On this occasion, three films with Danish involvement and one Icelandic co-production will take part in the final edition of the gathering to be held in Utah, before it relocates to Boulder, Colorado.

The Sundance Institute has unveiled the 2026 Sundance Film Festival lineup, comprising 90 feature films and seven episodic projects (97 projects in total, including the previously announced Park City Legacy programme). The festival runs 22 January –1 February 2026 in Park City and Salt Lake City, with an at-home selection streaming 29 January –1 February.

Overall, four titles with Nordic participation are set to world premiere, with projects spread across several strands.

In the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, Hold Onto Me (Κράτα Με) is a Cyprus–Denmark–Greece drama written and directed by Myrsini Aristidou. The pic follows 11-year-old Iris as she seeks out her estranged father at a shipyard after a family death, with a tentative bond slowly forming. The cast is led by Christos Passalis and Maria Petrova.

The feature is produced by Monica Nicolaidou for Filmblade and Aristidou’s One Six One Films, in co-production with Anders N.U. Berg for Denmark’s Fredo Pictures, and Konstantina Stavrianou and Rena Vougioukalou for Greece’s Graal SA, while Mark Hollinger and Thomas J Mangan IV serve as executive producers for Pleasant Bay Pictures and Mango Productions. The project received backing from the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture, ERT, the Danish Film Institute, the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center, NYU Tisch’s Black Family Film Foundation, Pleasant Bay Pictures and the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. Angel Films is in charge of its Danish rights, whilst world sales are yet to be announced.

In Sundance’s NEXT programme, hybrid documentary Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] (USA/Denmark), by Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil, promises to bend “time and space inside museum archives as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return Indigenous human remains for reburial”.

Iceland is represented in the Premieres sidebar via the documentary Time and Water (USA/Iceland), directed by Sara Dosa and co-written by Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason. Drawing on Magnason’s archives, the film frames the loss of glaciers and family memory as a time capsule of what is slipping away.

On the episodic side, Denmark also features with nonfiction pilot The Oligarch and the Art Dealer (Denmark/France/USA), directed by Andreas Dalsgaard, charting the decade-long clash between Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier and Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev over masterpieces and an alleged billion-dollar fraud.