Sundance Sets Legacy Screenings Including Films by Christopher Nolan, Justin Lin and Alfonso Cuarón

As Sundance prepares to write a new legacy in Boulder, Colorado in 2027 and beyond, the film festival is bringing some hits from its past to the new home.

Sundance Institute today revealed the lineup for the Legacy program for next year’s festival, and it includes works by filmmakers including Christopher Nolan, Alfonso Cuarón, Justin Lin, Stacy Peralta, Julie Taymor, Barbara Hammer, Patricia Cardoso and Tom Kalin. While old will be new again, there’s also something fresh for the lineup once known as From the Collection: Letterboxd joins as a co-presenter of the Legacy program with additional details for onsite activations to come.

Plucked for the Legacy program — curated as a home to showcase “groundbreaking independent cinema including archival and restoration screenings of fiction and nonfiction works as well as special events” — will feature brand-new restorations of the 2002 Sundance version of Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow, a digital 4K restoration of Peralta’s Dogtown and Z-Boys, a 35th anniversary screening of Taymor’s Fool’s Fire, Hammer’s Nitrate Kisses, a 25th anniversary screening of Cardoso’s Real Women Have Curves, a star making turn for America Ferrera, a 35th anniversary screening of Kalin’s Swoon, and a 25th anniversary screening of a 4K restoration of Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también, a star making turn for Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Sundance has also set a special two-part session on the final weekend of the festival dubbed “Sundance Film Festival presents: Cinema Interruptus featuring Memento.” It will feature a 4K restoration and communal discussion for Nolan’s 2000 effort, Memento, starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano.

“We’re excited to kick off the festival season in earnest with this first 2027 Sundance Film Festival announcement, revealing some of our Legacy programming,” explained Eugene Hernandez, who serves as director of the Sundance Film Festival and public programming. “Each year we honor the legacy of our founder Robert Redford and the history of the Sundance Film Festival by looking back at just a few of the films and filmmakers who have shaped our history. Our first festival in our new home in Boulder, Colorado will bring change, but as we evolve, we’ll keep at our core what we celebrate: our rich history.”

Added Kim Yutani, director of programming: “Revisiting and becoming newly acquainted with films from our previous lineups in a theatrical setting, in community, and with some of the talent behind the films is a rare treat — even more so when these projects have been restored. We’re really looking forward to welcoming back these artists and know that audiences will enjoy the opportunity to complement the new films we will soon be announcing with these classics.”

The Sundance Film Festival will take place in Boulder from Jan. 21–31. Additional Legacy programming will be announced in the coming weeks.