Sundance Award winners 2025: ‘Atropia,’ ‘Twinless’ and more

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The comedy “Atropia”, starring Alia Shawkat as an Iraqi-American actress thrown into the role of a rebellion on a military role-playing facility, won the top prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s American dramatic competition Friday.

“This timely and timeless first feature was both fun and cursing in his portrayal of the war theater,” read a quote from the dramatic competition jury, which consisted of directors Reinaldo Marcus Green and Celine Song and actor Arian Moayed.

Like many of the independent films that premiered on this muted edition of Sundance, “Atropia,” written and directed by Hailey Gates has not yet sold to a distributor. The comedy also does not have the comedy “Twinless” about a man struggling to treat the loss of his identical twin, although the film won the festival’s American dramatic competition audience award and a special jury award to act for his star Dylan O’Brien.

At the time of the festival’s awards ceremony, only two films had managed great sales: the Body-Horror movie “Together” with Alison Brie and Dave Franco and the elegant period drama “Train Dreams” starring in Joel Edgeron. Both movies played out of competition.

Here are the rest of the best prices. For a complete list of winners, including short films and special jury prices, go to Sundance.org.

US Dramatic Competition: “Atropia”

US Documentary Competition: “Seed”

World Cinema Dramatic Competition: “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears)”

World Cinema Documentary Competition: “Cutting through rocks”

Next Innovator Award: “Zodiac Killer Project”

Instruction, us dramatically: Rashad Frett, “Ricky”

Instruction, American documentary: Geeta Gandbhir, “The Perfect Neighbor”

Instruction, World Ciographographer dramatically: Alireza Khatami, “the things you kill”

Directing, World Cinema Documentary: Myslav Chernov, “2000 meters to Andriivka”

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic: Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby”

Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award, US Documentary: Parker Laramie, “André is an idiot”

US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Dylan O’Brien, “Twinless”

US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast: “Plainclothes”

US Documentary Special Jury Award for Archive Storytelling: “Selena y los dinos”

US Documentary Special Jury Award: “Life after”

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Georgi M. Unkovski, “DJ Ahmet”

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Writing: “Two women”

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: “Mr. None against Putin ”

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of expression: “Coexistence, my ass!”

Next special jury price for ensemble Role herd: “MAD BILLS TO PAY”

US Dramatic Competition: “Twinless”

US Documentary Competition: “André is an idiot”

World Cinema Dramatic Competition: “DJ Ahmet”

World Cinema Documentary Competition: “Prime minister”

Next: “East of the wall”