2026 Sundance Film Festival Lineup Includes Courtney Love Doc, Charli XCX’s ‘The Moment,’ ‘Best Summer’ Movie Featuring Beastie Boys, Foo Fighters, Beck

Next year’s Sundance Film Festival revealed the slate of features scheduled to screen in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah from Jan. 22-Feb. 1 and topping the list for music lovers is an original mockumentary based on an idea by Charli XCX and a documentary about Courtney Love.

The provocatively titled Antiheroine, directed by Edward Lovelace (Katy Perry: Part of Me) and James Hall (The Possibilities Are Endless) promises to tell the story of the grunge pop singer and widow of late Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in the world premiere of the doc at the prestigious event. “Singer, songwriter, and actor Courtney Love has long had an impact on rock and pop culture. Now sober and set to release new music for the first time in over a decade, Courtney is ready to reveal her story, unfiltered and unapologetic,” reads a description.

Another music film, The Best Summer, directed and produced by Tamra Davis (CB4, Crossroads) is described as an immersive, POV doc featuring “eclectic performances, candid interviews and intimate backstage” looks at such 1990s indie legends the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Rancid, Beck, The Amps, and Bikini Kill in “an all-access view inside an era-defining moment in music.” The world premiere will take place at the festival but also be available online for the public to screen.

In one of several films on her upcoming roster, The Moment is described as a mockumentary feature based on an original story by Charli XCX about a rising pop star navigating fame while preparing for her debut arena tour starring the singer as well as Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Alexander Skarsgård, Kylie Jenner, Rish Shah, Jamie Demetriou, Arielle Dombasle, Shygirl and A. G. Cook.

The 2026 roster of films includes 105 projects that will be screened live in Utah, as well as in an at-home program that runs from Jan. 29-Feb. 1; for more information on ticketing click here.

Among the films in dramatic competition are Run Amok, about a girl who stages an elaborate musical about the “one day her high school wishes it could forget” starring Alyssa Marvin, Patrick Wilson, Margaret Cho and Molly Ringwald, as well as The Musical, about a frustrated playwright out for romantic revenge starring Gillian Jacobs, Rob Lowe and Will Brill.

Among the notable documentaries on tap are: Barbara Forever, about the life of legendary lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer, Joybubbles, the tale of a blind man who unwittingly set the stage for the future of hacking by discovering he can manipulate the phone system by whistling a magic tone and Public Access, the chronicle of free-speech warriors who hijacked the TV airwaves and defied censors with their not-ready-for-prime-time experiments.

Other premieres on next year’s scheduled include a documentary about a WNBA legend (The Brittney Griner Story) and another about pioneering tennis player Billie Jean King (Give Me the Ball!).