Sundance 2007 Preview

January 18 to 28, 2007
Counting Down:

Premiere's section lineup:

An American Crime – Tommy O'Haver
Away From Her – Sarah Polley
Black Snake Moan – Craig Brewer
Chapter 27 – Jarrett Schaefer
Chicago 10 – Brett Morgen
Clubland – Cherie Nowlan
The Good Night – Jake Paltrow
King of California – Mike Cahill
Life Support – Nelson George
Longford – Tom Hooper
The Nines – John August
Resurrecting the Champ – Rod Lurie
The Savages – Tamara Jenkins
Son of Rambow – Garth Jennings
Summer Rain – Antonio Banderas
Trade – Marco Kreuzpaintner
Year of the Dog – Mike White

Dramatic Competition:

Adrift in Manhattan – Alfredo de Villa
Broken English – Zoe Cassavetes
Four Sheets to the Wind – Sterlin Harjo
The Good Life – Steve Berra
Grace Is Gone – James C. Strouse
Hounddog – Deborah Kampmeier
Joshua – George Ratliff
Never Forever – Gina Kim
On the Road With Judas – J.J. Lask
Padre Nuestro – Christopher Zalla
The Pool – Chris Smith
Rocket Science – Jeffrey Blitz
Snow Angels – David Gordon Green
Starting Out in the Evening – Andrew Wagner
Teeth – Mitchell Lichtenstein
Weapons – Adam Bhala Lough

Documentary Competition:

Banished – Marco Williams
Chasing Ghosts – Lincoln Ruchti
Crazy Love – Dan Klores
Everything's Cool – Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold
For the Bible Tells Me So – Daniel Karslake
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib – Rory Kennedy
Girl 27 – David Stenn
Hear and Now – Irene Taylor Brodsky
Send a Bullet – Jason Kohn
My Kid Could Paint That – Amir Bar-Lev
Nanking – Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman
No End in Sight – Charles Ferguson
Protagonist – Jessica Yu
War Dance – Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Steven Okazaki
Zoo – Robinson Devor

World Dramatic Competition:

Blame It On Fidel (France) – Julie Gavras
Drained (Brazil) – Heitor Dhalia
Driving With My Wife's Lover (South Korea) – Kim Tai-sik
Eagle Vs. Shark (New Zealand) – Taika Waititi
Ezra (France) – Newton I. Aduaka
Ghosts (U.K.) – Nick Broomfield
How Is Your Fish Today? (U.K.) – Xiaolu Guo
How She Move? (Canada) Ian Iqbal Rashid
The Island (Russia) – Pavel Lounguine
Khadak (Belgium/Germany) – Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth
The Legacy (Georgia/France) – Gela Babluani & Temur Babluani
The Night Buffalo (Mexico) – Jorge Hernandez Aldana
Noise (Australia) Matthew Saville
Once (Ireland) – John Carney
Dreams of Dust (Burkina Faso/Canada/France) – Laurent Salgues
Sweet Mud (Israel) – Dror Shaul

World Documentary Competition:

Acidente (Brazil), directed by Cao Guimaraes and Pablo Lobato
Bajo Juarez, The City Is Devouring Its Daughters (Mexico), directed by Alejandra Sanchez
Cocalero (Bolivia), directed by Alejandro Landes
Comrades In Dreams (Germany), directed by Uli Gaulke
Crossing the Line (U.K.), directed by Daniel Gordon
Enemies of Happiness (Denmark), directed by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al Erhayem
Hot House (Israel), directed by Shimon Dotan
In the Shadow of the Moon (U.K.), directed by David Sington
The Future Is Unwritten (Ireland.U.K.), directed by Julien Temple
Manufactured Landscapes (Canada), directed by Jennifer Baichwal
The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun (Denmark), directed by Pernille Rose Gronkjaer
On A Tightrope (Norway/Canada), directed by Petr Lom
Three Comrades (Drie Kameraden) (Netherlands), directed by Masha Novikova
A Very British Gangster (U.K.), directed by Donal MacIntyre
VHS – Kahloucha (Tunisia), directed by Nejib Belkadhi
Welcome Europa (France), directed by Bruno Ulmer

Spectrum:

Angel-A – Luc Besson
Bugmaster – Katsuhiro Otomo
Dark Matter – Chen Shi-Zheng
Dedication – Justin Theroux
Delirious – Tom DiCillo
The Devil Came on Horseback – Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
Expired – Cecilia Miniucchi
Fay Grim – Hal Hartley
Fraulein – Andrea Staka
The Go-Getter – Martin Hynes
The Great World of Sound – Craig Zobel
If I Had Known I Was A Genius – Dominique Wirtschafter
Interview – Steve Buscemi
Low and Behold – Zack Godshall
La Misma Luna (The Same Moon) – Patricia Riggen
Miss Navajo – Billy Luther
Red Road – Andrea Arnold
Reprise – Joachim Trier
Save Me – Robert Cary
Tuli – Auraeus Solito
The Unforeseen – Laura Dunn
Waitress – Adrienne Shelly
Wonders Are Many – Jon Else
Year of the Fish – David Kaplan

