatekeepers of the truth,” Satter said during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Gala on Friday night at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley. “We’re civilization’s anchor. We’re the compass for humanity’s consciousness.”

While the future home for Sundance, the iconic indie film festival actor Robert Redford helped create, remains up for debate, there’s no argument about the 2025 lineup in Utah. It’s dynamite, and includes a smattering of films with Bay Area ties.

Sundance Film Festival carried on this year despite wildfires that greatly affected the entertainment industry.

Naturally, The Verge is going to be taking in as much of Sundance as we can and posting bite-sized reviews of everything we see. We’ll also be posting longer reviews and sharing trailers, and you can follow along here to keep up with all of the news out of the festival.

The events of 2020 changed a lot of things for the world, and has lead to one unexpected benefit for those who love movies but might struggle to visit Utah in January: The virtual Sundance Film Festival.

The documentarian, alongside producer Tig Notaro, spoke with IndieWire at our festival studio about their tear-jerking new film about Andrea Gibson.

Thirty-two years after Quentin Tarantino‘s Reservoir Dogs premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the two-time Oscar winning filmmaker was back in Park City today. Rarely at a loss of words and a love of cinema,

This month, in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, the Sundance Film Festival is once again providing a showcase for independent filmmakers and documentarians from around the world. But that isn't all that Sundance does.