The Sundance Film Festival is now streaming. Here’s how, and what, to watch

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Don’t worry if you didn’t make it to the last Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Many of the films will be available to stream online starting Thursday through the weekend, including the buzzy Channing Tatum drama “Josephine.”

What started as a COVID-era necessity has become one of the festival’s most beloved components, even for those who do brave the cold and the lines to see films in person.

The Sundance Film Festival website has information on the technical requirements, but there are ways to watch on your computer and television. After you click the “Watch Now” button, you have five hours to complete the feature film.

Anyone in the U.S. can access the online portal. Rights restrictions make the films and shows unavailable to stream internationally.

All of the feature films playing in the main competitions are included on the platform and a few extras, many of which do not yet have theatrical distribution plans. Beth de Araújo’s drama “Josephine,” about an 8-year-old (Mason Reeves) who witnesses a sexual assault in Golden Gate Park, is already one of the most talked about films of the festival. Tatum and Gemma Chan play the girl's parents, who are well meaning but unsure how to help their daughter navigate all the feelings and fear.

The romantic drama “Carousel,” starring Chris Pine and Jenny Slate, will also be available, as well as other U.S. Dramatic Competition titles such as “Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty,” set in side Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene and “The Musical,” a comedy with Rob Lowe about a middle school teacher who tries to tank the school’s chance of winning an award by staging an inappropriate play.

Notable films in the NEXT section that will be streaming are Kogonada’s lyrical “zi,” with Michelle Mao and Haley Lu Richardson, and “The Incomer,” a quirky comedy with Domhnall Gleeson.

Documentary offerings include “Seized,” about the police raid on the Marion County Record, “The Lake,” about the looming environmental crisis in Utah, “Everybody To Kenmure Street” about civil resistance in Scotland, and “Hanging by a Wire,” about the six schoolboys (and two others) left hanging 900 feet above a ravine in the Himalayan foothills after a cable car's wire snaps.

Some films already have distributors and won’t be streaming on the platform, like the Charli xcx mockumentary “The Moment,” which opens in theaters Jan. 30. Focus Features will release Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell’s “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” in theaters on March 27. And “When a Witness Recants,” about three teens wrongly sent to prison for a 1983 murder in a Baltimore middle school, will eventually be on HBO, but a date has yet to be announced.

In general, movies that played in the premieres section will not be available online, whether they have distribution plans yet or not. That includes Olivia Wilde’s biting marital dramedy “The Invite,” Gregg Araki’s “I Want Your Sex,” Jay Duplass’ “See You When I See You” and “Once Upon a Time in Harlem.”

Between Jan. 29 through Feb. 1.

It’s $35 for a single film. Proceeds benefit the Sundance Institute’s artist programs and funds.

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Jenny Slate, from left, director Rachel Lambert, and Chris Pine attend the premiere of "Carousel" during the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, at Eccles Center in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Domhnall Gleeson attends the premiere of "The Incomer" during the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Jin Ha, from left, director Kogonada, Michelle Mao, and Haley Lu Richardson attend the premiere of "Zi" during the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, at The Ray Theatre in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Audience members line up outside the Eccles Theatre during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Thursday that immigration officials have ceased their “enhanced operations” in the state, the site of an enforcement surge and more than 200 arrests since last week.

Collins, a Republican, announced the development after saying she had spoken directly with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

“There are currently no ongoing or planned large-scale ICE operations here,” Collins said in a statement, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “I have been urging Secretary Noem and others in the Administration to get ICE to reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state.”

The announcement came after President Donald Trump seemed to signal a willingness to ease tensions in Minneapolis after a second deadly shooting there by federal immigration agents.

Collins said ICE and Border Patrol officials “will continue their normal operations that have been ongoing here for many years.”

An email seeking comment was sent Thursday to the Department of Homeland Security.

Collins' announcement comes more than a week after immigration officers began an operation dubbed “Catch of the Day” by ICE. Federal officials said about 50 arrests were made the first day and that roughly 1,400 people were operational targets in the mostly rural state of 1.4 million residents, 4% of whom are foreign-born.

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin last week touted that some of the arrests were of people “convicted of horrific crimes including aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and endangering the welfare of a child.” Court records painted a slightly different story: While some had been convicted of felonies, others were detainees with unresolved immigration proceedings or who were arrested but never convicted of a crime.

Collins, a veteran senator, is up for reelection this year. Unlike a handful of Republican senators facing potentially tough campaigns, Collins has not called for Noem to step down or be fired. She's also avoided criticizing ICE tactics, beyond saying that people who are in the U.S. legally should not be the target of ICE investigations.

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who announced her Senate candidacy in October and could face Collins in the general election, has challenged immigration officials to provide judicial warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic information about who is being detained in Maine. She also called on Collins to act after the House’s GOP majority defeated Democrats' efforts to curtail ICE funding.

Mills' office did not immediately respond to an Associated Press email seeking comment on Collins' announcement.

Meanwhile, first-time Democratic candidate Graham Platner — who is running against Mills in the primary — has criticized both Mills' and Collins' handling of ICE and has demanded the agency be dismantled. On Thursday, Platner organized a protest outside of Collins' office in Portland, Maine, where dozens of supporters held signs and sang along with him.

Platner said he would host a separate protest later outside Collins' Bangor, Maine, office.

Kruesi reported from Providence, Rhode Island. Associated Press writer Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.

Anti-ICE sentiment is expressed on a traffic sign, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Biddeford, Maine.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

FILE - Protesters rally against the presence of U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement in Maine, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

FILE - Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, departs the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, on July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)