Park City at Midnight:

Fido – Andrew Currie
Finishing the Game – Justin Lin
It's Fine! Everything Is Fine – Crispin Hellion Glover and David Brothers
The Signal – David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry and Dan Bush
SK8 Life S. Wyeth Clarkson
Smiley Face – Gregg Araki
The Ten – David Wain
We Are the Strange – M dot Strange

New Frontier:

Artist Spotlight: Pierre Huyghe Short film collection
The Last Dining Table (South Korea) – Gyeong-Tae Roh
Offscreen (Denmark) – Christoffer Boe
Phantom Love (U.S.) – Nina Menkes
Slipstream (U.S.) – Anthony Hopkins
Strange Culture (U.S.) – Lynn Hirschman Leeson
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (France) – Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno

River's Edge (U.S.) – Tim Hunter (1986)
X: The Unheard Music (U.S.) – W.T. Morgan (1987)

The Last Mimzy (U.S.) – Bob Shaye
Autism Every Day (U.S.) – Lauren Thierry
Flying-Confessions of a Free Woman (Denmark/U.S.A.) – Jennifer Fox 

Short Film Programs

Dramatic Shorts

A NICK IN TIME – Be' Garrett 
AFTERMATH ON MEADOWLARK LANE – David Zellner
BITCH – Lilah Vandenburgh
BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE – Ben Russell
BOBBY BIRD: THE DEVIL IN DENIM – Carson D. Mell
BOMB – Ian Olds
CONVERSION – Nanobah Becker
THE DAWN CHORUS – Hope Dickson Leach
DEATH TO THE TINMAN – Ray Tintori 
DER OSTWIND – Kohl Glass
DOORMAN – Etienne Kallos
FOR A SWIM WITH THE FISH – Tara Autovino
THE GRASS GROWS GREEN – Jesus Beltran
HAPPINESS – Sophie Barthes
HIGH FALLS – Andrew Zuckerman
INFINITE DELAY – Kadet Kuhne
INTERVIEW – Charles Burmeister
KING – Caran Hartsfield
LIGHT WORK I – Jennifer Reeves
LITTLE FARM – Calvin Reeder
MAGNETIC POLES – Maria Rosenblum
MOVE ME – Jonathan Pulley
THE OATES' VALOR – Timothy Cahill
POP FOUL – Moon Molson
SONGBIRD – John Thompson
WINDOWBREAKER – Tze Chun
ZARIN – Shirin Neshat

Documentary Shorts

FREEHELD – Cynthia Wade
GOD PROVIDES – Brian Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky
I JUST WANTED TO BE SOMEBODY – Jay Rosenblatt
MOTHER SUPERIOR Alex Mack & Diana Montero
SCAREDYCAT – Andy Blubaugh
SPITFIRE 944 – William Lorton
THE FIGHTING CHOLITAS – Mariam Jobrani, Kenny Krauss, Teresa Deskins
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN – Mitch McCabe

Animated Shorts

DESTINY MANIFESTO – Martha Colburn
DUCT TAPE AND COVER – Yong–Jin Park
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK – Don Hertzfeldt
GOLDEN AGE – Aaron Augenblick
HOW SHE SLEPT AT NIGHT – Lilli Carre
ONE RAT SHORT – Alex Weil
PAULINA HOLLERS – Brent Green
PHANTOM CANYON – Stacey Steers

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS: Dramatic Shorts

A DAY OUT / South Korea – Jong Yoon Lee
ASK THE INSECTS / Canada – Steve Reinke
CUBS / UK – Tom Harper
DAD / UK – Daniel Mulloy
FAMILY REUNION / Iceland – Isold Uggadottir
GOODBYE MR. SNUGGLES / UK – Jonathan Hopkins
GRACELAND / Thailand – Anocha Suwichakornpong
HARD TO SWALLOW / UK – Mat Kirkby
I WANT TO BE A PILOT / Kenya – Diego Quemada–Diez
INDUCTION / Belgium – Nicolas Provost
MAKE A WISH / Israel – Cherien Dabis
MEN UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER BETTER / Iran – Marjan Alizadeh
PEACE TALK / Sweden – Jenifer Malmqvist
PENPUSHER / France – Guillaume Martinez
SALT KISS / Brazil – Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa
SOPHIE / Denmark – Birgitte Stærmose
THE SUBSTITUTE / Italy – Andera Jublin
THE TRAGIC STORY OF NLING / Canada – Jeffrey St. Jules
THE TUBE WITH A HAT / Romania – Radu Jude
TROUT / UK – Johnny Barrington
WILLIAM / Australia – Eron Sheean

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS: Documentary Shorts

THE FENCE / Spain – Ricardo Iscar & Nacho Martin
MASTER OF REALITY / UK – Matthew Killip
MOTODROM / Germany – Joerg Wagner
TANJU MIAH – Sadik Ahmed

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS: Animated Shorts

IN PASSING / UK – Christopher Thomas Allen & Robert Rainbow
DREAMS AND DESIRES – FAMILY TIES / UK – Joanna Quinn
T.O.M. / UK – Brown & Daniel Gray

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