This year Ioncinema.com is covering the 2006 edition of the Sundance Film Festival LIVE from Park City, Utah. We’ll be on hand to cover the festival, and while we won’t be able to cover everything from A to Z: here is a comprehensive beforehand look at the selections in each of the festival’s sections. (Note: To access individual preview pages, simply click on the links below)
January 19th to the 28th, 2006
Counting Down:
WORLD CINEMA – DRAMATIC COMPETITION
- “13 (Tzameti)” (France), writer-director Gela Babluani’s intense drama about the dire consequences suffered by a man who follows instructions left for someone else.
- “Allegro,”(Denmark), directed by Christoffer Boe and written by Boe and Mikael Wulff, a look at an amnesiac pianist who reconnects with his forgotten past upon returning to Copenhagen.
- “The Aura,” (Argentina), writer-director Fabian Bielinsky’s twisty drama about a taxidermist’s dream of pulling off the perfect robbery.
- “The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros” (Philippines), directed by Auraeus Solito and written by Michiko Yamamoto, which examines how a young man’s loyalty to his criminal family in the Manila slums is altered by his friendship with an upstanding policeman.
- “”Eve & the Fire Horse” (Canada), writer-director Julia Kwan’s look at the wild mix of religious, ethical and superstitious doctrines that come to play in the lives of two young Chinese immigrant sisters in Vancouver.
- “Grbavica” (Bosnia-Herzegovina), writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s drama about a mother-and-daughter struggle to survive in the wake of the Balkan war. World premiere.
- “The House of Sand,”(Brazil) directed by Andrucha Waddington and written by Elena Soarez, a drama about three generations of women surviving in the dunes of Brazil.
- “Kiss Me Not on the Eyes” (Lebanon), writer-director Jocelyne Saab’s study of an educated Egyptian woman’s struggle to maintain her artistic integrity and social independence in modern Cairo.
- “Little Red Flowers” (China), directed by Zhang Yuan and written by Ning Dai and Zhang, a parable about the need to fit in at a post-revolutionary Chinese orphanage. World premiere.
- “Madeinusa” (Peru), writer-director Claudia Llosa’s account of how a girl’s life in a remote Peruvian mountain village is changed with the arrival of a geologist from Lima. World premiere.
- “No. 2” (New Zealand), writer-director Toa Fraser’s look at how a young woman enlivens her family with South Pacific heat and passion. World premiere.
- “One Last Dance” (Singapore), writer-director Max Makowski’s genre exercise about a hit man hired to kill some kidnappers, a list of which includes the hit man himself. World premiere.
- “The Peter Pan Formula” (South Korea), writer-director Cho Chang-Ho’s study of the premature independence of an adolescent boy who is drawn to an older woman while his mother lies comatose.
- “Princesas” (Spain), writer-director Fernando Leon de Aranca’s story of two close women friends struggling in the city.
- “Solo Dios sabe” (Brazil/Mexico), directed by Carlos Bolado and written by Bolado and Diane Weipert, about events that ensue from the meeting of a young Brazilian art student and a Mexican journalist in Tijuana. World premiere.
- “Son of Man” (South Africa), directed by Mark Dornford-May and written by Dornford-May, Andiswa Kedama and Pauline Malefane, a translation of Jesus’ story to a modern South Africa, made by the Dimpho di Kopane theater ensemble responsible for “U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha.” World premiere.
