With 2025’s Sundance Movie Pageant wrapping up, the Institute chargeable for the yearly indie discussion board is already cooking up plans for subsequent 12 months’s gathering. Dates have been set, with in-person occasions in Park Metropolis and Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, stretching from January 22 to February 1, 2026.
In an announcement shared with IndieWire, Appearing CEO of Sundance Institute Amanda Kelso stated, “The previous 11 days of the Pageant have been a significant alternative to attach as a neighborhood in help of unbiased storytelling. We sit up for being reunited with audiences, artists, business, and press subsequent January for an additional version of the Pageant.”
Including his pleasure, Director of Sundance Movie Pageant and Public Programming Eugene Hernandez stated, “As this 12 months’s Pageant involves a detailed, we’re already looking forward to 2026 and what is going to little doubt be an unforgettable expertise! We invite you to save lots of the date and prepare to affix us in Park Metropolis and Salt Lake Metropolis one 12 months from now at Sundance 2026; it is going to be a Pageant you gained’t need to miss!”
2026 stands out as the final 12 months Sundance is hosted within the Beehive State, as bids are at the moment on the desk from Boulder, Colorado, and Cincinnati, Ohio, to take over in 2027. Salt Lake Metropolis remains to be within the operating to maintain Sundance in Utah, however IndieWire’s polling at this 12 months’s competition confirmed many are break up on the place the brand new residence ought to land. To make issues extra difficult, Sundance’s digital platform, which has been in place since 2021 and permits these unable to attend in particular person to view choose titles at residence, is now beneath menace because of some viewers recording clips and posting them on social media.
Additionally introduced was 2025’s Pageant Favourite Award, which went to the touching documentary “Come See Me within the Good Gentle.” The movie follows poets and companions Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley as they face the previous’s harrowing battle in opposition to ovarian most cancers. Directed by Ryan White and produced by Tig Notaro, Brandi Carlile, and Sara Bareilles, the mission comes at a necessary second for queer and trans lives in America.
“All through the Pageant we noticed audiences moved by Andrea Gibson’s and Megan Falley’s journeys in ‘Come See Me within the Good Gentle,’” stated Kim Yutani, Sundance Movie Pageant Director of Programming. “Pageant goers embraced the humor and heartbreak of this intimate documentary directed by Ryan White, because it speaks to artwork and love and reminds us what it means to be alive as we face mortality.”
The Pageant Favourite Award is determined by votes immediately from viewers members. The highest 5 runners-up for the award this 12 months had been “Deaf President Now!,” “The Alabama Resolution,” “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” “Andre Is an Fool,” and “Prime Minister.”