The 2025 Sundance Film Festival: Local Lens is the chance to see a few of the award winners of the competition earlier than they’re launched, throughout an occasion in Utah that features movie intros and different occasions.
A free summer season screening collection specifically for the local people of Utah, going down July 17–19 at The Ray Theatre in Park City and Broadway Centre Cinemas in Salt Lake City, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival: Local Lens collection will carry Utahns free showings of a few of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s celebrated movies earlier than they’re launched.
Local Lens is a part of Sundance Institute’s wealthy historical past as a nonprofit rooted in Utah that helps partaking new tales and groundbreaking impartial artists by bringing audiences collectively. Filmmakers who will be a part of to introduce their movies and take part in Q&As following their screenings embody director Cole Webley (Omaha) and director Kim A. Snyder (The Librarians). Follow the hyperlink to get free tickets available to order now at www.sundance.org/local-lens.
“We are thrilled to again be hosting the 2025 Sundance Film Festival: Local Lens free movie series for our local Utah community as part of our year-round programming in the state,” stated Eugene Hernandez, Director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming. “Celebrating the deep connection with Utah audiences, this year’s program features standout films from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and reflects the spirit of discovery that is at the heart of Sundance Institute. We look forward to sharing these stories with local audiences and gearing up to come together at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Utah starting next January!”
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival: Local Lens program will embody eight fiction and documentary movies: Twinless (2025 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic and U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting offered to Dylan O’Brien), the place two younger males type an surprising friendship; Omaha, wherein two siblings are taken on a journey throughout the nation by their father, performed by John Magaro, and expertise a world they’ve by no means seen earlier than (as well as, the movie’s director, Cole Webley, has connections to Utah having lived there, and a lot of the movie was shot in and across the state); Rebuilding, which stars Josh O’Connor as a rancher discovering his means ahead after a wildfire destroys his household farm; All That’s Left of You), an epic multigenerational story a couple of Palestinian household; Selena y Los Dinos (2025 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling), that includes the long-lasting Mexican American singer Selena Quintanilla as chronicled by means of footage from the household’s private archive; Come See Me within the Good Light (2025 Sundance Film Festival Audience Favorite Award), following two poets as they attempt to come to phrases with a terminal most cancers prognosis, produced by Tig Notaro and executive-produced by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Brandi Carlile, and Sara Bareilles; The Librarians, documenting librarians becoming a member of forces as unlikely defenders combating for mental freedom; and The Dating Game, following three Chinese bachelors as they attend an intensive courting camp.
In addition to the screenings, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival: Local Lens program will embody an Artist Roundtable, offered in collaboration with Spy Hop, Salt Lake City’s digital media arts middle for youth occupied with movie, music, audio, and design. Geared towards Utah’s vibrant native artist neighborhood, the Artist Roundtable will convene artists with Sundance Film Festival programmers for a artistic alternate round inventive course of and the alternatives and challenges that come up alongside the way in which. For extra data and to RSVP, sign up here.
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