This is a partial list of films shown at the Sundance Film Festival (called the Utah/US Film Festival in its earliest years and then the U.S. Film and Video Festival before becoming Sundance).
Dates: September 6 – September 12. Theme: "American Landscapes: Cycles of Hope and Despair"; stylized as the Utah-USFilm Festival.
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul | Retrospective | ||
| The Apartment | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | Retrospective | ||
| Babydoll | Elia Kazan | Retrospective | |||
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | Terrence Malick | Retrospective | ||
| Bushman | David Schickele | Regional Cinema Competition | |||
| Deliverance | John Boorman | Retrospective | |||
| Flying Leathernecks | Nicholas Ray | Retrospective | |||
| Johnny Vik | Charles Nauman | Charles Nauman | Regional Cinema Competition | ||
| Girlfriends | Claudia Weill | Vicki Polon | Regional Cinema Competition | Jury Prize | |
| The Left-Handed Gun | Arthur Penn | Retrospective | |||
| Local Color | Mark Rappaport | Mark Rappaport | Regional Cinema Competition | ||
| Martin | George A. Romero | George A. Romero | Regional Cinema Competition | ||
| McCabe and Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | Retrospective | |||
| Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | Retrospective | |||
| Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | Retrospective | |||
| My Darling Clementine | John Ford | Retrospective | |||
| Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Sam Peckinpah | Retrospective | |||
| Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Paul Mazursky | Regional Cinema Competition | |||
| Not a Pretty Picture | Martha Coolidge | Regional Cinema Competition | |||
| Property | Penny Allen | Penny Allen | Regional Cinema Competition | ||
| The Quiet Man | John Ford | Retrospective | |||
| Red River | Howard Hawks | Retrospective | |||
| The Reivers | Mark Rydell | Retrospective | |||
| Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | Retrospective | |||
| Sands of Iwo Jima | Allan Dwan | Retrospective | |||
| The Searchers | John Ford | Retrospective | |||
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | John Ford | Retrospective | |||
| Stagecoach | John Ford | Retrospective | |||
| Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | Retrospective | |||
| True Grit | Henry Hathaway | Retrospective | |||
| The Whole Shootin' Match | Eagle Pennell | Eagle Pennell, Lin Sutherland | Regional Cinema Competition | Jury Prize |
Dates: October 26 – October 30; Theme: "Fear and Fantasy"
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988: The Remake | Richard Schmidt | Honorable Mention—Independent Film Competition | |||
| Agee | Ross Spears | Ross Spears | Documentary | Honorable Mention—Independent Film Competition | |
| American Madness | Frank Capra | Robert Riskin | Retrospective | ||
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | Terrence Malick | Retrospective | ||
| The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | Evan Hunter | Retrospective | ||
| Caprice | Frank Tashlin | Jay Jason and Frank Tashlin | Retrospective | ||
| Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | Retrospective | |||
| Chameleon | Jon Jost | Jon Jost | Finalist—Independent Film Competition | ||
| Citizens' Band | Jonathan Demme | Jonathan Demme | |||
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | Retrospective | |||
| The Demon Seed | Donald Cammell | ||||
| Dirty Harry | Retrospective | ||||
| Down in the Valley | Mort Rosenfeld | Mort Rosenfeld | |||
| Dr. Strangelove | Retrospective | ||||
| Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern | Retrospective | ||
| Effects | John Harrison, Dusty Nelson, and Pat Buba | Finalist—Independent Film Competition | |||
| Family Plot | Alfred Hitchcock | ||||
| Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | Retrospective | |||
| Forbidden Planet | Fred M. Wilcox | Retrospective | |||
| The Front | Martin Ritt | Walter Bernstein | |||
| Fun with Dick and Jane | Ted Kotcheff | David Giler, Jerry Belson, Mordecai Richler | |||
| Gas City | Jeff Meyers | Honorable Mention—Independent Film Competition | |||
| The Goddess | John Cromwell | Retrospective | |||
| The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Gordon Hessler | ||||
| Halloween | John Carpenter | John Carpenter, Debra Hill | |||
| How to Murder Your Wife | Richard Quine | Retrospective | |||
| In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | Richard Brooks | Retrospective | ||
| The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | Retrospective | |||
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Philip Kaufman | ||||
| It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | Retrospective | |||
| It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | Retrospective | |||
| Jason and the Argonauts | Don Chaffey | Beverley Cross, Jan Read | Retrospective | ||
| The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich | Retrospective | ||
| Lost Horizon | Frank Capra | Robert Riskin | Retrospective | ||
| Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | Retrospective | |||
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Frank Capra | Retrospective | |||
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Frank Capra | Retrospective | |||
| Northern Lights | Rob Nilsson, John Hansen | John Hanson, Rob Nilsson | Finalist—Independent Film Competition | ||
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | ||||
| Over-Under Sideways-Down | Eugene Corr, Steve Wax, Peter Gessner | Eugene Corr, Peter Gessner | Finalist—Independent Film Competition | ||
| Platinum Blonde | Frank Capra | Retrospective | |||
| Play It Again Sam | Herbert Ross | Retrospective | |||
| Pretty Poison | Noel Black | Retrospective | |||
| Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | Retrospective | |||
| The Raven | Roger Corman | Retrospective | |||
| The Seven-Year Itch | Billy Wilder | Retrospective | |||
| The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad | Ray Harryhausen | Kenneth Kolb | Retrospective | ||
| Sleeper | Woody Allen | Retrospective | |||
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | Retrospective | |||
| Spirit in the Wind | Ralph Liddle | Ralph Liddle, John Logue | Grand Prize—Independent Film Competition | ||
| The Stepford Wives | Bryan Forbes | William Goldman | Retrospective | ||
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | Retrospective | |||
| Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | Retrospective | |||
| Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | Retrospective | |||
| The Thomas Crown Affair | Norman Jewison | Retrospective | |||
| A Thousand Clowns | Fred Coe | Retrospective | |||
| To Catch a Thief | Alfred Hitchcock | Retrospective | |||
| Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | Retrospective | |||
| Wonder Man | Bruce Humberstone | Retrospective | |||
| You Can't Take It with You | Frank Capra | Retrospective |
Dates: January 12 – January 18; Utah/U.S. Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| America, Lost and Found | Lance Bird, Tom Johnson | John Crowley | Documentary | ||
| Americana | David Carradine | Henry Morton Robinson | Dramatic | ||
| A Small Circle of Friends | Rob Cohen | Ezra Sacks | Dramatic | ||
| The Best Man | Franklin J. Schaffner | Gore Vidal | Henry Fonda Retrospective | ||
| Breaking Glass | Brian Gibson | Brian Gibson | Dramatic | ||
| The Day After Trinity | Jon H. Else | David Peoples, Janet Peoples, Jon Else | Documentary | ||
| Eight Minutes to Midnight | Mary Benjamin | Documentary | |||
| The Elephant Man | David Lynch | Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch | Dramatic | ||
| Fade to Black | Vernon Zimmerman | Vernon Zimmerman | Dramatic | ||
| Feedback | Bill Doukas | Bill Doukas | Dramatic | ||
| Fort Apache | John Ford | Frank S. Nugent | Henry Fonda Retrospective | ||
| Gal Young Un | Victor Nuñez | Victor Nuñez | Dramatic | ||
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | Nunnally Johnson | Henry Fonda Retrospective | ||
| The Haunting of M | Anna Thomas | Anna Thomas | Dramatic | ||
| Heartland | Richard Pearce | Beth Ferris, William Kittredge, Elinore Randall Stewart | Dramatic | ||
| Hide in Plain Sight | James Caan | Spencer Eastman | Dramatic | ||
| Imposters | Mark Rappaport | Mark Rappaport | Dramatic | ||
| The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | Preston Sturges | Henry Fonda Retrospective | ||
| La La, Making It in L.A. | Frank Mouris, Caroline Mouris | Documentary | |||
| The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter | Connie Field | Documentary | |||
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | Bo Goldman | Dramatic | ||
| Mr. Roberts | John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy | Henry Fonda Retrospective | |||
| My Darling Clementine | John Ford | Samuel G. Engel, Winston Miller | Henry Fonda Retrospective | ||
| Off the Wall | Rick Friedberg | Dick Chudnow, Rick Friedberg, Ron Kurz | Dramatic | ||
| Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | Henry Fonda Retrospective | |||
| On the Nickel | Ralph Waite | Ralph Waite | Dramatic | ||
| Ordinary People | Robert Redford | Alvin Sargent | Dramatic | ||
| The Ox-Bow Incident | William A. Wellman | Lamar Trotti | Henry Fonda Retrospective | ||
| The Plan | Diane Orr, Larry Roberts | Documentary | |||
| Return of the Secaucus Seven | John Sayles | John Sayles | Dramatic | ||
| Stony Island | Andrew Davis | Tamar Simon Hoffs, Andrew Davis | Dramatic | ||
| Tell Me a Riddle | Lee Grant | Joyce Eliason, Alev Lytle | Dramatic | ||
| Tuck Everlasting | Frederick King Keller | Frederick King Keller | Dramatic | ||
| Twelve Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | Reginald Rose | Henry Fonda Retrospective | ||
| The War at Home | Barry Alexander Brown, Glenn Silber | Documentary | |||
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Art Linson | John Kaye | Dramatic | ||
| Wind Chimes | Robert Holman | Best Experimental Film | |||
| Zootsuit | Luis Valdez | Luis Valdez |
Dates: January 17 – ?; Utah/U.S. Film Festival
John Ford Medallion: Stanley Kramer
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T | Stanley Kramer | Stanley Kramer Retrospective | |||
| A Lady Named Baybie | Martha Sandlin | Documentary Competition | |||
| Amarillo News Tapes | Doug Hall, Chip Lord, Jody Procter | Video Art Competition | |||
| An Acquired Taste | Ralph Arlyck | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| Artifacts: Pure and Applied | Video Art Competition | ||||
| Atomic Television | Trent Harris | Special Programs | |||
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place | Kenneth Fink | Kenneth Fink | Documentary Competition | ||
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | Lawrence Kasdan | Director's Showcase | ||
| Booming | Dennis Lanson | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Case of the Legless Veteran | Howard Petrick | Documentary Competition | |||
| Chott el-Djerid | Carol Brandenburg | Video Art Competition | |||
| Close Harmony | Nigel Noble | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| The Complete Dale Hoyt, Vol. 7 | Dale Hoyt | Video Art Competition | |||
| The Crisco Kid | Jeanne Wolf | Jeanne Wolf | Video Documentary Competition | ||
| The Curse of Fred Astaire | Mark Berger | Mark Berger | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Cutter's Way | Ivan Passer | Jeffrey Alan Fiskin | New Directors | ||
| The Defiant Ones | Stanley Kramer | Stanley Kramer Retrospective | |||
| Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder | Peter Werner | Paul G. Hensler | New Directors | ||
| The Dozens | Randall Conrad, Christine Dall | Randall Conrad, Christine Dall | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Dreamland | Oz Scott | Nancy Baker | Documentary Competition | ||
| Elephant Parts | William Dear | Special Programs | |||
| El Salvador: Another Vietnam | Glenn Silber, Teté Vasconcellos | Documentary Competition | |||
| End of Innocence | Stephen Sept | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| Frank: A Vietnam Veteran | Fred Simon | Video Documentary Competition | |||
| Gates of Heaven | Errol Morris | Documentary Competition | |||
| Get Rollin' | J. Terrence Mitchell | J. Terrence Mitchell | Documentary Competition | ||
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer Retrospective | ||||
| Heartworn Highways | James Szalapski | James Szalapski | Documentary Competition | ||
| The Hideout | Brian Patrick | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| How to Fly | Ed Bowes | Video Art Competition | |||
| In Our Water | Meg Switzgable | Documentary Competition | |||
| I Remember Barbra | Special Programs (Shorts) | ||||
| Killer of Sheep | Charles Burnett | Charles Burnett | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Knightriders | George A. Romero | George A. Romero | New Directors | ||
| Love in a Taxi | Robert Sickinger | Michael Kortchmar | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Love Tapes | Wendy Clarke | Video Art Competition | |||
| Melanie | Rex Bromfield | Michael Green, Richard Paluck, Robert Guza Jr. | New Directors | ||
| Missing | Costa-Gavras | Costa-Gavras, Donald E. Stewart | Premieres | ||
| Model | Frederick Wiseman | Documentary Competition | |||
| Mystique | Bobby Roth | Beth Sullivan | Dramatic Competition | ||
| No World for Men | William Rosser | Shorts (Doc) | |||
| On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | Ernest Thompson | Premieres | ||
| Out | Eli Hollander | Eli Hollander | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Paydirt | Penny Allen | Penny Allen | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Possum Living | Nancy Schreiber | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| Raggedy Man | Jack Fisk | William D. Wittliff | New Directors | ||
| Return of the Secaucus Seven | John Sayles | John Sayles | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Savage/Love | Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaiken | Video Art Competition | |||
| The Sky Is Gray | Stan Lathan | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| Soldier Girls | Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill | Documentary Competition | |||
| Strange Fruit | Seth Pinsker | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| Street Music | Jenny Bowen | Jenny Bowen | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Strong-Willed Women Subdue and Subjugate Reptiles | C. Larry Roberts | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| Thief | Michael Mann | Michael Mann | New Directors | ||
| Tibetan Death Rites | Norman Dhyrenfurth | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| The Third Coast | Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond | Documentary Competition | |||
| TV: The Enchanted Mirror | Julene Bair | Special Programs (Shorts) | |||
| Union City | Mark Reichert | Mark Reichert | Dramatic Competition | ||
| We Are the Guinea Pigs | Joan Harvey | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time! | Jim Brown | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Willmar 8 | Lee Grant | ||||
| The Whole Shootin' Match | Eagle Pennell | Eagle Pennell, Lin Sutherland | |||
| Wolfen | Michael Wadleigh | David Eyre, Michael Wadleigh | New Directors | ||
| Zootsuit | Luis Valdez | Luis Valdez | New Directors |
Dates: January 17 – January 23; Utah/U.S. Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Atomic Artist | Glenn Silber | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Atomic Cafe | Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Pierce Rafferty | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Robert M. Young | Victor Villasenor, Robert M. Young | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Ballet Robotique | Bob Rogers | Shorts | |||
| Becoming American | Ken Levine, Ivory Waterworth Levine | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Brig | |||||
| Burden of Dreams | Les Bland | Les Bland | Documentary Competition | ||
| Chan Is Missing | Wayne Wang | Isaac Cronin, Terrel Seltzer, Wayne Wang | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Citizen | William Farley | William Farley | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Clotheslines | Roberta Cantow | Shorts | |||
| Come Back Africa | Lionel Rogosin | Lionel Rogosin, Lewis Nkosi, | Retrospective | ||
| Coming of Age | Josh Hanig | Documentary Competition | |||
| Conversations with Willard van Dyke | Amalie R. Rothschild | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Cool World | Shirley Clarke | New Wave Retrospective | |||
| Dark Circle | Judy Irving | Documentary Competition | |||
| David Holzman's Diary | Jim McBride | James McBride | Retrospective | ||
| Dream On! | Ed Harker | Ed Harker | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel | Paul Bartel | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Escape Artist | Caleb Deschanel | Premieres | |||
| The Eyes of the Amaryllis | Frederick King Keller | Frederick King Keller, Stratton Rawson | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Fire on the Water | Robert Hillman | Robert Hillman | Documentary Competition | ||
| Frances | Graeme Clifford | Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore, Nicholas Kazan | Premieres | ||
| The Gates of Hell | Iris Cantor, David Saxon | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Grey Fox | Phillip Borsos | John Hunter | Premieres | ||
| How Much Is Enough? Decision-Making in the Nuclear Age | Samuel R. Shore | Video Competition | |||
| Man on the Empire State | Teodoro Maus | Video Competition | |||
| Max Reber: Billboard Artist | Robert Marshall, James Christiansen | Documentary Short | |||
| The Mediterranean | Yan Nascimbene | Yan Nascimbene | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Miles to Go | Hilary Maddux, Deborah Boldt | Documentary Competition | |||
| Mission Hill | Robert Jones | Ann Jones, Robert Jones | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Moses Pendleton Presents Moses Pendleton | Robert Elfstrom | Documentary Competition | |||
| No World for Men | William Rosser | ||||
