Sundance 2025 features uncharted queer territory and reimagined LGBTQ classics

Star-studded remakes of “The Wedding Banquet” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman” headline a diverse and provocative lineup of queer titles debuting at the influential Sundance Film Festival.

The 41st annual Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, with a heady slate of 90 feature-length films from around the globe. Each film will also screen in nearby Salt Lake City at least once during the festival, which runs through Feb. 2.

Long at the forefront of breaking the best and most daring in LGBTQ cinema, Sundance will bring the goods again, with 15 dramatic and documentary features on the exciting and largely upbeat roster. 

“The list is really celebratory,” Sundance programmer Ash Hoyle said. “Sometimes the queer community, we’re so good at looking at and documenting our own histories and our own struggles — and that’s certainly at play with a lot of these, as well — but the tone this year is overwhelmingly really optimistic and really celebratory.”

Jennifer Lopez stars alongside Diego Luna in an extravagant musical remake of the 1985 queer classic “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” while Bowen Yang co-stars with Lily Gladstone in a reimagining of the 1993 gay favorite “The Wedding Banquet.”

A host of returning Sundance directors and LGBTQ audience favorites will also premiere their latest works, including Ira Sachs (“Peter Hujar’s Day”), Zackary Drucker (“Enigma”) and Elegance Bratton (“Move Ya Body: The Birth of House”).

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