
Release Rundown: What to Watch in July, From “FOLKTALES” to “Oh, Hi!”
Hege Wik and Odin appear in “FOLKTALES” by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance
Hege Wik and Odin appear in “FOLKTALES” by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance
After premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Channing Godfrey Peoples’s debut feature is hitting digital platforms this Juneteenth—the day for which the film is named and which is very close to the director’s heart. “I feel like I’ve been living Miss Juneteenth my whole life,” she says.
The June 19 holiday—which commemorates the day slavery was finally abolished in Texas (more than two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation was issued)—is celebrated in her hometown of Fort Worth with a deep sense of reverence and community, with barbecues, a parade, and a scholarship pageant for young Black women.
Sally Ride appears in “SALLY” by Cristina Costantini, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by NASA.
Paul Reubens appears in “Pee-wee as Himself,” an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Michael Ochs
Pedro Pascal appears in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s “Freaky Tales,” which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. By Lucy Spicer If variety is
Ayo Edebiri appears in “Opus” by Mark Anthony Green, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by
Sly Stone appears in “SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun embody the love story of a buoy and a satellite in Sam and Andy Zuchero’s “Love Me.” By Lucy Spicer
[Pictured: a still from “Love Lies Bleeding,” one of the 100 Sundance-supported titles that opened to wider audiences in 2024] By Lucy Spicer Are you
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s “Gaucho Gaucho” won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Sound at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. By Lucy Spicer
Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg (R) stars alongside Kieran Culkin in “A Real Pain,” winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic at the 2024 Sundance
Aspiring actor Laura (Melissa Barrera) contends with a peculiar houseguest in writer-director Caroline Lindy’s “Your Monster.” By Lucy Spicer It’s a good thing October has
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