Want to enjoy the 2025 Sundance Film Festival without trudging through Park City snow, finding a parking space in downtown Salt Lake City or putting on shoes?
You can through Sundance’s online portal. However, it comes at a festival-level price.
For the third year running, the Sundance Film Festival is being planned as a hybrid event, with in-person screenings in Park City and Salt Lake City from Jan. 23 through Feb. 2.
Online, dozens of titles will also be available to stream during the festival’s final four days: Thursday, Jan. 30, through Sunday, Feb. 2.
About 60% of the festival’s feature films — 52 of the 86 titles — will be available online through Sundance’s web portal during that time. That’s roughly the same number of titles available online during the 2024 festival.
[Read more: Here are the 87 movies set to screen at Sundance 2025 — and the stars they will feature]
Access to the streaming portal is limited. The festival’s online ticket package is sold out. A limited number of single-film tickets go on sale Thursday, Jan. 16. Individual tickets for online screenings are the same price as the in-person tickets: $35 each.
A “Shorts Film Pass,” which allows online access to the short-film program, is available through Jan. 10 for $50. Of the 57 short films selected for the festival, 54 will also stream online.
Go to festival.sundance.org to purchase passes and individual tickets.
The 52 feature-film titles streaming online include all 48 of the films in the festival’s competition — in the U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic, World Cinema Documentary and Next categories.
U.S. Dramatic
“Atropia” • An actress in a military role-playing facility falls for a soldier who’s cast as an insurgent, throwing the game out of whack. Starring Alia Shawkat (“Arrested Development”) and Callum Turner (“The Boys in the Boat”); directed and written by Hailey Gates.
“Bubble & Squeak” • Writer-director Evan Twohy’s satire takes place in a fictional country where cabbages are banned — and follows a newlywed couple on the run when they’re accused of smuggling cabbages. It stars Himesh Patel (“Yesterday”) and Sarah Goldberg (“Barry”).
“Bunnylovr” • Writer-director Katarina Zhu plays Rebecca, a Chinese American camgirl navigating two relationships: one with a toxic client, the other with her estranged, dying father.
“Love, Brooklyn” • In Brooklyn, three people deal with careers, love, loss, friendship and their changing borough. It stars André Holland, Nicole Beharie and DeWanda Wise. Directed by Rachael Abigail Holder, written by Paul Zimmerman.
“Omaha” • Filmed in Utah, this drama follows a father who takes his two children on an unexpected cross-country trip — where the older daughter understands things aren’t what they seem. John Magaro (“Past Lives”) plays the father. Directed by Cole Webley; written by Robert Machoian, a Brigham Young University professor who wrote and directed “The Killing of Two Lovers” (SFF ‘20).
“Plainclothes” • In 1990s New York, a young undercover officer is assigned to lure and arrest gay men. Then he falls in love with one of his targets. Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey play the leads. Written and directed by Carmen Emmi.
“Ricky” • Stephan James plays Ricardo Smith, who has been locked up since he was a teen. Now 30, he’s released and dealing with reality outside of incarceration. Director Rashad Frett co-wrote the script with Lin Que Ayoung.
“Sorry, Baby” • Writer-director Eva Victor stars as Agnes, to whom something bad has happened — and she observes how life goes on for everyone around her. Victor, who starred on the series “Billions,” is making her directing debut.
“Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)” • Writer-director Sierra Falconer tells an anthology of stories in a small town by a lake: A girl learns to sail, a boy fights for first chair, two sisters operate a bed-and-breakfast, and a fisherman is seeking the catch of his life.
“Twinless” • In a twin bereavement support group, two young men form an unlikely bromance — one played by Dylan O’Brien, the other by the film’s writer-director, James Sweeney.
U.S. Documentary
“Andre Is an Idiot” • Director Anthony Benna follows Andre — a “brilliant idiot” who’s dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy — through a journey to explore how to die “happily and ridiculously” without losing one’s sense of humor.
“Life After” • Director Reid Davenport digs into the history of Elizabeth Bouvia, a disabled woman who in 1983 sought the “right to die” in California — and, after years of courtroom trials, disappeared from view.
“Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore” • Marlee Matlin became world famous at age 21, when she became the first deaf actor to win an Oscar. Here, Matlin reflects on being a trailblazer — using her primary language, American Sign Language. Directed by actor Shoshannah Stern (“Jericho,” “Weeds”), who also is deaf.
“The Perfect Neighbor” • Director Geeta Gandbhir looks into the deadly consequences of Florida’s stand your ground law, using police body camera footage and investigative interviews to dig into what seemingly started as a minor neighborhood dispute.
