The 2025 Sundance Film Festival is highlighting Latin talent. The highly-anticipated festival gives us a preview of upcoming movies set to headline next year, with Jennifer Lopez leading the lineup in a new adaptation of the 1992 musical ‘Kiss of the Spider-Woman’ starring Diego Luna and directed by Bill Condon. .
Latino films featured in the 2025 Sundance Film Festival lineup:
The festival will be held from January 23-February 2, 2025 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, spotlighting a new generation of independent films, including Latino filmmakers, artists and stories.
© Courtesy of Sundance Institute.Kiss of Spider-Woman:
Valentin, a political prisoner, shared a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina describes the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna. Cast: Diego Luna, Tonatiuh, Jennifer Lopez, Bruno Bichir, Josefina Scaglione, Alain Maiagoitia.
© Courtesy of Sundance Institute.Selena and Los Dinos:
Selena Quintanilla — “Queen of Tejano Music” — and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of his life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.
© Courtesy of Sundance Institute.To pay Mad Bill (or Destiny, tell her I’m not bad):
Rico’s summers are a mix of chasing girls and sipping homemade cocktails from a cooler at Orchard Beach in the Bronx. But when Destiny, his teenage girlfriend, crashes at his place with her family, it’s only a matter of time before his carefree days come to an end. Cast: Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Johanna Florentino, Nathalie Navarro.
© Courtesy of Sundance Institute.Rain on Babel:
A group of misfits gather at Babel, a legendary dive bar that doubles as a purgatory, where La Flaca — the town’s Grim Reaper — presides. Here, souls gamble years of their lives with him, daring death to overtake itself. Cast: Saray Rebolledo, Felipe Aguilar Rodriguez, John Alex Castillo, William Hurtado, Santiago Pineda, Selena Burun.
© Courtesy of Sundance Institute Photo by Pasqual Gutierrez and Ben MullincosonSirius P.Ople:
A successful music video director and expectant father pushes his work-life balance to the extreme as he hires a doppelgänger to work in his place. Cast: Pascual Gutierrez, Christine Yuan, Miguel Huerta, Raul Sanchez.
© Courtesy of Sundance Institute.Virgin of Quarry Lake:
In 2001, three teenagers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires fall in love with Diego. Natalia has always had the most chemistry with him, but when it seems inevitable that their friendship will turn into something more, the older and more experienced Silvia appears and soon catches Diego’s attention. Cast: Dolores Oliverio, Luisa Merelas, Fernanda Echevarria, Daddy Briva, Agustin Sosa.