| The Personals | Peter Markle | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Phantom Cowboy | Swain Wolfe | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Portrait of Jason | Shirley Clarke | Retrospective | |||
| Poto and Cabengo | Jean-Pierre Gorin | Documentary Competition | |||
| Pull My Daisy | New Wave Retrospective | ||||
| Purple Haze | David Burton Morris | Victoria Wozniak | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Savage Eye | Ben Maddow | New Wave Retrospective | |||
| Say Amen, Somebody | George T. Nierenberg | Documentary Competition | |||
| Shadows | John Cassavetes | New Wave Retrospective | |||
| SL-1 | Diane Orr, C. Larry Roberts | Documentary Competition | |||
| Smithereens | Susan Seidelman | Premieres | |||
| Sophie's Choice | Allan J. Pakula | Premieres | |||
| Valley Town | Willard Van Dyke | Retrospective | |||
| Vernon, Florida | Errol Morris | Documentary Competition |
Dates: January 23 – 29; Utah/U.S. Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Android | Aaron Lipstadt | Dramatic | |||
| Angelo, My Love | Robert Duval | ||||
| Black Wax | Robert Mugge | Documentary | |||
| Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? | Henry Jaglom | Henry Jaglom | Premieres | ||
| Chicken Ranch | Nick Broomfield and Sandi Sissel | Documentary | |||
| Circus | Lear Levin | Documentary | |||
| Citizen: The Political Life of Allard K. Lowenstein | Julie Thompson | Documentary | |||
| Comedienne | Katherine Matheson | Documentary | |||
| Crackers | Louis Malle | ||||
| The Draughtsman's Contract | Peter Greenaway | ||||
| The Electric Valley | Ross Spears | Documentary | |||
| El Norte | Gregory Nava | ||||
| Enormous Changes at the Last Minute | Mirra Bank, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer | John Sayles, Susan Rice | Premieres | ||
| Enter the Bassett (aka Awesome Lotus) | David O'Malley | Dramatic | |||
| The Good Fight | Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills | Documentary | |||
| Hero | Alexandre Rockwell | Alexandre Rockwell | Dramatic | ||
| Home Free All | Stewart Bird | Stewart Bird | |||
| Last Night at the Alamo | Eagle Pennell | Kim Henkel | Dramatic | ||
| Made in America | Bill Donovan | Shorts | |||
| My Brother's Wedding | Charles Burnett | Dramatic | |||
| Nightsongs | Marva Nabili | Dramatic | |||
| Old Enough | Marisa Silver | Dramatic | |||
| Plague Dogs | Martin Rosen | Martin Rosen | Premieres | ||
| Vietnam: The Secret Agent | Jacki Ochs | Documentary | |||
| Seeing Red | Julia Reichert, Jim Klein | Documentary | |||
| Signal 7 | Rob Nilsson | Rob Nilsson | |||
| Splash | Ron Howard | Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman | |||
| Stranger's Kiss | Matthew Chapman | Matthew Chapman, Blaine Novak | |||
| Streamers | Robert Altman | ||||
| Style Wars | Tony Silver | Documentary | |||
| Suburbia | Penelope Spheeris | Penelope Spheeris | Dramatic | ||
| Summerspell | Lina Shanklin | Lina Shanklin | Dramatic | ||
| Tomorrow | Joseph Anthony | Horton Foote | Retrospective | ||
| Vamping | Frederick King Keller | Michael Healy, Frederick King Keller, Robert Seidman | Dramatic | ||
| We Are Not the Jet Set | Robert Duvall | Documentary | |||
| When the Mountains Tremble | Pamela Yates | Documentary | |||
| Wildrose | John Hanson | Eugene Corr, John Hanson, Sandra Schulberg | Dramatic |
Dates: ? – ?; Sundance Institute Presents the United States Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 400 Blows | Les quatre cents coups | François Truffaut | Retrospective | ||
| Almost You | Domicile conjugal | Adam Brooks | Dramatic Competition | Special Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| America and Lewis Hine | Nina Rosenblum | Documentary | Special Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| Antoine et Colette | François Truffaut | Retrospective | |||
| Battle Beyond the Stars | Jimmy T. Murakami | John Sayles | Retrospective | ||
| Bed and Board | Francois Truffaut | Retrospective | |||
| Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community | Greta Schiller | Documentary | |||
| Blood Simple | Joel Coen | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Dramatic | Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| A Boring Afternoon | Fádní odpoledne | Ivan Passer | Ivan Passer | Retrospective | |
| Boxcar Bertha | Martin Scorsese | Joyce H. Corrington, John William Corrington | Retrospective | ||
| Brady's Escape | Hosszú vágta | Pál Gábor | Pál Gábor, William W. Lewis | ||
| The Brother from Another Planet | John Sayles | John Sayles | Dramatic | ||
| The Business of America | Larry Adelman, Lawrence Daressa, Bruce Schmiechen | Documentary | |||
| Caged Heat | Jonathan Demme | Jonathan Demme | Retrospective | ||
| Chinese Boxes | Christopher Petit | ||||
| Cold Feet | Bruce Van Dusen | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Cutter's Way | Ivan Passer | Jeffrey Alan Fiskin | Dramatic | ||
| Day for Night | La nuit Americaine | François Truffaut | François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard | Retrospective | |
| Death Race 2000 | Paul Bartel | Robert Thom, Charles B. Griffith, Ib Melchior | Retrospective | ||
| Dementia 13 | Francis Ford Coppola | Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hill | Retrospective | ||
| Dialogue with a Woman Departed | Leo Hurwitz | Leo Hurwitz | Documentary | ||
| The Falcon and the Snowman | John Schlesinger | Steven Zaillian | |||
| Far From Poland | Jill Godmilow | Documentary | |||
| Distant Thunder | Enrai | Kichitaro Negishi | Haruhiko Arai | ||
| A Flash of Green | Victor Nunez | Victor Nunez | Dramatic | ||
| Flight to Berlin | Fluchtpunkt Berlin | Christopher Petit | |||
| Gas-s-s! | Roger Corman | George Armitage | |||
| The Go Masters | Mikan no taikyoku | Ji-shun Duan, Junya Satô, Shu'an Liu | Tang-tong Ge, Fumio Kônami, Hong-zhou Li, Yasuko Ôno | ||
| The Gold Diggers | Sally Potter | Sally Potter, Rose English | |||
| The Gospel According to Al Green | Robert Mugge | Documentary | |||
| Where the Green Ants Dream | Werner Herzog | Werner Herzog, Bob Ellis | |||
| Hard Choices | Rick King | Rick King, Robert Mickelson | Dramatic | ||
| Heartbreakers | Bobby Roth | Bobby Roth | Dramatic | ||
| In Heaven There Is No Beer? | Les Blank | Documentary | Special Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| The Hit | Stephen Frears | Peter Prince | |||
| The Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World | Pat Ferrero | Documentary | |||
| The Illusionist | De Illusionist | Jos Stelling | Freek de Jonge, Jos Stelling | ||
| Intimate Lighting | Intimní osvětlení | Ivan Passer | Ivan Passer, Jaroslav Papoušek, Václav Šašek | Retrospective | |
| Jack Kerouac's America | John Antonelli | Documentary | |||
| A Joke of Destiny | Lina Wertmüller | Lina Wertmüller, Agenore Incrocci | |||
| Kaddish | Steve Brand | Documentary | Special Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| The Killing Fields | Roland Joffé | Documentary | |||
| The Killing Floor | Bill Duke | Leslie Lee, Ron Milner, Elsa Rassbach | Dramatic | Special Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| The Last Seduction | Kim Dempster | Short | |||
| Law and Disorder | Ivan Passer | Ivan Passer, William Richert, Kenneth Harris Fishman | Retrospective | ||
| The Lift | De Lift | Dick Maas | Dick Maas | ||
| The Little Shop of Horrors | Roger Corman | ||||
| A Love in Germany | Eine Leibe in Deutschland | Andrzej Wajda | |||
| Low Visibility | Patricia Gruben | Patricia Gruben | Drama | ||
| Mass Appeal | Glenn Jordan | Bill C. Davis | |||
| Monkey Grip | Ken Cameron | ||||
| Mosquito on the Tenth Floor | Jukai No Mosukiito | Yoichi Sai | Yoichi Sai | ||
| Mother Meat and Freud's Flesh | Demetri Estdelacropolis | Demetri Estdelacropolis | |||
| Moving Out | Michael Pattinson | Jan Sardi | |||
| Mrs. Soffel | Gillian Armstrong | Ron Nyswaner | |||
| The Night the Prowler | Jim Sharman | Patrick White | |||
| Not for Publication | Paul Bartel | Paul Bartel, John Meyer | |||
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | L.M. Kit Carson, Sam Shepard | |||
| Pebbles | Kieselstein | Lukas Stepanik | World Cinema | ||
| Piranha | Joe Dante | Retrospective | |||
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | Woody Allen | |||
| Radio On | Chris Petit | ||||
| The Real Thing | Peter Schnall | ||||
| Rock 'n' Roll High School | Allan Arkush | Retrospective | |||
| The Roommate | Neil Cox | Neal Miller, Paul Pekin, Randall Fried | Dramatic | ||
| Secret Honor | Robert Altman | Donald Freed, Arnold M. Stone | |||
| Seventeen | Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines | Documentary | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | Dramatic | |||
| Silver City | Sophia Turkiewicz | Thomas Kenneally, Sophia Turkiewicz | Dramatic | ||
| Sprout Wings and Fly | Les Blank | Documentary | |||
| Squizzy Taylor | Kevin James Dobson | Roger Simpson | |||
| Stolen Kisses | Baisers Voles | François Truffaut | François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, Bernard Revon | Retrospective | |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | Jim Jarmusch | Dramatic | Special Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| Strategic Trust: The Making of a Nuclear Free Palau | James Heddle | Documentary | |||
| Streetwise | Martin Bell | Documentary | Special Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| Strikebound | Richard Lowenstein | Richard Lowenstein | |||
| Targets | |||||
| Tattoo [Irezumi] Ari | Toshiaki Takahasi | ||||
| The Times of Harvey Milk | Rob Epstein | Documentary | Special Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| The Trip to Bountiful | Peter Masterson | Horton Foote | |||
| An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Chris Petit | P. D. James, Elizabeth McKay, Chris Petit, Brian Scobie | |||
| Way Down East | D. W. Griffith | Retrospective | |||
| Wild Angels | Roger Corman | Retrospective | |||
| The Work I've Done | Kenneth Fink | Documentary | |||
| The World of Tomorrow | Tom Johnson | Documentary |
Dates: January 17 – January 26; The United States Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allies | Marian Wilkinson | Independent Australia (Documentary) | |||
| Belizaire: The Cajun | Glen Pitre | Glen Pitre | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Bliss | Ray Lawrence | Peter Carey, Ray Lawrence | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| Camera Natura | Ross Gibson | Independent Australia (Short) | |||
| Chain Letters | Mark Rappaport | Mark Rappaport | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Chimes at Midnight | Orson Welles | Chimes of Midnight: Orson Welles Remembered | |||
| Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | Chimes of Midnight: Orson Welles Remembered | |||
| Contrary Warrior: A Story of the Crow Tribe | Connie Poten | Beth Ferris | Documentary Competition | ||
| The Cosmic Eye | Faith Hubley | Faith Hubley, John Hubley | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Couldn't Be Fairer | Dennis O'Rourke | Mick Miller | Independent Australia (Documentary) | ||
| Cowgirls | Nancy Kelly | Shorts | |||
| The Day Time Noon | Sandy Smolan | Shorts | |||
| A Decade of Women | Gillian Armstrong | Independent Australia (Shorts) | |||
| Desert Bloom | Eugene Corr | Eugene Corr, Linda Remy | |||
| Desert Hearts | Donna Deitch | Natalie Cooper | Dramatic Competition | Special Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| Dim Sum | Wayne Wang | Terrel Seltzer | |||
| Double Negative | Sam Irvin | Sam Irvin | Short | ||
| The Drover’s Wife | Sue Brooks | Sue Castrique | Independent Australia (Short) | ||
| Einstein on the Beach | Mark Obenhaus | Documentary | |||
| Emoh Ruo | Denny Lawrence | Paul Leadon, David Paltorak | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| F/X | Robert Mandel | Gregory Fleeman, Robert T. Megginson | |||
| Fast Talking | Ken Cameron | Ken Cameron | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| For Love or Money | Megan McMurchy, Jeni Thornley | Megan McMurchy, Jeni Thornley | Independent Australia (Documentary) | ||
| Fran | Glenda Hambly | Glenda Hambly | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| Going Down | Haydn Keenan | Julie Berry, Moira Maclaine-Cross | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| The Great Wall Is a Great Wall | Peter Wang | Shirley Sun, Peter Wang | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Growing Up with Rockets | Nancy Yasecko | Documentary | |||
| Half Life | Dennis O'Rourke | Dennis O'Rourke | Independent Australia (Documentary) | ||
| Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen | Woody Allen | |||
| Hard Traveling | Dan Bessie | Dan Bessie | |||
| Heartbreakers | Bobby Roth | Bobby Roth | Seminar Screenings | ||
| Imagine the Sound | Ron Mann | The Films of Ron Mann | |||
| In Her Own Time | Lynne Littman | Documentary | |||
| Huey Long | Ken Burns | Geoffrey C. Ward | Documentary | ||
| Imagine the Sound | Ron Mann | Documentary | |||
| Kemira: Diary of a Strike | Tom Zubrycki | Independent Australia (Documentary) | |||
| The Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | Chimes of Midnight: Orson Welles Remembered | |||
| Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza del Mayo | Susana Munoz, Lourdes Portillo | Documentary | Special Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| Lion in the Doorway | Prabhubodha John Walker | Prabhubodha John Walker | Independent Australia (Short) | ||
| Listen to the City | Ron Mann | The Films of Ron Mann | |||
| Lost Horizon | Frank Capra | Retrospective | |||
| Louie Bluie | Terry Zwigoff | Documentary | |||
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | Chimes of Midnight: Orson Welles Remembered | |||
| The Man You Know | Steve Jacobs | Steve Jacobs | Independent Australia (Short) | ||
| Marcia Resnick’s Bad Boys | Ron Mann | The Films of Ron Mann | |||
| Nicaragua Was Our Home | Lee Shapiro | ||||
| On the Loose | Jane Oehr | Jane Oehr, Ken Cameron, Mark Stiles, Tom McPartland, Tom Gooding | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| On Valentine’s Day | Kenneth Harrison | Horton Foote | |||
| One Woman or Two | Une Femme ou Deux | Daniel Vigne | Daniel Vigne, Élisabeth Rappeneau | ||
| The Orkly Kid | Trent Harris | Trent Harris | Shorts | ||
| Othello | Orson Welles | Chimes of Midnight: Orson Welles Remembered | |||
| Parting Glances | Bill Sherwood | Bill Sherwood | Dramatic | ||
| Poetry in Motion | Ron Mann | The Films of Ron Mann | |||
| Power | Sidney Lumet | David Himmelstein | |||
| Private Conversations | Christian Blackwood | Documentary | |||
| Rate It X | Paula De Koenigsberg, Lucy Winer | Documentary | |||
| Raw Tunes | Dan Lewk, Gary Levy | Dan Lewk, Gary Levy | Dramatic | ||
| Restless Natives | Michael Hoffman | Ninian Dunnett | Dramatic | ||
| The Return of Ruben Blades | Robert Mugge | Robert Mugge | Documentary | ||
| Rocking the Foundations | Pat Fiske | Independent Australia (Documentary) | |||
| Serious Undertakings | Helen Grace | Independent Australia (Short) | |||
| Seven Minutes in Heaven | Linda Feferman | Jane Bernstein, Linda Feferman | Dramatic | Special Jury Prize for the Genre of Youth Comedy: Dramatic | |
| Singles | Karl McPhee | Independent Australia (Documentary) | |||
| Smooth Talk | Joyce Chopra | Tom Cole | Dramatic | Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| Static | Mark Romanek | Keith Gordon, Mark Romanek | Dramatic | ||
| Stations | Jackie McKimmie | Independent Australia (Short) | |||
| A Street to Die | Bill Bennett | Bill Bennett | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| Stripper | Jerome Gary | Charles Gaines | Documentary | ||
| Tom Goes to the Bar | Dean Parisot | Michael Taav | Short | ||
| Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | Chimes of Midnight: Orson Welles Remembered | |||
| Traps | John Hughes | John Hughes | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| The Trip to Bountiful | Peter Masterson | Horton Foote | Premiere | Opening Night | |
| Trouble In Mind | Alan Rudolph | Alan Rudolph | |||
| Troupers | Glenn Silber, Claudia Vianello | Documentary Competition | |||
| Unfinished Business | Bob Ellis | Bob Ellis | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| The Unheard Music | W.T. Morgan | W.T. Morgan | Seminar Screenings | ||
| Valley Girl | Martha Coolidge | Jury Member Screenings | |||
| The Waiting | Scott Williams | Amy Dundleberger | Shorts | ||
| Wildcatter: The Story of Texas Oil | Robert Tranchin | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Woman and the Stranger | Rainer Simon | Rainer Simon | |||
| Wrong Side of the Road | Ned Lander | Ned Lander | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| Wrong World | Ian Pringle | Doug Ling, Ian Pringle | Independent Australia (Dramatic) | ||
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Krzysztof Zanussi | Jury Member Screenings | |||
| You Got to Move | Lucy Massie Phenix, Veronica Selver | Documentary |
Dates: January 16 – January 25; Sundance Institute Presents the United States Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 Charing Cross Road | David Hugh Jones | Hugh Whitmore | Premieres | ||
| 90 Days | Giles Walker | Giles Walker, David Wilson | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| All-American High | Keva Rosenfield | Documentary | |||
| Anne Trister | Léa Pool | Léa Pool, Marcel Beaulieu | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| A Promise | Yoshishige Yoshida | Fukiko Miyauchi, Yoshishige Yoshida | Special Screenings | ||
| Are We Winning, Mommy? | Barbara Margolis | Documentary | |||
| As Seen on TV | David Rimmer | Canada: The Next Wave | |||
| Beehive | Frank Moore, Jim Self | Shorts | |||
| Betty Blue | 37˚2 Le Matin | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Special Screenings | |
| Beyond Therapy | Robert Altman | Robert Altman | Premieres | ||
| The Big Easy | Jim McBride | Premieres | |||
| Bingo Inferno | David O. Russell | David O. Russell | Shorts | ||
| Bullfighter and the Lady | Budd Boetticher | Retrospective | |||
| The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer | The Quay Brothers | Four from Four (and Four More) | |||
| Chile: When Will It End? | Chile: Hasta Cuando? | David Bradbury | Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary, Special Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| A Composer’s Notes | Michael Blackwood | Documentary | |||
