A brief overview of what to expect from the 2026 festival — including the absence of a longtime Park City venue.

Robert Redford earned recognition as both a leading man, most memorably as the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and as an Academy Award-winning director for Ordinary People (1980).

Robert Redford steps back from the Sundance spotlight, with a project to come. By. ... Redford, 82, thanked Sundance volunteers and Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam, ...

Robert Redford knew that he should be The Sundance Kid. “When I read it, I thought, ‘This is perfect for me,’” Redford said in a recent phone interview. “It had a lot to do with my own ...