The 41st Sundance Film Festival is underway in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, from January 22 to February 1, 2026. Alongside its celebration of independent cinema, this year’s event marks a historic goodbye to Utah before Sundance relocates to Boulder, Colorado in 2027.

The Sundance Film Festival’s comedy lineup continued Saturday with the premieres of The Gallerist, an art-world satire starring Natalie Portman, and Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, a sharp take on a marriage in decline.

Premiering at the Eccles Theater, The Invite marks Wilde’s third film as a director and her first since Don’t Worry Darling. The screening received a standing ovation. Written by Will McCormack and Rashida Jones, the film stars Wilde and Seth Rogen as a struggling couple whose dinner with their upstairs neighbors, played by Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, turns from awkward small talk into a revealing and darkly funny confrontation.

There was plenty of improvisation on set, according to Wilde and Rogen, which added to the film’s spontaneity and charm.

“I’m pretty sure there’s a seven-hour version of this movie that you’d absolutely love,” Wilde joked.

Wilde has been everywhere at Sundance this year. On Friday night, she also took the stage for the premiere of Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, where she stars as an eccentric artist and unapologetic provocateur — adding even more buzz to her already packed festival schedule.

Following The Invite was Cathy Yan’s The Gallerist, with Natalie Portman dazzling as an ambitious art dealer determined to break into the Art Basel Miami scene, alongside Jenna Ortega as her assistant — and a wildly outrageous plan involving a dead body.

After the screening, Yan called the film a “juicy, original concept,” as she appeared onstage with Portman, Ortega, and Charli xcx. Portman kept the laughs coming during the Q&A, joking, “I’ve never tried to sell a dead body before.”

The film’s starry ensemble adds even more flair, featuring Zach Galifianakis, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sterling K. Brown, and Daniel Brühl.