| Crime Wave | John Paizs | John Paizs | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| Dancing in the Dark | Leon Marr | Leon Marr | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| Dead End Kids | JoAnne Akalaitis | JoAnne Akalaitis | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Decline of the American Empire | Le Declin de L’Empire Americain | Denys Arcand | Denys Arcand | Canada: The Next Wave | |
| Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas | Robert Richter, Catherine Hiller | Documentary | |||
| Drive-In Blues | Jan Krawitz | Documentary Short | |||
| The Electronic Sweatshop | Quel Numero | Sophie Bissonnette | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| Fatherland | Ken Loach | Four from Four (and Four More) | |||
| Final Offer | Sturla Gunnarsson, Robert Collison | Canada: The Next Wave | |||
| Forest of Bliss | Robert Gardner | Special Screenings | |||
| Frances Steloff | Deborah Dickson | Documentary Short | |||
| The Fringe Dwellers | Bruce Beresford | Bruce Beresford, Rhoisin Beresford | Premieres | ||
| The Great Horseshoe Crab Field Trip | Grania Gurievitch, Ann Schaetzel | Documentary | |||
| Hellfire: A Journey From Hiroshima | Michael Camerini, John Junkerman, James MacDonald | Documentary | |||
| Her Name Is Lisa | Rachid Kerdouche | Ron Gott | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Hoosiers | David Anspaugh | Angelo Pizzo | Premieres | ||
| Impure Thoughts | Michael A. Simpson | Michael J. Malloy, Michael A. Simpson | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Intimate Power | Pouvoir Intime | Yves Simoneau | Pierre Curzi, Yves Simoneau | Canada: The Next Wave | |
| Isaac in America | Amram Nowak | ||||
| Islands | Albert Maysles, David Maysles | Documentary | |||
| Jacques and November | Jacques et Novembre | François Bouvier, Jean Beaudry | François Bouvier, Jean Beaudry | Canada: The Next Wave | |
| Jimi Plays Monterey | Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker | Documentary Competition | |||
| John and the Missus | Gordon Pinsent | Gordon Pinsent | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| Karen Blixen | Nic Lichtenberg | Documentary Short | |||
| The Last Glacier | Le Dernier Glacier | Roger Frappier, Jacques Leduc | Roger Frappier, Jacques Leduc | Canada: The Next Wave | |
| Leos Janaceck: Intimate Excursions | Keith Griffiths | Four from Four (and Four More) | |||
| Lily Tomlin | Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill | Documentary Competition | |||
| Linda Joy | Linda Busby, William MacGillivray | Canada: The Next Wave | |||
| Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse | Brothers Quay | Four from Four (and Four More) | |||
| Living On Tokyo Time | Steven Okazaki | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Loyalties | Anne Wheeler | Sharon Riis | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| My American Cousin | Sandy Wilson | Sandy Wilson | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| My Little Girl | Connie Kaiserman | Connie Kaiserman, Nan Mason | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Next of Kin | Atom Egoyan | Canada: The Next Wave | |||
| No Picnic | Philip Hartman | Philip Hartman | Dramatic Competition | Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic | |
| Off Season | Mary Arbuckle | Mark Rance, L.M. Kit Carson, Richard Barber | Special Screenings | ||
| Ozawa | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson | Documentary Competition | |||
| Invisible Thread | Bob Balaban | Shorts | |||
| Pica-Don | Renzo Kinoshita | Shorts | |||
| Ping Pong | Po-Chih Leong | Jerry Liu | Four from Four (and Four More) | ||
| Playing Away | Horace Ové | Caryl Phillips | Four from Four (and Four More) | ||
| Positive I.D. | Andy Anderson | Andy Anderson | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Precious Images | Chuck Workman | Chuck Workman | Documentary short | ||
| Ranch | Steven DeNure, Christopher Lowry | Canada: The Next Wave | |||
| Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada: The Next Wave | |||
| Rita, Sue and Bob Too | Alan Clarke | Andrea Dunbar | Four from Four (and Four More) | ||
| River’s Edge | Tim Hunter | Neal Jimenez | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Seize the Day | Fielder Cook | Ronald Ribman | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Shake!: Otis at Monterey | D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, David Dawkins | Documentary Competition | |||
| Sherman's March | Ross McElwee | Ross McElwee | Documentary Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | |
| Sitting in Limbo | John N. Smith | Richard Nichol | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| Sleepwalk | Sara Driver | Kathleen Brennan, Sara Driver, Lorenzo Mans | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Sonatine | Micheline Lanctôt | Micheline Lanctôt | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| Spark Among the Ashes: A Bar Mitzvah in Poland | Oren Rudavsky | Documentary Competition | |||
| Square Dance | Daniel Petrie | Daniel Petrie | Premieres | Opening Night | |
| Stacking | Martin Rosen | Victoria Jenkins | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Stations | William D. MacGillivray | William D. MacGillivray | Canada: The Next Wave | ||
| Street of Crocodiles | Brothers Quay | Four from Four (and Four More) | |||
| Sullivan's Pavilion | Fred G. Sullivan | Fred G. Sullivan | Dramatic Competition | Special Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| Trouble with Dick | Gary Walkow | Gary Walkow | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| Up | Sam Kaufman | Shorts | |||
| Waiting for the Moon | Jill Godmilow | Mark Magill | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| A Walk on the Moon | Raphael D. Silver | William Mai | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Welcome Back Mr. Fox | Walter Pitt | Walter Pitt | Short | ||
| William Carlos Williams | Richard P. Rogers | Jill Janows | Documentary Competition | ||
| Working Girls | Lizzie Borden | Lizzie Borden | Dramatic Competition | Special Jury Prize: Dramatic |
Dates: January 15 – January 24; Sundance Institute Presents the United States Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acting Our Age | Michal Aviad | Documentary Competition | |||
| Ain’t No King Coming | Tia J.T. Lemke | Tia J.T. Lemke | Rogue's Gallery: New American Shorts | ||
| Anna Spilt the Oil | John F. Allen | Rogue's Gallery: New American Shorts | |||
| Arctic Wolves | Jim Brandenberg | The National Geographic Society: A Centennial Celebration | |||
| Astronomy | Susan Rogers | Shorts | |||
| Bad Connection | Malayunta | José Santiso | José Santiso | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Barbeque Death Squad from Hell | Art Wolff | Penn and Teller | Shorts | ||
| Beirut: The Last Home Movie | Jennifer Fox | Jennifer Fox, John Mullen | Documentary | ||
| Belinda in the Water | Christine Roum | Christine Roum | Shorts | ||
| Ben-Hur | Fred Niblo | Restoration Premiere | |||
| The Birthday Fish | Alex Zamm | Shorts | |||
| Black Menu | Megan Daniels | Rogue's Gallery: New American Shorts | |||
| The Brave Little Toaster | Jerry Rees | Jerry Rees | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Break of Dawn | Isaac Artenstein | Isaac Artenstein | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Broken Noses | Bruce Weber | Documentary Competition | |||
| Camila | María Luisa Bemberg | María Luisa Bemberg, Beda Docampo Feijóo, Juan Bautista Stagnaro | New Argentine Cinema | ||
| Cannibal Tours | Dennis O'Rourke | Special Screenings | |||
| Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age | Marc Huestis | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Crimson Kimono | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | |||
| The Days of June | Los Dias de Junio | Alberto Fischerman | Alberto Fischerman, Gustavo Wagner | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Dear America | Bill Couturié | Bill Couturié, Richard Dewhurst | Documentary Competition | ||
| Dim Sum Take Out | Wayne Wang | Shorts | |||
| Distant Harmony | DeWitt Sage | Documentary Competition | |||
| Dogs of the Night | Perros de la Noche | Teo Kofman | Pedro Espinosa | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Drawing on my Mind | Bob Kurtz | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| Easy Money | Plata Dulce | Fernando Ayala | Oscar Viale, Jorge Goldenberg | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Elvis '56 | Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond | Documentary Competition | |||
| Evita: Listen If You Want To | Evita: Qien Quiea Oir Que Oica | Eduardo Mignogna | New Argentine Cinema | ||
| The Family Album | Alan Berliner | Documentary Competition | |||
| Fire From the Mountain | Deborah Shaffer | Documentary Competition | |||
| Fixed Bayonets! | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | |||
| Friendship's Death | Peter Wollen | Peter Wollen | Special Screenings | ||
| George and Rosemary | Alison Snowden, David Fine | Alison Snowden, David Fine | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | ||
| Geronima | Raúl Alberto Tosso | Carlos Paola, Jorge Pellegrini | New Argentine Cinema | ||
| The Golden Ass | R.O. Blechman | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| Goodbye, Children | Au Revoir Les Enfants | Louis Malle | Premieres | ||
| The Great O'Grady | Robbie Fox | Robbie Fox | The Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Hairspray | John Waters | John Waters | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Harshness of Destiny | Del Rigor del Destino | Gerardo Vallejo | Gerardo Vallejo | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Heat and Sunlight | Rob Nilsson | Rob Nilsson | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize | |
| Hell and High Water | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | |||
| The Houses Are Full of Smoke | Allan Francovich | Documentary Competition | |||
| I Shot Jesse James | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | |||
| Interplast | Stephen Burns | The National Geographic Society: A Centennial Celebration | |||
| Inside the Soviet Circus | Miriam Birch | Miriam Birch | The National Geographic Society: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| The Jogger | Robert Resnikoff | Robert Resnikoff | Shorts | ||
| John Huston & The Dubliners | Lilyan Sievernich | Documentary Competition | |||
| John Lennon Sketchbook | John Canemaker | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| Juan: As if Nothing Ever Happened | Juan: Coma si Nada Hubiera Sucedido | Carlos Echeverría | New Argentine Cinema | ||
| A King and His Movie | La Pelicula Del Rey | Carlos Sorín | Carlos Sorín, Jorge Goldenberg | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Land of the Tigers | Dennis B. Kane, Thomas Skinne, Belinda Wrightr | The National Geographic Society: A Centennial Celebration | |||
| Lazar | Gavrilo Gnatovich | Gavrilo Gnatovich | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | ||
| Lemon Sky | Jan Egleson | Lanford Wilson | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Loose Ends | David Burton Morris | Victor Wozniak | Special Screenings | ||
| The Lost Republic: Part Two | La Republica Perdida II | Miguel Pérez | New Argentine Cinema | ||
| Love Is a Fat Woman | El Amore es Una Mujer Gorda | Alejandro Agresti | Alejandro Agresti | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Made in USA | Ken Friedman | Ken Friedman | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Man Who Planted Trees | Frédéric Back | Jean Roberts | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | ||
| Miss... or Myth? | Geoffrey Dunn | Documentary Competition | |||
| Missile | Frederick Wiseman | Documentary Competition | |||
| Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | Premieres | |||
| The Night of the Pencils | La Noche de Los Lapices | Héctor Olivera | Héctor Olivera, Daniel Kon | New Argentine Cinema | |
| No Applause, Just Throw Money | Karen Goodman | Shorts | |||
| Nobody's Wife | Señora de Nadie | María Luisa Bemberg | María Luisa Bemberg | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Not Just Any Flower | Terry deRoy Gruber | Terry deRoy Gruber | Shorts | ||
| Organic Fragment | Oskar Fischinger | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| Paradisia | Marcy Page | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| Park Row | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | |||
| Passages | Tony Venezia | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| Patti Rocks | David Burton Morris | John Jenkins, Karen Landry, David Burton Morris, Chris Mulkey | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Photographer of the Year | Stephen Burns | The National Geographic Society: A Centennial Celebration | |||
| Picture Window | Sara Petty | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| The Price of Life | Stephen Tolkin | Stephen Tolkin, Michel Montreaux | The Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Promised Land | Michael Hoffman | Michael Hoffman | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Propagandance | Tom Sito | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| Rachel River | Sandy Smolan | Judith Guest | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Radio Bikini | Robert Stone | Documentary Competition | |||
| Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall | Bryan Gordon | Bryan Gordon | The Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| The Rhino War | Philip Cayford | Philip Cayford, Nancy LeBrun | The National Geographic Society: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| The River Lethe | Amy Kravitz | Picture Independence: The Best of North American Animation (Shorts) | |||
| Run of the Arrow | Samuel Fuller | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | ||
| Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | ||
| Signed: Lino Brocka | Christian Blackwood | Special Screenings | |||
| The Silence at Bethany | Joel Oliansky | Joyce Keener | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Sofia | Alejandro Doria | Alejandro Doria | New Argentine Cinema | ||
| South of Reno | Mark Rezyka | T.L. Lankford, Mark Rezyka | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Steel Helmet | Samuel Fuller | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | ||
| Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | Todd Haynes | Todd Haynes, Cynthia Schneider | Rogue's Gallery: New American Shorts | ||
| Tangos: The Exile of Gardel | Tangos: El Exilio de Gardel | Fernando Solanas | Jacobo Langsner | New Argentine Cinema | |
| Tapeheads | Bill Fishman | Bill Fishman, Peter McCarthy | Premieres | ||
| Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done | Antony Thomas | Documentary Competition | |||
| Underworld U.S.A. | Samuel Fuller | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | ||
| Verboten! | Samuel Fuller | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | ||
| Walking on Water | Ramon Menendez | Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Where the Heart Roams | George Paul Csicsery | Documentary Competition | |||
| Whimsy | Dorna Khazeni | Rogue's Gallery: New American Shorts | |||
| White Dog | Samuel Fuller | Tribute to Samuel Fuller | |||
| Whitney, John's | John Whitney | Shorts | |||
| Who Gets to Water the Grass | Luis Meza | Rogue's Gallery: New American Shorts |
Dates: January 20 – January 29; United States Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 Charlie Mopic | Patrick Sheane Duncan | Patrick Sheane Duncan | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Apartment Zero | Conviviendo con la muerte | Martin Donovan | Martin Donovan, David Koepp | Dramatic Competition | |
| Behind the Screen | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| The Big Dis | Gordon Eriksen, John O'Brien | Gordon Eriksen, John O'Brien | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Big Picture | Christopher Guest | Michael Varhol, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean | Premieres | ||
| A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief | Jon Reiss | Shorts | |||
| Cheap Shots | Jerry Stoeffhaas, Jeff Ureles | Jerry Stoeffhaas, Jeff Ureles | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Chet's Romance | Bertrand Fevre | Shorts | |||
| A Child Is Waiting | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| Clownhouse | Victor Salva | Victor Salva | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Comic Book Confidential | Ron Mann | Ron Mann | Documentary Competition | ||
| Coming Out | Ted Reed | Documentary Competition | |||
| Cover Up: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair | Barbara Trent, David Kasper | Eve Goldberg | Documentary Competition | ||
| Crime in the Streets | Don Siegel | Reginald Rose | Tribute to John Cassavetes | ||
| A Day's Pleasure | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| Dead Man Out | Richard Pearce | Ron Hutchinson | Premieres | ||
| Edge of the City | Martin Ritt | Robert Allan Arthur | Tribute to John Cassavetes | ||
| Eyeplay | Andrew Langton | Rogues Gallery: New American Shorts | |||
| Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier | Fabula de la Bella Palomera | Ruy Guerra | Ruy Guerra, Gabriel García Márquez | Dangerous Loves | |
| Faces | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| Flying Blind | Vince DiPersio | Vince DiPersio | Special Screenings | ||
| For All Mankind | Al Reinert | Documentary Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary, Audience Award: Documentary | ||
| Funny | Bran Ferren | Documentary Competition | |||
| Ginger Ale Afternoon | Rafal Zielinski | Gina Wendkos | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Gloria | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| The Haircut | Tamar Hoffs | Tamar Hoffs | Tribute to John Cassavetes | ||
| A Happy Sunday | Un Domingo Feliz | Olegario Barrera | Eliseo Alberto, Olegario Barrera | Dangerous Loves | |
| Heathers | Michael Lehmann | Daniel Waters | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Heavy Petting | Obie Benz, Joshua Waletzky | Documentary Competition | |||
