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Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]

Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.

Jan 26, 11:45 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 27, 10:20 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 9:00 A.M. MSTin-person
Feb 1, 12:00 P.M. MSTin-person

Premieres

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity, exploring the existential dangers and stunning promise of this technology that humanity has created.

Jan 27, 5:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 28, 9:00 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 11:30 A.M. MSTin-person
Feb 1, 4:00 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

All About the Money

A son of one of Americas wealthiest families creates a communist revolutionary base in rural Massachusetts as a means of disrupting the capitalist system he grew up in but has now come to despise. Its the starting point of an astonishing journey.

Jan 25, 3:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 2:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 7:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 9:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 6:15 P.M. MSTin-person

U.S. Documentary Competition

American Doctor

When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

Jan 23, 5:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 11:00 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 25, 11:30 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 8:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 5:30 P.M. MSTin-person

Park City Legacy

American Dream

When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are forced to take a substantial pay cut, the local union takes a stand for its members. Their strike tests the fragile promise of the American ideal, revealing the cost of survival when the dream no longer feels shared.

Jan 28, 2:15 P.M. MSTin-person

U.S. Documentary Competition

American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez

Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot Suit and La Bamba, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story.

Jan 22, 12:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 23, 10:20 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 30, 3:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 3:30 P.M. MSTin-person

Premieres

Antiheroine

Singer, songwriter, and actor Courtney Love has long had an impact on rock and pop culture. Now sober and set to release new music for the first time in over a decade, Courtney is ready to reveal her story, unfiltered and unapologetic.

Jan 27, 9:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 28, 11:30 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 11:00 A.M. MSTin-person
Feb 1, 12:30 P.M. MSTin-person

Short Film Program

The Baddest Speechwriter of All

Now 93, Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and speechwriter reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an intimate insider’s view of the Civil Rights Movement.

U.S. Documentary Competition

Barbara Forever

An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.

Jan 24, 5:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 25, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 28, 8:50 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 30, 8:45 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 11:15 A.M. MSTin-person

Midnight

The Best Summer

Immersive POV camera footage reveals electric performances, candid interviews, and intimate backstage life with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, Beck, The Amps, and Bikini Kill — an all-access view inside an era-defining moment in music.

Jan 24, 11:55 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 25, 8:10 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 27, 9:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 11:55 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 1:10 P.M. MSTin-person

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Birds of War

The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.

Jan 24, 6:15 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 25, 5:20 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 6:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 31, 12:30 P.M. MSTin-person

Short Film Program

The Boys and the Bees

On an idyllic farm in rural Georgia, Black beekeeping parents tenderly share their knowledge of life, love, and nature with their young sons while restoring their homestead.

Premieres

The Brittney Griner Story

Explores the circumstances that led to Brittney Griner playing basketball outside the U.S. despite being one of the best players in the sport, including her harrowing detainment, unwavering determination to secure her freedom, and her advocacy for the release of other wrongful detainees.

Jan 27, 2:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 28, 11:00 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 12:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 31, 2:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Feb 1, 2:30 P.M. MSTin-person

Spotlight

Broken English

A portrait of the inimitable singer, songwriter, and icon Marianne Faithfull.

Jan 24, 3:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 25, 9:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 28, 4:00 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 30, 12:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Feb 1, 11:30 A.M. MSTin-person

Short Film Program

The Chimney Sweeper

Markus — whose great-great-great-grandfather invented the nutcracker doll — makes nutcrackers for a living, as did each of his forefathers who descended from the great inventor. Markus discusses his life decisions.

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Closure

After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.

Jan 23, 11:30 A.M. MSTin-person
Jan 24, 1:50 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 26, 9:30 P.M. MSTin-person
Jan 29, 3:00 P.M. GMTonline
Jan 29, 3:30 P.M. MSTin-person

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