While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 program, its 41st edition, kicked off January 23 in Utah ...

The Sundance Film Festival announced its 2025 awards Friday morning during a ceremony held at The Ray Theatre in Park City. Grand Jury Prizes went to Hailey Gates’ “Atropia” (U.S. Dramatic Competition ...

Here, we round up 10 of the best 2025 Sundance Film Festival films and documentaries that should be on your radar.

Robert Redford's starred in and/or directed many iconic films throughout the years, but one of the genres he's found himself returning to is the political thriller. All The President's Men ...

“Atropia,” directed by Hailey Gates, won the U.S. dramatic competition’s grand jury prize for its darkly comedic take on the intersection of war and performance, while Brittany Shyne’s ...

There is no need to imagine. It is hard to believe that the world of facsimiles that Hailey Gates builds is not a product of pure fiction. “Atropia” was originally proposed as a documentary to ...

"Atropia," a satire of the Iraq War and military contractors' efforts to prepare soldiers to fight overseas, was one of the big winners at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival's awards ceremony.

Hailey Gates’ Atropia took home this year’s Grand Jury prize for U.S. Dramatic Competition. The political satire stars Alia Shawkat as an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility ...

O’Brien also won a special jury award for acting for his work in the film. Writer/director Hailey Gates’ comedy “Atropia” won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the Dramatic category ...

“This movie is so strange,” “Atropia’s” writer-director, Hailey Gates ... Theatre premiere, Gates said she was inspired by such satirical wartime comedies as Robert Altman’s ...