| Homesick | Johanna Demetrakas | Robert Gordon | Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| How to Kiss | Bill Plympton | Bill Plympton | Shorts | ||
| Husbands | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| I'm the One You're Looking For | Yo Soy El Que Tu Buscas | Jaime Chávarri | Jaime Chávarri, Juan Tébar | Dangerous Loves | |
| Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul | Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine | Documentary Competition | |||
| John Huston | Frank Martin | Martin and Charles Beagelman | Documentary Competition | Filmmakers Trophy: Documentary | |
| Journey to Spirit Island | László Pal | László Pal, Crane Webster | Special Screenings | ||
| The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead | Lourdes Portillo, Susanna Munoz | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Laser Man | Peter Wang | Peter Wang | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Let’s Get Lost | Bruce Weber | Documentary Competition | |||
| Letters from the Park | Cartas del Parque | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Gabriel García Márquez, Eliseo Alberto Diego | Dangerous Loves | |
| Lighting Over Braddock: A Rust Bowl Fantasy | Tony Buba | Documentary Competition | |||
| Limelight | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| Lobster Man from Mars | Stanley Sheff | Stanley Sheff, Bob Greenberg | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Lodz Ghetto | Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna | Alan Adelson | Documentary Competition | ||
| Love Streams | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| Mikey and Nicky | Elaine May | Elaine May | Tribute to John Cassavetes | ||
| Minnie and Moskowitz | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| Miracle in Rome | Milagro en Roma | Lisandro Duque Naranjo | Lisandro Duque Naranjo | Dangerous Loves | |
| Miracle Mile | Steve De Jarnatt | Steve De Jarnatt | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Morgan’s Cake | Rick Schmidt | Rick Schmidt | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Motel | Christian Blackwood | Documentary Competition | |||
| Mr. Fixit | Topper Lillien | Topper Lillien | Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Muddy Hands | Evan Dunsky | Rogues Gallery: New American Shorts | |||
| Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Brian Gibson | Premieres | |||
| Of Men and Angels | William Farley | Marjorie Berger, William Farley, Deborah Rogin | Dramatic Competition | ||
| One A.M. | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| One Day the Refrigerator Broke | Eric Mueller | Rogues Gallery: New American Shorts | |||
| Open Window | Rupert Wainwright | Rupert Wainwright | Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Opening Night | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| The Pawnshop | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| Peacemaker | Jonathan Sanger | Jana Sue Memel, Jonathan Sanger, Robert N. Skir | Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| The Personal Life of Mr. Phelps | David E. Tolchinsky | David E. Tolchinsky | Rogues Gallery: New American Shorts | ||
| Portrait of Imogen | Meg Partridge | Shorts | |||
| Powwow Highway | Jonathan Wacks | Janet Heaney, Jean Stawarz | Dramatic Competition | Filmmakers Trophy: Dramatic | |
| Prisoners of Inertia | Jeff Scher | Jeff Scher | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Rink | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| The Roommate | Oley Sassone | David DuBos | Shorts | ||
| Saint Catherine’s Wedding Ring | Debra Kahn, Dave Edelson | Shorts | |||
| Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh | Steven Soderbergh | Dramatic Competition | Audience Award: Dramatic | |
| Shadows | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| Short-Term Bonds | Michael H. Lengsfield | Shorts | |||
| A Slice of Life | William Kent | Shorts | |||
| Some Girls | Michael Hoffman | Rupert Walters | Special Screenings | ||
| Soviet Power | Marina Goldovskaya | ||||
| The Summer of Miss Forbes | El Verano de la Senora Forbes | Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Dangerous Loves | |
| Sunnyside | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration | ||
| Sunrise | F.W. Murnau | Carl Mayer | Retrospective | Opening Night | |
| Swimming | Daniel Algrant | Shorts | |||
| Teach 109 | Richard Kletter | Richard Kletter | Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| The Tempest | Paul Mazursky | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| That's Adequate | Harry Hurwitz | Harry Hurwitz | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser | Charlotte Zwerin | Premieres | |||
| They Haven't Seen This... | Eric Bergren | Eric Bergren | Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Those Guys | Chris Matheson | Rogues Gallery: New American Shorts | |||
| Too Late Blues | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | |||
| Tracks | Rupert A. Nadeau | Rupert A. Nadeau | Shorts | ||
| True Love | Nancy Savoca | Nancy Savoca, Richard Guay | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | |
| Trust Me | Robert Houston | Robert Houston | Special Screenings | ||
| Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | Special Events | |||
| Tzara and Joyce | Todd O'Connell | Rogues Gallery: New American Shorts | |||
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | Un Senior Muy Viejo con Unas Alas Enormes | Fernando Birri | Fernando Birri | Dangerous Loves | |
| Who Killed Vincent Chin? | Renee Tajima-Peña, Christine Choy | Documentary Competition | |||
| A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | John Cassavetes | Tribute to John Cassavetes | ||
| Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven | Jon H. Else | Jon H. Else | Premieres | ||
| Zadar! Cow from Hell | Robert C. Hughes | Ian Shoales | Premieres |
Dates: January 19 – January 27; Sundance United States Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Accordionist's Wedding | La Boda del Accordeonista | Luis Fernando Bottia | Luis Fernando Bottia | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | |
| A Cup of Tea | Aviva Slesin | Aviva Slesin: The Long and Short of It | |||
| Agnes Escapes from the Nursing Home | Eileen O'Meara | Eileen O'Meara | Shorts | ||
| A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | Happy Birthday, Richard Lester! | |||
| The Ambassador from India | El Embajador de la India | Mario Ribero Ferreira | Mário González | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | |
| Arcata Brain Closet | Steven Vander Meer | Steven Vander Meer | Shorts | ||
| At Arm’s Length | Camilla Calamandrei | Shorts | |||
| Berkeley in the Sixties | Mark Kitchell | Documentary Competition | |||
| A Bird for All Seasons | Aviva Slesin | Aviva Slesin: The Long and Short of It | |||
| Blind Curve | Gary Markowitz | Shorts | |||
| Blue Lobster | Langosta Azul | Álvaro Cepeda Samudio | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | ||
| The Blue Room | Cindy Canejo | Shorts | |||
| Blue Steel | Kathryn Bigelow | Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Red | Premieres | ||
| Cause and Effect | John Sanborn, Mary Perillo | Shorts | |||
| Chameleon Street | Wendell B. Harris Jr. | Wendell B. Harris Jr. | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize | |
| Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Giuseppe Tornatore | Special Screenings | ||
| Conquering Space | Mark Stratton | Mark Stratton | The 1989/90 Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Current Events | Ralph Arlyck | Documentary Competition | |||
| Dance of Hope | Deborah Shaffer | Documentary Competition | |||
| Dancing for Mr. B.: Six Balanchine Ballerinas | Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Day You Love Me | El Dia Que Me Quieras | Sergio Dow | José Ignacio Cabrujas, Sergio Dow | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | |
| Details of a Duel: A Question of Honor | Tecnicas de Duelo | Sergio Cabrera | Humberto Dorado | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | |
| Dog of Paris | Chris Hume | Shorts | |||
| The Dogs | Aviva Slesin | Aviva Slesin: The Long and Short of It | |||
| Duck, You Sucker | Sergio Leone | Gone But Not Forgotten | |||
| First Love | Aviva Slesin | Aviva Slesin: The Long and Short of It | |||
| Four from the New Yorker | Aviva Slesin | Aviva Slesin: The Long and Short of It | |||
| Funky Beat | Melvin Van Peebles | Celebrating Melvin Van Peebles | |||
| H-2 Worker | Stephanie Black | Documentary Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| Hairway to the Stars | Shorts | ||||
| He Was Once | Mary Hestand | Mary Hestand | Rogues Gallery (Shorts) | ||
| Hollywood Mavericks | Florence Dauman, Dale Ann Stieber | Special Screenings | |||
| Home | Sandy Perlbinder | Shorts | |||
| The Horseplayer | Kurt Voss | David Birke, Larry Rattner | Dramatic Competition | ||
| House Party | Reginald Hudlin | Reginald Hudlin | Dramatic Competition | ||
| How I Won the War | Richard Lester | Happy Birthday, Richard Lester! | |||
| How to Be Louise | Anne Flournoy | Anne Flournoy | Dramatic Competition | ||
| I.F. Stone's Weekly | Jerry Bruck | Gone But Not Forgotten | |||
| Identity Crisis | Melvin Van Peebles | Mario Van Peebles | Celebrating Melvin Van Peebles | ||
| In the Blood | George Butler | Documentary Competition | |||
| Interview with Anne Frank | Donnell Corelle | Shorts | |||
| Iron and Silk | Shirley Sun | Mark Salzman | Dramatic Competition | ||
| James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket | Karen Thorsen | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Kill Off | Maggie Greenwald | Maggie Greenwald | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Killer | Dip huet seung hung | John Woo | John Woo | Special Screenings | |
| The Knack... and How to Get It | Richard Lester | Happy Birthday, Richard Lester! | |||
| Last Images of the Shipwreck | Eliseo Subiela | Eliseo Subiela | Special Screenings | ||
| The Last Smoker | Der letzte Raucher | Jürgen Podzkiewitz | Special Screenings | ||
| The Last Stop | Serik Aprimov | Serik Aprimov | Kazakhstan New Wave | ||
| The Lathe of Heaven | David Loxton, Fred Barzyk | Gone But Not Forgotten | |||
| Law of the Jungle | La Ley del Monte | Alberto Mariscal | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | ||
| Little Feet | Connie Grappo | The 1989/90 Discovery Program (Shorts) | |||
| Little Fish in Love | Abai Karpykov | Abai Karpykov | Kazakhstan New Wave | ||
| The Long Way Home | Michael Apted | Special Screenings | |||
| Longtime Companion | Norman René | Craig Lucas | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Denial | Erin Dignam | Erin Dignam | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Love at Large | Alan Rudolph | Alan Rudolph | Premieres | ||
| Love, Women and Flowers | Amor, Mujeres y Flores | Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | ||
| A Man of Principle | Condores No Entierran Todos Los Dias | Francisco Norden | Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | |
| Manchild | Gordon Eriksen, David Chan | Shorts | |||
| Manic Denial | Hal Rucker | Shorts | |||
| A Matter of Degrees | W.T. Morgan | W.T. Morgan | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Metamorphosis: Man into Woman | Lisa Leeman | Documentary Competition | |||
| Metropolitan | Whit Stillman | Whit Stillman | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Mortal Passions | Andrew Lane | Alan Moskowitz | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Mr. Hoover and I | Emile de Antonio | Documentary Competition | |||
| My Degeneration | Jon Moritsugu | Daryl Chin, Jon Moritsugu | Rogues Gallery (Shorts) | ||
| Myriam's Look | La Mirada de Myriam | Clara Riascos | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | ||
| The Natural History of Parking Lots | Everett Lewis | Everett Lewis | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Needle | Rashid Nugmanov | Alexander Baranov, Bakhyt Kilibaev | Premieres | ||
| Never Leave Nevada | Steve Swartz | Steve Swartz | Dramatic Competition | ||
| No More Disguises | Tom Sigel, Boryana Varbanov | Shorts | |||
| No Pain, No Gain | Tom Brozovich | Shorts | |||
| Nuestra Maquina | Karen Kennedy | Shorts | |||
| On Ice | Andrew Takeuchi, Grover Babcock | Shorts | |||
| The Other Side of the Moon | Mickey Lemle | Documentary Competition | |||
| Painting the Town | Andrew Behar | Documentary Competition | |||
| Petulia | Richard Lester | Happy Birthday, Richard Lester! | |||
| The Plot Against Harry | Michael Roemer | Michael Roemer | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Preston Sturges | Kenneth Bowser | Documentary Competition | |||
| Reborn | Nacer de Nuevo | Marta Rodriguez | Marta Rodriguez | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | |
| Robin and Marian | Richard Lester | James Goldman | Happy Birthday, Richard Lester! | ||
| Rock | Alexei Uchitel | Yuri Filinov | Special Screenings | ||
| Rodrigo D: (No Future) | Rodrigo D. (No Futuro) | Víctor Gaviria | Víctor Gaviria | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | |
| Roger and Me | Michael Moore | Premieres | |||
| Samsara: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia | Ellen Bruno | Documentary Competition | |||
| Sapphire Man | Craig Bolotin | Craig Bolotin | The 1989/90 Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Seasick on Dry Land | Ilana Shulman | Shorts | |||
| Secret Wedding | Alejandro Agresti | Alejandro Agresti | Special Screenings | ||
| Shut-In | Trancado | Arthur Fontes | Country Focus | ||
| Son of Jonah | Sam Dunn | Shorts | |||
| Sophisticated Gents | Harry Falk | Celebrating Melvin Van Peebles | |||
| Soulmate | Lincoln Hiatt | Shorts | |||
| The Spider Game | Pisigana | Leopoldo Pinzon | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | ||
| Stanley and Iris | Martin Ritt | Premieres | Opening Night | ||
| The Story of a Three-Day Pass | La permission | Melvin Van Peebles | Celebrating Melvin Van Peebles | ||
| Suelto | Chris Emmanouilides, Tim Sexton | Shorts | |||
| The Summer Heat | Derezhan Omirbaev | Derezhan Omirbaev, Leila Akhinzhanova | Kazakhstan New Wave | ||
| Sunlight | Melvin Van Peebles | Celebrating Melvin Van Peebles | |||
| Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song | Melvin Van Peebles | Celebrating Melvin Van Peebles | |||
| Sweetie | Jane Campion | Gerard Lee, Jane Campion | Special Screenings | ||
| Teatro! | Ruth Shapiro, Edward Burke, Pamela Yates | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Ten-Year Lunch: Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table | Aviva Slesin | Aviva Slesin: The Long and Short of It | |||
| That Grip | Greg Grieg | Shorts | |||
| Three Pickup Men for Herrick | Melvin Van Peebles | Celebrating Melvin Van Peebles | |||
| The Three | Fofan | Alexander Baranov, Bakhyt Kilibaev | Alexander Baranov, Bakhyt Kilibaev | Kazakhstan New Wave | |
| A Time to Die | Tiempo de Morir | Jorge Ali Triana | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | ||
| To Protect Mother Earth | Joel L. Freedman | Documentary Competition | |||
| To the Moon, Alice | Jessie Nelson | Jessie Nelson | The 1989/90 Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Toro | Talgat Temenov | Nadezhda Kozhushannaya, Talgat Temenov | Kazakhstan New Wave | ||
| The Unbelievable Truth | Hal Hartley | Hal Hartley | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Vienna Is Different | Susan Korda, David W. Leitner | Documentary Competition | |||
| Visa U.S.A. | Lisandro Duque Naranjo | Lisandro Duque Naranjo | Colombian Cinema: From Magic to Realism | ||
| Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey | Eugene Corr | Eugene Corr, Michael Chandler | Gone But Not Forgotten | ||
| Water and Power | Pat O'Neill | Documentary Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | ||
| Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | Celebrating Melvin Van Peebles | |||
| The Way of the Wicked | Christine Vachon | Christine Vachon | Rogues Gallery (Shorts) | ||
| Winterwheat | Mark Street | Shorts | |||
| Wonderland, U.S.A. | Zoe Beloff | Shorts | |||
| Ya-Ha | Rashid Nugmanov | Rashid Nugmanov | Kazakhstan New Wave |
Dates: January 17 – January 27; Sundance Film Festival
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 N.Y., N.Y. | Kyle Kibbe | Shorts | |||
| 122 Webster | Pat Baum, Daniel Robin | Shorts | |||
| 12:01 PM | Jonathan Heap | Stephen Tolkin, Jonathan Heap | The 1991 Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| A Brief History of Time | Erroll Morris | Documentary Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary (tie) | ||
| Absolutely Positive | Peter Adair | Documentary Competition | |||
| After the Storm | Despues de la Tormenta | Tristan Bauer | Images of Mexico and Latin America | ||
| Afternoon Breezes | Hitoshi Yazaki | Hitoshi Yazaki | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | ||
| All the Vermeers in New York | Jon Jost | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Alaska | Mike Van Diem | Mike Van Diem, Paul Ruven | New! Shorts | ||
| Amazonia: Voices From the Rainforest | Monti Aguirre, Glenn Switkes | Monti Aguirre, Glenn Switkes, Michael Rudnick | Documentary Competition | ||
| American Dream | Barbara Kopple | Documentary Competition | |||
| Archangel | Guy Maddin | Guy Maddin, George Toles | Park City at Midnight | ||
| Barbosa | Jorge Furtado, Ana Luiza Azevedo | Rogues of Latin America: Casa de Cinema (Shorts) | |||
| Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel | Luis Buñuel | Special Screenings | ||
| Bicycle Sighs | Sion Sono | Sion Sono, Saito Hitashi | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | ||
| Blood in the Face | Anne Bohlen, Kevin Rafferty, James Ridgeway | Documentary Competition | |||
| Broken Angel | Margot Niederland | Shorts | |||
| Broken Meat | Pola Rapaport | Documentary Competition | |||
| Cadence | Martin Sheen | Dennis Shryack | Special Screenings | ||
| Christo in Paris | Albert Maysles, Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson, David Maysles | Documentary Competition | |||
| City of Hope | John Sayles | John Sayles | Premieres | ||
| Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Robert Altman | Robert Altman | A Salute to Robert Altman | ||
