The 10 best LGBTQ+ of Sundance, from the hottest romance to the biggest crowd-pleaser
dust snow settled on Sundance 2025, the best and buzziest films or the fest were the queer ones, introducing the world to exciting new talent, receiving rapturous standing ovations, and (in many cases) taking some of the program’s top juried prizes and audiences awards.To recap the best of the fest, we’ve gone ahead and listed our 10 favorites below (in alphabetical order), and bestowed each with a very special, very gay superlative of its own.
So, read on and take note, because these for the LGBTQ+ films & names we’re going to be talking about all year long!Two buzzy Sundance films look at the history of cruising through a new lens: The ’90s-set ‘Plainclothes’ and the 1700s-set ‘Sweetheart.’Documentary filmmaker Ryan White has a knack for telling stories about why larger-than-life pop culture icons matter (from Ask Dr.
Ruth to Pamela: A Love Story), but his latest is a decidedly more intimate affair, honing in on the relationship between queer poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley as the former copes with a cancer diagnosis.
Oh yes, there will be tears—and you need not previously be familiar with “rock star” poet Gibson’s work to be moved by their story—but Come See Me In A Good Light also serves as a reminder of the best parts of our humanity, finding resilience, humor, and radical joy in the face of an uncertain future.Bill Condon’s adaptation of the book-turned-film-turned-musical boasts some major A-list power with the Jennifer Lopez in the titular role—and, don’t get us wrong, “Jenny From The Block” has never looked (or sounded) better on screen.
