European Film Promotion will welcome filmmakers and industry professionals to its EUROPE! HUB at the Sundance Film Festival (22 January – 1 February 2026), “highlighting and celebrating the presence of European films in this year’s line-up,” the organisation writes.
Supported by the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union and co-hosted by the European national film promotion institutes Slovenian Film Centre, Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann and German Films, the HUB provides “a joint European presence offering visibility, promotion, and networking opportunities for European talent and the US industry,” and is located at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Park City (9:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Thursday, 22 January to Monday, 26 January 2026.)
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
European docs in Sundance World Cinema Documentary Competition include All About the Money (Ireland 2026), by Sinéad O’Shea, To Hold a Mountain (Montenegro, Serbia, France, Slovenia, Croatia 2026) by Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić, Closure (Poland) by Michał Marczak, Everybody to Kenmure Street (UK) by Felipe Bustos Sierra, Birds of War (U.K., Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon) by Janay Boulos & Abd Alkader Habak and One In A Million (UK) by Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes.
In the feature documentary All About the Money (Ireland 2026), Sinéad O’Shea examines Fergie Chambers, heir to one of America’s wealthiest families, who uses his fortune to fund communist projects challenging the capitalist system he was born into. The film reveals the tensions between wealth and ideals, showing how vast resources shape power, ambition, and human relationships.
Directed by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, To Hold a Mountain (Montenegro, Serbia, France, Slovenia, Croatia 2026) depicts a mother and daughter in Montenegro’s remote highlands fighting to protect their ancestral land from becoming a NATO military training ground. The documentary celebrates resilience and the enduring strength of women through daily routines such as herding and cheesemaking.
In the Polish feature documentary Closure, after his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
The World Cinema Documentary Competition selection Everybody to Kenmure Street (UK), by Felipe Bustos Sierra, tells the story of how, in May 2021, a U.K. Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory as, in Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
Two other UK documentaries in World Cinema Doc Competition are Birds of War (U.K., Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon) by Janay Boulos & Abd Alkader Habak and One In A Million (UK) by Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes. Birds of War tells the love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile. Filmed over 10 years, One In A Million portrays one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.
The US/UK/Pakistan production Hanging by a Wire by Mohammed Ali Naqvi tells the terrifying story of how, during a routine school commute, a cable car’s wire snaps, leaving eight passengers — including six schoolboys — dangling 900 feet above a ravine in the remote Himalayan foothills. With 10 hours before the remaining cable is expected to fail, a group of rescuers races to save them.
Other docs and non-fiction works with a strong European connection play across other sections at Sundance 2026.
NON-FICTION PILOT SHOWCASE
In the Non-Fiction Pilot Showcase, Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Oligarch and the Art Dealer (Denmark, France, US) tells the story of Yves Bouvier who brokers masterpieces, from da Vinci to Rothko, into the private collection of Dmitry Rybolovlev, until he is accused of a billion-dollar betrayal. Rising ambitions, frayed relationships, and bruised egos fuel a decade-long all-out war between the Swiss art dealer and the elusive Russian oligarch.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
In Special Screenings, Mark Cousins’ The Story of Documentary Film (UK) traces the evolution of the genre across time, examining landmark works and hidden treasures, while revealing how the form has helped us see and make sense of our world. Meanwhile, in Spotlight, Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth’s hybrid Broken English (UK) provides a portrait of the inimitable singer, songwriter and icon Marianne Faithfull.
SUNDANCE PREMIERES
In Sundance Premieres, the UK/US feature doc Antiheroine by Edward Lovelace and James Hall will world-premiere. Now sober and set to release new music for the first time in over a decade, Courtney Love is now ready to reveal her story, unfiltered and unapologetic.
In the US/UK production The Disciple, director/producer Joanna Natasegara explains how an outsider fuelled by relentless determination works his way into the inner circle of the Wu-Tang Clan, where his ambition and creativity converge in the making of an album poised to ignite global controversy.
In The Last First: Winter K2 (US/UK) Amir Bar-Lev details the race to grab the last great prize in mountaineering, K2 in winter, which left five dead. The endeavour exposed deep fault lines in alpinism today: pressures from commercialization, toxic effects of social media, and long-brewing tensions between those who’ve been marginalized and those who’ve always basked in the sport’s glory.
NEXT
The documentary selections in NEXT include the US/Denmark production Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]. Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place. World Premiere. Documentary. Available online for public.
In the Mexico/US/France feature doc Jaripeo, by Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig, a journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
