The 2025 Sundance Movie Competition: Native Lens is the chance to see a number of the award winners of the competition earlier than they’re launched, throughout an occasion in Utah that features movie intros and different occasions.

A free summer season screening sequence specifically for the area people of Utah, happening July 17–19 at The Ray Theatre in Park Metropolis and Broadway Centre Cinemas in Salt Lake Metropolis, the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition: Native Lens sequence will deliver Utahns free showings of a number of the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition’s celebrated movies earlier than they’re launched.

Native Lens is a part of Sundance Institute’s wealthy historical past as a nonprofit rooted in Utah that helps partaking new tales and groundbreaking unbiased artists by bringing audiences collectively. Filmmakers who will be a part of to introduce their movies and take part in Q&As following their screenings embrace director Cole Webley (Omaha) and director Kim A. Snyder (The Librarians). Observe the hyperlink to get free tickets accessible to order now at www.sundance.org/local-lens.

“We’re thrilled to once more be internet hosting the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition: Native Lens free film sequence for our native Utah group as a part of our year-round programming within the state,” mentioned Eugene Hernandez, Director, Sundance Movie Competition and Public Programming. “Celebrating the deep reference to Utah audiences, this yr’s program options standout movies from the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition and displays the spirit of discovery that’s on the coronary heart of Sundance Institute. We stay up for sharing these tales with native audiences and gearing as much as come collectively on the 2026 Sundance Movie Competition in Utah beginning subsequent January!”

The 2025 Sundance Movie Competition: Native Lens program will embrace eight fiction and documentary movies: Twinless (2025 Sundance Movie Competition Viewers Award: U.S. Dramatic and U.S. Dramatic Particular Jury Award for Performing offered to Dylan O’Brien), the place two younger males kind an surprising friendship; Omaha, by which two siblings are taken on a journey throughout the nation by their father, performed by John Magaro, and expertise a world they’ve by no means seen earlier than (as well as, the movie’s director, Cole Webley, has connections to Utah having lived there, and a lot of the movie was shot in and across the state); Rebuilding, which stars Josh O’Connor as a rancher discovering his approach ahead after a wildfire destroys his household farm; All That’s Left of You), an epic multigenerational story a few Palestinian household; Selena y Los Dinos (2025 Sundance Movie Competition U.S. Documentary Particular Jury Award for Archival Storytelling), that includes the enduring Mexican American singer Selena Quintanilla as chronicled by footage from the household’s private archive; Come See Me within the Good Gentle (2025 Sundance Movie Competition Viewers Favourite Award), following two poets as they attempt to come to phrases with a terminal most cancers analysis, produced by Tig Notaro and executive-produced by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Brandi Carlile, and Sara Bareilles; The Librarians, documenting librarians becoming a member of forces as unlikely defenders combating for mental freedom; and The Relationship Recreation, following three Chinese language bachelors as they attend an intensive courting camp.

Along with the screenings, the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition: Native Lens program will embrace an Artist Roundtable, offered in collaboration with Spy Hop, Salt Lake Metropolis’s digital media arts middle for youth keen on movie, music, audio, and design. Geared towards Utah’s vibrant native artist group, the Artist Roundtable will convene artists with Sundance Movie Competition programmers for a artistic trade round creative course of and the alternatives and challenges that come up alongside the best way. For extra info and to RSVP, enroll right here.