Beth de Araújo’s family drama “Josephine” has won the top prizes at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.
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23, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. Gemma Chan, from left, Mason Reeves and Channing Tatum appear in a scene from the film"Josephine," by Beth de Arajo, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Domhnall Gleeson, from left, Michelle Gomez, Gayle Rankin, and Grant O'Rourke attend the premiere of"The Incomer" during the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah. Andrew Stanton, director of the the film"In the Blink of an Eye," attends the premiere of the film during the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, at Eccles Theater in Park City, Utah. Pedestrians walk down Main Street on the first day of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, in Park City, Utah. Director Beth de Araujo, left, and Channing Tatum attend the premiere of"Josephine" during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. “Josephine,” starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan as the girl’s parents, became one of the festival’s early consensus hits despite its difficult subject matter, which was based on the filmmaker’s own experience at that age. The young girl is played by newcomer Mason Reeves, whom de Araújo discovered at a San Francisco farmer’s market. The film won both the U.S. dramatic grand jury prize and the festival’s audience award but does not yet have distribution.Filmmakers Janicza Bravo, Nisha Ganatra and Azazel Jacobs were the jury for the U.S. Dramatic Competition. They cited the film’s “depth and nuance of storytelling” and its “delicate and elegant execution of a challenging subject matter.” Other titles in the U.S. dramatic competition included Josef Kubota Wladyka's “Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!,” which got a special prize for directing. The grand jury prize for best U.S. documentary was awarded to “Nuisance Bear,” about a polar bear navigating a human world. “To Hold a Mountain,” about a mother and daughter in the remote highlands of Montenegro defending their land from becoming a NATO military training ground, took the international documentary prize. “Shame and Money,” about a Kosovar family who has to move from a village to the capital, picked up the narrative world cinema award. Louis Paxton's quirky Scottish film “The Incomer,” about a pair of siblings on a remote island whose lives are upended when an awkward government official arrives to try to evict them, won the innovator award in the festival's NEXT section. Other films that won audience awards included documentaries “American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez,” about the pioneering playwright and screenwriter, and “One in a Million,” which chronicled a family's journey from Syria to Germany and back again across 10 years. The festival previously awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, which celebrates outstanding films representing science or technology, to Andrew Stanton’s “In the Blink of an Eye.”can sometimes be the first stop for eventual Oscar nominees and winners, which notably happened with “CODA” and “Summer of Soul.” Documentaries more so than narrative films have a better track record ofthis year, “The Perfect Neighbor,” “Cutting Through Rocks” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” and the two others were among the festival favorites,Last year’s U.S. Dramatic grand jury prize went to the war satire “Atropia,” while the audience award was given to the dark comedy “Twinless,” with Dylan O’Brien.Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Do You Feel Safe Riding METRO? We Asked Houston RidersDeadly shooting inside East End home leaves man dead; family seeks answersMayor Whitmire: Houston ‘not Minneapolis’ amid immigration fears after heated council meetingAnother Artic Blast moving into Houston this weekAfter nearly 3 decades, Houston convicted killer Charles Thompson ischeduled for executionTxDOT inicia la demolición del puente de Alabama Street cerca del centro de HoustonSuspect arrested in Katy double murder is biological father of couple’s daughterHouston-based friends of victims in Maine private plane crash speak out
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