The festival says goodbye to both founder Robert Redford and its longtime home of Park City, Utah, with a selection of provocative documentaries and starry new films
New films starring Charli xcx, Natalie Portman and Salman Rushdie will all receive their world premieres at next month’s Sundance film festival.
The festival will be held for the last time in Park City, Utah, before it moves to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027. Over the years, it has been home to the first screenings of films including Get Out, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Blair Witch Project, Past Lives, Napoleon Dynamite, Precious and Little Miss Sunshine.
Charli xcx will be seen in three films premiering at the 2026 festival, led by The Moment, a mockumentary where she plays a version of herself. “It’s not a tour documentary or a concert film in any way, but the seed of the idea was conceived from this idea of being pressured to make one,” she has said of the film. It also stars Rachel Sennott, Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Berlant and Kylie Jenner.
She will also appear alongside Portman in dark comedy thriller The Gallerist. The film centres on a gallerist trying to sell a dead man at Miami’s Art Basel. It’s co-written and directed by Cathy Yan, whose last film was DC spin-off Birds of Prey. The cast also includes Jenna Ortega, Sterling K Brown, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Zach Galifianakis.
