Sundance 2026: Full line-up revealed including movies starring Charli XCX and Penélope Cruz
The official Sundance Film Festival line-up has been revealed, including new films starring Charli XCX, and Penélope Cruz.
The 2026 festival, taking place between January 22nd and February 1st, will be held for the last time in Park City, Utah, before moving to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027.
The new iteration will feature global popstar Charli XCX most predominantly, who will appear in three of the movies slated for first release.
The first of these films is The Moment, a mockumentary which subverts the genre of the tour documentary by folding in on the pressure to make one for her latest Brat tour.
The second is a project titled The Gallerist. It will also star Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega, Sterling K Brown, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Zach Galifianakis. The dark comedy centres on a gallerist attempting to sell a dead man at Miami’s Art Basel.
The third is an erotic thriller, I Want Your Sex, from director Gregg Araki, marking his first film in over a decade. Cooper Hoffman stars as a young man working for Olivia Wilde, a provocative artist. It conjures a “world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal, and murder.”
Wilde has a second movie on the line-up, a date-night comedy titled The Invite, which follows her last directorial effort, Don’t Worry Darling. It will star Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penélope Cruz.
Over on the documentary side, the new Salman Rushdie-centred film, Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, will take centre stage. It promises to include never-before-seen footage of the 2022 attack that almost took his life.
Their slate of world premieres includes Antiheroine, a documentary about Courtney Love directed by Edward Lovelace and James Hall, produced by Dorothy St. Pictures. “Now sober and set to release new music for the first time in over a decade, Courtney is ready to reveal her story, unfiltered and unapologetic,” the synopsis for the project reads.
Documentaries about Brittney Griner, Courtney Love, Nelson Mandela, Billie Jean King and the Harlem Renaissance will also be included.
The festival will also be bidding farewell to founder Robert Redford, who passed away earlier this year. There will be a special screening of Downhill Racer, among other events.
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