Here's a complete list of the 121 feature films chosen for this year's Sundance Film Festival (Click titles for more information, and to add user reviews)...
Sundance 2008 Documentary and Dramatic Competition Films
-DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION: WORLD PREMIERE
AN AMERICAN SOLDIER (Director and Screenwriter: Edet Belzberg)
AMERICAN TEEN (Director and Screenwriter: Nanette Burstein)
BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER* (Director: Christopher Bell; Screenwriters: Christopher Bell, Alexander Buono, Tamsin Rawady)
FIELDS OF FUEL (Director and Screenwriter: Josh Tickell)
FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER (Director: Irena Salina)
GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON (Director: Alex Gibney)
THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO (Director and Screenwriter: Lisa F. Jackson)
I.O.U.S.A. (Director: Patrick Creadon)
NERAKHOON (THE BETRAYAL) (Director: Ellen Kuras; Co-Director: Thavisouk Phrasavath; Screenwriters: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath)
THE ORDER OF MYTHS (Director: Margaret Brown)
PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE (Director and Screenwriter: Steven Sebring)
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED (Director: Marina Zenovich; Screenwriters: Marina Zenovich, Joe Bini, P.G. Morgan)
SECRECY (Directors: Peter Galison, Robb Moss)
SLINGSHOT HIP
HOP (Director: Jackie Reem Salloum)
TRACES OF THE TRADE: A STORY FROM THE DEEP NORTH (Director: Katrina Browne; C0-Directors:
Alla Kovgan, Jude Ray; Screenwriters: Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan)
TROUBLE THE
WATER (Directors: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal)
-DRAMATIC COMPETITION: WORLD PREMIERE
AMERICAN SON
(Director: Neil Abramson; Screenwriter: Eric Schmid)
Cast: Nick Cannon, Melonie Diaz, Matt O'Leary, Jay Hernandez, Tom Sizemore, Chi McBride.
ANYWHERE,
U.S.A. (Director: Anthony Chusy Haney-Jardine; Screenwriters: Anthony Chusy Haney-Jardine,
Jennifer Macdonald)
Cast: Perla Haney-Jardine.
BALLAST (Director
and Screenwriter: Lance Hammer)
Cast: Michael J. Smith Sr., Jim Myron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail.
CHOKE (Director and
Screenwriter: Clark Gregg)
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad Henke.
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NANCY (Director: Johan Renck; Screenwriters: Pamela Cuming, Lee Ross)
Cast: Maria Bello, Jason Patric, Rufus Sewell, Amy Brenneman.
FROZEN RIVER
(Director and Screenwriter: Courtney Hunt)
Cast: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Michael O'Keefe, Mark Boone, Jr.
GOOD DICK
(Director and Screenwriter: Marianna Palka)
Cast: Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka, Tom Arnold, Mark Webber, Martin Starr, Eric Edelstein.
THE LAST WORD
(Director and Screenwriter: Geoff Haley)
Cast: Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley, Ray Romano.
THE
MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH (Director and Screenwriter: Rawson Thurber)
Cast: Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Sienna Miller, Mena Suvari, Nick Nolte.
NORTH STARR
(Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Stanton)
Cast: Jerome Hawkins, Matthew Stanton, Chris Sullivan, Isaac Lamb, Zach Johnson, Wayne Campbell.
PHOEBE IN
WONDERLAND (Director and Screenwriter: Daniel Barnz)
Cast: Elle Fanning, Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman, Campbell Scott, Peter
Gerety.
PRETTY BIRD
(Director and Screenwriter: Paul Schneider)
Cast: Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Kristen Wiig, David Hornsby.
SLEEP DEALER
(Director: Alex Rivera; Screenwriters: Alex Rivera, David Riker)
Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas.
SUGAR (Directors and
Screenwriters: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
Cast: Algenis Perez Soto.
SUNSHINE
CLEANING (Director: Christine Jeffs; Screenwriter: Megan Holley)
Cast: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, Alan Arkin.
THE WACKNESS
(Director and Screenwriter: Jonathan Levine)
Cast: Josh Peck, Ben Kingsley, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Mary Kate Olsen, Method Man.
-WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
ALONE IN FOUR
WALLS (ALLEIN IN VIER WÄNDEN)/ Germany (Director and Screenwriter: Alexandra Westmeier)
THE
ART STAR AND THE SUDANESE TWINS / New Zealand (Director and Screenwriter: Pietra Brettkelly)
BE LIKE OTHERS
/ United Kingdom (Director: Tanaz Eshaghian)
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES / United Kingdom (Director: Chris Waitt;
Screenwriters: Chris Waitt and Henry Trotter)
DEREK / United
Kingdom (Director: Isaac Julien)
DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT / Pakistan (Directors and Screenwriters: Sabiha Sumar and
Sachithanandam Sathananthan)
DURAKOVO:
THE VILLAGE OF FOOLS (DURAKOVO: LE VILLAGE DES FOUS) / France (Director and Screenwriter: Nino
Kirtadze)
IN PRISON
MY WHOLE LIFE / United Kingdom (Director: Marc Evans; Screenwriters: Marc Evans, William
Francome)
With William Francome, Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Mos Def, Smoof , Snoop Dogg, Angela Davis.
MAN ON WIRE /
United Kingdom (Director and Screenwriter: James Marsh)
PUUJEE / Japan
(Director and Screenwriter: Kazuya Yamada)
RECYCLE / Jordan
(Director and Screenwriter: Al Massad)
STRANDED: I'VE COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED ON THE MOUNTAINS / France
(Director and Screenwriter: Gonzalo Arijon)
TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI'S HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA / Canada (Director: Patrick Reed)
UP THE YANGTZE
/ Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Yung Chang)
WOMEN OF
BRUKMAN (LES FEMMES DE LA BRUKMAN) / Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Isaac Isitan)
YASUKUNI / Japan (Director and Screenwriter: Li Ying)
-WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
ABSURDISTAN /
Germany (Director: Veit Helmer; Screenwriters: Veit Helmer, Zaza Buadze, Gordan Mihic, Ahmet
Golbol)
Cast: Maximilian Mauff, Kristyna Mlérova.
BLUE EYELIDS
(PÁRPADOS AZULES) / Mexico (Director: Ernesto Contreras)
Cast: Cecilia Suàrez, Enrique Arreola, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Tiaré Scanda, Luisa Huertas.
CAPTAIN ABU
RAED / Jordan (Director and Screenwriter: Amin Matalqa)
Cast: Nadim Sawalha, Hussein Al-Sous, Rana Sultan, Uday Al-Qiddissi, Ghandi Saber.
THE DRUMMER
(JIN. GWU) / Hong Kong (Director and Screenwriter: Kenneth Bi)
Cast: Jaycee Chan, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Josie Ho, Roy Cheung, Lee Sinje, Kenneth Tsang.
ELITE SQUAD (TROPA DE ELITE) / Brazil (Director: José Padilha; Screenwriters: Bráulio Mantovani,
José Padilha)
Cast: Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, Andre Ramiro.
I
ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER (J'AI TOUJOURS RÊVÉ D'ÊTRE UN GANGSTER) / France (Director and
Screenwriter: Samuel Benchetrit)
Cast: Sergi López, Jean Rochefort, Alain Bashung, Anna Mouglalis.
JUST
ANOTHER LOVE STORY (KÆRLIGHED PÅ FILM) / Denmark (Director and Screenwriter: Ole Borendal)
Cast: Anders W. Berthelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Charlotte Fich, Dejan Cukic, Ewa Fröling.
KING OF PING
PONG (PING PONGKINGEN) / Sweden (Director and Screenwriter: Jens Jonsson)
Cast: Georgi
Staykov, Ann-Sofie Normi, Frederik Nilsson, Jerry Johansson.
MEGANE (GLASSES) /
Japan (Director and Screenwriter: Naoko Ogigami)
Cast: Satomi Kobayashi, Mikako Ichikawa, Ryo Kase, Ken Mitsuishi, Masako Motai.
MERMAID (RUSALKA) /
Russia (Director and Screenwriter: Anna Melikyan)
Cast: Masha Shalaeva, Evgeniy Ciganov, Maria Sokolova, Nastya Doncova.
PERRO COME
PERRO (DOG EAT DOG) / Colombia (Director: Carlos Moreno; Screenwriters: Alonso Torres, Carlos
Moreno)
Cast: Marlon Moreno, Oscar Borda, Alvaro Rodríguez, Blas Jaramillo, Paulina Rivas.
RIPRENDIMI (GOOD
MORNING HEARTACHE) / Italy (Director: Anna Negri; Screenwriters: Anna Negri, Giovanna Mori)
Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Marco Foschi, Valentina Lodovini, Stefano Fresi, Alessandro Averone.
STRANGERS /
Israel (Directors and Screenwriters: Erez Tadmor, Guy Nattiv)
Cast: Liron Levo, Lubna Azabal, Dominique Lollia, Patrick Albenque, Abdallah el Akal, Roger Dumas.
