With the 2025 Sundance Film Festival underway, Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees are making a final push — that could include paying millions of dollars — to keep the world-renowned film festival as its directors consider uprooting.

For Park City’s full-time residents, many of whom have grown up with the Sundance Film Festival, the idea of it leaving seems unimaginable.

When Sundance leaves in 2027, attendees are weighing the pros and cons of the three finalists, Salt Lake City, Boulder, and Cincinnati.

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027 , the 2025 program is under way. The event’s 41st edition kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest so far.

A new free event on the closing night of the Sundance Film Festival is meant to celebrate all types of art in Salt Lake City.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox walked the press line for the Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Train Dreams” at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday night. “It’s going to be an amazing festival, 41 years of Sundance here in Utah,” Cox said. “I think this is going to be the best one ever.”

Located right in the heart of Main Street (where most of the Sundance action is based), the lounge has become a staple at Sundance over the past 15 years that Chase has been the festival's presenting sponsor. This year was no different, and Cosmo had (snow) boots on the ground to survey the scene.

The Short Film Program awards honored the winning projects five days before the conclusion of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where 88 feature-length and episodic works and 57 short films — curated from 11,153 short film submissions — have screened to audiences in Park City, Salt Lake City and online.

And as organizers have done since September, when three finalist host cities were announced (Boulder, Colorado; Cincinatti, Ohio; and a joint Salt Lake City/Park City bid), Eugene Hernandez declined to give any hint of an answer. "The answer is 'no, not yet,'" he said.

Sundance Film Festival continues, Utah officials are working behind the scenes to keep the event in its 40-year home.

As the Sundance Film Festival nears its conclusion on Day 5, the buzz on Main Street in Park City continues with premieres ranging from Rachael Abigail Holder’s; Love, Brooklyn to Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet.

As Sundance considers moving out of Utah, the indie film community weighs how much of its identity is rooted in Park City.