2026 Sundance Film Festival
The 2026 Sundance Film Festival took place in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from January 22 to February 1, 2026. Film premieres at the festival were held from January 22 to January 27, 2026. The first selection lineup was announced on December 10, 2025. The festival would be the last Sundance Film Festival held in Utah before the festival relocates to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Several films notably received standing ovations during the festival, including Fing, ''Josephine, Wicker, The Invite, Levitating, and Union County.''
Films
Episodic
Special Screenings
To commemorate the final Sundance in Park City, the 2026 festival will include several special screenings of classic films that screened at festivals in years past, along with the 1969 film Downhill Racer as a tribute to founder Robert Redford, who died in September 2025.| Title | Director | Production Country | Year |
| American Dream | Barbara Kopple | United States, United Kingdom | 1990 |
| Downhill Racer | Michael Ritchie | United States | 1969 |
| Half Nelson | Ryan Fleck | United States | 2006 |
| House Party | Reginald Hudlin | United States | 1990 |
| Humpday | Lynn Shelton | United States | 2009 |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | United States | 2006 |
| Mysterious Skin | Gregg Araki | United States, Netherlands | 2004 |
| Saw | James Wan | United States | 2004 |
Awards
For the last time in Park City the following awards were given out:Grand Jury Prizes:
- U.S. Dramatic: Josephine
- U.S. Documentary: Nuisance Bear
- World Cinema Dramatic: Shame and Money
- World Cinema Documentary: To Hold a Mountain
- Short Films: ''The Baddest Speechwriter of All''
Audience Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic: Josephine
- U.S. Documentary: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
- World Cinema Dramatic: HOLD ONTO ME
- World Cinema Documentary: One In A Million
- NEXT: Aanikoobijigan ''''
Directing, Editing, and Screenwriting Prizes:
- U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: Josef Kubota Wladyka for Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!
- U.S. Documentary Directing Award: J.M. Harper for Soul Patrol
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: Andrius Blaževičius for How to Divorce During the War
- World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes for One In A Million
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: Matt Hixon for Barbara Forever
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic: Liz Sargent for Take Me Home
- NEXT Innovator Award: ''The Incomer''
Special Jury Awards:
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: the cast of The Friend’s House is Here
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature: Bedford Park
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence: Who Killed Alex Odeh?
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change: The Lake
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Filipiñana
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Ensemble: LADY
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact: Birds of War
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance: Everybody To Kenmure Street
- NEXT Special Jury Award for Creative Expression: TheyDream
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting: Noah Roja and Filippo Carrozza for The Liars
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: ''Paper Trail''
Shorts Program Awards:
- U.S. Fiction: Crisis Actor
- Animation: Living with a Visionary
- Nonfiction: The Boys and the Bees
- International Fiction: ''Jazz Infernal''
Sundance Institute Awards:
- Producers Award for Nonfiction : Dawne Langford for Who Killed Alex Odeh?
- NHK Award: Leo Aguirre for Verano
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Andrew Stanton In The Blink of An Eye
- Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Flavia de Souza
- Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Mollie Goldstein