Sundance Institute announces free Local Lens summer screenings

Local Lens is part of Sundance Institute’s rich history as a nonprofit rooted in Utah that supports engaging new stories and groundbreaking independent artists by bringing audiences together. Filmmakers who will join to introduce their films and participate in Q&As following their screenings include director Cole Webley (Omaha) and director Kim A. Snyder (The Librarians).

New this year is an Artist Roundtable, on Friday, July 18, 2025, at 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., presented in collaboration with Spy Hop, Salt Lake City’s digital media arts center for youth interested in film, music, audio, and design. Geared toward Utah’s vibrant local artist community, the Artist Roundtable will convene artists with Sundance Film Festival programmers for a creative exchange around artistic process and the opportunities and challenges that arise along the way. The roundtable will be held at Spy Hop Rooftop Event Space | 208 West Harvey Milk Blvd., Salt Lake City, UT 84101. For more information and to RSVP, sign up here.

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival: Local Lens program will include eight fiction and documentary films: Twinless (2025 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic and U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting presented to Dylan O’Brien), where two young men form an unexpected friendship; Omaha, in which two siblings are taken on a journey across the country by their father, ; Rebuilding, which stars Josh O’Connor as a rancher finding his way forward after a wildfire destroys his family farm; All That’s Left of You, an epic multigenerational story about a Palestinian family; Selena y Los Dinos (2025 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling), featuring the iconic Mexican American singer Selena Quintanilla as chronicled through footage from the family’s personal archive; Come See Me in the Good Light (2025 Sundance Film Festival Audience Favorite Award), following two poets as they try to come to terms with a terminal cancer diagnosis; The Librarians, documenting librarians joining forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom ; and The Dating Game, following three Chinese bachelors as they attend an intensive dating camp.

Scheduled in Park City at The Ray Theatre | 1768 Park Ave., Park City, UT 84060

Omaha Thursday, July 17, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. 

Cole Webley (Director) will be in attendance for an intro and post-screening Q&A

All That’s Left of You Friday, July 18, 2025, at 5 p.m. 

The Librarians Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 11 a.m.

Selena y Los Dinos Friday, July 18, 2025, at 8:30 p.m.

The Dating Game Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 3 p.m.

Rebuilding Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 7 p.m. 

Scheduled in Salt Lake City at the Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E. Broadway 300 S.

Twinless Thursday, July 17, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. 

The Librarians Friday, July 18, 2025, at 5 p.m.

Kim A. Snyder (Director) will be in attendance for an intro and post-screening Q&A

The Dating Game Friday, July 18, 2025, at 8:30 p.m.

Omaha Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 3 p.m.

Cole Webley (Director) will be in attendance for an intro and post-screening Q&A

Come See Me in the Good Light Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 11 a.m. 

All That’s Left of You Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 7 p.m.