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Passes and packages for the 2027 #SundanceFilmFestival are on sale now! 🎟️ Explore this year’s options and find the pass or package that fits your Festival plans. Get yours at festival.sundance.org.

Watch the trailer for “Who Killed Alex Odeh?” from directors Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans, winner of the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. In select theaters October 30 via @watermelonpictures.bsky.social.

Your favorite comedian’s favorite comedian takes center stage. Judd Apatow and Neil Berkeley’s “Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story,” a portrait of a singular comedic voice, premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on @netflix.com. Read more: sndnc.org/48eg2if

As his tense, tender crime drama The Only Living Pickpocket in New York hits theaters, John Turturro tells Dan Mecca about improving with age, accepting radical change and doing it his way across his 46-year career. Read more on Journal: https://boxd.it/3rs

The perfect husband? Some assembly required. A fisherwoman’s handwoven husband upends her village in “Wicker.” Go inside Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer’s 2026 Sundance Film Festival premiere for a look at their charming, comedic fable. Now in theaters. Read more: sndnc.org/3TYINfA

One week until we head into the woods. 👻 Join Sundance Collab and Film Club host Kiva Reardon Oct. 30 at 12 p.m. PT to explore “The Blair Witch Project,” from its midnight Sundance Film Festival screening to its low-budget ingenuity and lasting impact on horror. Register: sndnc.org/4dfPyQs

Heading to AFI Fest? This year’s lineup includes 12 Sundance Institute–supported films, from 2026 Festival award winners “Josephine” and “Nuisance Bear” to projects nurtured through our artist programs. AFI Fest celebrates its 40th edition in Los Angeles, Oct 21–25. Read more: sndnc.org/4shvPpC

Getting your Halloween watchlist together? Our legendary Midnight section has you covered with the spooky, shocking, funny, and downright outrageous. Explore the films on our @letterboxd.social list: boxd.it/pWLWS

ONE IN A MILLION chronicles one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again, as she and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience. Opens tomorrow! ifccenter.com/films/one-in...

Liz Sargent shares how she adapted her short film "Take Me Home" into a feature that won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Join Sundance Collab for a free conversation October 20 at 1 p.m. PT: sndnc.org/3Tmi64c

Co-director David Greaves shares why “Once Upon A Time in Harlem” is essential viewing, how Harlem’s artists shaped his father William, and why the camera loves truth. Premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Now in theaters. Read more: sndnc.org/4yPFciT

Director Noah Segan shares how New York became a character in “The Only Living Pickpocket in New York,” from filming on its streets and subways to working with John Turturro. The film premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Now in theaters. Read more: sndnc.org/4jkyP2i

Watch the trailer for “Nuisance Bear,” winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. From directors Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman, “Nuisance Bear” opens in Los Angeles November 6, followed by New York, Canada, and the UK December 4.

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Check out our exclusive poster premiere for Maryam Ataei and Hossein Keshavarz's The Friend's House Is Here, opening at New York’s @filmforumnyc.bsky.social on December 4 ahead of a nationwide theatrical release.

Jesse Short Bull and David France’s “Free Leonard Peltier,” which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, connects Peltier’s five decades of incarceration to the broader struggle for Indigenous rights and resistance against injustice. Now streaming on Netflix. Read more: sndnc.org/4id0IIt

In “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” 14-year-old Sid is desperate to leave childhood behind but hasn’t quite gotten there yet. Paloma Schneideman’s debut captures the loneliness and confusion of adolescence. Premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Now in select theaters. Read more: sndnc.org/4yadRXG

Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown’s “Kikuyu Land,” which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, traces Kenya’s colonial-era land seizures through one woman’s search for family history and the ongoing fight for ancestral land. Now in select theaters. Read more: sndnc.org/4yM8hfk

Join filmmaker Max Walker-Silverman, producer Jesse Hope, and Colorado Film Commissioner Lauren Grimshaw Sloan to explore building a creative life and making independent film in Colorado, the new home of the Sundance Film Festival. Oct. 14, 2pm PT. Register for free: sndnc.org/4AO4Yp7

In SOUL PATROL, winner of a Sundance Directing Award, the Vietnam War's first Black special ops team reunites to share their untold story, uncovering a hidden chapter of American history and exploring whether reckoning with the past can bring peace to those who lived it. In theaters November 6.

Documentary Film Program Director Kristin Feeley reflects on memory, suppressed histories, and the ways nonfiction can create an active dialogue between the past and present. Read Kristin’s letter: sndnc.org/4rN95h2

Fall is officially here. 🍂 From Olivia Colman marrying a man made of wicker to climbers taking on K2 in winter, October is bringing plenty of Sundance Institute-supported stories to theaters and streamers. See what’s coming your way this month. Read more: sndnc.org/4AMv5wR

From the race to summit K2 in winter to the socioeconomic forces shaping modern mountaineering, Amir Bar-Lev’s “The Last First: Winter K2” examines the people, power, and ambition behind the climb. Premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Now streaming on Apple TV. Read more: sndnc.org/4hIEnkR

This spooky season, we’re heading into the woods. 👻 Join Sundance Collab and Film Club host Kiva Reardon Oct. 30 at 12 p.m. PT to explore “The Blair Witch Project,” from its midnight Sundance Film Festival screening to its low-budget ingenuity and lasting impact on horror. sndnc.org/4dfPyQs