Beth de Araújo's Josephine won both Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance 2026. An eight-year-old girl witnesses sexual assault in Golden Gate Park. She responds with escalating violence. The film never explains where…
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Walter Thompson-Hernández's film follows Lil Ant, twelve, as his father returns from prison in Watts. The boy has learned to measure love in small amounts, in ways that won't disappoint him. His father arrives as…
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Two best friends at an English boarding school devise a plan to seduce their geography teacher. Molly Manners' Extra Geography announces this premise with genuine promise. What follows is half a good film watching itself…
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Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff follow Billie Jean King across three distinct territories: her tennis career, her fight for equal pay in professional sport, and her emergence as a queer icon. The film doesn't present…
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David Wain and Ken Marino wrote Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass . It’s absurd. A hairdresser named Gail discovers her fiancé used his "celebrity sex pass", that notional couple agreement allowing one guilt-free…
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Three television pilots. Three different approaches to comedy. Sundance's Episodic Fiction Pilot Showcase captured distinct sensibilities. Each suggests how contemporary comedy works when it refuses easy laughs. "Freelance," created by Julien and Justen Turner, documents…
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Valerie Veatch made Ghost in the Machine self-edited and self-funded. It's a polemic without apology. Two hours examining artificial intelligence's ideological roots, tracing the line from eugenics to contemporary tech evangelicalism. The second half gets…
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Casper Kelly’s debut asks: what if children’s television, all that cheerful safety, harbored violence? An orange unicorn named Buddy kills. Children become trapped in a vintage TV program. The premise is genuinely unsettling. The film…
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Director Amel Guellaty has crafted something genuinely special with her feature debut - a visually stunning road trip film that defies every orientalist expectation about Arab cinema while delivering an authentic, heartwarming story about friendship,…
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