| Coney Island | Ric Burns | Richard Snow | Documentary Competition | ||
| Cool Water | Kahane Corn | Shorts | |||
| Daughters of the Dust | Julie Dash | Julie Dash | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Day Dorival Faced the Guard | Jorge Furtado, José Pedro Goulart | Rogues of Latin America: Casa de Cinema (Shorts) | |||
| Dimwit's Day | Luke Jaeger | Luke Jaeger | Shorts | ||
| Dr. Petiot | Docteur Petiot | Christian de Chalonge | Premieres | ||
| The Enchantment | Nagasaki Shunichi | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | |||
| End of the Night | Keith McNally | Keith McNally | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Enid Is Sleeping | Maurice Phillips | A.J. Tipping, James Whaley, and Maurice Phillips | Premieres | ||
| Fallen from Heaven | Caidos del Cielo | Francisco José Lombardi | Augusto Cabada, Giovanna Pollarolo | Images of Mexico and Latin America | |
| The Flat | Jan Svankmajer | Banned Films: Czech Verite | |||
| Glycerine Tears | Michael Miner | New! Shorts | |||
| The Golden Boat | Raúl Ruiz | Raúl Ruiz | Park City at Midnight | ||
| Gone to Earth | Powell and Pressburger | Gone But Not Forgotten | |||
| The Grifters | Stephen Frears | Premieres | Opening Night | ||
| Hangin' with the Homeboys | Joseph Vásquez | Joseph Vásquez | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Heart of the Deal | Yuri Neyman, Marina Levikova | Gregg Bryan Goldman | The 1991 Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Hello Mary | Cort Tramontin | New! Shorts | |||
| House without a Home | Chris Hume | Shorts | |||
| In the Shadow of the Stars: The Lives of Singers | Allie Light, Irving Saraf | Documentary Competition | |||
| Intimacy | Intimidad | Dana Rotberg | Leonardo García Tsao | Images of Mexico and Latin America | |
| Iron Maze | Hiroaki Yoshida | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Island of Flowers | Jorge Furtado | Rogues of Latin America: Casa de Cinema (Shorts) | |||
| J.S. Bach Fantasy in C Minor | Jan Svankmajer | Banned Films: Czech Verite | |||
| Jaguar | Calton Chase | Shorts | |||
| The Juniper Tree | Nietzchka Keene | Nietzchka Keene | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Kitchen Sink | Alison Maclean | Alison Maclean | Short | ||
| Lava, Jr. | Randy Bauer | Randy Bauer | Animated short | ||
| Legends | Ilana Bar-Din | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Powell and Pressburger | Gone But Not Forgotten | |||
| Little Feet | Connie Grappo | Connie Grappo | The 1991 Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| Little Noises | Jane Spencer | Jane Spencer | Dramatic Competition | ||
| A Little Stiff | Caveh Zahedi, Greg Watkins, Gregory H. Watkins | Caveh Zahedi, Greg Watkins, Gregory H. Watkins | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Lola | María Novaro | Beatriz Novaro, María Novaro | Images of Mexico and Latin America | ||
| Margarit and Margarita | Nikolai Volev | Banned Films: Czech Verite | |||
| Maria's Story | Pamela Cohen, Monona Wali | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Mass | Dusan Hanak | Banned Films: Czech Verite | |||
| A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell | Gone But Not Forgotten | |||
| McCabe and Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | Robert Altman | A Salute to Robert Altman | ||
| Memory | Roberto Henkin | Rogues of Latin America: Casa de Cinema (Shorts) | |||
| Mindwalk | Bernt Capra | Floyd Byars | Premieres | ||
| Missing Parents | Martin Nicholson | Nevin Schreiner | The 1991 Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| The Most Important Thing in Life | Rogues of Latin America: Casa de Cinema (Shorts) | ||||
| Naked Tango | Leonard Schrader | Leonard Schrader | Premieres | ||
| Nashville | Robert Altman | Robert Altman | A Salute to Robert Altman | ||
| The New Morning of Billy the Kid | Naoto Yamakawa | Naoto Yamakawa, Genichiro Takahashi | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | ||
| Nowon | Peter Judson | Peter Judson | Shorts | ||
| Nut Feed | Verna Huiskamp | Shorts | |||
| Obscenities | Roberto Henkin | Rogues of Latin America: Casa de Cinema (Shorts) | |||
| Old Shatterhand Has Come to See Us | Dusan Hanak | Banned Films: Czech Verite | |||
| Once Around | Lasse Hallström | Premieres | Opening Night | ||
| Once in a Blue Moon | Charley Lang | Nadine Van der Velde | The 1991 Discovery Program (Shorts) | ||
| One Cup of Coffee | Robin Armstrong | David Eyre Jr. | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Over the Threshold | Christine Lloyd-Fitt, Yoshi Tezuka | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | |||
| Paradise View | Paradaisu byû | Go Takamine | Go Takamine | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | |
| Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | Documentary Competition | |||
| Partita | Francesca Talenti | Shorts | |||
| The Passion of Martin | Alexander Payne | Alexander Payne | New! Shorts | ||
| Peering from the Moon | Henry Chow | Henry Chow, Joslyn Grieve | New! Shorts | ||
| Pictures of the Old World | Dusan Hanak | Banned Films: Czech Verite | |||
| Poison | Todd Haynes | Todd Haynes | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Pool of Thanatos | Peter McCandless | New! Shorts | |||
| Popeye | Robert Altman | Robert Altman | A Salute to Robert Altman | ||
| Post No Bills | Clay Walker, Marianne Desard | Shorts | |||
| Prison Stories: Women on the Inside | Donna Deitch, Penelope Spheeris, Joan Micklin Silver | Martin Jones, Marlane Meyer, Jule Selbo, Dick Beebe | Special Screenings | ||
| Privilege | Yvonne Rainer | Yvonne Rainer | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Prophets and Loss | Gabrielle Kelly, Nick Hart-Williams | ||||
| Providence | David Mackay | David Mackay, Bruce Miller | New! Shorts | ||
| Queen of Diamonds | Nina Menkes | Nina Menkes | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Raspad | Mikhail Belikov | Banned Films: Czech Verite | |||
| Red Dawn | Rojo Amanecer | Jorge Fons | Xavier Robles, Guadalupe Ortega Vargas | Images of Mexico and Latin America | |
| Requiem for Dominic | Robert Dornhelm | Michael Kohlmeier, Felix Mitterer | Special Screenings | ||
| The Restless Conscience | Hava Kohav Beller | Hava Kohav Beller | Shorts | ||
|
Sea of Oil |
M.R. Katzke | M.R. Katzke | Shorts | ||
| Secondary Roles | Papeles Secundarios | Orlando Rojas | Oswaldo Delgado Sánchez | Images of Mexico and Latin America | |
| Short of Breath | Jay Rosenblatt | Jay Rosenblatt | Shorts | ||
| Slacker | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions | Henry Selick | Shorts | |||
| Step Off a Ten-Foot Platform with Your Clothes On | Scott Miller | Shorts | |||
| Straight Out of Brooklyn | Matty Rich | Matty Rich | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Sure Fire | Jon Jost | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Swan Lake: The Zone | Yuri IIyenko | Sergei Paradjanov, Yuri Illyenko | Park City at Midnight | ||
| Takeover | Pamela Yates | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Tales of Hoffmann | Powell and Pressburger | Gone But Not Forgotten | |||
| The Talking Rain | Sam Wells | Shorts | |||
| Tanner '88 | Robert Altman | Robert Altman | A Salute to Robert Altman | ||
| Tetsuo | Shinya Tsukamoto | Shinya Tsukamoto | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | ||
| Thank You and Good Night | Jan Oxenberg | Documentary Competition | |||
| That Burning Question | Alan Taylor | Alan Taylor | New! Shorts | ||
| The Thief of Baghdad | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan | Gone But Not Forgotten | |||
| Three Women | Robert Altman | Robert Altman | A Salute to Robert Altman | ||
| To Sleep, So As to Dream | Kaizo Hayashi | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | |||
| Transparent Woman | Mujer Transparente | Orlando Rojas, Mario Crespo, Ana Rodríguez, Mayra Segura, Mayra Valasi, Héctor Veitia | Images of Mexico and Latin America | ||
| Trouble Behind | Robby Henson | Documentary Competition | |||
| Truly, Madly, Deeply | Anthony Minghella | Anthony Minghella | |||
| Trust | Hal Hartley | Hal Hartley | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Twenty-One | Don Boyd | Don Boyd, Zoë Heller | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Uminchu: The Old Man and the East China Sea | John Junkerman | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | |||
| Untama Giru | Go Takamine | Go Takamine | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema | ||
| All the Vermeer in New York | Jon Jost | ||||
| Vincent and Theo | Robert Altman | Julian Mitchell | Premieres | ||
| Visions of Marie | James Whitney | Shorts | |||
| Walls in the Woods | Sal Giammona | Shorts | |||
| Waltz in Old Havana | Luis Felipe Bernaza | ||||
| White Lies | Mentiras Piadosas | Arturo Ripstein | Paz Alicia Garciadiego | Images of Mexico and Latin America | |
| Whore | Ken Russell | Ken Russell, Deborah Dalton | Premieres | ||
| Winged Headhunter | Péter Reich | New! Shorts | |||
| Zazie | Riju Go | Riju Go | A New Generation of Japanese Cinema |
Dates: January 19 – January 27
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | Retrospective | |||
| 901, After Forty-Five Years of Working | Eames Demetrios | Documentary short | |||
| Adorable Lies | Adorables Metiras | Gerardo Chijona | Gerardo Chijona, Senel Paz | ||
| The Air Globes | Cartas al Niño Dios | Patricia Cardoso | Patricia Cardoso | Short | |
| Air Time | Gary Fleder | ||||
| Angry | Nicole Holofcener | Short | |||
| Anima Mundi | Godfrey Reggio | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Asylum | Joan Churchill | Documentary Competition | |||
| Backyard Movie | Bruce Weber | ||||
| Birch Street Gym | Stephen Kessler | Short | |||
| Black and White | Dramatic Competition | ||||
| A Blink of Paradise | Karen Young | ||||
| A Brief History of Time | Errol Morris | Documentary Competition | |||
| Brother's Keeper | Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez | Peter Sellars | Peter Sellars, Joan Cusack | Premieres | ||
| Caravaggio | Derek Jarman | ||||
| Carne | Gaspar Noé | Gaspar Noé | Midnight | ||
| Clearcut | Ryszard Bugajski | M. T. Kelly, Robert Forsyth | |||
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Retrospective | |||
| Color Adjustment: Blacks in Prime Time | Marlon Riggs | Documentary Competition | |||
| Complaints | David Weissman | Short | |||
| Confession to Laura | Confesion a Laura | Jaime Osorio Gómez | Alexandra Cardona Restrepo | ||
| Contact | Jonathan Darby | Jonathan Darby | Animated | ||
| Daily Rains | Cauleen Smith | Cauleen Smith | Documentary Shorts | ||
| Danzon | María Novaro | Beatriz Novaro, María Novaro | Premieres | ||
| Death by Unnatural Causes | Karen Bellone, Lisa Rinzler | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads | Robert Mugge | Robert Palmer | Documentary Competition | ||
| Delicatessen | Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro | Midnight | |||
| Desperate | Rico Martinez | Rico Martinez | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | Terence Davies | |||
| Distant Water | Carlos Avila | Carlos Avila | Documentary Shorts | ||
| Edward II | Derek Jarman | Derek Jarman | Premieres | ||
| Empire of the Moon | Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Fathers and Sons | Paul Mones | Paul Mones | |||
| Fifteenth Phase of the Moon | Mark Amos Nealey | Short | |||
| Finding Christa | Camille Billops, James Hatch | Documentary Competition | |||
| Flames of Passion | Richard Kwietniowski | ||||
| Fool's Fire | Julie Taymor | Julie Taymor | Premieres | ||
| Gas Food Lodging | Allison Anders | Allison Anders | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Godson | William Szarka | ||||
| Hallelujah Anyhow | Matthew Jacobs | Short | |||
| Hard Core Home Movie | Greta Snider | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Hear My Song | Peter Chelsom | Peter Chelsom | Premieres | ||
| Highway 61 | Bruce McDonald | Midnight | |||
| Homo Videocus | Hyuk Byun, Je-yong Lee | Hyuk Byun, Je-yong Lee | Short | ||
| The Hours and Times | Christopher Münch | Christopher Münch | |||
| I'm British But… | Gurinder Chadha | Documentary Shorts | |||
| In and Out of Time | Elizabeth Finlayson | Elizabeth Finlayson | Documentary Shorts | ||
| In Search of Our Fathers | Marco Williams | Documentary Competition | |||
| In the Soup | Alexandre Rockwell | Grand Jury Prize | |||
| Incident at Oglala | Michael Apted | ||||
| The Inland Sea | Lucille Carra | Donald Ritchie | Documentary Competition | ||
| Innocents Abroad | Les Blank, Miel Van Hoogenbemt | Documentary Competition | |||
| Intimate Stranger | Alan Berliner | Documentary Competition | |||
| Into Your Guts | Chaim Bianco | Animated short | |||
| Island Memory | Byron Spicer | Documentary Shorts | |||
| It’s Like Lies . . . | Greg Cummins, Shawn McConneloug | Short | |||
| Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions | Britta Sjogren | Britta Sjogren | |||
| Johnny Suede | Tom DiCillo | Tom DiCillo | |||
| Ju Dou | Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang | Liu Heng | |||
| Jumpin' at the Boneyard | Jeff Stanzler | Jeff Stanzler | |||
| Kafka | Steven Soderbergh | Lem Dobbs | Premieres | ||
| The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | Retrospective | |||
| The Kiss | Pascale Ferran | Shorts | |||
| The Last Harvest | La Ultima Siembra | Miguel Pereira | |||
| Last Images of War | Stephen Olsson, Scott Andrews | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Last Roundup | Paul Fox | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Latino Bar | Paul Leduc | ||||
| The Letters from Moab | Mark Krenzien | ||||
| Light Sleeper | Paul Schrader | Paul Schrader | Premieres | ||
| Listen Carefully | Robert Manganelli | ||||
| The Living End | Gregg Araki | Gregg Araki | |||
| Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | Retrospective | |||
| London Kills Me | Hanif Kureishi | Premieres | |||
| Low | James Herbert | Short | |||
| Media Darling | Thad Povey | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Memory Circus | Mary Kuryla | Short | |||
| Mississippi Masala | Mira Nair | Sooni Taraporevala | Premieres | Opening Night | |
| Monster in a Box | Nick Broomfield | Spalding Grey | Premieres | ||
| The Most Beautiful Breasts in the World | Rainer Kaufmann | Short | |||
| My Crasy Life | Jean-Pierre Gorin | Documentary | |||
| Night on Earth | Jim Jarmusch | Jim Jarmusch | Premieres | ||
| Old Well | Wu Tianming | ||||
| One & Eight | Zhang Junzhao | ||||
| Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | Retrospective | |||
| Play Is the Work of Children | John Axelrad, Stephen B. Lewis | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Poison Ivy | Katt Shea | Katt Shea, Andy Ruben | |||
| The Potato Hunter | Timothy Lee Little | Short | |||
| Proof | Jocelyn Moorhouse | ||||
| Raise the Red Lantern | Xhang Yimou | Premieres | |||
| Recovering Silver | Karen Kennedy | Short | |||
| Red Sorghum | Xhang Yimou | ||||
| Relax | Christopher Newby | Short | |||
| Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | Quentin Tarantino | |||
| Resonance | Stephen Cummins | Short | |||
| Revenge of the Occupant | Howard March | Short | |||
| Revestriction | Barthelemy Bompard | Midnight | |||
| Rock Soup | Lech Kowalski | Documentary Competition | |||
| Rodney & Juliet | Fane Flaws | Short | |||
| The Room | Jeff Balsmeyer | Short | |||
| R.S.V.P. | Laurie Lynd | Short | |||
| Salvation Guaranteed | Karen Ingham | Short | |||
| Session Man | Seth Winston | Short | |||
| Shoot for the Contents | Trinh T. Minh-ha | Documentary Competition | |||
| Six Point Nine | Dan Bootzin | Short | |||
| Some Divine Wind | Roddy Bogawa | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Star Time | Alexander Cassini | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Stealing Altitude | Roger Teich, John Starr | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Storyville | Mark Frost | Mark Frost | Premieres | ||
| Surfacing | Eric Martin | Documentary Shorts | |||
| Swoon | Tom Kalin | Tom Kalin | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One | William Greaves | Special Screenings | |||
| Tater Tomater | Phil Morrison | Short | |||
| Techqua Ikachi: Land—My Life | James Danaqyumtewa, Agnes Barmettler, Anka Schmid | Documentary Competition | |||
| Thanksgiving Prayer | Gus Van Sant | Short | |||
| That Sinking Feeling | Cindy Canejo | Short | |||
| There’s No Place Like Homegirl | Mike Costanza | Short | |||
| This Is My Life | Nora Ephron | Premieres | Opening Night | ||
| Through an Open Window | Eric Mendelsohn | Short | |||
| The Tune | Bill Plympton | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Two Lies | Pamela Tom | Short | |||
| Vegas in Space | Phillip R. Ford | Phillip R. Ford | Midnight | ||
| Venus Peter | Ian Seller | Country Focus | |||
| Washing Machine Guy | Dean Pitchford | Short | |||
| The Waterdance | Neal Jimenez | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Where Are We?: Our Trip Through America | Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein | Documentary Competition | |||
| Without a Pass | Marco Williams | Short | |||
| The Wounding | Susan Emerling | Short | |||
| Yellow Earth | Chen Kaige/Xhang Yimou | Retrospective | |||
| Young Soul Rebels | Isaac Julien | Country Focus | |||
| Zebrahead | Anthony Drazan | Dramatic Competition |
Dates: January 21 – January 31
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer | Nick Broomfield | Documentary Competition | |||
| Aisle Six | David Wain | Short | |||
| Amongst Friends | Rob Weiss | Dramatic Competition | |||
| An Ambush of Ghosts | Everett Lewis, Judy Irola | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Aswang | Wrye Martin, Barry Poltermann | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Bodies, Rest and Motion | Michael Steinberg | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | ||||
| Boxing Helena | Jennifer Chambers Lynch | Jennifer Chambers Lynch | |||
| Children of Fate | Andrew Young, Susan Todd (1991); Robert M. Young, Michael Roemer (1961) | Documentary Competition | |||
| Combination Platter | Tony Chan | ||||
| Crush | Alison Maclean | ||||
| The Dark Side of the Heart | Eliseo Subiela | ||||
| Days of Being Wild | Wong Kar-wai | ||||