UNDER THE
BOMBS (SOUS LES BOMBES) / Lebanon (Director: Philippe Aractingi; Screenwriters: Philippe
Aractingi,Michel Léviant)
Cast: Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Bshara Atallah, and Rawia Elchab.
THE WAVE (DIE
WELLE) / Germany (Director: Dennis Gansel; Screenwriters: Dennis Gansel and Peter Thorwarth)
Cast: Juergen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul.
THE WIND AND
THE WATER (BURGUA DII BO) / Panama (Directors and Screenwriters: A collective collaboration)
Sundance 2008 Non-Competition Films: Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier and Park City at Midnight
-PREMIERES
ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT / U.S.A. (Director: Brett Simon; Screenwriter: Kevin
Jakubowski)
Cast: Reece Thompson, Bruce Willis, Mischa Barton, Michael Rapaport, Kathryn Morris, Josh Pais.
BE KIND REWIND
/ U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Michel Gondry)
Cast: Jack Black, Mos Def, Mia Farrow, Danny Glover.
CSNY DÉJÀ VU /
U.S.A. (Director: Bernard Shakey; Screenwriters: Neil Young, Mike Cerre)
Cast: David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Mike Cerre, Stephen Colbert.
THE DEAL / Canada
(Director: Steven Schachter; Screenwriters: William H. Macy, Steven Schachter)
Cast: William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, LL Cool J.
DEATH IN LOVE /
U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Boaz Yakin)
Cast: Josh Lucas, Jacqueline Bisset, Adam Brody, Lukas Haas.
DIMINISHED
CAPACITY / U.S.A. (Director: Terry Kinney; Screenwriter: Sherwood Kiraly)
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Virginia Madsen, Dylan Baker.
THE ESCAPIST /
Ireland (Director: Rupert Wyatt; Screenwriters: Rupert Wyatt and Daniel Hardy)
Cast: Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Seu Jorge, Damian Lewis.
THE GREAT
BUCK HOWARD / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Sean McGinly)
Cast: Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, Tom Hanks, Steve Zahn.
THE GUITAR /
U.S.A. (Director: Amy Redford; Screenwriter: Amos Poe)
Cast: Saffron Burrows, Isaach De Bankole, Paz De La Huerta.
HENRY POOLE IS
HERE / U.S.A. (Director: Mark Pellington; Screenwriter: Albert Torres)
Cast: Luke
Wilson, Radha Mitchell, Cheryl Hines, Adriana Barraza.
IN BRUGES / United
Kingdom (Director and Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh)
Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy.
INCENDIARY /
United Kingdom (Director and Screenwriter: Sharon Maguire)
Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew MacFadyen.
THE MERRY
GENTLEMAN / U.S.A. (Director: Michael Keaton; Screenwriter: Ron Lazzeretti)
Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Michael Keaton.
A RAISIN IN THE
SUN / U.S.A. (Director: Kenny Leon; Screenwriter: Paris Qualles)
Cast: Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, Sean Patrick Thomas.
SAVAGE GRACE /
U.S.A. (Director: Tom Kalin, Screenwriter: Howard A. Rodman)
Cast: Julianne Moore, Stephen Dillane, Eddie Redmayne.
SLEEPWALKING /
Canada / U.S.A. (Director: Bill Maher; Screenwriter: Zac Stanford )
Cast: Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Charlize Theron, Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson, Deborrah-Lee
Furness.
SMART PEOPLE /
U.S.A. (Director: Noam Murro; Screenwriter: Mark Jude Poirier)
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church, Ellen Page, Ashton Holmes.
TOWEL
HEAD (F.K.A. NOTHING IS PRIVATE) / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Alan Ball)
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Toni Collette, Summer Bishil.
TRANSSIBERIAN
/ Spain (Director: Brad Anderson; Screenwriters: Brad Anderson and Will Conroy)
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Kate Mara, Thomas Kretschmann, Eduardo Noriega and Ben
Kingsley.
U2 3D / U.S.A.
(Directors: Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington)
THE VISITOR /
U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Tom McCarthy)
Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira.
WHAT JUST
HAPPENED? / U.S.A. (Director: Barry Levinson; Screenwriter: Art Linson)
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro.
THE
YEAR OF GETTING TO KNOW US / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Patrick Sisam)
Cast: Jimmy Fallon, Chase Ellison, Lucy Liu, Sharon Stone, Tom Arnold.
THE
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF / U.S.A. (Director: Udayan Prasad; Screenwriter: Erin Dignam)
Cast: Maria Bello, William Hurt, Eddie Redmayne, Veronica Russell.