“Predators” • Director David Osit chronicles the rise and fall of the “Dateline” TV series “To Catch a Predator,” which was designed to lure child predators to a film set to be interviewed and then arrested.
“Seeds” • Director Brittany Shyne looks at Black generational farmers in the South, exploring the fragile nature of legacy and the importance of owning land.
“Selena y Los Dinos” • A profile of Selena Quintanilla, the “Queen of Tejano Music,” and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos — compiled from footage from the family’s personal archive before her tragic death at age 23. Directed by Isabel Castro.
“Speak.” • Directors Jennifer Tiexiera and Guy Mossman go inside one of the world’s largest public-speaking competitions, following five top-ranked high school oratory students as they spend a year creating the perfect spoken word performance.
“Sugar Babies” • Director Rachel Fleit follows Autumn, a fast-rising TikTok influencer who’s determined to overcome the poverty in which she’s grown up in rural Louisiana — by launching an online “sugar baby” operation.
“Third Act” • Director Tadashi Nakamura provides an intimate portrait of his father, Robert A. Nakamura — sometimes called “the godfather of Asian American media” — as his dad is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
World Cinema Dramatic
“Brides” • (U.K.) Two teen girls run away from home, intending to travel to Syria, in this drama directed by Nadia Fall and written by Suhayla El-Bushra.
“DJ Ahmet” • (North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia) Ahmet is 15 and lives in a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia. He finds refuge in his music, while dealing with his father’s expectations, his conservative community, and his first love — who’s arranged to be with to someone else. Written and directed by Georgi M. Unkovski.
“Luz” • (Hong Kong, China) Under the neon lights of Chongqing, Wei searches for his estranged daughter, Fa, while a Hong Kong gallerist, Ren, deals with her ailing stepmother, Sabine, in Paris. Their worlds meet in virtual reality. Written and directed by Flora Lau, the cast is led by French legend Isabelle Huppert.
“Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)” • (India, U.K., Canada) Anand, in his 30s, leaves the city for the countryside of western India for a 10-day mourning period for his father. There, he meets a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. Written and directed by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade.
“Sauna” • (Denmark) Johan, a gay man in Copenhagen who prefers casual flings, meets William, a transgender man, and falls in love — challenging societal norms about gender, identity and relationships. Director Mathias Broe co-wrote the script with William Lippert. Magnus Juhl Andersen and Nina Rask plays the leads.
“Sukkwan Island” • (France) A 13-year-old boy spends a formative year with his father on a remote island in the Norwegian fjords as a chance to connect becomes a test of survival. Written and directed by Vladimir de Fontenay.
“The Things You Kill” • (Turkey, France, Poland, Canada) After his ailing mother dies under suspicious circumstances, a professor talks his gardener into committing an act of vengeance. Written and directed by Alireza Khatami.
“Two Women” • (Canada) Director Chloé Robichaud and screenwriter Catherine Léger tell the stories of two women: Violette, who’s having a difficult maternity leave, and Florence, who’s dealing with depression — and her first infidelity. Laurence Leboeuf and Karine Gonthier-Hyndman play Violette and Florence.
“The Virgin of Quarry Lake” • (Argentina, Spain, Mexico) Three teens outside Buenos Aires in 2001 are all in love with Diego — and jealousy and magic play a part in what happens next. Directed by Laura Casabé and written by Benjamin Naishtat.
“Where the Wind Comes From” • (Tunisia, France, Qatar) A rebellious 19-year-old girl and an introverted 23-year-old man, who use their imagination to escape their harsh reality, find out about a contest in southern Tunisia that could allow them to flee for good. Written and directed by Ael Guellaty.
World Cinema Documentary
“Coexistence, My Ass!” • (U.S., France) Director Amber Fares captures the work of comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi, as she tours her one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel and Palestine. Rachel Leah Jones and Rabab Haj Yahya are credited as screenwriters.
“Cutting Through Rocks (یولالر اوزاک)” • (Iran, Germany, U.S., Netherlands, Qatar, Chile, Canada) Directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyn introduce audiences to Sara Shahverdi, the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, who aims to break patriarchal traditions by stopping child marriages and training teen girls to ride motorcycles.
“The Dating Game” • (U.S., U.K., Norway) Director Violet Du Feng goes to China, where eligible men outnumber women by a wide margin, to follow three long-time bachelors at an intensive weeklong dating camp — led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches.
