Sundance winners 2026

by Courtesy of Sundance Institute


Top L–R: The Friend’s House is Here, Josephine, The Lake, Bedford Park, Who Killed Alex Odeh?; Second Row L–R: Take Me Home, American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez, Birds of War, Soul Patrol, One In A Million; Third Row L–R: Nuisance Bear, Everybody To Kenmure Street, LADY, How to Divorce During the War, How to Divorce During the War, To Hold a Mountain; Fourth Row L–R: TheyDream, Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!, Shame and Money, Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild], The Incomer; Bottom L–R: Barbara Forever, HOLD ONTO ME (Κράτα Με), Filipiñana

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