2026 Sundance Film Festival unveils final Park City line-up
The upcoming Sundance Film Festival (January 22-February 1, 2026) – the final edition in Park City, Utah, before the event decamps to Colorado in 2027 – will feature returning talents including Gregg Araki, Liz Garbus and Alex Gibney, three films with Charli XCX, and new films starring Olivia Colman, Natalie Portman, and Channing Tatum.
Festival organisers have unveiled 90 features and seven projects in the Episodic section, which combine with the previously-announced Park City Legacy programme for a total of 105 projects. There were 16,201 submissions from 164 countries or territories, including 4,255 feature films, of which 1,676 hail from the US and 2,579 from the rest of the world.
Araki, a member of the New Queer Cinema movement who premiered his first film The Living End in Park City in 1992, brings Premieres selection and comedy thriller I Want Your Sex starring Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Chase Sui Wonders, and Charli XCX.
British superstar Charli XCX is in two other Premieres entries, playing the lead as a pop star on the rise in Aidan Zamiri’s The Moment, and appearing alongside Natalie Portman in Cathy Yan’s art world satirical thriller The Gallerist. Olivia Wilde is the lead in I Want Your Sex, and directed and stars alongside Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Ed Norton in Premieres comedy drama The Invite.
Petra Volpe, whose Late Shift is the Swiss Oscar submission this season, makes her English-language debut in Premieres entry Frank & Louis (main picture) starring Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan. Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård are among a starry cast in Wicker, Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer’s drama about a fisherwoman who asks a basketmaker to weave her a husband.
Louis Paxton’s UK drama The Incomer premieres in Next and stars Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin and John Hannah. It was backed by BFI-awarded National Lottery funding, Screen Scotland, musician Moby, and Head Gear Films, among others. Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe star in The Weight, Padraic McKinley’s US drama set in 1933 Oregon that tells of a father who gets sent to a brutal work camp.
Sundance is a renowned launchpad for awards season documentary contenders and indeed the Producers Guild Of America’s non-fiction nominees this week include several that premiered at the 2025 festival like The Alabama Solution and The Perfect Neighbor. Returning filmmakers Gibney and Garbus will present, respectively, Knife: The Attempted Murder Of Salman Rushdie and Give Me The Ball!, a profile of tennis great Billie Jean King. Both play in Premieres.