The Oscar winners Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander are two of the four actresses who play the feminist activist Gloria Steinem at different ages in “The Glorias,” an unconventional biopic from the director Julia Taymor. The film will be among the 118 feature-length works at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, the programmers announced Wednesday.

Next year’s iteration of the festival, the top showcase for independent cinema in the United States, will include narrative features and documentaries that tackle subjects recently in the news, including school shootings, the #MeToo movement, immigration and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Sundance chose its lineup from 15,100 submissions, a number that included 3,853 feature-length movies. For the second year in a row, the festival released statistics about the filmmakers who made the accepted works, reporting that 44 percent were directed by one or more women, 34 percent were directed by one or more person of color and 15 percent by members of sexual and gender minority communities.

“A lot of our films are ‘of the time’, which has been a long time coming,” John Cooper, the director of the festival, said. “The audience has paved the way for a different kind of indie film: more authentic stories from different cultures and backgrounds.”