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Sundance Film Festival · 2026

Sundance Film Festival 2026

Midnight

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7 films · 1 review

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The Best Summer

Immersive POV camera footage reveals electric performances, candid interviews, and intimate backstage life with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, Beck, The Amps, and Bikini Kill — an all-access view inside an era-defining moment in music.

(Country: US, Austria, Indonesia, Thailand; Year: 2026; Director: Tamra Davis)

World premiere

Buddy

A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.

(Country: US, Israel, Canada; Year: 2026; Director: Casper Kelly; Writer: Casper Kelly, Jamie King; Stars: Cristin Milioti, Topher Grace, Delaney Quinn, Keegan-Michael Key, Michael Shannon, Patton Oswalt, Seamus Flynn, Madison Polan, Bryson JonSteele, Bennie Taylor, Mark Aaron Buerkle)

World premiere

Leviticus

Two star-crossed teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.

(Country: Australia, US; Year: 2026; Director: Adrian Chiarella; Writer: Adrian Chiarella; Stars: Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen, Mia Wasikowska, Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie, Davida McKenzie)

World premiere

Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant

When a messy millennial underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant, she must overcome skeptical doctors, a useless baby daddy, and her oversharing mum in order to survive and reclaim her life.

(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2026; Director: Jordan Mark Windsor, Sean Wallace; Stars: Hannah Lynch, Yvette Parsons, Arlo Green, Jackie van Beek, Jonny Brugh, Karen O'Leary, Ariadne Baltazar, Angella Dravid, Renee Lyons, Ian Mune, Donogh Rees, Brenda Kendall, Fasitua Amosa, Rashmi Pilapitiya, Barry Te Hira)

World premiere

Rock Springs

After the death of her father, a grieving young girl moves to an isolated house in a new town with her mother and grandmother, only to discover there is something monstrous hidden in the town’s history and the woods behind their new home.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Vera Miao; Writer: Vera Miao; Stars: Kelly Marie Tran, Benedict Wong, Jimmy O. Yang, Aria Kim, Fiona Fu)

World premiere

Saccharine

Review preview for Saccharine

The complex interaction of desire and disgust is expressed through the textures of indulgent, luxurious foods juxtaposed with similarly textured body parts in a way that is both sensual and grotesque.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A lovelorn medical student is terrorised by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.

(Country: Australia, Finland, US; Year: 2026; Director: Natalie Erika James; Writer: Natalie Erika James; Stars: Midori Francis, Danielle Macdonald, Madeleine Madden, Joseph Baldwin, Anna Adams, Annie Shapero, Emily Milledge, Daniela Rene Fink, Andre Ong Carlesso, Conny Fong)

Full review See: Interview with Natalie Erika James about Saccharine

World premiere

Undertone

The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.

(Country: Canada, US; Year: 2026; Director: Ian Tuason; Writer: Ian Tuason; Stars: Nina Kiri, Kristen Holden-Ried, Michèle Duquet, Keana Bastidas, Jeff Yung, Sarah Beaudin, Brian Quintero, Christina Notto, Ryan Turner)

World premiere