| Dead/Alive | Peter Jackson | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Delivered Vacant | Nora Jacobson | Documentary Competition | |||
| Earth and the American Dream | Bill Couturie | Documentary Competition | |||
| El Mariachi | Robert Rodriguez | Robert Rodriguez | Audience Award | ||
| Fear of a Black Hat | Rusty Cundieff | ||||
| From Hollywood to Hanoi | Tiana Thi Thanh Nga | Documentary Competition | |||
| Hard Boiled | John Woo | ||||
| Inside Monkey Zetterland | Jefery Levy | ||||
| Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. | Leslie Harris | Dramatic Competition | |||
| The Last Days of Chez Nous | Gillian Armstrong | ||||
| The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg | Jerry Aronson | Documentary | |||
| Like Water for Chocolate | Alfonso Arau | ||||
| Mi Vida Loca | Allison Anders | Premieres | |||
| Naked in New York | Daniel Algrant | ||||
| Nitrate Kisses | Barbara Hammer | ||||
| Oedipus Rex | Julie Taymor | ||||
| Orlando | Sally Potter | Sally Potter | |||
| Public Access | Bryan Singer | Grand Jury Prize (ex-aequo) | |||
| Reality Bites | Ben Stiller | Premieres | |||
| Ruby in Paradise | Victor Nuñez | Victor Nuñez | Grand Jury Prize (ex-aequo) | ||
| Silverlake Life: The View from Here | Tom Joslin, Peter Friedman | Documentary | |||
| Twenty Bucks | Keva Rosenfeld | Leslie Bohem, Endre Bohem |
Dates: January 20 – January 30
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alice's Restaurant | Arthur Penn | Arthur Penn | |||
| Anchoress | Chris Newby | Chris Newby | |||
| Angela | Rebecca Miller | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Avenue X | Leslie McCleave | Shorts | |||
| Backbeat | Iain Softley | Iain Softley | |||
| The Bed You Sleep In | Jon Jost | ||||
| The Blue Kite | Lan Fengzheng | Tian Zhuangzhuang | Premieres | ||
| Boatman | Gianfranco Rosi | Documentary Competition | |||
| Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | Arthur Penn | |||
| Child Murders | Ildiko Szabo | ||||
| Clean, Shaven | Lodge Kerrigan | Lodge Kerrigan | |||
| Clerks | Kevin Smith | Kevin Smith | |||
| Fast Trip, Long Drop | Gregg Bordowitz | Documentary Competition | |||
| Floundering | Peter McCarthy | Peter McCarthy | |||
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | Mike Newell | Richard Curtis | |||
| Freedom on My Mind | Connie Field | Documentary Competition | |||
| Fresh | Boaz Yakin | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Fun | Rafal Zielinski | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Go Fish | Rose Troche | Rose Troche, Guinevere Turner | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Grief | Richard Glatzer | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Hoop Dreams | Steve James | Documentary Competition | Audience Award | ||
| I Love a Man in Uniform | David Wellington | Special Screenings | |||
| Ivan and Abraham | Yolande Zauberman | Country Focus | |||
| Johnny 100 Pesos | Gustavo Graef Marino | ||||
| Killing Zoe | Roger Avary | ||||
| Lady | Ira Sachs | Short | |||
| Makin' Up | Katja von Garnier | Country Focus | |||
| Our Gay Brothers | Greta Snider | Short | |||
| The Perfect Woman | Illeana Douglas | Short | |||
| Pleasant Hill, USA | Joshua Wintringham | ||||
| Reality Bites | Ben Stiller | Helen Childress | |||
| Risk | Deirdre Fishel | ||||
| River of Grass | Kelly Reichardt | ||||
| The Secret Life of Houses | Adrian Velicescu | ||||
| Sirens | John Duigan | John Duigan | |||
| Some Folks Call It a Slingblade | George Hickenlooper | Billy Bob Thornton | |||
| Spanking the Monkey | David O. Russell | David O. Russell | |||
| Suture | David Siegel, Scott McGehee | ||||
| Temptation of a Monk | Clara Law | ||||
| Totally F***ed Up | Gregg Araki | Gregg Araki | |||
| What Happened Was... | Tom Noonan | Tom Noonan | Grand Jury Prize | ||
| You Only Live Once | La Vida Una Sola | Marianne Eyde |
Dates: January 19 – January 29
Dates: January 18 – January 28
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 301 302 | Chul-Soo Park | World Cinema | |||
| A Leap of Faith | Jenifer McShane and Tricia Regan | Documentary Competition | |||
| American Job | Doug Ruschaupt | Doug Ruschaupt | American Spectrum | ||
| A Midwinter's Tale | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh | Premieres | Opening Night | |
| Angel Baby | World Cinema | ||||
| Angels and Insects | Philip Haas | Belinda Haas and Philip Haas | Premieres | ||
| Arresting Gena | Hannah Weyer | ||||
| A Star Is Born | William A. Wellman | William Wellman: American Storyteller | |||
| Bandwagon | John Schultz | Dramatic Competition | |||
| The Battle Over Citizen Kane | Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon | Richard Ben Kramer and Thomas Lennon | Documentary Competition | ||
| Believe Me | Angela Pope | World Cinema | |||
| Belly Talkers | Sandra Luckow | Documentary Competition | |||
| Big Night | Stanley Tucci, Campbell Scott | Stanley Tucci, Joseph Trocciano | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Shoes | Leslie MacCleave | Shorts | |||
| The Bloody Child | Nina Menkes | Frontier | |||
| Bound | The Wachowskis | The Wachowskis | Premieres | ||
| Breathing Lessons | Shorts | ||||
| Brooms | Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas | Shorts | |||
| Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud | Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon | Documentary Competition | |||
| Carried Away | Bruno Barreto | Premieres | |||
| Caught | Robert M. Young | Edward Pomerantz | Premieres | ||
| Celestial Clockwork | Mecaniques Celestes | Fina Torres | World Cinema | ||
| The Celluloid Closet | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | Sharon Woo, Armistad Maupin, Rob Epstein, and Jeffrey Friedman | Documentary Competition | Freedom of Expression Award | |
| Cold Fever | Premieres | ||||
| Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day | Christopher Münch | Christopher Münch | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Cutting Loose | Susan Todd and Andrew Young | Documentary Competition | |||
| Dadetown | American Spectrum | ||||
| The Darien Gap | Brad Anderson | Brad Anderson | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Depth Solitude | Shorts | ||||
| Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going | No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas | Eliseo Subiela | Eliseo Subiela | ||
| The Dresden | Sherri Breyer | Shorts | |||
| Drunks | American Spectrum | ||||
| Eden | Howard Goldberg | Howard Goldberg | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Ed's Next Move | John C. Walsh | John C. Walsh | American Spectrum | ||
| Egg Salad | Billy Kent | Shorts | |||
| Everything Relative | Sharon Pollock | Sharon Pollock | American Spectrum | ||
| Female Perversions | Susan Streitfeld | Susan Streitfeld, Julie Hebert | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Fire on the Mountain | Beth Gage and George Gage | Beth Gage | Documentary Competition | ||
| Flirt | Hal Hartley | Hal Hartley | Opening Night | ||
| Follow Me Home | Peter Bratt | Peter Bratt | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Foreign Land | Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas | World Cinema | |||
| Franchesca Page | Kelley Sane | ||||
| Freeway | Matthew Bright | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Frisk | American Spectrum | ||||
| Girls Town | Jim McKay | Dramatic Competition | |||
| God's Lonely Man | Dramatic Competition | ||||
| Grandfather and Other Stories | Juan Carlos Rulfo | Shorts | |||
| The Grave | Jonas Pate | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Guantanamera | Premieres | ||||
| Halving the Bones | Ruth Ozeki | Documentary Competition | |||
| Hard Eight (aka Sydney) | Paul Thomas Anderson | Paul Thomas Anderson | |||
| The High and the Mighty | William Wellman: American Storyteller | ||||
| House | Laurie Lynd | World Cinema | |||
| Hustler White | Bruce LaBruce | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Hype! | Doug | Documentary Competition | |||
| If Lucy Fell | Eric Schaeffer | Eric Schaeffer | Premieres | ||
| I Shot Andy Warhol | Mary Harron | Dramatic Competition | |||
| It's My Party | Randal Kleiser | Randal Kleiser | Premieres | ||
| Jane: An Abortion Service | Kate Kirtz and Nell Lundy | Documentary Competition | |||
| Jenipapo | Monique Gardenberg | ||||
| Joe & Joe | David Wall | David Wall | American Spectrum | ||
| Johns | Scott Silver | American Spectrum | |||
| The Keeper | Joe Brewster | Joe Brewster | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Last Supper | Stacy Title | Dan Rosen | American Spectrum | Grand Jury Prize | |
| Late Bloomers | Julia Dyer and Gretchen Dyer | Gretchen Dyer | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Loaded | Anna Campion | World Cinema | |||
| Looking for Richard | Al Pacino | Premieres | |||
| Losing Chase | Kevin Bacon | Anne Meredith | Premieres | ||
| Love Serenade | Shirley Barrett | Premieres | |||
| Madagascar | |||||
| Manny & Lo | Lisa Krueger | American Spectrum | |||
| Meet Ruth Stoops | Alexander Payne | Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Miguel | Walter Kehr | Shorts | |||
| My Father's Garden | Miranda Smith | American Spectrum | |||
| My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports | Melissa Hacker | Documentary Competition | |||
| Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead | Agustín Díaz Yanes | ||||
| Normal Life | John McNaughton | Bob Schneider, Peg Haller | Premieres | ||
| Notes from the Underground | Gary Walkow | Gary Walkow | Premieres | ||
| Nothing Sacred | William Wellman: American Storyteller | ||||
| Nothing to Lose | Eric Bross | American Spectrum | |||
| One of Those Days | Mark Decena | Shorts | |||
| The Ox-Bow Incident | William Wellman: American Storyteller | ||||
| Palookaville | Alan Taylor | David Epstein | Premieres | ||
| Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Documentary | |||
| Personal Belongings | Steven Bognar | American Spectrum | |||
| Pie in the Sky | Bryan Gordon | American Spectrum | |||
| Pig! | Shorts | ||||
| Rave On | Steven Dupler | Shorts | |||
| Rumble in the Bronx | Stanley Tong | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life | Mary Engel | Shorts | |||
| Scorpion Spring | Brian Cox | American Spectrum | |||
| Shine | Scott Hicks | Jan Sardi | Premieres | ||
| The Slap | Tamara Hernandez | Shorts | |||
| The Spartans | David Portlock | Shorts | |||
| The Spitfire Grill | Lee David Zlotoff | Lee David Zlotoff | Dramatic Competition | Opening Night | |
| Staccato Purr of the Exhaust | L.M. Meza | L.M. Meza | American Spectrum | ||
| Strays | Vin Diesel | ||||
| Struggles in Steel | American Spectrum | ||||
| SubUrbia | Richard Linklater | ||||
| Surprise! | Viet Helmer | Shorts | |||
| Swinger | Gregor Jordan | Shorts | |||
| Synthetic Pleasures | Iara Lee | Documentary Competition | |||
| Ten Benny | Eric Bross | ||||
| Tender Fictions | Barbara | Documentary Competition | |||
| Their Own Vietnam | Nancy D. Kates | Shorts | |||
| Timeless | Chris Hart | Chris Hart | American Spectrum | ||
| Tokyo Fist | Shinya Tsukamoto | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Trailer Camp | Jenni Olson | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern | Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher | Documentary Competition | |||
| Undertaker | Rachel Libert and Barbara Parker | Shorts | |||
| Walking and Talking | Nicole Holofcener | Nicole Holofcener | Dramatic Competition | ||
| War Stories | Gaylene Preston | ||||
| Watching Her Sleep | Barbara Rose Michaels | Shorts | |||
| Welcome to the Dollhouse | Todd Solondz | Todd Solondz | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize | |
| Westward the Women | William Wellman: American Storyteller | ||||
| When We Were Kings | Leon Gast | Documentary Competition | |||
| White Autumn Crysanthemum | Patrick Ruane | Shorts | |||
| The Whole Wide World | Dan Ireland | Michael Scott Myers | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick | Todd Robinson | Todd Robinson | William Wellman: American Storyteller | ||
| Wild Boys of the Road | William A. Wellman | William Wellman: American Storyteller | |||
| Wild Horses | |||||
| Wings | William A. Wellman | William Wellman: American Storyteller | |||
| Without Air | Neil Abramson | American Spectrum | |||
| The Word | Mark Pellington | Shorts | |||
| Yellow Sky | William A. Wellman | William Wellman: American Storyteller | |||
| Your Name in Cellulite | Gail Noonan | Shorts | |||
| Zimbabwe Wheel | Samuel Ball | Shorts |
Dates: January 16 – January 26
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards and Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 Miles from Normal | Mark Schwahn | Mark Schwahn | American Spectrum | ||
| 100 Proof | Jeremy Horton | Jeremy Horton | American Spectrum | ||
| A Healthy Baby Girl | Judith Helfand | Documentary Competition | |||
| All of Them Witches | Sobrenatural | Daniel Gruener | World Cinema | ||
| All Over Me | Alex Sichel | Dramatic Competition | |||
| An Act of Conscience | Robbie Leppzer | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Apartment | L'Appartement | Gilles Mimouni | Gilles Mimouni | Premieres | |
| Aristotle's Plot | World Cinema | ||||
| Arresting Gena | Hannah Weyer | Dramatic Competition | |||
| A True Story | Abolfazl Jalili | World Cinema | |||
| Black & White & Red All Over | DeMane Davis, Harry McCoy, Khari Streeter | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Black Circle Boys | Matthew Carnahan | Matthew Carnahan | American Spectrum | ||
| Blackrock | Steven Vidler | Premieres | |||
| Blacks and Jews | Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman | American Spectrum | |||
| Box of Moonlight | Tom DiCillo | Tom DiCillo | Premieres | ||
| Brassed Off | Mark Herman | Mark Herman | |||
| Bremen Freedom | Bremen Freiheit | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Retrospective | ||
| Buddha Bless America | World Cinema | ||||
| Chasing Amy | Kevin Smith | Kevin Smith | Premieres | ||
| Children of the Revolution | Peter Duncan | World Cinema | |||
| Chronicle of a Disappearance | Elia Suleiman | Frontier | |||
| Clockwatchers | Jill Sprecher | Jill Sprecher, Karen Sprecher | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Colin Fitz | Robert Bella | Tom Morrissey | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Deep Crimson | Arturo Ripstein | Premieres | |||
| The Delta | Ira Sachs | Ira Sachs | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Divinity Gratis | Frontier | ||||
| Dream with the Fishes | Finn Taylor | American Spectrum | |||
| East Side Story | Dana Ranga | World Cinema | |||
| Eye of God | Tim Blake Nelson | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Family Name | Macky Alston | Documentary Competition | |||
| Farewell My Darling | Park Chul-soo | World Cinema | |||
| Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control | Erroll Morris | Premieres | |||
| Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary | Laura Angelica Simon | Documentary Competition | |||
| Finished | Frontier | ||||
| Fistful of Flies | Monica Pellizzari | World Cinema | |||
| Focus | Isaka Satoshi | World Cinema | |||
| Franchesca Page | Kelley Sane | Park City @ Midnight | |||
| The Full Monty | World Cinema | ||||
| Gallivant | Frontier | ||||
| George B. | Eric Lea | Eric Lea | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Girls Like Us | Jane Wagner, Tina DiFeliciantonio | Documentary Competition | |||
| Going All the Way | Mark Pellington | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Green Chimneys | Constance Marks | American Spectrum | |||
| Gridlock'd | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Vondie Curtis-Hall | Premieres | ||
| Hide and Seek | Su Friedrich | Documentary Competition | |||
| His & Hers | Hal Salwen | Hal Salwen | American Spectrum | ||
| House of America | Mark Evans | World Cinema | |||
| The House of Yes | Mark Waters | Mark Waters | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Hugo Pool | Robert Downey Sr. | Premieres | |||
| Hurricane Streets | Morgan J. Freeman | Dramatic Competition | Audience Award, Best Cinematography, Best Director | ||
| Ilona Arrives in the Rain | Sergio Cabrera | Sergio Cabrera | World Cinema | ||
| I Love You, Don't Touch Me! | Julie Davis | American Spectrum | |||
| In the Company of Men | Neil LaBute | Neil LaBute | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Joe's So Mean to Josephine | Peter Wellington | ||||
| Killers | Mike Mendez | Mike Mendez, Dave Larsen | Park City @ Midnight | ||
| Kissed | Lynne Stopkewich | World Cinema | |||
| Kiss Me Guido | Tony Vitale | American Spectrum | |||
| Kolya | World Cinema | ||||
| Landscapes of Memory | World Cinema | ||||
| The Last Time I Committed Suicide | Stephen Kay | American Spectrum | |||
| Licensed to Kill | Arthur Dong | Documentary Competition | |||
| Lilies | John Greyson | World Cinema | |||
| Little Angel | Helke Misselwitz | World Cinema | |||
| The Long Way Home | Mark Jonathan Harris | Documentary Competition | |||
| Lost Highway | David Lynch | David Lynch, Barry Gifford | Premieres | ||
| Love and Other Catastrophes | Emma-Kate Croghan | World Cinema | |||
| Love God | Frank Grow | Frank Grow | Park City @ Midnight | ||
| Love Jones | Theodore Witcher | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Love Serenade | Shirley Barrett | Premieres | |||
| Love! Valour! Compassion! | Joe Mantello | Premieres | |||
| Love Walked In | Juan José Campanella | Premieres | |||
| Making Sandwiches | Sandra Bullock | Shorts | |||
| Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore | Sarah Jacobson | Sarah Jacobson | American Spectrum | ||
| Mimi | Lucile Hadzihalilovic | World Cinema | |||
| Moebius | Frontier | ||||
| Mr. Vincent | Robert Celestino | American Spectrum | |||
| My America, or Honk If You Love Jesus | Renee Tajima-Pena | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Myth of Fingerprints | Bart Freundlich | Bart Freundlich | Dramatic Competition | ||
| New School Order | Geni Reticker | Documentary Competition | |||
| Norma's Lament | Christina Booth | Shorts | |||
| Not Love, Just Frenzy | Park City @ Midnight | ||||
| Nowhere | Gregg Araki | Gregg Araki | Premieres | ||
| Oedipus Mayor | Jorge Ali Traina | World Cinema | |||
