Four Canadian films will be making their world bow at the Sundance Film Festival early next year.

The films, encompassing a variety of genres, will be featured at the Sundance Institute’s Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah festival.

Two Canadian films will make their world premiere in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition including The Things You Kill (pictured), written and directed by Alireza Khatami, an American-Iranian director and associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. The Canada/Turkey/France/Poland coproduction is produced by Khatami for his prodco Tell Tall Tale. Michael Solomon for Montreal’s Les Films Band With Pictures, Elisa Sepulveda Ruddoff for France’s Fulgurance, Cyriac Auriol for France’s Remora Films and Mariusz Włodarski for Poland’s Lava Films.

The Things You Kill follows a university professor who, after the suspicious death of his mother, coerces his gardener to commit an act of vengeance.

The other Canadian film in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition is Montreal-based director Chloé Robichaud’s Two Women Amérique Film). The film, written by Catherine Léger, is produced by Léger and Martin Paul-Hus. Two Women follows two mothers that begin to re-evaluate their lives after one of them has an extramarital affair. Maison 4:3 is the Canadian distributor for Two Women. Paris’ Pulsar Content has acquired the worldwide rights for the film.

Making its world premiere in the World Documentary Cinema Competition: Endless Cookie (Scythia Films, Stellar Citizens, Tiger Mister Productions), directed and written by brothers Seth and Peter Scriver.

The film, produced by Daniel Bekerman, Chris Yurkovich, Alex Ordanis, Jason Ryle and Seth Scriver, sees the Scriver half-brothers reminisce on their upbringing in downtown Toronto and the northern Canadian bush.

Lastly, Grace Glowicki’s horror-comedy Dead Lover (Featured Creatures) is taking part in the Midnight program. Written by and starring Glowicki and Ben Petrie and produced by Glowicki, Petrie and Yona Strauss, the film follows a lonely gravedigger who finally meets her dream man only for him to die. She then goes to to extreme lengths to resurrect him.

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival will run from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2.

Image courtesy of the Sundance Institute; photo by Bartosz Świniarski