2026 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

22 January – 1 February 2026 · Park City, Utah and Salt Lake City, Utah

158 films across 14 sections · 21 prizes

Next edition: January 21–31, 2027

U.S. Dramatic

Josephine

Venues 1

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The festival's main hall. Its programme names the films, not the rooms.

The prizes

Audience Awards

U.S. Dramatic

Josephine

World Cinema Dramatic

Hold onto Me

World Cinema Documentary

One In A Million (Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes)

Directing, Editing, and Screenwriting Prizes

U.S. Dramatic Directing Award

Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Josef Kubota Wladyka

U.S. Documentary Directing Award

Soul Patrol J.M. Harper

World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award

How to Divorce During the War Andrius Blaževičius

World Cinema Documentary Directing Award

One In A Million Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes

Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award

Barbara Forever Matt Hixon

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

Take Me Home U.S. Dramatic: Liz Sargent

NEXT Innovator Award

The Incomer

Shorts Program Awards

U.S. Fiction

Crisis Actor

International Fiction

Jazz Infernal

Sundance Institute Awards

Producers Award for Nonfiction

Who Killed Alex Odeh? Dawne Langford

NHK Award

Verano Leo Aguirre

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

In The Blink of An Eye Andrew Stanton [[In the Blink of an Eye (2026 film)|, ]]

Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction

Flavia de Souza

Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction

Mollie Goldstein

U.S. Dramatic Competition 10

World Cinema Dramatic Competition 10

U.S. Documentary Competition 10

World Cinema Documentary Competition 10

Premieres 29

Next 9

Midnight 7

Episodic 9

Family Matinee 2

U.S. Fiction Short Films 16

International Fiction Short Films 17

Animated Short Films 12

Nonfiction Short Films 9

Special Screenings 8