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Reporting on the most famous and fashionable, and the films, at the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the United States.
Chris Pine poses for a photo at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 22, 2026. The Hollywood star has turned to Harbor Fund for his upcoming project, which is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about families fighting to avoid eviction. Photo: Getty Images/TNS
American cinema

The non-profit film fund helping Chris Pine and others make movies for good

Harbour Fund uses rich donors to finance films with ‘transcendent’ messages that otherwise might never be made in a risk-averse industry.

Britain

Film on Scottish community resisting immigration raid wins Sundance award

American cinema

What’s in store for the final Sundance Film Festival at Park City?

American cinema

Hollywood in 2026: what to expect, from movies and China focus to ‘Dunesday’

Hollywood faces a pivotal year of change in 2026, with the potential Netflix/Warner deal, AI actors and nostalgia fever among key factors.

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Robert Downey Jnr attends the Marvel Studios Panel at SDCC in San Diego, California, in 2024. Avengers: Doomsday is currently scheduled to release on December 18, 2026. Photo: Getty Images
American cinema

Film about Pee-wee Herman actor meant as ‘portrait of an artist’

Director Matt Wolf on how he completed documentary Pee-wee as Himself after Paul Reubens’ death, and why he didn’t want a celebrity biopic.

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Photography

Who took the iconic Napalm Girl image? World Press Photo says it’s not clear

The organisation has removed Nick Ut’s credit for the prize-winning picture, after a documentary cast doubt over its authorship.

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Asian cinema

Move over Bollywood, Indian art-house cinema is on the rise

Films such as All We Imagine as Light, Sister Midnight and Santosh are showing a different side to Indian cinema and attracting global fans.

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Kani Kusruti (left) and Divya Prabha in a still from All We Imagine as Light.
Fame and celebrity

Meet actor Robert Redford’s wife of 16 years, the artist Sibylle Szaggars

The couple met at Redford’s Sundance Mountain Resort in 1996 and tied the knot in 2009; Szaggars is Redford’s second wife after he parted ways with Lola Van Wagenen.

Chinese language cinema

Recap | The directors reshaping Asian cinema, from Jia Zhangke to Ray Yeung

Discover 5 directors shaping modern Asian cinema, covering LGBTQ representation, China’s rise, dystopian tales and untold war stories.

Fame and celebrity

Barack Obama has no problem with daughter not using his name

Filmmaker Malia Obama doesn’t want tagging as a ‘nepo baby’, so these days she is ‘Malia Ann’. And US ex-president is just fine with that.

Former US president Barack Obama takes the stage at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Photo: dpa
Cinema

Why director Tony Bui is telling the story of the Vietnam war’s ‘napalm girl’

As his Sundance hit Three Seasons enjoys a 4k restoration, the Vietnamese-American director is next chronicling Kim Phuc, the screaming young girl seen in newspapers around the world

Vietnamese-American director Tony Bui describes the highs and soggy lows of taking his Sundance-celebrated 1999 film Three Seasons back on the road and his forthcoming project on the ‘napalm girl’. Photo: courtesy Tony Bui
Asian cinema: Chinese films

Like a Chinese Michael Crichton, Lin Jianjie went from science to filmmaking

Brief History of a Family made a splash at Sundance and is about to screen at the Berlin film festival. Its Chinese director, Lin Jianjie, reflects on its subject – China’s middle class – and dreamlike ending.

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Barack Obama

Malia Obama’s film career so far – from internships to her directorial debut

Malia Obama just made her directorial debut at the Sundance Film Festival with short film The Heart – here’s what you need to know about her burgeoning film career

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ChatGPT and other generative AIs

Profile | Musician Brian Eno on why he doesn’t trust tech titans with AI

Brian Eno, influential musician and producer, is the subject of Eno, a documentary that uses AI to generate a different version of the film each time it is shown. He explains why he embraced the project.

Brian Eno, influential musician and producer who worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo and U2, in a still from the documentary “Eno” about his life and career. Photo: Film First/Brain One
Asian cinema: Chinese films

Review | Brief History of a Family: Chinese drama exposes cracks in ‘perfect’ family

Lin Jianjie’s unsettling drama, which will premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, exposes hidden tensions in a post-one-child-policy Chinese family as the son’s mysterious friend becomes a fixture.

Sun Xilun in a still from “Brief History of a Family”.
American cinema

Kristen Stewart to Pedro Pascal, 10 to watch at Sundance 2024

Films screening at the 40th Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, include Love Lies Bleeding, starring Kristen Stewart, Freaky Tales with Pedro Pascal, and Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.

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American cinema

Review | Past Lives: Celine Song’s tender, touching romance about first loves

Celine Song’s gentle romance stars Greta Lee and Teo Yoo as childhood friends in Korea who reconnect online after 12 years apart, and eventually meet again in New York.

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Royalty

‘Immersive’ Princess Diana documentary ‘explores our complicity’ in her life and death

While previous documentaries tried to ‘get inside Diana’s head’, ‘The Princess’ focuses on how the press and public perceived and judged her behaviour.

New film ‘immersive’ about Princess Diana offers an ‘origin story’.
Coronavirus pandemic

Grammys postponed, Sundance goes online, citing Omicron risks

The Grammys were originally expected to return to the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on January 31, complete with a live audience and performances.

American cinema

Sundance hit CODA about a mostly deaf family is funny and profound

Starring a trio of actors who are deaf – Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant – CODA is an acclaimed drama about a teenager who can hear (Emilia Jones) growing up in a deaf family.

American cinema

Nicolas Cage’s wildest film yet – director Sion Sono weighs in

A renegade director, a no-holds-barred actor – Sion Sono on how he made the film Nicolas Cage says is his wildest yet, Prisoners of the Ghostland, which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival.

Nicolas Cage (right) as Hero and Nick Cassavetes as Psycho in a still from Prisoners of the Ghostland, directed by Japan’s Sion Sono, which had its premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival. Photo: courtesy of XYZ Films
Asian cinema

Film follows success of women journalists from India’s lowest caste

The story of three extraordinary young women journalists from India’s first all-women news agency is the subject of Writing with Fire, a stand-out at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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Khabar Lahariya journalists Meera (right) and Suneeta (second right) in a still from Writing with Fire. The film about a women-only digital news agency in India has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.
American cinema

‘If it moves me I’m into it’: Steven Yeun on new film Minari

Korean-American who was Glenn Rhee in Walking Dead says Minari, story of a Korean immigrant family entered in Sundance festival, ‘spoke to me on a deeply human level’; Yeun is also rooting for Paradise at the Oscars.

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