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Sundance: 2008 Festival Film List

Sundance is nothing if not complicated. This year, over eleven days, a total of 125 feature films--selected from a pool of 3,624 submissions from 34 countries--will be screened to an estimated 50,000 visitors in Park City, Utah. Keeping all those films straight is hard enough for the professionals, so here's a quick list to keep you up-to-date.

  • DRAMATIC COMPETITION

AMERICAN SON (Director: Neil Abramson; Screenwriter: Eric Schmid)

ANYWHERE, USA (Director: Anthony (Chusy) Haney-Jardine; Screenwriters: Anthony (Chusy) Haney-Jardine, Jennifer Macdonald)

BALLAST (Director and Screenwriter: Lance Hammer)

CHOKE (Director and Screenwriter: Clark Gregg)

NANCY (Director: Johan Renck; Screenwriters: Pamela Cuming, Lee Ross)

FROZEN RIVER (Director and Screenwriter: Courtney Hunt)

GOOD DICK (Director and Screenwriter: Marianna Palka)

THE LAST WORD (Director and Screenwriter: Geoff Haley)

PITTSBURGH (Director and Screenwriter: Rawson Marshall Thurber)

NORTH STARR (Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Stanton)

PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND (Director and Screenwriter: Daniel Barnz)

PRETTY BIRD (Director and Screenwriter: Paul Schneider)

SLEEP DEALER (Director: Alex Rivera; Screenwriters: Alex Rivera, David Riker)

SUGAR (Directors and Screenwriters: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)

SUNSHINE CLEANING (Director: Christine Jeffs; Screenwriter: Megan Holley)

THE WACKNESS (Director and Screenwriter: Jonathan Levine)

  • DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

AN AMERICAN SOLDIER (Director and Screenwriter: Edet Belzberg)

AMERICAN TEEN (Director and Screenwriter: Nanette Burstein)

BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER

FUEL (Director and Screenwriter: Josh Tickell)

FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER (Director: Irena Salina)

WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON (Director: Alex Gibney)

THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO (Director and Screenwriter: Lisa F. Jackson)

I.O.U.S.A. (Director: Patrick Creadon)

NERAKHOON (THE BETRAYAL) (Director: Ellen Kuras; Co-Director: Thavisouk Phrasavath; Screenwriters: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath)

THE ORDER OF MYTHS (Director: Margaret Brown)

PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE (Director and Screenwriter: Steven Sebring)

ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED (Director: Marina Zenovich; Screenwriters: Marina Zenovich, Joe Bini, P.G. Morgan)

SECRECY (Directors: Peter Galison, Robb Moss)

SLINGSHOT HIP HOP (Director: Jackie Reem Salloum)

TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH (Director: Katrina Browne; Co-Directors: Alla Kovgan, Jude Ray; Screenwriters: Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan)

TROUBLE THE WATER (Directors: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal)

THE WOMEN OF BRUKMAN (LES FEMMES DE LA BRUKMAN)/ Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Isaac Isitan)

YASUKUNI/ Japan (Director and Screenwriter: Li Ying)


  • WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

ABSURDISTAN/ Germany (Director: Veit Helmer; Screenwriters: Veit Helmer, Zaza Buadze,
Gordan Mihic, Ahmet Golbol)

BLUE EYELIDS (PÁRPADOS AZULES)/ Mexico (Director: Ernesto Contreras; Screenwriter: Carlos
Contreras)

CAPTAIN ABU RAED/ Jordan (Director and Screenwriter: Amin Matalqa)

THE DRUMMER (JIN. GWU)/ Hong Kong/ Taiwan/ Germany (Director and Screenwriter: Kenneth Bi)

I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER (J'AI TOUJOURS RÊVÉ D'ÊTRE UN GANGSTER)/France (Director and Screenwriter: Samuel Benchetrit)

JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY (KÆRLIGHED PÅ FILM)/ Denmark (Director and Screenwriter: Ole Borendal)

KING OF PING PONG (PING PONGKINGEN)/ Sweden (Director: Jens Jonsson; Screenwriters:
Jens Jonsson, Hans Gunnarson)

MÁNCORA/ Spain/Peru (Director: Ricardo de Montreuil; Screenwriter: Oscar Torres)

MEGANE (GLASSES)/ Japan (Director and Screenwriter: Naoko Ogigami)

MERMAID (RUSALKA)/ Russia (Director and Screenwriter: Anna Melikyan)

PERRO COME PERRO (DOG EAT DOG)/ Colombia (Director: Carlos Moreno; Screenwriters: Alonso Torres, Carlos Moreno)

RIPRENDIMI (GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE)/ Italy (Director: Anna Negri; Screenwriters:
Anna Negri, Giovanna Mori)

STRANGERS/ Israel (Directors and Screenwriters: Erez Tadmor, Guy Nattiv) International Premiere

UNDER THE BOMBS (SOUS LES BOMBES)/ Lebanon (Director: Philippe Aractingi; Screenwriters: Philippe Aractingi,Michel Léviant)

THE WAVE (DIE WELLE)/ Germany (Director: Dennis Gansel; Screenwriters: Dennis Gansel and Peter Thorwarth)

THE WIND AND THE WATER (BURWA DII EBO)/ Panama (Directors and Screenwriters: A
collective collaboration)

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