Check Out the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Winners

The Sundance Film Festival has once again wrapped up another exciting year, showcasing groundbreaking stories and emerging talent.

We had our list of most anticipated, and it was great to see some of those titles picking up awards. From thought-provoking documentaries to captivating narratives, this year's festival highlighted the future of filmmaking.

Let's dive into the winners.

US DRAMATIC COMPETITION - Presented by Celine Song

US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Atropia / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Hailey Gates, Producers: Naima Abed, Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Lana Kim, Jett Steiger)

Directing Award: US Dramatic
Rashad Frett for Ricky / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Rashad Frett, Screenwriter: Lin Que Ayoung, Producers: Pierre M. Coleman, Simon TaufiQue, Sterling Brim, DC Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Josh Peters, Mark Steele)US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast

Plainclothes / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Carmen Emmi, Producers: Colby Cote, Arthur Landon, Eric Podwall, Vanessa Pantley)

US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting
Dylan O’Brien for Twinless / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: James Sweeney, Producer: David Permut)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic
Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Eva Victor, Producers: Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins)

US DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION - Presented by Steve Bognar & Marcia Smith

US Documentary Special Jury Award for Archival Storytelling
Selena y Los Dinos / U.S.A. (Director: Isabel Castro, Producers: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, J. Daniel Torres, David Blackman, Simran Singh)

US Documentary Special Jury Award
Life After / U.S.A. (Director: Reid Davenport, Producer: Colleen Cassingham)

Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: US Documentary

Directing Award: US Documentary
Geeta Gandbhir for The Perfect Neighbor / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Geeta Gandbhir, Producers: Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne, Sam Bisbee)

US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Seeds / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Brittany Shyne, Producers: Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon)

AUDIENCE AWARDS - Presented by Raúl Esparza

Audience Award: US Dramatic
Twinless / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: James Sweeney, Producer: David Permut) —

Audience Award: NEXT
East of Wall / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Kate Beecroft, Producers: Lila Yacoub, Melanie Ramsayer, Shannon Moss)

Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary
Prime Minister / U.S.A. (Directors: Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz, Producers: Cass Avery, Leon Kirkbeck, Gigi Pritzker, Rachel Shane, Katie Peck)

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
DJ Ahmet /North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia (Director and Screenwriter: Georgi M. Unkovski, Producers: Ivan Unkovski, Ivana Shekutkoska)

Audience Award: US Documentary
André is an Idiot / U.S.A. (Director: Anthony Benna, Producers: André Ricciardi, Tory Tunnell, Joshua Altman, Stelio Kitrilakis, Ben Cotner)

NEXT AWARDS - Presented by Jack Begert

NEXT Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Joel Alfonso Vargas, Producer: Paolo Maria Pedullà

NEXT Innovator Award
Zodiac Killer Project / U.S.A., U.K. (Director and Producer: Charlie Shackleton, Producers: Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing)

WORLD DRAMATIC COMPETITION AWARDS - Presented by Wanuri Kahiu

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) /India, U.K., Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, Producers: Neeraj Churi, Mohamed Khaki, Kaushik Ray, Hareesh Reddypalli, Naren Chandavarkar, Sidharth Meer)

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Writing
Two Women / Canada (Director: Chloé Robichaud, Screenwriter and Producer: Catherine Léger, Producer: Martin Paul-Hus)

Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Alireza Khatami for The Things You Kill /Turkey, France, Poland, Canada (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: Alireza Khatami, Producers: Elisa Sepulveda Ruddoff, Cyriac Auriol, Mariusz Włodarski, Michael Solomon)

WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION AWARDS - Presented by Cristina Costantini

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) / Iran, Germany, U.S.A., Netherlands, Qatar, Chile, Canada (Directors and Producers: Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award
Mr. Nobody Against Putin /Denmark, Czech Republic (Director and Screenwriter: David Borenstein, Producer: Helle Faber

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression
Coexistence, My Ass! / U.S.A., France(Director and Producer: Amber Fares, Screenwriter and Producer: Rachel Leah Jones, Screenwriter: Rabab Haj Yahya, Producer: Valérie Montmartin)

Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary
Mstyslav Chernov for 2000 Meters to Andriivka

SHORTS PROGRAM AWARDS - Presented virtually by Isaac Mizrahi

Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Theo Panagopoulos for The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / U.K.

Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing
Loren Waters for Tiger

Short Film Special Jury Award for Animation Directing
May Kindred-Boothby for The Eating of an Orange

Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Natalia León for Como si la tierra se las hubiera tragado

Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction
Christopher Radcliff for We Were The Scenery

Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
Chheangkea for Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites

Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction
Jazmin Garcia for Trokas Duras

Retroactive Awards - Presented by Kim Yutani

The Sundance Institute | Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Danielle Varga for Seeds

The Sundance Institute | Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction: Joe Pirro for The Wedding Banquet

The 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: SALLY