Like many of the independent films that premiered at this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia” has not yet sold to a distributor.

Atropia, Seeds, Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) and Cutting Through Rocks were among the key winners at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

The war satire “Atropia” about actors in a military role-playing facility won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie “Twinless” got the coveted audience award.

As it searches for a new home beyond Park City, Utah, the film festival showcases a neo-western, a promising comedic debut and two unsettling documentaries.

The Sundance Film Festival, it’s fair to say, has never been through a moment of sheer flux as profound as the one it’s now living through. The festival is preparing to announce the new city that will be its host,

A still from The Perfect Neighbor by Geeta Gandbhir, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

Our final Sundance 2025 dispatch highlights Train Dreams and Dramatic Competition films Twinless, Bunnylovr, Ricky, and Plainclothes.

Naturally, The Verge is going to be taking in as much of Sundance as we can and posting bite-sized reviews of everything we see. We’ll also be posting longer reviews and sharing trailers, and you can follow along here to keep up with all of the news out of the festival.

Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones appear in Train Dreams by Clint Bentley Adolpho Veloso. The two best films I saw at Sundance, and what will be two of the best films of 2025, couldn’t be more different,

Amid a number of thin, depressing movies at this year’s edition of the Utah festival, a pair of funny, big-hearted films stood out, alongside the typical contingent of thoughtful character studies and powerful documentaries.

Six Sundance documentaries are part of the Ford Foundation's $4.2 million investment in social justice stories.

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers. The result is “The Alabama Solution,