The Sundance Film Festival announces its return to Mexico City on April 30

The Mexico variation of the Sundance Film Festival is returning to Mexico City for its 3rd consecutive year, showcasing a wide array of autarkic planetary movie productions.

The festival is simply a collaboration betwixt Cinépolis, the largest theatrical accumulation institution successful Mexico and Latin America, and the Sundance Institute, the nonprofit enactment down the Sundance Film Festival. 

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The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot from April 30 to May 3 astatine Cinépolis Diana, which volition service arsenic the main venue. Additional screenings volition beryllium announced arsenic the festival day approaches, but confirmed locations see Cinépolis Mitikah, Cinépolis Oasis Coyoacán, Cinépolis Plaza Carso and Cinépolis VIP Miyana. 

 “We are excited to beryllium readying different variation of Sundance Film Festival,” Eugene Hernández, the Sundance manager of nationalist programming, said. “Our 2026 festival successful April volition again showcase a enactment of caller films from astir the satellite for Mexico City moviegoers,” said.

Hernández added that organizers enjoyed getting to cognize audiences successful Mexico City during the erstwhile editions, and that their programming squad is curating a enactment “that volition prosecute and entertain.”

The screenings see a enactment of films primitively presented astatine the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, arsenic good arsenic peculiar screenings and activities designed to enrich the audience’s in-theater experience.

Meanwhile, caput of Cinépolis Alejandro Ramírez said that “the festival represents a mode of experiencing cinema arsenic a broad acquisition that opens dialog and integrates antithetic visions of the satellite and the existent context.”

Ramírez added that they privation to make a abstraction for dialog astir autarkic cinema and “to fortify the section originative ecosystem.” 

The 3rd variation of the “Sundance Film Festival: CDMX” volition diagnostic films screened this twelvemonth successful the United States successful summation to immoderate Latin American productions. Some imaginable movies to beryllium featured see “La Cazadora” (Suzanne Andrews Correa), “Jaripeo” (Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig), and “Marga en el DF” (Gabriela Ortega). 

To larn further details astir the festival and its program, travel Cinépolis social media channels and site: cinepolis.com/mx

With reports from Hollywood Reporter