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Film Screening

Sovereign

Through the Lens

Wed, December 3, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Utah Film Center Black Box

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Sovereign

Directed by Christian Swegal

100 MIN

2025

United States

Rating: R

Content warning: Strong language and depictions of violence

Language: English

*UTAH PREMIERE* Inspired by true events, Sovereign is a tense and provocative true-crime thriller about a father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane (Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay) — who follow the Sovereign Citizen belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. As the pair travel across the country delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believe have failed them, their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief John Bouchart (Dennis Quaid), setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with manhood, power, principle, and the limits of freedom.

Awards

Jury Award Best Homegrown Film-2025 Bentonville Film Festival

Official Selection:

2025 Tribeca Festival
2025 Bentonville Film Festival

Additional Screening Details

Wed, December 3, 2025 at 7:00 pm