Sorry, Baby and 4 Other Best Movies Screened at Sundance 2025
A path to healing, the reunion of a musical group, and two intriguing horror films.
The largest independent film festival, Sundance, ended last weekend in Park City. Here are some of the festival's most memorable films, all of which are worth waiting for.
1. Twinless, 2025
The new work by young director James Sweeney became one of the most memorable films of the festival, and star Dylan O'Brien won the Jury Award for Best Actor.
Roman loses his twin brother in a car accident and enrolls in a psychological support group for people who have also lost their twins. There he meets Dennis, and together they share each other's pain. Little does Roman know that Dennis has his own plan for their relationship.
2. Sorry, Baby, 2025
Another promising debut is director Eva Viktor's dramedy, which approaches the painful subject of abuse from an unexpected angle. Viktor won an award for her screenplay, and her film became one of the festival's audience favorites.
Viktor plays a young woman, Agnes, who lives in a small college town and works as a literature professor. Agnes seems to be a successful, confident woman, but it soon becomes clear that she is frozen in time.
While her friends are falling in love, getting married and having children, the woman has been trying to deal with the consequences of a terrible incident during her college years for many years.
Instead of a heavy drama, the audience is presented with a witty comedy about a painful, but absurd path to healing.
3. Rabbit Trap, 2025
In this magical horror, British-Australian director Bryn Chainey talks about his deepest fears. Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen play a married couple who come to the English countryside in 1976 to work on their projects.
They both work with sound: she is a musician, he is a sound engineer. One day, while the man is recording sounds in the woods, he falls into a magical circle, and the next day, a neighbor appears, gradually gaining the couple's trust and beginning to tell them about the beliefs of this land.
4. Together, 2025
Michael Shanks' body horror comedy became not only one of the festival's brightest debuts, but also Sundance's most important discovery. Several distributors fought for the film, and in the end Neon bought it.
According to the plot, Millie and Tim move from a big city to the outback. Millie has been offered a job at a local school, and Tim has had to leave his music career and his friends.
A crisis is clearly brewing in the couple, and when Millie and Tim end up in a mysterious cave during a walk, something changes in their relationship. The two are drawn to each other again, and they do not have the strength to break off the relationship.
5. The Ballad of Wallis Island, 2025
Herb and Nell were once promising musicians. They started dating, recorded an album together, but after several years of working, they suddenly broke up.
However, they still have very devoted fans. One of them, a mysterious millionaire from a small British island, invites them to reunite and play a concert just for him. Such a simple plan radically changes the lives of all the characters.
James Griffiths' comedy has everything: the beautiful nature, guitar music, memories of old love, a little sadness and a lot of embarrassing situations.