How to Watch the Sundance Film Festival Movies Online

There’s a glamorous side to attending the Sundance Film Festival—celebrity sightings, viewing movies before anyone else, stunning ski resorts—and then there are the not so wonderful things—freezing temperatures, packed screening schedules, outrageously priced hotel rooms. Then there’s the happy-medium where you can watch everything you want from the festival while wearing fuzzy slippers in your own home.

The Sundance Film Festival has been one of the premier places to debut independent films for 47 years. It’s made the careers of directors like Quentin Tarantino, Darren Aronofsky, and Kevin Smith. This year there’s buzz around films like A24’s Opus, which stars Ayo Edebiri as a journalist who spends a weird weekend on an island owned by a reclusive former pop star/burgeoning cult leader played by John Malkovich.

While the festival usually takes place in snowy Park City, Utah, the pandemic pushed it online in 2021 and 2022. On its return to in-person events and screenings in 2023, Sundance kept open the option to watch online. This year the festival goes from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2 in person and online.

How to Buy Tickets

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Tickets are on sale on the festival’s site now. There is the option to pay $35 per film, $50 for a pass for just the short films, or unlimited access to all of the screenings for $800.

How to Watch

Sundance selections can only be watched within the US. They are viewable from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. Once you start watching a film, you have five hours to finish it, and once you start watching something episodic, you have 12 hours. Shorts do not have a time limit for viewing.

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You can watch via the browser on a computer or tablet by logging in to the Sundance site, festival.sundance.org, signing in, clicking on My Schedule, and then selecting Watch Now next to what you want to watch.

Or you can watch with a streaming device or TV (Apple TV, Fire TV, Google TV, or Roku) by downloading the Sundance Film Festival Player app. Log in, click on My Schedule, and select Watch Now next to your film of choice.

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