Stars at Sundance Express Grief, Outrage at Minnesota Violence: ‘I Was Crying All Afternoon’ | Video

The Sundance Film Festival can be a bit of a bubble, where for decades, a year’s worth of independent movies would unspool sheltered from the outside world – but the 2026 version was different, as turmoil and deadly violence were unfolding several snowy states away in Minnesota.

“Yesterday, I was crying all afternoon,” director Petra Volpe told TheWrap on Sunday before screening her new film, “Frank & Louis,” about a friendship between two prison inmates. “You cannot normalize this and pretend it doesn’t happen.