| Out at Work | Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson | American Spectrum | |||
| Pink Flamingos | John Waters | John Waters | Retrospective/Park City @ Midnight | ||
| Portland | Greta Snider | Short | |||
| Power | Magnus Isacsson | World Cinema | |||
| Poverty Outlaw | Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy | Documentary Competition | |||
| Prefontaine | Steve James | Premieres (opening night selection) | |||
| Prisoner of the Mountains | Sergei Bodrov | World Cinema | |||
| Puddle Cruiser | Jay Chandrasekhar | Broken Lizard | American Spectrum | ||
| The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 | Sam Green | American Spectrum | |||
| Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest | World Cinema | ||||
| Riding the Rails | Michael Uys, Lexy Lovell | Documentary Competition | |||
| Running Against | Antonio Tibaldi | World Cinema | |||
| Santa Fe | Andrew Shea | Mark Medoff, Andrew Shea | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Seed | Karin Thayer | Short | |||
| Shall We Dance? | Masayuki Suo | Masayuki Suo | World Cinema | ||
| Shooting the Breeze | Christina Andreef | Short | |||
| Six O'Clock News | Ross McElwee | American Spectrum | |||
| Slaves to the Underground | Kristine Peterson | Bill Cody | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Snakes and Ladders | Trish McAdam | Trish McAdam | World Cinema | ||
| Space Truckers | Stuart Gordon | Ted Mann | Park City @ Midnight | ||
| Star Maps | Miguel Arteta | Miguel Arteta | American Spectrum | ||
| Stella Does Tricks | Coky Giedroyc | World Cinema | |||
| Strays | Vin Diesel | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Suburbia | Richard Linklater | Eric Bogosian | Premieres (opening night selection) | ||
| Sunday | Jonathan Nossiter | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize | ||
| Sweet Power | Lúcia Murat | World Cinema | |||
| Temptress Moon | Chen Kaige | World Cinema | |||
| This World, Then the Fireworks | Michael Oblowitz | Larry Gross | American Spectrum | ||
| The Twilight of the Golds | American Spectrum | ||||
| Twin Town | Kevin Allen | Paul Durden, Kevin Allen | World Cinema | ||
| Two People Talking | Isshin Inudo | World Cinema | |||
| Ulee's Gold | Victor Nuñez | Premieres | |||
| Waco: The Rules of Engagement | William Gazecki | American Spectrum | |||
| When the Cat's Away | Cedric Klapisch | World Cinema | |||
| Wonderland | John O'Hagan | American Spectrum |
Dates: January 15 – January 25
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Price Above Rubies | Boaz Yakin | Boaz Yakin | |||
| Beautopia | Katharina Otto-Bernstein | Katharina Otto-Bernstein | Documentary Competition | ||
| Buffalo '66 | Vincent Gallo | Vincent Gallo | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Conceiving Ada | Lynn Hershman Leeson | ||||
| Cube | Vincenzo Natali | ||||
| Dead Man's Curve | The Curve | Dan Rosen | Dan Rosen | American Spectrum | |
| Divine Trash | Steve Yeager | Documentary Competition | |||
| Frat House | Todd Phillips, Andrew Gurland | Documentary Competition | |||
| Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | Bill Condon | American Spectrum | ||
| The Hanging Garden | Thom Fitzgerald | World Cinema | |||
| High Art | Lisa Cholodenko | Lisa Cholodenko | Dramatic Competition | ||
| How to Make the Cruelest Month | Kip Koenig | Kip Koenig | Dramatic Competition | ||
| I Married a Strange Person! | Bill Plympton | Bill Plympton, P. C. Vey | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Lawn Dogs | John Duigan | ||||
| The Misadventures of Margaret | Brian Skeet | ||||
| Montana | Jennifer Leitzes | ||||
| Next Stop Wonderland | Brad Anderson | Brad Anderson | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Once We Were Strangers | Emanuele Crialese | ||||
| Open Your Eyes | Abre los Ojos | Alejandro Amenábar | Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil | ||
| The Opposite of Sex | Don Roos | Don Roos | Premieres | ||
| Pi | Darren Aronofsky | Darren Aronofsky | Dramatic Competition | Directing Award: Dramatic | |
| The Polish Wedding | Theresa Connelly | ||||
| The Real Blonde | Tom DiCillo | Tom DiCillo | |||
| Safe Men | John Hamburg | John Hamburg | |||
| Slam | Marc Levin | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize | ||
| Sliding Doors | Peter Howitt | Peter Howitt | Premieres | ||
| Smoke Signals | Chris Eyre | Sherman Alexie | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Spanish Prisoner | David Mamet | David Mamet | |||
| Spark | Garret Williams | ||||
| Spudwrench | Alanis Obomsawin | ||||
| Tomorrow Night | Louis C.K. | Midnight | |||
| Under Heaven | Meg Richman | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Under the Skin | Carine Adler | ||||
| The Well | Samantha Lang | ||||
| Whatever | Susan Skoog | ||||
| Who the Hell Is Juliette? | Carlos Markevich | ||||
| Wicked | Michael Steinberg | Eric Weiss | |||
| Wild Man Blues | Barbara Kopple | Documentary Competition | |||
| Wrestling With Alligators | Laurie Weltz | Dramatic Competition |
Dates: January 21 – January 31
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Seconds | Manon Briand | Manon Briand | World Cinema | |||
| The 24 Hour Woman | Nancy Savoca | Nancy Savoca, Richard Guay | Premieres (opening night) | |||
| The Adopted Son | Beshkempir | Aktan Abdykalykov | Aktan Abdykalykov | World Cinema | ||
| The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | Tod Williams | Tod Williams | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Afraid of Everything | David Barker | David Barker | American Spectrum | |||
| After Life | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Hirokazu Kore-eda | World Cinema | |||
| American Movie | Chris Smith | Documentary Competition | ||||
| American Hollow | Rory Kennedy | Mark Bailey | Documentary Competition | |||
| American Pimp | The Hughes Brothers | Documentary Competition | ||||
| An American Love Story | Jennifer Fox | Special Screenings | ||||
| The Autumn Heart | Steven Maler | Davidlee Wilson | Dramatic Competition | |||
| A Walk on the Moon | Tony Goldwyn | Pamela Gray | Premieres | |||
| Barrio | World Cinema | |||||
| Beefcake | Thom Fitzgerald | Thom Fitzgerald | World Cinema | |||
| Big Bear | Gil Cardinal | Native Forum | ||||
| Black Cat, White Cat | Emir Kusturica | Gordan Mihić | World Cinema | |||
| The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords | Stanley Nelson | Documentary Competition | ||||
| The Blair Witch Project | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Midnight | |||
| Brakhage | Jim Shedden | Frontier | ||||
| Cache | Carolyn Coal | Carolyn Coal | Shorts | |||
| Chillecothe | Todd Edwards | Todd Edwards | American Spectrum | |||
| The City | La Ciudad | David Riker | American Spectrum | |||
| Cookie's Fortune | Robert Altman | Anne Rapp | Premieres (opening night) | |||
| The Corndog Man | Andrew Shea | Andrew Shea | American Spectrum | |||
| Dance of the Dust | World Cinema | |||||
| Death: A Love Story | Michelle LeBrun | Documentary Competition | ||||
| Dirt | Chel White | Shorts | ||||
| Dresden | Ben Speth | Frontier | ||||
| Drylongso | Cauleen Smith | Cauleen Smith, Salim Akil | American Spectrum | |||
| Edge of Seventeen | David Moreton | American Spectrum | ||||
| Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll | Shorts | |||||
| Fools Gold | Jeffrey Janger | American Spectrum | ||||
| Forever Fever | Glen Goei | World Cinema | ||||
| Friendly Fire | World Cinema | |||||
| Genghis Blues | Roko Belic | American Spectrum | ||||
| Get Bruce | Andrew J. Kuehn | Midnight | ||||
| Get Real | Simon Shore | World Cinema | ||||
| Getting to Know You | Lisanne Skyler | Lisanne Skyler, Tristine Skyler | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Go | Doug Liman | John August | Premieres | |||
| Guinivere | Audrey Wells | Audrey Wells | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Happy, Texas | Mark Illsley | Mark Illsley | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Heart of Light | Jacob Grønlykke | World Cinema | ||||
| Hideous Kinky | Gillies MacKinnon | Premieres | ||||
| The Hi-Line | Ron Judkins | Ron Judkins | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Hitchcock, Selznick, and the End of Hollywood | Documentary Competition | |||||
| Home Page | Doug Block | Documentary Competition | ||||
| The Honour of All | Phil Lucas | Native Forum | ||||
| I Stand Alone | Gaspar Noé | Gaspar Noé | World Cinema | |||
| The Item | Dan Clark | Dramatic Competition | ||||
| Jawbreaker | Darren Stein | Darren Stein | Premieres | |||
| Joe the King | Frank Whaley | Dramatic Competition | ||||
| Judy Berlin | Dramatic Competition | |||||
| Kill the Man | Tom Booker | Midnight | ||||
| The Kindness of Strangers | Mano Chermayeff | Special Screenings | ||||
| Langmuir's World | American Spectrum | |||||
| The Last Guy to Let You Down | Shorts | |||||
| The Legacy: Murder & Media, Prisons & Politicians | Documentary Competition | |||||
| Life History of a Star | Jennifer M. Gentile | Shorts | ||||
| Life Is to Whistle | World Cinema | |||||
| Life on Earth | Abderrahmane Sissako | World Cinema | ||||
| Life Tastes Good | Philip Kan Gotanda | American Spectrum | ||||
| Little Thieves, Big Thieves | World Cinema | |||||
| The Living Museum | Documentary Competition | |||||
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | Guy Ritchie | Premieres | |||
| Los Enchiladas! | Mitch Hedberg | Midnight | ||||
| The Loss of Sexual Innocence | Mike Figgis | Mike Figgis | Premieres | |||
| Louise (Take 2) | Sigfried | World Cinema | ||||
| The Lovers of the Arctic Circle | Julio Médem | Julio Médem | World Cinema | |||
| Megacities | Michael Glawogger | World Cinema | ||||
| Mighty Peking Man | Ho Meng Hua | Midnight/Retrospective | ||||
| The Minus Man | Hampton Fancher | |||||
| Mr. Death | Errol Morris | Premieres | ||||
| On the Ropes | Nanette Burstein | Documentary Competition | ||||
| The Outfitters | Reverge Anselmo | American Spectrum | ||||
| The Passion of Ayn Rand | Christopher Menual | Premieres | ||||
| Possums | Max Burnett | American Spectrum | ||||
| Praise | John Curran | World Cinema | ||||
| P. Tinto's Miracle | Javier Fesser | World Cinema | ||||
| Rabbit in the Moon | Emiko Omori | Documentary Competition | ||||
| Radiation | Suki Stetson Hawley, Michael Galinsky | American Spectrum | ||||
| Ravenous | Antonia Bird | Ted Griffin | Special Screenings | |||
| Regret to Inform | Barbara Sonneborn | Documentary Competition | ||||
| Return with Honor | Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders | American Spectrum | ||||
| Roberta | Eric Mandelbaum | Dramatic Competition | ||||
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | Tom Tykwer | World Cinema | |||
| Samurai Fiction | Hiroyuki Nakano | Midnight | ||||
| Santitos | Premieres | |||||
| Savor Me | Sabor a mi | Claudia Morgado Escanilla | Shorts | |||
| Second Skin | Amy Talkington | Shorts | ||||
| Sex: The Annabel Chong Story | Gough Lewis | Documentary Competition | ||||
| She Smokes | Christa Collins | Shorts | ||||
| Side Streets | Tony Gerber | American Spectrum | ||||
| Silence | Jack Darcus | Native Forum | ||||
| Silvia Prieto | Martín Rejtman | World Cinema | ||||
| Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle | Documentary Competition | |||||
| SLC Punk! | James Merendino | James Merendino | Premieres (opening night) | |||
| A Slipping-Down Life | Toni Kalem | Toni Kalem | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Southpaw | World Cinema | |||||
| Speaking in Strings | Documentary Competition | |||||
| Speedy Boys | Frontier | |||||
| Splendor | Gregg Araki | Gregg Araki | Premieres | |||
| Sugar Town | Kurt Voss, Allison Anders | Kurt Voss, Allison Anders | Premieres | |||
| The Terrorist | Santosh Sivan | World Cinema | ||||
| Thick as Thieves | Scott | Premieres | ||||
| Three Seasons | Tony Bui | Dramatic Competition | ||||
| Train of Life | Radu Mihăileanu | World Cinema | ||||
| Trans | Frontier | |||||
| Treasure Island | Scott King | Scott King | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Tree Shade | Lisa Collins | Shorts | ||||
| Trick | Jim Fall | Dramatic Competition | ||||
| Tumbleweeds | Gavin O'Connor | Gavin O'Connor, Angela Shelton | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Twin Falls Idaho | Michael Polish | American Spectrum | ||||
| Two Girls and a Baby | Kelli Simpson | Shorts | ||||
| Two Hands | Gregor Jordan | Premieres | ||||
| Two Seasons | Christine Swanson | Shorts | ||||
| Under a Spell | World Cinema | |||||
| Under California: The Limits of Time | World Cinema | |||||
| Valerie Flake | John Putch | American Spectrum | ||||
| Venus Blue | Shorts | |||||
| The War Zone | Tim Roth | Premieres | ||||
| When Love Comes | Garth Maxwell | World Cinema | ||||
| The Wounds | Srđan Dragojević | World Cinema | ||||
| Yusho-Renaissance | Frontier |
Dates: January 20 – January 30
Dates: January 18 – January 28
| Film Name - English | Film Name - Non-English | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Years to Life | Vanessa Middleton | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Acts of Worship | Rosemary Rodriguez | American Spectrum | |||
| At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul | José Mojica Marins | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Beautiful Creatures | Bill Eagles | Simon Donald | World Cinema | ||
| The Believer | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize | |||
| The Business of Strangers | Patrick Stettner | Patrick Stettner | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Caveman's Valentine | Kasi Lemmons | Premieres | |||
| Chopper | Andrew Dominik | Andrew Dominik | World Cinema | ||
| Choreography for Copy Machine (Photocopy Cha Cha) | Chel White | Shorts | |||
| Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins | Park City at Midnight | ||||
| Compassionate Sex | Laura Mañá | World Cinema | |||
| Dancing in September | Reggie Rock Bythewood | Reggie Rock Bythewood | American Spectrum | ||
| The Deep End | Dramatic Competition | ||||
| Dogtown and Z-Boys | Stacy Peralta | Documentary Competition | Audience Award: Documentary | ||
| Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | Richard Kelly | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Double Whammy | Tom DiCillo | Tom DiCillo | Premieres | ||
| Enigma | Michael Apted | Tom Stoppard | Premieres | ||
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell | John Cameron Mitchell | Dramatic Competition | Audience Award: Dramatic | |
| Hey, Happy! | Noam Gonick | Noam Gonick | Park City at Midnight | ||
| In the Bedroom | Todd Field | Todd Field, Robert Pestinger | Dramatic Competition | Special Jury Prize | |
| Intimacy | Patrice Chéreau | Patrice Chéreau, Anne-Louise Trividic | Premieres | ||
| The Invisible Circus | Adam Brooks | Adam Brooks | Premieres | ||
| Invisible Revolution | Beverly Peterson | American Spectrum | |||
| Lost and Delirious | Premieres | ||||
| Maelström | Denis Villeneuve | Denis Villeneuve | World Cinema | ||
| Margarita Happy Hour | Ilya Chaiken | American Spectrum | |||
| Memento | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Miss Wonton | Meng Ong | American Spectrum | |||
| Mutant Aliens | Bill Plympton | Bill Plympton | Paek City at Midnight | ||
| My First Mister | Christine Lahti | Premieres | |||
| Our Lady of the Assassins | La virgen de los sicarios | Barbet Schroeder | Fernando Vallejo | World Cinema | |
| Possible Loves | Sandra Werneck | World Cinema | |||
| Rejected | Shorts Competition | ||||
| Scout's Honor | Tom Shepard | Meg Moritz | Documentary Competition | Audience Award: Documentary | |
| Sexy Beast | Jonathan Glazer | Premieres | |||
| Stranger Inside | Cheryl Dunye | ||||
| Super Troopers | Jay Chandrasekhar | Broken Lizard | Park City at Midnight | ||
| Tape | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater | American Spectrum | ||
| Things Behind the Sun | Allison Anders | Allison Anders | Premieres | ||
| Waking Life | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater | Premieres | ||
| Wave Twisters | Park City at Midnight | ||||
| We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n Roll | Penelope Spheeris | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Wet Hot American Summer | David Wain | David Wain, Michael Showalter | American Spectrum | ||
| Without a Trace | Maria Novaro | World Cinema |
Dates: January 10 – January 20
| Film Name (English) | Film Name (Non-English) | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Conversations About One Thing | Jill Sprecher | Jill Sprecher, Karen Sprecher | American Showcase | ||
| Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Lee Hirsch | Documentary Competition | |||
| Alive | Vivante | Sandrine Ray | Sandrine Ray, Antoine Lecomblez | World Cinema Competition | |
| American Standoff | Kristi Jacobson | Documentary Competition | |||
| A Place on Earth | Artur Aristakisyan | Frontier | |||
| As a Man | L'Afrance | Alain Gomis | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Australian Rules | Paul Goldman | Paul Goldman, Phillip Gwynne | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Bark | Kasia Adamik | Heather Morgan | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Better Luck Tomorrow | Justin Lin | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Birthday Girl | Jez Butterworth | Tom Butterworth, Jez Butterworth | Premieres | ||
| Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | World Cinema Competition | |||
| Blue Car | Karen Moncrieff | American Spectrum | |||
| Blue Vinyl | Judith Helfand, Daniel B. Gold | Documentary Competition | |||
| Braingirl: Episode 4, Fishing | Marina Zurkow | Animated Shorts | |||
| Britney, Baby, One More Time | Ludi Boeken | Jonathan Bourne | Park City at Midnight | ||
| The Brother from Another Planet | John Sayles | Sundance Collection (Retrospective) | |||
| Burn | Frontier (Shorts) | ||||
| Bus 44 | Che Si Shi Si | Dayyan Eng | Shorts | Best Short: Honorable Mention | |
| The Business of Fancydancing | Sherman Alexie | American Spectrum | |||
| By Hook or by Crook | Harry Dodge, Silas Howard | American Spectrum | |||
| Caminantes | Fernando Leon de Aranoa | Native Forum | |||
| Cherish | Finn Taylor | Finn Taylor | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Christmas at Wapos Bay | Dennis Jackson | Native Forum | |||
