Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s son Pax makes rare appearance at Sundance Film Festival

During the screening of “Self Custody,” Jolie-Pitt posed for a group photograph alongside directors Ferro and Patten.

• Pax Jolie-Pitt made a rare solo appearance at Sundance Film Festival in Utah
• He attended the Self Custody screening and posed with its directors.
• Pax hospitalized after 2022 bike accident, later joined Jolie on press tours.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s son, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, recently made a rare solo public appearance at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on January 23, as reported by USA Today.

The appearance marked one of his few public outings in nearly two years following his hospitalisation after a bike accident. Pax was seen attending a screening of the short film, “Self Custody,” during the festival.

During the screening of “Self Custody,” Jolie-Pitt posed for a group photograph alongside directors Ferro and Patten. For the outing, he wore a red and blue flannel shirt paired with a black T-shirt and accessorised the look with a silver pendant necklace.

The 22-year-old was reportedly hospitalised in Los Angeles after crashing his electric bicycle into the rear of a stationary vehicle in the Los Feliz neighbourhood, according to TMZ and the Los Angeles Times.

Witnesses told TMZ at the time that Jolie-Pitt was not wearing a helmet during the accident and experienced hip pain afterwards, with indications that he may have sustained a head injury.

Despite the incident, Pax later joined his mother, Angelina Jolie, on the press tour for her films “Without Blood” and “Maria” two months after the accident. At the world premiere of “Without Blood,” held at the Toronto International Film Festival, the mother-son duo posed together on the red carpet, dressed in coordinated black formal outfits.

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For those unfamiliar, Pax was adopted by Angelina Jolie and her then-partner Brad Pitt in March 2007, after the couple met him during a visit to an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2006. Jolie initially applied for the adoption as a single parent due to Vietnam’s adoption laws at the time, though Pitt later formally adopted him as well.

Jolie-Pitt has also shown an interest in filmmaking. He worked as a production assistant on Jolie’s 2024 film “Maria.” However, unlike his famous parents, he appears to prefer staying behind the camera rather than being in the spotlight.