The Sundance Film Festival has premiered a range of incredible works by filmmakers who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, and the 2025 edition is no exception.
This year, the lineup features projects by 52 filmmakers who identify as belonging to the LGBTQ+ community, from Sundance Film Festival veterans like Bill Condon and Ira Sachs to a host of newcomers, showcasing works in comedy, drama, horror, documentary, musical, and other genre-transcending styles.
Explore a world of stories by LGBTQ+ filmmakers through the list of projects below — spanning everywhere from 1980s Argentina (Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman), present-day India (Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)), and dance clubs on Chicago’s South Side (Elegance Bratton’s Move Ya Body: The Birth of House).
Single Film Tickets for online and in-person viewing go on sale January 16. Choose your favorites and start building your screening schedule today.
FEATURES
All That’s Left of You (اللي باقي منك)
Director: Cherien Dabis
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
After a Palestinian teen confronts Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the series of events that led him to that fateful moment, starting with his grandfather’s forced displacement.
Director: Katarina Zhu
Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition
Available to watch in person and online
A drifting Chinese American cam girl struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying estranged father.
Director: Amber Fares
Section: World Cinema Documentary Competition
Available to watch in person and online
Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.
Director: Ryan White
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis. Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life, and mortality.
Co-Director: Nyle DiMarco
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person and online
During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead an angry mob — and change the course of history.
Director: Zackary Drucker
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history; and Amanda Lear, who has consciously denied and obfuscated her history for decades. Their divergent paths reveal disparate but intertwined legacies.
Co-Director: David France
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50 years following a contentious conviction. A new generation of Native activists is committed to winning his freedom before he dies.
Director: Gianluca Matarrese
Section: World Cinema Documentary Competition
Available to watch in person and online
At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr. Bini leads a bold mission overseeing aspiring parents undergoing in vitro fertilization and the journeys of individuals reconciling their bodies with their gender identities. He navigates the constraints set by a conservative government and an aggressive market eager to commodify bodies.
Director: Sam Feder
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person and online
Amid the surge in anti-trans legislation that Chase Strangio battles in the courtroom, he must also fight against media bias, exposing how the narratives in the press influence public perception and the fight for transgender rights.
Director: Sophie Hyde
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
Hannah takes her nonbinary teenager, Frances, to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, Jim – lovingly known as Jimpa. But Frances’ desire to stay abroad with Jimpa for a year means Hannah is forced to reconsider her beliefs about parenting and finally confront old stories about the past.
Director: Bill Condon
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.
Director: Flora Lau
Section: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Available to watch in person and online
In the neon-lit streets of Chongqing, Wei desperately searches for his estranged daughter Fa, while Hong Kong gallerist Ren grapples with her ailing stepmother Sabine in Paris. Their lives collide in a virtual reality world, where a mystical deer reveals hidden truths, sparking a journey of discovery and connection.
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House
Director: Elegance Bratton
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.
Director: Ira Sachs
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.
Director: Carmen Emmi
Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition
Available to watch in person and online
A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies orders when he falls in love with a target.
Director: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade
Section: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Available to watch in person and online
Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.
Director: Mathias Broe
Section: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Available to watch in person and online
Johan thrives as a gay man in Copenhagen, enjoying endless bars, parties, and casual flings. Everything changes when he meets William, a transgender man, and falls into a deep love that defies societal norms around gender, identity, and relationships.
Director: Isabel Castro
Section: U.S. Documentary Competition
Available to watch in person and online
Selena Quintanilla — the “Queen of Tejano Music” — and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.
Director: Ben Mullinkosson
Section: NEXT
Available to watch in person and online
A successful music video director and expectant father pushes his work-life balance to the extreme as he hires a doppelgänger to work in his stead.
Director: Eva Victor
Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition
Available to watch in person and online
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Director: Addison Heimann
Section: Midnight
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Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
Director: James Sweeney
Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition
Available to watch in person and online
Two young men meet in a twin bereavement support group and form an unlikely bromance.
Director: Chloé Robichaud
Section: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Available to watch in person and online
Violette is having a difficult maternity leave. Florence is dealing with depression. Despite their careers and families, they feel like failures. Florence’s first infidelity is a revelation. When having fun is far down the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery guy could be revolutionary.
Director: Douglas Keeve
Section: From The Collection
Available to watch in person
Director Douglas Keeve goes behind the scenes of designer Isaac Mizrahi’s relentless drive and bold vision to bring his 1994 collection to life. From sketches to runway, this insider’s journey is packed with backstage drama, creative triumphs, and iconic supermodels, including Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista.
Director: Andrew Ahn
Section: Premieres
Available to watch in person
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris, and out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green card marriage with his friend Angela in exchange for expensive in vitro fertilization treatments for her partner, Lee. Plans change when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an elaborate Korean wedding banquet.
