How to navigate the 2025 Sundance Film Festival? Here are tips about tickets, parking, dining, celebrity-spotting, online access, and more.

Just more than a week before Sundance 2025 kicks off, the resort town has made the long-desired decision to make Park City ‘s often-congested Main Street car-free for the duration of the festival, which runs January 23-Feburary 2.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has been working “diligently” to keep Sundance Film Festival returning to Park City, Utah, he said at a press conference Thursday.

Park City’s Main Street will be closed to cars during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. It’s the first road closing of this kind in the event’s history.

Park City Film regularly showcases films at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium. During Sundance, however, the auditorium is used to screen festival films. Park City Film Executive Director Katy Wang said the changeover is pretty seamless.

You can take part in the 2025 Sundance Film Festival without leaving your home, here’s how and what movies are available to watch.

While the festival continues as expected, devastation remains in LA County. The National Weather Service put portions of LA County under a “particularly dangerous situation” warning through Wednesday morning as high winds with gusts up to 72 mph threaten rapid spreading of the fire, per the Los Angeles Times.

Indigenous firefighting crews from the Karuk Tribe, Navajo Nation, Blackfeet Nation and others unite to battle California's devastating wildfires and support displaced residents. Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Bryan Newland shares insights on federal policies shaping Indian Country.