The 2025 Sundance Movie Competition has unveiled its buzzy Past Movie lineup with high filmmakers in attendance.
The Past Movie program will happen in-person from January 24-31; the pageant movies will grow to be accessible to audiences throughout the nation on the net Competition Platform all through the week. The pageant will happen from January 23 to February 2 in Park Metropolis and Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah.
Highlights of the Past Movie panels embody conversations with Chloë Sevigny — who seems in two Sundance 2025 movies, “Atropia” and “Magic Farm” — Olivia Colman (“Jimpa”), Marlee Matlin (“Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore”), and Steven Yeun, who stars in and produces “Bubble & Squeak.”
“Previous Lives” author/director Celine Tune, Daniel Kaluuya, and “Guardians of the Galaxy” author Nicole Perlman are additionally among the many panelists. A reside podcast recording of Elijah Wooden and Daniel Noah’s “Visitations” will moreover happen; Wooden and Noah each produce “Rabbit Lure,” which premieres on the pageant.
“We’re thrilled to announce the Past Movie lineup for the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition,” Kim Yutani, director of programming, stated. “The conversations at these occasions additional amplify the methods through which our audiences can interact with the themes and concepts inside this yr’s Competition Program. We stay up for that includes the inspiring voices of filmmakers, artists, and politicians to attach much more with audiences.”
Ania Trzebiatowska, the Past Movie program curator, added, “Past Movie programming is a dynamic and provoking a part of the Sundance Movie Competition expertise, designed to spark what can solely be described as collective effervescence. We invite our audiences to step past the screens — whether or not attending in particular person or becoming a member of from residence — and to attach deeply with artists and their tales.”
Past Movie serves as a neighborhood hub for attendees, providing artist discussions, conversations with filmmakers and consultants from numerous disciplines, and alternatives for viewers engagement. The Past Movie collection will characteristic talks titled “Energy of Story,” the “Cinema Café” introduced by Audible, “Movie Church,” and “The Huge Dialog.” All Past Movie actions are free to the general public excluding “Energy of Story,” which is a paid ticket.
Take a look at the Sundance Movie Competition 2025 Past Movie lineup under.
POWER OF STORY
The Sundance Movie Competition’s Energy of Story dialog seems to deepen public engagement with the artwork of storytelling, delve into cinema tradition, and have a good time artists whose work propels and reinvents the shape as we all know it. By considering the way forward for storytelling, we discover how revolutionary narrative experiences will reshape tradition by inventive discovery, rising media, and the reassertion of independence in filmmaking.
Energy of Story: On Success
Tuesday, January 28, 3–4:30 p.m.
Egyptian Theatre, 328 Essential St, Park Metropolis, UT
This yr, the Energy of Story dialog will convene a bunch of artists, thinkers, and tradition makers to speak concerning the which means of success. We’ll look at what success actually means, the way it’s formed by socioeconomic and political components, and the way these influences have an effect on the methods we measure, admire, and outline success. By addressing the roles of privilege, alternative, and systemic limitations, we purpose to foster an trustworthy, important, and inclusive dialogue about success and its complexities.
That includes: Mstyslav Chernov (2000 Meters to Andriivka), Celine Tune (Previous Lives), Chloë Sevigny (Atropia, Magic Farm), and Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Moderated by Stacey Wilson Hunt (Contributing Editor, The Hollywood Reporter)
CINEMA CAFÉ
Friday January 24–Friday, January 31, 2025
Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Essential St, Park Metropolis, UT
The doorways are open once more at Cinema Café, the place the tradition of dialog is reinvigorated. Our collection of casual chats brings collectively particular company for thought-provoking encounters and interesting dialogue. Earlier Cinema Café company have included Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Tessa Thompson, Jane Campion, Eugenio Derbez, Lena Dunham, Norman Lear, Kumail Nanjiani, Zazie Beetz, Saoirse Ronan, Spike Lee, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Radha Clean, Ira Glass, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bassem Youssef, Charlie Kaufman, Ice-T, Nick Hornby, Winston Duke, Samantha Energy, Steve Coogan, Roger Corman, D. Smith, and plenty of others.
Cinema Café is introduced by Audible
Cinema Café: Olivia Colman (Jimpa) and Steven Yeun (Bubble & Squeak)
Moderated by Kim Yutani (Director of Programming, Sundance Movie Competition)
Friday, January 24, 11–11:45 a.m.
Cinema Café: Jacinda Ardern (former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Topic, Prime Minister) and Marlee Matlin (Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore)
Moderated by Sudeep Sharma (Programmer, Sundance Movie Competition)
Saturday, January 25, 11 a.m.–midday
Cinema Café: Recent Faces
Eva Victor (Sorry, Child), Katarina Zhu (Bunnylovr), Rashad Frett (Ricky), and Théodore Pellerin (Lurker)
Moderated by Ash Hoyle (Programmer, Sundance Movie Competition)
Tuesday, January 28, midday–1 p.m.
Cinema Café: Gregory Nava (El Norte) and Isabel Castro (Selena y Los Dinos)
Moderated by Stephanie Owens (Programmer, Sundance Movie Competition)
Wednesday, January 29, 11 a.m.–midday
Cinema Café: Visitations Reside Podcast with Elijah Wooden (Producer, Rabbit Lure) and Daniel Noah (Producer, Rabbit Lure)
Elijah Wooden and Daniel Noah of indie manufacturing firm SpectreVision will host a reside taping of their podcast Visitations.
Thursday, January 30, 11 a.m.–midday
THE BIG CONVERSATION
The Huge Dialog tackles science, artwork, tradition, and the actions which might be fueling at present’s unbiased artists. A compelling number of audio system talk about matters centered on the themes of this yr’s program and discover broader traits in artwork and tradition. In contemplating how artists make which means of the world, we’re reminded how the large conversations join us to the large concepts.
The Huge Dialog: Breaking Obstacles
Monday, January 27, 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Essential St, Park Metropolis, UT
Pushing the boundaries of human data and functionality has by no means been a frictionless endeavor. Whether or not limitations are scientific or technological, or whether or not they’re exemplified by broader cultural and social challenges confronted by scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, they’re united in being the dramatic engine of many desirable, advanced narratives in movie and tv — together with this yr’s SALLY. On this discuss, storytellers and scientists delve into the artwork and science of breaking limitations.
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Basis.
That includes: Cristina Costantini (SALLY) and Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy)
FILM CHURCH
Friday, January 31, 2–3:30 p.m.
Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Essential St, Park Metropolis, UT
What might be extra divine than 11 days of movie watching? End off your Sundance Movie Competition expertise by sharing a near-spiritual event with a bunch of movie lovers. Be part of us as we wrap up with quite a lot of particular company, together with filmmakers who took residence awards that morning. All shall be forgiven.
Hosted by Eugene Hernandez and Kim Yutani