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Sundance Film Festival · 2026

Sundance Film Festival 2026

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Aanikoobijigan

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This is not the first documentary to explore the issue of colonial looting, but its unique angle makes it stand out.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil)

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Ghost In The Machine

he untold origins of artificial intelligence lie not in machines but in power, revealing the fantasies behind the hype that got us here and where we go next.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Valerie Veatch)

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If I Go Will They Miss Me

Twelve-year-old Lil Ant struggles to connect with his father when he begins to see surreal, almost spectral visions of boys drifting around his neighbourhood. Their presence reveals a link between father and son, laying bare the threads that bind family, legacy, and place.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Walter Thompson-Hernández; Writer: Walter Thompson-Hernández; Stars: Kelvin Adekunle, Bre-Z, Danielle Brooks, Myles Bullock, Bodhi Dell, J. Alphonse Nicholson)

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The Incomer

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Grounded in whimsy and wonder but willing to embrace a dark edge

Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy hunt birds and talk to mythical beings while fighting off outsiders. Their lives change when Daniel, an awkward official, arrives to relocate them.

(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2026; Director: Louis Paxton; Writer: Louis Paxton; Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Michelle Gomez, Grant O'Rourke, Emun Elliott, Gayle Rankin, Vanessa Donovan)

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Jaripeo

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The documentary is attentive to contradiction without flattening its subjects into symbols.

Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

(Country: Mexico, US, France; Year: 2026; Director: Rebecca Zweig, Efraín Mojica)

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Night Nurse

As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Georgia Bernstein; Writer: Georgia Bernstein; Stars: Cemre Paksoy, Bruce McKenzie, Eléonore Hendricks, Colleen Rose Trundy, Mimi Rogers)

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TheyDream

After 20 years of chronicling his Puerto Rican family, a director and his mother face devastating losses. Through tears and laughter, they craft animations that bring their loved ones back to life, discovering that every act of creation is also an act of letting go.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: William D. Caballero)

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Zi

In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night — and possibly her life.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Kogonada; Writer: Kogonada; Stars: Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson, Jin Ha)

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