Want to prepare yourself for Sundance 2025? Here's where to start.

Welcome to The Movie Cricket’s coverage of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

A couple of items to help you get ready for the madness, which starts Thursday, Jan. 23, in Park City, Utah — and runs, in Park City and Salt Lake City, through Feb. 2.

• If you need help navigating the festival, I’ve compiled (for The Salt Lake Tribune) a list of tips to handle tickets, the online portal, parking, transit, venues, and the all-too-muchness of the festival.

• Also for The Tribune, I’ve put together a list of noteworthy celebrities expected to come to Sundance this year.

• We have the full slate of movies — 88 of them — playing in this year’s festival. And a list of the 52 movies that will be shown online during the festival’s final four days, on the festival’s streaming portal.

• And a few words about the process for finding a new home for the festival, starting in 2027. The three finalists in the bidding process are: A joint Salt Lake City/Park City bid; Boulder, Colorado; and Cincinnati, Ohio. Sundance officials say the announcement won’t be made until March or April.