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Sundance Film Festival 2025: Standout Movies, Moments and Performances

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Just as the Sundance Film Festival is in flux, likely soon to leave its longtime home of Park City, Utah, so too is the state of film — and indie film in particular. Yet the industry and its most ardent fans still came to the mountains for America’s most important event in independent cinema to schmooze, ski and see lots of movies, hoping to find this year’s “A Real Pain,” the breakout hit from last year’s slate.

1. One new name to know: Eva Victor

There’s a particular kind of Sundance movie that centers on a young woman who perseveres with wry humor and grit despite something terrible happening to her. Often, it takes place on a college campus. This year’s exemplar was “Sorry, Baby,” which was among the funniest, saddest and most exciting films of the week.

2. Queer cinema is still ascendant (but still very male)

Indie film has always been a genre through which teenagers who feel like outsiders learn to discover themselves, but this year’s roster felt especially crowded with LGBTQ projects. Although the three with the most buzz were — for better or, mostly, for worse — about handsome white men:

3. We’ll be seeing denim — and denim on denim — everywhere

Designers have pushed jeans hard on the runways in recent seasons, but it’s always interesting when fashion trends make their way into other visual media.

4. Also everywhere: pop-crossover horror films

Sundance has always welcomed the scary: While it’s tempting to blame the latest crop of frothy-creepy fare on the recent success of “The Substance” (which didn’t debut at the festival),

5. And what about the Jennifer Lopez musical?

It exists! And it’s the one thing my most movie-loving friends wanted to ask about once I’d returned from Utah. If you happen to like its source material —

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