“Endless Cookie” • (Canada) The writing-directing team of Seth and Peter Scriver made this animated documentary, telling stories about two half brothers — one Indigenous, one white — that go from 1980s Toronto to present day in the isolated First Nation community of Shamattawa.
“GEN_” • (France, Italy, Switzerland) Dr. Bini sees patients at a public hospital in Milan, where he specializes in helping parents with in vitro fertilization and people reconciling their bodies with their gender identities. Directed by Gianluca Matarrese, who co-wrote the film with Donatella Della Ratta.
“How to Build a Library” • (Kenya) In Nairobi, two women decide to turn what used to be a whites-only library before 1958 into a cultural hub — dealing with local politics, fundraising and the ghosts of Kenya’s colonial past. Husband-and-wife filmmakers Christopher King and Maia Lekow directed the film and co-wrote it with Ricardo Acosta.
“Khartoum” • (Sudan, U.K., Germany, Qatar) Five citizens of Khartoum, Sudan, reenact the stories of their survival when they fled for East Africa following the outbreak of civil war. Directed by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed and Phil Cox; Cox is credited as screenwriter.
“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” • (Denmark, Czech Republic) Pasha, a teacher, goes undercover at his own school to uncover what happened in Russia’s hinterlands at the start of that country’s invasion of Ukraine — and schools there became recruitment stages for war. Directed and written by David Borenstein.
“Prime Minister” • (U.S.) A profile of Jacinda Ardern, former prime minister of New Zealand, spanning her five years in power and after. Directed by Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz.
“2000 Meters to Andriivka” • (Ukraine) Director Mstyslav Chernov returns to Sundance, two years after “20 Days in Mariupol” — his look at the first days of the war in Ukraine — won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award and went on to win the Oscar. This time, he follows a Ukrainian platoon working to traverse 1 mile in a heavily fortified forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation.
Next — for offbeat, smaller-budgeted movies
“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions” • The ongoing “BLKNWS” project culminates in this feature film, about a West African curator and scholar whose magnum opus leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean with a journalist in tow. Directed by Kahlil Joseph and written by Saidiya Hartman and Irvin Hunt.
“By Design” • A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and people like her better as a chair, in this satire by writer-director Amanda Kramer. The cast features Juliette Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Melanie Griffith, Samantha Mathis, Robin Tunney and Udo Kier.
“East of Wall” • Tabatha, a rebellious young horse trainer, deals with financial problems and unresolved grief after her husband’s death — so she takes in wayward teens to her broken-down ranch in the badlands, in writer-director Kate Beecroft’s drama. Tabatha Zimiga plays the lead.
“Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)” • Rico spends his summer chasing girls and selling homemade cocktails out of a cooler in The Bronx — until his teen girlfriend, Destiny moves in with his family. Written and directed by Joel Alfonso Vargas.
“OBEX” • Albert Birney directed, co-wrote (with Pete Ohs) and stars in this story about a guy who has to enter a new computer game to bring back his missing dog. Also starring Callie Hernandez and Frank Mosley.
“Rains Over Babel” • (Colombia, U.S., Spain) In a modern take on “Dante’s Inferno,” purgatory is a dive bar called Babel, where La Flaca — the Grim Reaper — presides, as misfit souls gamble years of their life, daring to outwit Death herself. Directed and written by Gala del Sol.
“Serious People” • Directed and written by Pasqual Gutierrez and Ben Mullinkosson, this movie stars Gutierrez as a music-video director whose partner is about to have a baby — so, to restore his work-life balance, he hires a doppelgänger to work in his place.
“Zodiac Killer Project” • (U.S., U.K.) A filmmaker looks at his abandoned film, a documentary on the “Zodiac Killer,” taking an insider’s look at the true-crime genre as it’s hitting the saturation point. Directed by Charlie Shackleton.
More movies available online
Also screening online will be four movies being shown out of competition:
• “Sally,” a documentary about the pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, playing in the Premieres program, reserved for movies with bigger budgets and stars.
• “Heightened Scrutiny,” a documentary about the legal fight against anti-trans laws, profiling the American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chase Strangio, who in December became the first openly transgender lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. It’s also in the Premieres program.
• “Deaf President Now!,” which chronicles a landmark student protest at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. — the world’s only university for the deaf. It’s playing in the Premieres program.
• And “Didn’t Die,” a horror comedy about podcasters trying to keep going through a zombie apocalypse, playing in the Midnight program, a category for horror and other genres.
In the Episodic program, devoted to TV-formatted work, one dramatic series — “Hal & Harper,” starring Lili Reinhart and Mark Ruffalo — and two titles in the “Episodic Pilot Showcase” also will stream online.