-SPECTRUM
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT:
ANVIL! THE
TRUE STORY OF ANVIL / U.S.A. (Director: Sacha Gervasi)
THE BLACK LIST
/ U.S.A. (Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Screenwriter: Elvis Mitchell)
KICKING IT /
U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Susan Koch)
THE LINGUISTS
/ U.S.A. (Directors: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger; Screenwriter: Daniel A.
Miller)
MADE IN
AMERICA / U.S.A. (Director: Stacy Peralta; Screenwriters: Stacy Peralta, Sam George)
WH
ERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN? / France (Director: Morgan Spurlock; Screenwriters: Jeremy
Chilnick and Morgan Spurlock)
YOUNG@HEART /
United Kingdom (Director: Stephen Walker)
DRAMATIC FILMS:
AUGUST / U.S.A. (Director: Austin Chick; Screenwriter: Howard A. Rodman)
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Adam Scott, Naomie Harris.
BAGHEAD / U.S.A. (Directors and Screenwriters: Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass)
Cast: Steve Zissis, Ross Partridge, Greta Gerwig.
BIRDS OF
AMERICA / U.S.A. (Director: Craig Lucas; Screenwriter: Elyse Friedman)
Cast: Matthew Perry, Ginnifer Goodwin, Ben Foster.
BLIND DATE /
U.S.A. (Director: Stanley Tucci; Screenwriters: Stanley Tucci, David Schechter)
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thijs Romer.
BOTTLE SHOCK /
U.S.A. (Director: Randall Miller; Screenwriters: Jody Savin, Randall Miller)
Cast: Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor, Freddy Rodríguez, Eliza Dushku.
CHRONIC TOWN /
U.S.A. (Director: Tom Hines; Screenwriter: Michael Kamsky)
Cast: JR Bourne, Emily Wagner, Dan Butler.
GOLIATH / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: David Zellner)
Cast: David Zellner, Caroline O'Connor, Nathan Zellner.
A GOOD
DAY TO BE BLACK & SEXY / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Dennis Dortch)
Cast: Kathryn Taylor, Valley Jones, Chonte' Harris.
LOVE COMES
LATELY / Germany / Austria (Director and Screenwriter: Jan Schütte)
Cast: Otto Tausig, Rhea Perlman, Tovah Feldshuh.
MOMMA'S MAN /
U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Azazel Jacobs)
Cast: Flo Jacobs, Ken Jacobs, Dana Varon.
QUID PRO QUO /
U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Carlos Brooks)
Cast: Nick Stahl, Vera Farmiga, Kate Burton.
RED / U.S.A. (Director:
Trygve Diesen; Co-Director: Lucky McKee; Screenwriter: Stephen Susco)
Cast: Brian Cox, Tom Sizemore, Kim Dickens.
-NEW FRONTIER
CASTING A
GLANCE / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: James Benning)
EAT, FOR
THIS IS MY BODY (MANGE, CECI EST MON CORPS) / France/ Haiti (Director and Screenwriter:
Michelange Quay)
FEAR(S) OF THE
DARK (PEUR(S) DU NOIR) / France (Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Callou, Richard
McGuire, Pierre Di Sciullio, Lorenzo Mattotti. Screenwriters: Jerry Kramsky, Pirus, Romain
Slocombe. Artistic Director: Etienne Robial)
HALF-LIFE / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Jennifer Phang)
REVERSION /
U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Mia Trachinger)
SEVEN INTELLECTUALS IN BAMBOO FOREST, PARTS 4 AND 5 / U.S.A. (Artist: Yang Fudong)
-PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT
ADVENTURES OF
POWER / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Ari Gold)
Cast: Adrian Grenier, Jane Lynch, Jimmy Jean-Louis.
THE BROKEN /
U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Sean Ellis)
Cast: Lena Heady, Richard Jenkins, Asier Newman.
GEOR
GE A. ROMERO'S DIARY OF THE DEAD / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: George A. Romero)
Cast: Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman, George Buza, Wes Craven, Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino,
Guillermo del Toro.
DONKEY PUNCH /
United Kingdom (Director: Olly Blackburn; Screenwriters: Olly Blackburn, David Bloom)
Cast: Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke.
FUNNY GAMES /
U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Michael Haneke)
Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gearhart, Michael Pitt.
HELL RIDE / U.S.A.
(Director and Screenwriter: Larry Bishop)
Cast: Larry Bishop, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen.
OTTO; OR,
UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE / Germany/ Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Bruce LaBruce)
Cast: Jey Crisfar, Katharina Klewinghaus, Susanne Sachsse, Marcel Schlutt.
TIMECRIMES (LOS
CRONOCRÍMENES) / Spain (Director and Screenwriter: Nacho Vigalondo)
Cast: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga.
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