The 2025 Sundance slate is getting some extra star energy with two buzzy documentaries: Andrew Jarecki‘s “The Alabama Resolution” and Bao Nguyen‘s “The Stringer.”
Each nonfiction options are the newest additions to the Premieres class lineup for the annual pageant. With the 2 documentaries included, the pageant totals 88 function movies to display screen. Out of the lineup, 96 p.c of options are world premieres.
“Including these two nonfiction options to our sturdy slate of documentary choices on the Competition, each informed by filmmakers who’ve been part of our Sundance group for a few years, completes our programming with compelling explorations round justice and truth-telling,” Kim Yutani, Sundance Movie Competition director of programming, mentioned in a press assertion.
“The Alabama Resolution” is co-directed and co-produced by Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman. The movie, which makes its world premiere on the pageant, facilities on incarcerated males who defy the percentages to show a cover-up in one among America’s deadliest jail programs. Jarecki most famously beforehand helmed “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” (2015), in addition to Sundance Grand Jury documentary prize winner “Capturing the Friedmans” (2003) and “Only a Clown” (2004). The Emmy-winning HBO docuseries “The Jinx” was revisited in 2024 with a six-episode continuation titled “Half Two.”
Final month, Andrew’s brother Eugene Jarecki’s Julian Assange documentary “The Six Billion Greenback Man” was pulled from Sundance because of surprising developments within the story.
Like Jarecki, “Be Water” (2020) and “The Biggest Evening in Pop” (2024) director Nguyen additionally returns to Sundance with “The Stringer,” which is produced by Fiona Turner and Terri Lichstein.
“The Stringer” follows the two-year investigation behind the making of one of the vital acknowledged images of the twentieth century. The official logline reads that “5 many years of secrets and techniques are unraveled within the seek for justice for a person identified solely as ‘the stringer.’”
The 2025 Sundance Movie Competition will happen from January 23 via February 2 in individual in Park Metropolis and Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah. All the competitors movies and extra shall be accessible on-line from January 30 to February 2 for audiences throughout the nation. Single movie tickets for in-person and on-line screenings go on sale January 16.
For the 88 movies screening, a complete of 33 international locations are represented this yr, with 42 p.c of administrators being first-time function filmmakers. 9 of the function movies and tasks have been supported by Sundance Institute in growth via direct granting or residency labs, too.
See the complete 2025 Sundance Movie Competition lineup right here.