“Hello, 2025!” And as the doc calendar turns to a new year, we turn our attention to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The 41st edition runs from January 23 – February 2 in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah (and online from Jan. 30 – Feb 2). To help get us fired up, we welcome back Basil Tsiokos, Sundance Senior Programmer, Nonfiction, for his fourth visit to “Top Docs” to preview this year’s stellar documentary lineup.

Basil offers his insights and tips on the three dozen documentary features and episodics having their world premieres at this year’s festival across multiple sections. Whether you are headed to “the mountain” yourself, hope to catch some Sundance docs online, or just want to get the jump on what are sure to be some of 2025’s most talked about documentaries, our conversation with Basil is the perfect way to start the new year. And don’t miss Basil’s take on the Oscar Shortlist and his predictions for the final nominees!

For more info about the Sundance Film Festival program, go to festival.sundance.org.

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