After sifting through more than 16,000 submissions, programmers have whittled the Sundance Film Festival’s final run in Utah down to a star-studded lineup of 90 feature films that highlight everything from four tenacious girls’ quests to become a top-selling “Cookie Queen” during Girl Scout Cookie season to an “environmental nuclear bomb” looming in the Beehive State.

The selected films also cover legendary sports and music figures, current world conflicts and the rise of AI. Of the 90 movies that made the cut, 36 (40%) come from first-time feature filmmakers.

“We always want to have a very high number of films that are from either first-time directors or, in many cases even if it’s a second or third feature, it’s not necessarily someone who has become well known or whose work has seen a

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