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One of the most quietly powerful films heading to the 2026 Sundance Film Festival is Frank & Louis, an understated prison drama that finds humanity in a place designed to strip it away. Directed by Petra Biondina Volpe, the film will screen in person only in Park City, offering audiences an intimate, emotionally resonant experience during Sundance, which runs January 22 through February 1, 2026.

At its core, Frank & Louis asks a deceptively simple question: What does rehabilitation actually look like?

Frank (Kingsley Ben-Adir) is serving a life sentence for murder. Hardened by years behind bars, he accepts a prison job caring for aging inmates suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia not out of compassion, but as a calculated move to improve his chances at parole. He’s assigned to Louis (Rob Morgan), a once-feared inmate now reduced to a frail, paranoid man grappling with early-onset dementia. Louis distrusts everyone, clinging to fragments of memory that blur past violence with present fear.

What begins as a transactional arrangement slowly evolves into something far more profound. As Frank patiently earns Louis’ trust, he is forced to confront memories he’s long buried. His guilt, his capacity for empathy, and the person he’s become in the years since his crime. Caretaking becomes a mirror, reflecting not only Louis’ fading identity, but Frank’s own reckoning with who he was and who he might still be.

Kingsley Ben-Adir continues an impressive run following his critically acclaimed turn as the legendary musician in Bob Marley: One Love. Rob Morgan, one of the most consistently undervalued actors working today, is equally compelling. His talent knows no bounds. His work was overlooked in the 2019 film Bull, where he gave one of the finest performances of his career.

The supporting cast includes René Pérez Joglar, Rosalind Eleazar, and Indira Varma.

If Sundance is a place for discovery, Frank & Louis feels poised to be one of the festival’s most quietly unforgettable offerings.

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