“I find it hard to watch myself,” Olivier winner Benedict Cumberbatch said while discussing his Sundance film THE THING WITH FEATHERS. “I started out on stage where there’s a fourth wall…. To sit there and watch it is very, very odd.”

Benedict Cumberbatch, wrestling with a metaphorical crow, is among the many stars putting in energetic efforts

The plastic tiara appeared to feature Princess Tiana from Disney's "The Princess and the Frog."Queens recognize queens.While Olivia Colman was presenting Cynthia Erivo with the 2025 Sundance Visionary Award at this weekend's Sundance Film Festival Gala,

"Jimpa," which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, is director Sophie Hyde's personal story but indulges too much to welcome viewers outside her immediate family.

SALLY, directed by Cristina C, screening in the Premieres category was selected as the 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize winner, an annual juried award granted to an artist with the most outstanding depiction of science and technology in a feature-length film.

The Sundance Film Festival, held nearby in Park City for more than 40 years, is credited with catapulting the careers of once-unknown talent, including Quentin Tarantino, Kristen Stewart and Christopher Nolan, and is now full of recognizable faces presenting big new projects while clomping in the snow and networking on Main Street.

With A-listers abound and parties consummating each day’s screening, consider this your visual guide to the 41st annual Sundance Film Festival. Ahead, see all the best photos from this year’s festival (and subsequent fêtes).

Sophie Hyde Logline: Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde), to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim (John Lithgow) - lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances' desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront

Dylan O’Brien, Ayo Edebiri, Jennifer Lopez, Lily Gladstone, Benedict Cumberbatch & more stopped by the Sundance Deadline Film Festival Studio

Jimpa follows a filmmaker who is forced to confront her past after her nonbinary teenager expresses a desire to live with their gay grandfather in Amsterdam. It’s part family drama, part coming-of-age film, and part gay rights historical drama, and the result is a film that feels like an amalgamation of the tropes of a few different genres.

That we’re watching John Lithgow go on about oral sex and Olivia Colman chatting about polyamory with her teenage child make the film that much odder.

The US film industry's first major gathering since wildfires devastated Los Angeles began on Thursday at Sundance, where Olivia Colman and John Lithgow kicked off the indie movie festival under sombre circumstances.