| Close to Home | Vanessa Roth, Alexandra Dickson | Documentary Competition | |||
| Coastlines | Victor Nuñez | Premieres | |||
| The Cockettes | Bill Weber, David Weissman | Documentary Competition | |||
| Crush | John McKay | Premieres | |||
| Curve | Jacqueline Mikhail | Frontier (Shorts) | |||
| Daddy & Papa | Johnny Symons | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Dancer Upstairs | John Malkovich | Premieres | |||
| The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys | Peter Care | Jeff Stockwell | Premieres | ||
| Daughter from Danang | Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco | Documentary Competition | |||
| Decasia | Bill Morrison | Frontier | |||
| Derrida | Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering | Documentary Competition | |||
| Design | Davidson Cole | American Spectrum | |||
| Devil's Playground | Lucy Walker | American Spectrum | |||
| Dog Days | Ulrich Seidl | World Cinema Competition | |||
| Dream Work | Peter Tscherkassky | Frontier (Shorts) | |||
| Empire | Franc Reyes | American Showcase | |||
| The Execution of Wanda Jean | Liz Garbus | Documentary Competition | |||
| Face | Bertha Bay-Sa Pan | Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, Oren Moverman | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Family Fundamentals | Arthur Dong | Documentary Competition | |||
| The First 24 Hours | Etienne Sauret | Special Screenings: September 11 (Short) | |||
| From the Ashes—10 Artists | Deborah Shaffer | Special Screenings: September 11 | |||
| FUBAR | Michael Dowse | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Gerry | Gus Van Sant | Premieres | |||
| Go! Heat Man! | Mitsuhiko Yazaki | Special Screenings: NHK | |||
| Golden Gate (Palace II) | Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund | Shorts | |||
| The Good Girl | Miguel Arteta | Mike White | Premieres | ||
| HipHopBattle.com: Hip Hop 4 Life | David Velo Stewart | David Velo Stewart | Park City at Midnight | ||
| Hollywood Hong Kong | Fruit Chan | Park City at Midnight | |||
| Honey for Oshun | Humberto Solas | World Cinema Competition | |||
| Hotore | Merata Mita | Native Forum | |||
| How to Draw a Bunny | John Walter | Documentary Competition | |||
| Human Nature | Michel Gondry | Charlie Kaufman | Premieres | ||
| Hysterical Blindless | Mira Nair | Laura Cahill | Premieres | ||
| The Inner Tour | Ra'anan Alexandrowicz | World Cinema Competition | |||
| Intact | Intacto | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Andres Koppel | World Cinema Competition | |
| I Shout Love | Sarah Polley | Shorts | |||
| The Jimmy Show | Frank Whaley | American Spectrum | |||
| Karmen Geï | Joseph Gaï Ramaka | World Cinema Competition | |||
| The Kid Stays in the Picture | Nanette Burstein | Premieres | |||
| Killing Time | Anthony Jaswinski | Anthony Jaswinski | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Lan Yu | Stanley Kwan | Jimmy Ngai | World Cinema Competition | ||
| The Laramie Project | Moisés Kaufman | Moisés Kaufman | Premieres | ||
| The Last Kiss | L'Ultimo Bacio | Gabriele Muccino | Gabriele Muccino | World Cinema Competition | |
| LA Story | Nick Broomfield | Premieres | |||
| Laundry | Junichi Mori | Special Screenings: NHK | |||
| Loco Fever | Le Fiebre del Loco | Andrés Wood | Andrés Wood, Rene Arcos, Gilberto Villarroel | World Cinema Competition | |
| Lola | Carl Bessai | Carl Bessai | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Love in the Time of Money | Peter Mattei | Peter Mattei | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Love Liza | Todd Louiso | Gordy Hoffman | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Lubov and Other Nightmares | Lubor i Drugie Koshmari | Andrei Nekrasov | Andrei Nekrasov | World Cinema Competition | |
| Lucky Break | Peter Cattaneo | Premieres | |||
| The Man from Elysian Fields | George Hickenlooper | Premieres | |||
| Manito | Eric Eason | Eric Eason | Dramatic Competition | ||
| May | Lucky McKee | Lucky McKee | Park City at Midnight | ||
| Miranda | Marc Munden | Rob Young | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Miss America | Lisa Ades | Documentary Competition | |||
| Missing Young Woman | Senorita Extraviada | Lourdes Portillo | Documentary Competition | ||
| Miss 501: A Portrait of Luck | Jules Karatechamp | Native Forum | |||
| Narc | Joe Carnahan | Joe Carnahan | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Native American in Manhattan | Steve Bilich | Frontier (Shorts) | |||
| Noon Blue Apples | Jay Lee | American Spectrum | |||
| One Hour Photo | Mark Romanek | Mark Romanek | Premieres | ||
| One Night the Moon | Rachel Perkins | Rachel Perkins, John Romeril | Native Forum + Frontier | ||
| On_Line | Jed Weintrob | Andrew Osbourne, Jed Weintrob | American Spectrum | ||
| Our America | Ernest Dickerson | Premieres | |||
| Paradox Lake | Przemyslaw Shemie Reut | Przemyslaw Shemie Reut, Wieslaw Saniewski | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Passage | Chel White | Frontier (Shorts) | |||
| Personal Velocity: Three Portraits | Rebecca Miller | Rebecca Miller | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize | |
| Places | Kinya Hanada | Animated Shorts | |||
| Pumpkin | Adam Larson Broder, Tony R. Abrams | Adam Larson Broder | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Quitting | Zhang Yang | Zhang Yang, Huo Xin | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Rain | Christine Jeffs | Christine Jeffs | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Rain | Katherine Lindberg | Katherine Lindberg | American Spectrum | ||
| Ralph Ellison: An American Journey | Avon Kirkland | Documentary Competition | |||
| Rancho California (Por Favor) | John T. Caldwell | Frontier | |||
| Real Women Have Curves | Patricia Cardoso | Josefina López, George LaVoo | Dramatic Competition | Audience Award | |
| Run Ronnie Run! | Troy Miller | Premieres | |||
| Secretary | Steven Shainberg | Erin Cressida Wilson | Dramatic Competition | Special Jury Prize: Originality | |
| Sex and Lucia | Lucía y el sexo | Julio Medem | Julio Medem | World Cinema Competition | |
| Shadows | John Cassavetes | John Cassavetes | Sundance Collection (Retrospective) | ||
| Siren | Abigail Severance | Frontier (Shorts) | |||
| Sister Helen | Rob Fruchtman, Rebecca Cammisa | Documentary Competition | |||
| Site | Jason Kliot | Special Screenings: September 11 (Short) | |||
| Ski Bums | John Zaritsky | Special Screenings | |||
| Skins | Chris Eyre | Premieres | |||
| The Slaughter Rule | Alex Smith, Andrew Smith | Alex Smith, Andrew Smith | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Smokers Only | Verónica Chen | World Cinema Competition | |||
| Soft for Digging | JT Petty | Frontier | |||
| Soft Shell Man | André Turpin | André Turpin | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Spare Me | Guinevere Turner | Shorts | |||
| Stolen Summer | Pete Jones | Pete Jones | American Spectrum | ||
| Storytelling | Todd Solondz | Todd Solondz | American Showcase | ||
| Streeters | Gerardo Tort | Marina Stavenhagen | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Stuck | Jamie Babbit | Shorts | |||
| Taboo | Max Makowski | Chris Fisher | Park City at Midnight | ||
| Tadpole | Gary Winick | Niels Mueller, Heather McGowan | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Tale of a Floating World | Alain Escaille | Frontier (Shorts) | |||
| Tears of the Black Tiger | Wisit Sasanatieng | Wisit Sasanatieng | World Cinema Competition | ||
| Teknolust | Lynn Hershman Leeson | Lynn Hershman Leeson | American Showcase | ||
| Texas | Russell Crowe, Brett Leonard | Special Screenings | |||
| That's My Face | E Minha Cara | Thomas Allen Harris | American Spectrum | ||
| Time Out | L'Emploi du Temps | Laurent Cantet | Laurent Cantet, Robin Campillo | World Cinema Competition | |
| Touch | Jeremy Podeswa | Frontier (Shorts) | |||
| The Trespasser | O Invasor | Beto Brant | Beto Brant, Marcal Aquino | World Cinema Competition | |
| Two Towns of Jasper | Whitney Dow, Marco Williams | Documentary Competition | |||
| Under the Skin of the City | Zir-e Poust-e Shahr | Rakhshān Banietemad | Rakhshān Banietemad, Farid Mostafavi | World Cinema Competition | |
| Voice of the Prophet | Robert Edwards | Special Screenings: September 11 | |||
| We Are Family | Danny Schechter | Special Screenings: September 11 | |||
| Where Eskimos Live | Tomasz Wiszniewski | World Cinema Competition | |||
| World Traveler | Bart Freundlich | Bart Freundlich | American Showcase | ||
| XX/XY | Austin Chick | Austin Chick | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Y Tu Mamá También | Alfonso Cuarón |
Dates: January 16 – January 26
See the 2003 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 15 – January 25
| Film Name - English | Film Name - Non-English | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azumi | Ryuhei Kitamura | Midnight | |||
| Born into Brothels | Audience Award: Documentary | ||||
| Brother to Brother | Rodney Evans | Rodney Evans | Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature | ||
| The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | |||
| C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America | Kevin Willmott | Kevin Willmott | |||
| The Clearing | Pieter Jan Brugge | Justin Haythe | |||
| Dear Frankie | Shona Auerbach | Premieres | |||
| D.E.B.S. | Angela Robinson | Angela Robinson | Premieres | ||
| DiG! | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | ||||
| Dogville | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier | |||
| Down to the Bone | Debra Granik | Debra Granik, Richard Lieske | Dramatic Competition | Director's Award, Special Jury Prize for Acting (Vera Farmiga) | |
| Easy | Jane Weinstock | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Evergreen | Enid Zentelis | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Freshman Orientation | Ryan Shiraki | Ryan Shiraki | Midnight | ||
| Garden State | Zach Braff | Zach Braff | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Grand Theft Parsons | David Caffrey | Jeremy Drysdale | Midnight | ||
| High Tension | Alexandre Aja | Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur | Midnight | ||
| Home | Omelga Mthiyane | ||||
| Iron Jawed Angels | Katja von Garnier | ||||
| Kounandi | Apolline Traore | ||||
| The Machinist | Brad Anderson | Scott Kosar | |||
| Maria Full of Grace | Joshua Marston | Joshua Marston | Audience Award: Dramatic | ||
| Mean Creek | Jacob Aaron Estes | Jacob Aaron Estes | |||
| The Meaning of the Buffalo | Karin Slater | ||||
| Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | |||||
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Walter Salles | José Rivera | |||
| Napoleon Dynamite | Jared Hess | Jared and Jerusha Hess | |||
| November | Greg Harrison | Greg Harrison | |||
| Open Water | Chris Kentis | Chris Kentis | |||
| Overnight | Tony Montana | Tony Montana, Mark Brian Smith | Midnight | ||
| The Park | Andrew Lau | Midnight | |||
| Primer | Shane Carruth | Shane Carruth | Grand Jury Prize, Alfred P. Sloan Prize | ||
| The Principles of Lust | Penny Woolcock | ||||
| The Raspberry Reich | Bruce LaBruce | Bruce LaBruce | Midnight | ||
| Redemption | Vondie Curtis Hall | ||||
| The Return | Vozvrashcheniye | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Vladimir Moiseyenko, Aleksandr Novototsky | ||
| This Revolution | |||||
| Riding Giants | Stacy Peralta | ||||
| Saved! | Brian Dannelly | Brian Dannelly, Michael Urban | |||
| Saw | James Wan | Leigh Whannell | Midnight | ||
| Seducing Doctor Lewis | Jean-François Pouliot | Ken Scott | Audience Award | ||
| Silent Waters | Sabiha Sumar | ||||
| Speak | Jessica Sharzer | ||||
| Super Size Me | Morgan Spurlock | Morgan Spurlock | |||
| Until the Violence Stops | Abby Epstein | ||||
| The Woodsman | Nicole Kassell | Nicole Kassell, Steven Fechter | Dramatic Competition |
See the 2004 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 20 – January 30
| Film Name - English | Film Name - Non-English | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Iron | Kim Ki-duk | Kim Ki-duk | Premieres | ||
| 9 Songs | Michael Winterbottom | Michael Winterbottom | Midnight | ||
| The Aristocrats | Paul Provenza | Documentary Competition | |||
| The Ballad of Jack and Rose | Rebecca Miller | Rebecca Miller | Premieres | ||
| Brick | Rian Johnson | Rian Johnson | Dramatic Competition | Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision | |
| Brothers | Susanne Bier | Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen | World Cinema Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Chumscrubber | Arie Posin | Zac Stanford | Premieres | ||
| Dear Wendy | Thomas Vinterberg | Lars von Trier | Premieres | ||
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston | Jeff Feuerzeig | Documentary Competition | |||
| Dirty Love | John Asher | Jenny McCarthy | Midnight | ||
| The Dying Gaul | Craig Lucas | Craig Lucas | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Forty Shades of Blue | Ira Sachs | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize | ||
| Frozen Angels | Eric Black, Frauke Sandig | Documentary Competition | |||
| Game 6 | Michael Hoffman | Don DeLillo | Premieres | ||
| The Girl from Monday | Hal Hartley | Hal Hartley | Premieres | ||
| Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | Werner Herzog | World Cinema Documentary Competition | ||
| Happy Endings | Don Roos | Don Roos | Premieres | ||
| Hard Candy | David Slade | Brian Nelson | Midnight | ||
| Heights | Chris Terrio | Chris Terrio, Amy Fox | Premieres | ||
| How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer | Georgina Garcia Riedel | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Hustle & Flow | Craig Brewer | Craig Brewer | Dramatic Competition | ||
| The Jacket | John Maybury | Massy Tadjedin | Premieres | ||
| Junebug | Phil Morrison | Angus MacLachlan | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Kung Fu Hustle | Stephen Chow | Premieres | |||
| Lackawanna Blues | George C. Wolfe | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Premieres | ||
| Layer Cake | Matthew Vaughn | J. J. Connolly | Premieres | ||
| Loggerheads | Tim Kirkman | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Lonesome Jim | Steve Buscemi | Dramatic Competition | |||
| Love, Ludlow | Adrienne Weiss | American Spectrum | |||
| Loverboy | Kevin Bacon | Hannah Shakespeare | Premieres | ||
| The Matador | Richard Shepard | Richard Shepard | Premieres | ||
| Matando Cabos | Alejandro Lozano | Midnight | |||
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July | Miranda July | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Murderball | Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro | Documentary Competition | Documentary Audience Award | ||
| Mysterious Skin | Gregg Araki | Gregg Araki | Premieres | ||
| Nine Lives | Rodrigo García | Rodrigo García | Premieres | ||
| Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | Midnight | |||
| The Puffy Chair | Jay Duplass | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass | American Spectrum | ||
| Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical | Andy Fickman | Kevin Murphy, Dan Studney | Premieres | ||
| Saving Face | Alice Wu | American Spectrum | |||
| The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | Noah Baumbach | Dramatic Competition | ||
| Steal Me | Melissa Painter | American Spectrum | |||
| Strangers with Candy | Paul Dinello | Midnight | |||
| Three... Extremes | Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Midnight | |||
| Thumbsucker | Mike Mills | Dramatic Competition | |||
| The Upside of Anger | Mike Binder | Mike Binder | Premieres | ||
| What Is It? | Crispin Hellion Glover | Crispin Hellion Glover | Midnight | ||
| Wolf Creek | Greg McLean | Greg McLean | World Cinema Dramatic Competition |
Dates: January 19 – January 29
See the 2006 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 18 – January 28
See the 2007 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners. See the List of films at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of films shown.
Dates: January 17 – January 27
See the 2008 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners. See the List of films at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of films shown.
Dates: January 15 – January 25
See the 2009 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners. See the List of films at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of films shown.
Dates: January 21 – January 31
See the 2010 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners. See the List of films at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of films shown.
Dates: January 20 – January 30
See the 2011 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners. See the List of films at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of films shown.
Dates: January 19 – January 29
See the 2012 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 17 – January 27
See the 2013 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 16 – January 26
See the 2014 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners. See the List of films at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of films shown.
Dates: January 22 – February 1
See the 2015 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners. See the List of films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of films shown.
Dates: January 21 – January 31
See the 2016 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 19 – January 29
See the 2017 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 18 – January 28
See the 2018 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 24 – February 3
See the 2019 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 23 – February 2
See the 2020 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 28 – February 3
See the 2021 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 20 – January 30
See the 2022 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 19 – January 29
See the 2023 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.
Dates: January 18 – January 28
See the 2024 Sundance Film Festival article for a full list of award winners.