Sundance is always home to great queer films.
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The Sundance Film Festival is known for showcasing amazing movies, up-and-coming filmmakers and artists, boundary-pushing projects, and future Oscar winners, and the 2024 lineup continues that legacy!
Just recently, the festival announced its stacked lineup of 91 projects, from films and documentaries to episodic and New Frontier projects, that will be airing during the festivities, which is held annually in Park City, Utah.
Many iconic queer films made their debuts or aired at Sundance, including Paris Is Burning, Bound, The Celluloid Closet, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Y Tu Mamá También, Call Me by Your Name, Disclosure, and Kokomo City.
In 2024, the festival continues that tradition by hosting even more queer films and films from queer filmmakers.
Here are 14 queer projects we can’t wait to see at Sundance 2024! Packages and passes are available now for the festival, and single tickets will become available on January 11.
Desire Lines
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Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires. Starring Theo Germaine.
FRIDA
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An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork.
I Saw the TV Glow
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From the filmmaker behind We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, I Saw the TV Glow stars Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine. "Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack."
In the Summers
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On a journey that spans across the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Layla
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When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.
Love Lies Bleeding
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Reclusive gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls hard for Jackie (Katy O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
Love Machina
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Futurists Martine and Bina Rothblatt commission an advanced humanoid AI named Bina48 to transfer Bina’s consciousness from a human to a robot in an attempt to continue their once-in-a-galaxy love affair for the rest of time.
My Old Ass
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The summer before college, bright-yet-irreverent Elliott comes face-to-face with her older self during a mushroom trip. The encounter spurs a funny and heartfelt journey of self-discovery and first love as Elliott prepares to leave her childhood home.
Ponyboi
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Starring River Gallo (who also wrote it) and Dylan O’Brien, along with Victoria Peretti, Murray Bartlett, and Indya Moore, Ponyboi unfolds "over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey" when "a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past."
Power
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Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power. This documentary comes from director Yance Ford.
Sebastian
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Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
Stress Positions
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This film is written and directed by Theda Hammel and stars John Early. "Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew — a 19-year-old model from Morocco named Bahlul — bedridden in a full leg cast after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model."
Sue Bird: In the Clutch
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In her 21-year professional career, WNBA basketball legend Sue Bird has won five Olympic gold medals and become the most successful point guard to ever play the game. Alongside her fiancée, U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe, Sue confronts her next challenge: retiring from the only life she’s ever known.
Will & Harper
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When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.
