JLO, Olivia Colman, Dylan O’Brien, and Benedict Cumberbatch among the Sundance star lineup

Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-Chan, Bowen Yang appear in The Wedding Banquet by Andrew Ahn, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Luka Cyprian. Photo: Sundance Institute.

PARK CITY, Utah — Less than a week before the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, locals and visitors want to make the most of the potentially second to last Park City-based festival. Here’s the star-studded lineup and highlights. Most of this year’s films are for sale, with a handful arriving with distributors (as of the publication of this article).

Bleecker Street presents Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, which stars Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone, who starred in the 2023 Sundance Film Festival movie Fancy Dance and recently starred in Hulu’s Under the Bridge series and feature film Killers of the Flower Moon.

A24 has a star-studded (and virtually sold out) lineup: Rose Byrne (Juliet, Naked; The Goddess of 1967, Bridesmaids) stars in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Opus starring Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire, Being John Malkovich), and Juliette Lewis (By Design, Cape Fear); The Legend of Ochi starring Helena Zengel (News of the World), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), Emily Watson (Punch Drunk Love, Red Dragon), and Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate, The Florida Project, Platoon).

Focus Features premieres the film The Ballad of Wallis Island, starring Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education).

The Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim documentary Deaf President Now! will be presented by Apple TV+.

The following films are up for grabs:

Find Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers, The Mother) and Diego Luna (La Máchina, Rogue One) in Kiss of the Spider Woman.

See heavy hitters Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Father) and John Lithgow (Terms of Endearment, The Crown) in Jimpa.

Melanie Griffith (Working Girl, Buffalo Girls) and Juliette Lewis perform in By Design, the story of a woman who swaps bodies with a chair and people like her better after this transformation.

Rom-com Oh, Hi! stars Molly Gordon (Theater Camp, The Bear) and Logan Lerman (Fury, Perks of Being a Wallflower).

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game, The Power of the Dog) in The Thing With Feathers, Dylan Southern’s third Sundance film (Shut Up and Play the Hits, 2012; Meet Me in the Bathroom, 2022).

Andre Holland (Moonlight, Selma) is featured in Love, Brooklyn, “a love letter to NYC that breathes fresh air into a modern romance, Love, Brooklyn firmly marks Holder as a filmmaker to watch,” wrote Ana Souza.

Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, Rogue One), Joel Edgerton (The King, Boy Erased, Black Mass) and Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) star in Train Dreams.

Dylan O’Brien (The Mazerunner, Ponyboi) returns to the festival in the dramedy Twinless.

Dave Franco (Neighbors, Pam and Tommy) is working overtime starring in Together alongside actor and wife Alison Brie (Community, GLOW) and Bubble & Squeak with Sarah Goldberg (Barry), and Himesh Patel (EastEnders, Yesterday), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows), and Steven Yeun (Love Me, Minari).

Chloë Sevigny (Boys Don’t Cry, Big Love) also doing a double take at this year’s festival for Atropia with Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development), Callum Turner (Masters of the Air), Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric), and Jane Levy (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) and Magic Farm alongside Alex Wolff (Hair Brained) and Simon Rex (Red Rocket).

Omaha sees the return of John Magaro who co-starred in Past Lives a 2023 Sundance film that earned director Celine Song “Best Director” and “Best Feature.” Song also returns to the festival as a member of the 2025 jury.

Midnight feature Rabbit Trap stars Dev Patel (Lion, Slumdog Millionaire).

Josh O’Connor (God’s Own Country, The Crown) headlines drama Rebuilding. 

Peter Hujar’s Day features Ben Whishaw (Paddington franchise, Black Doves)

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