The next Sundance Film Festival will be the last in Utah, but as organizers selected which movies will debut, they tried not to think about it.

“At the back of our minds,” said festival programming director Kim Yutani, there’s “‘This is the last time I’m going to be stepping on the Eccles [Theatre] stage.’ That’s such a weird and weighty thing.”

Festival organizers on Wednesday announced the 90 feature-length films that will screen during the event, Jan. 22 to Feb. 1, in Park City and Salt Lake City.

The 2026 festival will operate under two shadows: Its imminent move to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027 , after more than 40 years in Utah, and the absence of the Sundance Institute’s founder, actor-director-activist Robert Redford, who died in September at age 89.

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