| Opening film | Happy Endings |
|---|---|
| Location | Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah |
| Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
| Festival date | January 20–30, 2005 |
The 2005 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 20 to 30, 2005.[1]
It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort.[2] It was the 21st iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.[3]
The juries at the Sundance Film Festival are responsible for determining the Jury Prize winners in each category and to award Special Jury Prizes as they see fit.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| After Innocence | Jessica Sanders | United States | |
| The Aristocrats | Paul Provenza | ||
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston | Jeff Feuerzeig | ||
| The Education of Shelby Knox | Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt | ||
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney | ||
| The Fall of Fujimori | Ellen Perry | ||
| Frozen Angels | Eric Black, Frauke Sandig | ||
| Mardi Gras: Made in China | David Redmon | ||
| Murderball | Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro | ||
| New York Doll | Greg Whiteley | ||
| Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story | Dan Klores, Ron Berger | ||
| Romántico | Mark Becker | ||
| Shakespeare Behind Bars | Hank Rogerson | ||
| Trudell | Heather Rae | ||
| Twist of Faith | Kirby Dick | ||
| Why We Fight | Eugene Jarecki | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Between | David Ocañas | United States | |
| Brick | Rian Johnson | ||
| The Dying Gaul | Craig Lucas | ||
| Ellie Parker | Scott Coffey | ||
| Forty Shades of Blue | Ira Sachs | ||
| How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer | Georgina Garcia Riedel | ||
| Hustle & Flow | Craig Brewer | ||
| Junebug | Phil Morrison | ||
| Loggerheads | Tim Kirkman | ||
| Lonesome Jim | Steve Buscemi | ||
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July | ||
| Police Beat | Robinson Devor | ||
| Pretty Persuasion | Marcos Siega | ||
| The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | ||
| Thumbsucker | Mike Mills | ||
| Who Killed Cock Robin? | Travis Wilkerson | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | Melancholian 3 huonetta | Pirjo Honkasalo | Finland |
| Dhakiyarr vs. the King | Tom Murray, Allan Collins | Australia | |
| Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | United States | |
| I Am Cuba, The Siberian Mammoth | Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano | Vicente Ferraz | Brazil |
| El Inmortal | Mercedes Moncada | Nicaragua, Spain, Mexico | |
| The Liberace of Baghdad | Sean McAllister | United Kingdom | |
| Odessa, Odessa | Michale Boganim | Israel, France | |
| Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire | Peter Raymont | Canada | |
| Shape of the Moon | Stand van de maan | Leonard Retel Helmrich | Netherlands |
| Unknown White Male | Rupert Murray | United Kingdom | |
| Wall | Mur | Simone Bitton | France, Israel |
| Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Modelworks | Yan Ting Yuen | Netherlands | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brothers | Brødre | Susanne Bier | Denmark |
| Crónicas | Sebastián Cordero | Ecuador, Mexico | |
| The Forest for the Trees | Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen) | Maren Ade | Germany |
| Green Chair | Noksaek uija | Park Chul-soo | South Korea |
| The Hero | O Herói | Zézé Gamboa | Angola, Portugal, France |
| Kekexili: Mountain Patrol | 可可西里 | Lu Chuan | China |
| Lila Says | Lila dit ça | Ziad Doueiri | France, Italy, United Kingdom |
| Live-In Maid | Cama adentro | Jorge Gaggero | Spain, Argentina |
| Monsterthursday | Monstertorsdag | Arild Østin Ommundsen | Norway |
| On a Clear Day | Gaby Dellal | United Kingdom | |
| Palermo Hollywood | Eduardo Pinto | Argentina | |
| Stranger | Ono | Małgorzata Szumowska | Poland |
| This Charming Girl | Yeoja, Jeong-hye | Lee Yoon-ki | South Korea |
| Tony Takitani | トニー滝谷 | Jun Ichikawa | Japan |
| Unconscious | Inconscientes | Joaquín Oristrell | Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany |
| Wolf Creek | Greg McLean | Australia | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballets Russes | Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller | United States | |
| The Garden | Frederick Wiseman | United States | |
| March of the Penguins | La Marche de l'empereur | Luc Jacquet | France |
| Protocols of Zion | Marc Levin | United States | |
| Reel Paradise | Steve James | United States | |
| Rock School | Don Argott | United States | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 212 | Anthony Ng | United States | |
| 5th World | Blackhorse Lowe | ||
| Duane Hopwood | Matt Mulhern | ||
| High School Record | Ben Wolfinsohn | ||
| Love, Ludlow | Adrienne Weiss | ||
| Mitchellville | John D. Harkrider | ||
| The Motel | Michael Kang | ||
| The Puffy Chair | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass | ||
| Rize | David LaChapelle | ||
| The Salon | Mark Brown | ||
| Saving Face | Alice Wu | ||
| Steal Me | Melissa Painter | ||
| Swimmers | Doug Sadler | ||
| The Talent Given Us | Andrew Wagner | ||
| This Revolution | Stephen Marshall | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Songs | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom | |
| Dirty Love | John Mallory Asher | United States | |
