Over 100 feature films played at this year's Sundance film festival, there were deeply

personal stories told by emerging filmmakers, some buzzy narratives that were rick from

the headlines, and so much more.

And we picked a few things we think are worth keeping on your radar in the coming year.

I'm Aisha Harris, and today we're talking about some of the best things we saw at the

Sundance film festival on Popculture Happy Hour from NPR.

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Join me today is Culture Desk Correspondent, Mandelite Del Barco.

Welcome back to the show, Mandelite.

Thank you so much.

Yes, exciting to have you back here to talk about some of our faves at Sundance.

Too bad that we're not there in person, but we're...

I know.

Yeah, so for the first time actually, since 2020, the Sundance film festival was hosted

in person, but as Mandelite has already mentioned, unfortunately, neither of us were able to

make it out to Park City, Utah.

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