The 2026 Sundance Film Festival lineup is here, and five films made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance Program will make their World Premieres in competition! Additionally, three new films from program alum Liz Garbus, Dawn Porter, and Alysa Nahmias will also premiere.
Below are the five WMM Production Assistance films premiering at Sundance:
AMERICAN DOCTOR
U.S. Documentary Competition
Directed by Poh Si Teng; Produced by Poh Si Teng, Kirstine Barfod, Reem Haddad
Three American doctors—a Palestinian, a Jewish, and a Zoroastrian physician—enter Gaza to save lives, only to be thrust into a collision of medicine and politics that challenges every conviction they hold. Their commitment carries them from a besieged hospital to the United States, where they fight to honor their oath to their Palestinian colleagues and patients.
BARBARA FOREVER
U.S. Documentary Competition
Directed by Brydie O’Connor; Produced by Elijah Stevens, Brydie O’Connor, Claire Edelman
An archive-driven portrait of pioneering filmmaker Barbara Hammer, chronicling her lifelong commitment to building and preserving queer histories through experimental cinema and tracing the legacy that continues to influence a new generation of radical artists.
BIRDS OF WAR
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Directed and Produced by Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak; Produced by Sonja Henrici
A love story told through 13 years of personal archives as a Lebanese journalist and Syrian activist document the revolutions, war, and exile that reshape their lives and relationship.
TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Directed and Produced by Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić; Produced by Quentin Laurent, Rok Biček
In Montenegro’s remote highlands, a shepherd mother and daughter defend their ancestral mountain from becoming a NATO training ground, stirring buried memories of past violence and the cost of resistance.
TAKE ME HOME
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Directed by Liz Sargent; Produced by Apoorva Guru Charan, Minos Papas
A 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability sees her delicate routines collapse during a devastating Florida heat wave, forcing a reckoning with her estranged sister and a profound shift toward her own agency.
Additionally, we’re thrilled to congratulate three program Alum for World Premieres of their new films at Sundance this year:
- GIVE ME THE BALL! – Directed by Liz Garbus
- WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS – Directed by Dawn Porter
- COOKIE QUEENS – Directed by Alysa Nahmias
