While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 is under way. The event’s 41st edition kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest so far. Sundance founder Robert Redford promised that audiences “can expect a 2025 program that showcases varied and vibrant filmmaking […]

Cynthia Erivo was flying high, defying the societal norms of airplane culture, when she openly wept after finding out about her Best Actress nomination. While en route to Sundance, where Erivo is being honored with the festivals Visionary Award, she caught the eye of the flight attendant onboard who brought her tissues. Its fine, Erivo […]

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival just days after Trump clarified his Make America Great Again agenda, Sophie Hydes Jimpa is a film about progress, not going back. Inspired by lessons of living with an activist gay father (John Lithgows richest role since The World According to Garp) and a nonbinary child (Aud Mason-Hyde), the […]

The first time Ahmir Questlove Thompson had a film at the Sundance Film Festival, The Roots co-founder never got to share it with a live audience due to the Covid lockdown that saw the 2021 gathering go virtual only. Tonight, with the 9:30 p.m. MT premiere of Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) […]

It’s no secret that corporations like Netflix, Amazon, and Apple have lost their appetite for current event documentaries that tackle politics. The good old days when streamers shelled out seven figures for docus about polarizing politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Knock Down the House), and eye-opening mock-government teen conferences (Boys State”) after their Sundance...

Director and co-writer (with Matthew Cormack) Sophie Hyde takes inspiration from her own life as daughter of a gay man and mother of a trans nonbinary teenager to tell the moving story of an Australian family on a visit to Amsterdam to spend time with the father and grandfather known affectionately as Jimpa. Hyde most […]

Hollywood is heading up the mountain for what’s possibly one of the final Sundance Film Festivals to be held in the posh ski-resort town of Park City. It’s a place that’s hosted its fair share of all-night bidding wars, where films ranging from “Reservoir Dogs” and “Napoleon Dynamite” to “Brooklyn” and “The Big Sick” landed […...

In the moving Sundance drama Omaha, the bedsheets are still warm when the life of a family is thrown into disarray on the morning they are mandated to vacate their home. The mothers passing and the 2008 financial collapse contributed to the precariousness thats put them in this predicament. Few belongings will accompany them on […]

Kicking off the Sundance Film Festival dramatic competition this year is Omaha, an increasingly bleak road trip with a recently widowed father, his two kids and their dog. Set against the 2008 financial crisis, Omaha begins with a dad (John Magaro) facing foreclosure on his house after losing what appears to be everything professionally as […]

French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert will be awarded the honorary Golden Alexander for his contribution to cinema at the 27th Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Festival, which runs March 6-16. The festival will also host a tribute to the work of the American filmmaker Lauren Greenfield. Philibert, who “dares to permeate the innermost depths of the human psyche,” […]

Long before like centuries before — RuPauls Drag Race, there were Molly Houses, queer underground clubs that operated in London in the 1700s. Yes, the 1700s. By day, these houses were regular coffeehouses, but at night, they turned into secret same-sex watering holes that included drag performances, sexual activity and more. There were up […]

Political polarization in America has gotten so bad that librarians yes, librarians are under siege across the country. To combat the nationwide censorship efforts made by politicians and conservative parental rights initiatives like Moms for Liberty, a group of librarians formed the FReadom Fighters in 2021. The group boasts members from across the […]

The Broadway actor celebrated the 'Eternal Sunshine' singer's major 'Wicked' milestone with a rare comment.

EXCLUSIVE: Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays,Animals,Good Luck to You Leo Grand) says casting a version of yourself is not an easy task. Its very tricky to do,says Hyde, director ofJimpa, which is premiering today at Park Citys Eccles. Its a film that sublimely explores what constitutes the makeup of family in our era. […]

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Living in a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, the titular 15-year-old boy in DJ Ahmet desperately wants two things he cannot have: to share music with others and to be with the girl next door, who is already promised to someone else. Director Georgi M. Unkovski knows a thing or two about wanting something […]

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has added Seoyeon Jang (Butterfly), William Fichtner (Mom, The Talamasca), Mikaela Hoover (Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and musician BM — in his acting debut — to the Season 2 cast of Beef, its award-winning anthology series from Lee Sung Jin and A24. American-born, Korea-based BM is known as leader of […]