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“Look after those that look after you. Fuck off those that fuck off you.” says Dominic Noonan, reciting the advice given to him by his father. Noonan, the subject of Donal MacIntrye’s World Documentary competitor A Very British Gangster. Noonan takes this advice seriously – seriously enough to have his name legally changed to Lattlay Fottfoy. Has this advice served Noonan well in his career as one of Britain’s most notorious organized criminals?

Teeth is the debut feature from filmmaker Michael Lichtenstien that gives a modern update to the ‘vagina dentate’ mythology – the cultural notion of a woman with teeth on her vagina. Also making her debut, as a lead actress in a feature film, is Jess Weixler who plays Dawn, the film’s protagonist who discovers her unique anatomical feature when she becomes the victim of sexual assault.

As powerful and meaningful now as it was when it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1986, River’s Edge is a dark and disturbing film (and based on actual events) about youth alienation directed by Tim Hunter (The Far Side of Jericho, TV’s “Deadwood”), and staring Keanu Reeves (A Scanner Darkly, The Lake House), Crispin Glover (Willard, Wild at Heart), and Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider, Land of the Dead). Though obviously not screening in competition in 2007, River’s Edge is being screened as part of the Sundance Collection, and also in an effort to promote film preservation – appropriate, because few film age this well.

Director John Else, who won the first ever Sundance documentary award in 1980 for his film The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb returns to Sundance, and to familiar subject matter, with Wonders Are Many, a documentary about the making of Doctor Atomic, an opera produced in San Francisco about Robert Oppenheimer in the weeks leading up to the detonation of his atomic bomb.

Sundance has never seen a film quite like director M dot Strange’s We Are the Strange, but then again, neither has any audience, anywhere (except perhaps in the future, where M dot Strange has traveled from to bring us this film). The first digitally animated feature to screen at the Sundance Film Festival, We Are the Strange is the product of a single filmmaker’s labor – dot Strange made the film by himself in his bedroom over the course of two and a half years, and is a rightfully self-described “one man evil animation studio.”