2025 Sundance Film Festival Announces Two Additional World Premieres in the Lineup
The Alabama Solution and The Stringer Added to Program,
Festival Will Now Screen 88 Feature Films Single Film Tickets on Sale January 16
This week the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the addition of two feature films to the current 2025 Sundance Film Festival program, bringing the total feature films at this year’s Festival to 88 projects. The Festival will take place from January 23-February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with all of the competition films and more available online from January 30-February 2, 2025, for audiences across the country. Single Film Tickets for in-person and online screenings go on sale January 16 at 10 a.m. MT.
The latest feature films world premiering at the upcoming Festival are documentaries The Alabama Solution and The Stringer, both in the Premieres category. Each of the projects are directed by filmmakers who have presented their works at previous editions of the Sundance Film Festival. The Stringer director Bao Nguyen premiered Be Water (2020) and T he Greatest Night in Pop (2024), while The Alabama Solution director Andrew Jarecki has brought three projects to the Festival previously: Capturing the Friedmans (2003), Just a Clown (2004), and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015).
“Adding these two nonfiction features to our robust slate of documentary offerings at the Festival, both told by filmmakers who have been a part of our Sundance community for many years, completes our programming with compelling explorations around justice and truth-telling,” said Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming.
The Sundance Film Festival is an artist program of Sundance Institute, a nonprofit that impacts thousands of artists every year through its year-round artist programs, the Festival, and through Sundance Collab, its online educational filmmaking platform. Profits from Festival ticket sales go to uplifting and developing emerging artists on a year-round basis through focused labs, direct grants, fellowships, residencies, and more.
Today’s additions round out the 2025 Festival slate, where 88 feature-length films will screen representing 33 countries, and 37 of 88 (42%) feature film directors are first-time feature filmmakers. Nine of the feature films and projects were supported by Sundance Institute in development through direct granting or residency labs. This year the film slate includes 84, or 96%, world premieres.
The latest additions to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Premieres category are:
The Alabama Solution / U.S.A. (Directors, Producers: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman) — Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems. World Premiere. Documentary.
The Stringer / U.S.A. (Director: Bao Nguyen, Producers: Fiona Turner, Terri Lichstein) — A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.” World Premiere. Documentary.
The 2025 Festival will kick off on Thursday, January 23, with premieres in Park City every day through the end of Tuesday, January 28. Additional showings will take place in Park City and Salt Lake City throughout the Festival until Sunday, February 2. Over 11 days, world debuts of projects across program categories will highlight fresh voices, entertaining stories, and groundbreaking works.
Beginning January 30, more than half the feature program will be available online for audiences nationwide to watch from home at festival.sundance.org. The curated online program will include all competition titles (U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic, World Cinema Documentary, and NEXT presented by Adobe), as well as additional selections from the feature, episodic, and Short Film Program presented by Vimeo.
Visit the Sundance Film Festival site for more information.
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Originally published at http://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on January 9, 2025.
