Memo to Distributors: Buy These Sundance 2025 Movies

It was just a few years ago that Sundance was still famous for its feeding frenzy-like atmosphere as a sales market, with movies like “The Farewell” and “Blindspotting” triggering the sort of all-night bidding wars that have become as much a part of festival legend as the films themselves. While “A Real Pain” commanded similar attention last year, and titles like “Together” (Neon) and “Sorry, Baby” (A24) leveraged buzzy premieres into healthy price tags over just the last few days, the overwhelming majority of the best titles from Sundance 2025 are still looking for a proper home.

We suspect that will change at some point in the immediate future — distributors might not go to Park City with the same “buy now!” mentality they once had, but they still need product. And the product is compelling: From starry indies like “Rebuilding” (Josh O’Connor as a sad cowboy!) to movies of the moment like “Lurker,” and from urgently political docs like “The Perfect Neighbor” to classic Sundance breakouts like “East of Wall,” there’s plenty of stuff for the taking. We even have a TV show on our list this year, the perfect fodder for any streamer hoping to get more than they bargained for out of this year’s Sundance lineup.

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Alison Foreman, Harrison Richlin, Ryan Lattanzio, and Esther Zuckerman also contributed to this article.

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