Sundance Sets Tributes to Park City and Robert Redford — Plus ‘Saw,’ ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ and More Restorations — for Utah Farewell
The Sundance Film Festival has just announced new details for its final edition in Park City.
In January 2026, the festival will offer a bevy of events honoring its longtime home, as well as its founder, Robert Redford. The late actor died in September at the age of 89. He had made Park City the festival’s home, having become a Utah resident starting in the late 1960s. As such, the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will screen one of his great movies, “Downhill Racer,” as a tribute — it also happened to be filmed in part in Boulder, Colorado, the new home of the festival starting in 2027. IndieWire named Redford’s work in “Downhill Racer” as one of his greatest performances.
Taking place from January 22 to February 1, 2026, in Park City and Salt Lake City, Sundance will even feature a series of select talks at the Egyptian Theatre on Main Street, which had previously announced it would sit out the final Park City Sundance. The Park City Legacy program will be concentrated during the window of January 27-30.
Several all-time Sundance classics will screen at the final Park City edition, including “Saw” from a 2024 restoration, a world premiere 20th-anniversary restoration of “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Half Nelson,” and a very recent restoration of Gregg Araki’s “Mysterious Skin,” with the filmmakers and select cast in attendance. Also screening as part of the Park City Legacy Films sidebar at Sundance 2026 are Barbara Kopple’s “American Dream” to commemorate the documentary’s 35th anniversary, Lynn Shelton’s “Humpday” as a tribute to filmmakers who’ve passed away, and Reginald Hudlin’s cult classic comedy “House Party.” The legacy films will be followed by cast and crew Q&As.
As for Sundance’s main slate of world premiere films, the festival is still heads down screening some half a dozen movies a day ahead of lineup announcements later this fall.
In terms of events for the Park City farewell, Sundance will also host a culminating event on January 30 as a celebration of the city’s locals who’ve supported the festival for decades. Other events planned for the final Park City edition include Celebrating Sundance Institute: A Tribute to Founder Robert Redford as well as a directors brunch at Sundance Mountain Resort.
IndieWire’s Eugene Hernandez told IndieWire that this upcoming Sundance’s artist-first initiatives are in keeping with Redford’s adage that “everyone has a story.”
Tickets for the entire Sundance program will go on sale Wednesday, October 22, at festival.sundance.org/tickets.
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