| Hard Candy | David Slade | United States | |
| Matando Cabos | Alejandro Lozano | Mexico | |
| Old Boy | Oldŭboi | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| Strangers with Candy | Paul Dinello | United States | |
| Three... Extremes | Sāngēng 2 | Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea |
| What Is It? | Crispin Glover | United States | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Film Actions V | Luke Savisky | United States | |
| The Joy of Life | Jenni Olson | United States | |
| Room | Kyle Henry | United States | |
| Sugar | Patrick Jolley, Reynold Reynolds | United States | |
| Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 | William Greaves | United States | |
| Tropic of Cancer | Eugenio Polgovsky | Mexico | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War | Sesh Kannan | United States | |
| Forest Grove | Maya Churi | United States | |
| How-to-Bow | Nora Krug | United States | |
| Julia 1926 | Johannes Weymann | Germany | |
| Stand by Your Guns | Jillian McDonald | United States | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple | United States | |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Act | Susan Kraker, Pi Ware | United States | |
| America's Biggest Dick | Bryan Boyce | ||
| American Fame, Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis | Cam Archer | ||
| Among Thieves | Oscar Daniels | ||
| Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? | Miguel Arteta | ||
| Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer! | Jamie Donahue | ||
| Broadcast 23 | Tom Putnam | ||
| Choked | Brad Barnes | ||
| Cry for Help | Nicholas McCarthy | ||
| Eating | Rebecca Cutter | ||
| Estes Avenue | Paul Cotter | ||
| Everything's Gone Green | Aaron Ruell | ||
| Exactly | Lisa Leone | ||
| Flotsam/Jetsam | David Zellner | ||
| Goodnight Irene | Sterlin Harjo | ||
| Husk | Brett A. Simmons | ||
| In the Morning | Danielle Lurie | ||
| In Time | Maurice A. Dwyer, Adetoro Makinde | ||
| The Last Full Measure | Alexandra Kerry | ||
| Late Bloomer | Craig William Macneill | ||
| Let the Good Times Roll | Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn | ||
| Love and Laundry | Barbara Alvarez | ||
| Mary | Aaron Ruell | ||
| Motion Studies #3: Gravity | Jake Mahaffy | ||
| Oh My God | John Bryant | ||
| One Weekend a Month | Eric Escobar | ||
| Planet of the Arabs | Jacqueline Salloum | ||
| Pura Lengua (All Tongue) | Aurora Guerrero | ||
| The Raftman's Razor | Keith Bearden | ||
| Raw | Tonia Lynn Barber | ||
| The Sailor's Girl | Brett Simon | ||
| Spelling Bee | Phil Dornfeld | ||
| Staring at the Sun | Toby Wilkins | ||
| Swim Test | Alex Chung | ||
| A Thousand Roads | Chris Eyre | ||
| Un dia en la vida | Marco Orsini | ||
| West Bank Story | Ari Sandel | ||
| The Youth in Us | Joshua Leonard | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story | Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard | United States | |
| Dimmer | Talmage Cooley | ||
| The Fair | Jason Rayles | ||
| Family Portrait | Patricia Riggen | ||
| The Last Days of Jonathan Perlo | Joe Warson | ||
| Recycle | Vasco Nunes, Ondi Timoner | ||
| Saving Jackie | Selena A. Burks | ||
| Seal Hunting with Dad | Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu | Andrew Okpeaha MacLean | |
| Small Town Secrets | Katherine Leggett | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Shane Acker | United States | |
| A Buck's Worth | Tatia Rosenthal | ||
| The Meaning of Life | Don Hertzfeldt | ||
| Motel | Thor Freudenthal | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Being Bad | Laurence Coriat | United Kingdom, France | |
| Berocca | Martin Taylor | United Kingdom | |
| Elephant Palm Tree | Kara Miller | United Kingdom | |
| Elke's Visit | Morgan Dews | Spain | |
| Email to Mom | Email a mamá | Gerardo Ruiz Miñán | Peru |
| From Cherry English | Jeff Barnaby | Canada | |
| Fuel | Nash Edgerton | Australia | |
| Green Bush | Warwick Thornton | Australia | |
| Home Game | Hjemmekamp | Martin Lund | Norway |
| Kid | Chamaco | Tim Parsa | Mexico |
| Matálo! | Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire | France | |
| Mother's Day | Kare Kare Zvako | Tsitsi Dangarembga | Zimbabwe |
| Pizza Shop | Mark Mainguy | Canada | |
| Plains Empty | Beck Cole | Australia | |
| Stronger | Debra Felstead | Canada | |
| Tama Tū | Taika Waititi | New Zealand | |
| Tongue Bully | Annie Bradley | Canada | |
| Victoria para chino | Cary Fukunaga | United States, Mexico | |
| Waiting for the Man | Rob Stefaniuk | Canada | |
| Wasp | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | |
| With Diva | Con Diva | Sebastian Mantilla | Spain |
| With What Shall I Wash It? | Con qué la lavaré? | María Trénor | Spain |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children of Leningradsky | Dzieci z Leningradzkiego | Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski | Poland |
| Meet Michael Oppenheim | Roni Abulafia | Israel | |
| Porter | Solo un cargador | Juan Alejandro Ramírez | Peru |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Birthday | Syntymäpäivä | Kari Juusonen | Finland |
| Fallen Art | Sztuka spadania | Tomasz Bagiński | Poland |
| It's Like That | Southern Ladies Animation Group | Australia | |
| MOO(N) | Leigh Hodgkinson | United Kingdom | |
| Ryan | Chris Landreth | Canada | |
| Through My Thick Glasses | Gjennom mine tykke briller | Pjotr Sapegin | Norway, Canada |