2025 Sundance Film Festival adds two documentary features to round out program

PARK CITY, Utah — Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the addition of two feature films to the current 2025 Sundance Film Festival program. The 2025 Festival will kick off on Thursday, January 23, with premieres in Park City every day through the end of Tuesday, January 28. Additional showings will take place in Park City and Salt Lake City throughout the Festival until Sunday, February 2. Over 11 days, world debuts of projects across program categories will highlight fresh voices, entertaining stories, and groundbreaking works. Single Film Tickets for in-person and online screenings go on sale January 16 at 10 a.m. MT.

Two additional documentary features round out the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

The latest feature films world premiering at the upcoming Festival are documentaries The Alabama Solution and The Stringer, both in the Premieres category.

“Adding these two nonfiction features to our robust slate of documentary offerings at the Festival, both told by filmmakers who have been a part of our Sundance community for many years, completes our programming with compelling explorations around justice and truth-telling,” said Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming.

The Stringer director Bao Nguyen premiered Be Water (2020) and The Greatest Night in Pop (2024), while The Alabama Solution director Andrew Jarecki has brought three projects to the Festival previously: Capturing the Friedmans (2003), Just a Clown (2004), and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015).

In December the documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man directed by Eugene Jarecki withdrew from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival as the film will not be complete in time. The film was playing as a Special Screening. The director stated, “The truth is, significant recent and unexpected developments have emerged at the heart of the story which, if not incorporated in the version for Sundance, would not represent a finished film. Sundance has shaped my career and been a cornerstone of my journey—only something of this magnitude could make me withdraw.”

2025 Sundance Film Festival now has 88 feature-length films slated from 33 countries

Today’s additions round out the 2025 Festival slate, where 88 feature-length films will screen representing 33 countries, and 37 of 88 (42%) feature film directors are first-time feature filmmakers. Nine of the feature films and projects were supported by Sundance Institute in development through direct granting or residency labs. This year the film slate includes 84, or 96%, world premieres.

The latest additions to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Premieres category are:

The Alabama Solution / U.S.A. (Directors, Producers: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman) — Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems. World Premiere. Documentary.

The Stringer / U.S.A. (Director: Bao Nguyen, Producers: Fiona Turner, Terri Lichstein) — A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.” World Premiere. Documentary.