Amid a number of thin, depressing movies at this year’s edition of the Utah festival, a pair of funny, big-hearted films stood out, alongside the typical contingent of thoughtful character studies and powerful documentaries.

Music’s most famous – and most scrutinized – love story is continuing to unfold on screen, five decades later. Following a successful world premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald’s “One to One: John & Yoko” made its Sundance debut in Park City,

One to One: John & Yoko was edited and co-directed by Sam Rice-Edwards. A Mercury Studios presents A Plan B/KM Films & Mercury Studios production, it is produced by Peter Worsley, Macdonald and Alice Webb. EPs are Marc Robinson, David Joseph, Steve Condie, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner.

Kevin Macdonald’s Venice and Telluride premiere One To One: John & Yoko has been picked up by Dogwoof for release in the UK-Ireland. The documentary screened in the Spotlight section at Sundance yesterday (January 23). The feature will preview exclusively in Imax on April 9 and 10 before opening in cinemas nationwide on April 11.

The Sundance Film Festival remains the largest independent film festival in the United States, and as was the case in both 2023 and 2024, the 2025 edition

John & Yoko," a documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's time living in Greenwich Village, will be released by Magnolia in IMAX.

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The Sundance Film Festival welcomed back three Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers to help kick off the annual independent film showcase in Park City, Utah.

The sale went through before “One to One” is set to screen at Sundance Film Festival, which is taking place in Park City from Jan. 23-Feb. 2, 2025. The doc had its world premiere at Venice Film Festival and played at Telluride Film Festival before making the trek to Utah’s snowy mountain town.

This is a solid directorial debut by Cole Webley who addresses a serious social issue in a sensitive manner rather than being preachy and melodramatic. The camera work has a documentary handheld style that is gritty and places the viewer in the middle of the action to witness the minor moments of humiliation of not being able to support a family properly adding up to the point where a drastic decision is made that has significant ramifications.

Naturally, The Verge is going to be taking in as much of Sundance as we can and posting bite-sized reviews of everything we see. We’ll also be posting longer reviews and sharing trailers, and you can follow along here to keep up with all of the news out of the festival.