EXCLUSIVE: Documentary sales, distribution, and production outfit Dogwoof has acquired world sales rights to Sentient , directed by Tony Jones, which will debut in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival.

The film’s synopsis reads: Sentient takes viewers inside the secret world of high-security laboratories, where researchers experiment on animals while grappling with the profound psychological toll of their work. Monkeys, among the most prized subjects, are caught in a “care-kill complex”, loved and studied, yet ultimately harmed.

The film was granted unprecedented access to one of the largest animal laboratories in the U.S., the University of Washington in Seattle, revealing both the scale of animal testing and the human cost behind it. Ami

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