Director: Charlie Shackleton
Section: NEXT
Available to watch in person and online
Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes — the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle — a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
EPISODIC PROJECTS
Director: Matt Wolf
Section: Episodic
Available to watch in person
A chronicle of the life of artist and performer Paul Reubens and his alter ego Pee-wee Herman. Prior to his recent death, Reubens spoke in-depth about his creative influences, and the personal struggles he faced to persevere as an artist.
SHORT FILMS
Director: Montana Mann
Section: Short Film Program 2
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 2
During a weekend vacation with her best friend’s family, 17-year-old Azi gets caught up in an unexpected game with another guest.
Director: Nakhane
Section: Short Film Program 4
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 4
A nomadic family wanders the land under the father’s leadership. One day, the men ascend a mountain to make a sacrifice. But today, things are different, which alters the family forever.
Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado
Director: Natalia León
Section: Animated Short Film Program
Available to watch in person and online as part of the Animated Short Film Program
Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past.
Director: Alex Heller
Section: Short Film Program 1
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 1
In a debate chamber, affluent high schoolers argue a bill on minimum wage in an effort to impress two working-class adult judges.
Director: May Kindred-Boothby
Section: Short Film Program 2
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 2
Convention and sexuality are explored through slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange.
Director: Roberto Fatal
Section: Short Film Program 2
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 2
In a dystopian future, a mother struggles to finish making her daughter’s quinceañera dress.
Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune
Director: Dominic Yarabe
Section: Documentary Short Film Program
Available to watch in person and online as part of the Documentary Short Film Program
An Ivorian father and his daughter set out to continue the book he never finished about a war he experienced as a child. With children in his village today, three generations create timelines, dreams, and memories.
Director: Isabel Pask
Section: Short Film Program 4
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 4
A hospice nurse revisits the comfort and fear of childhood when she hires a babysitter to take care of her for the night.
Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites
Director: Chheangkea
Section: Short Film Program 2
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 2
During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her Queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.
Co-Directors: Aurora Brachman, LaTajh Simmons-Weaver
Section: Documentary Short Film Program
Available to watch in person and online as part of the Documentary Short Film Program
A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share.
Director: Quintessa Swindell
Section: Short Film Program 4
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 4
Two Muay Thai fighters who were once childhood friends come together for a final fight, which serves as a brutal resolution to their difficult familial bond torn apart by the hatred of their fathers.
Co-Directors: Patricio Plaza, Paula Boffo
Section: Animated Short Film Program
Available to watch in person and online as part of the Animated Short Film Program
Martin, a flamboyant urban raver, is involved in a strange car accident on his way to a party in the middle of the Argentine Pampas.
Director: Manu Zilveti
Section: Short Film Program 3
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 3
At a Cuban high school, a group of girls who call themselves “Las Perdularias” find ways to deal with the absences on an island that is becoming increasingly empty.
Director: Damian Kosowski
Section: Short Film Program 4
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 4
Olena arrives with her daughter, Kira, and boyfriend, Timur, in a small town in eastern Ukraine to receive the results of a DNA test confirming that her husband, Ilya, who disappeared during the war, is dead.
Director: Kaitlyn Mikayla
Section: Short Film Program 3
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 3
A 12-year-old motocross racer spends what seems like an average race weekend at the track with her father. But as things unfold, she’s faced with her identity, her deafness, and what it means to be a girl.
Director: Annelise Hickey
Section: Short Film Program 4
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 4
When Adam, a self-absorbed and lonely millennial, wakes one morning to find his estranged half brother on his doorstep, he must face the family he’s been running away from.
Director: Chien-Yu Lin
Section: Short Film Program 5
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 5
A locksmith gifted with the ability to open any lock is unwilling to return home. He pursues a hostess who has no intention of keeping him company. Facing a profound sense of emptiness, he turns himself toward another path.
Co-Directors: Amandine Thomas, Gerardo Coello Escalante
Section: Short Film Program 1
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 1
A middle-aged American tourist finds herself alone in Mexico City. When she encounters a group of young Americans, she jumps at the opportunity for a little adventure.
Director: Luke Wintour
Section: Short Film Program 1
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 1
In 1723 London, Thomas Neville is discovered cruising in the public toilets and forced to take refuge in a Molly House. There, he encounters a secret community as they prepare for a night of festivities.
Director: Joanna Fernandez
Section: Midnight Short Film Program
Available to watch in person and online as part of the Midnight Short Film Program
Forced into a caretaker position, Kate comes home to pack up her estranged mother’s house. While struggling to clear her mother’s hoarded possessions, Kate discovers the insidious nature of her mother’s illness lying behind the house’s walls.
Director: Daisy Friedman
Section: Short Film Program 1
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 1
Noa attends her family’s Passover Seder for the first time since being put on a feeding tube for a gastrointestinal disorder. There, she is confronted with pushy family members, malfunctioning medical devices, and a room of food she can’t eat.
Director: Lennert Madou
Section: Short Film Program 1
Available to watch in person and online as part of Short Film Program 1
Waiting for an asteroid to pass through the sky, two friends play in a remote landscape driven by a curious urge to constantly aim higher.
