The war satire “Atropia” about actors in a military role-playing facility won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie “Twinless” got the coveted audience award.

The city on everybody’s lips at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was…Cincinnati. Countless festival guests whispered about the festival’s potential move to the Ohio city, one of three finalists in its search for a new home. The resounding consensus? “Please, not there.”

Ahead of the final weekend of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the annual event in Park City, Utah, announced its big winners on Friday, with Atropia, Seeds, and Twinless among those taking the biggest prizes.

Star Dylan O’Brien won a special jury award for acting at the high-profile Utah festival Friday for his performance in the film, and the movie won an audience award as part of Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic competition. But Deadline reports that the film has been removed from Sundance’s digital screening options because of concerns over piracy.

Storytelling is important, part of human continuity,” Sundance interim CEO Amanda Kelso said at the top of the ceremony, quoting its founder Robert Redford. This year’s U.S. dramatic jury consists Reinaldo Marcus Green,