2005

Murderball won the Audience Documentary Award

Celebrating its 21st year. The Dramatic Grand Jury Prize went to Forty Shades Of Blue - "the story of Laura, a Russian woman living in Memphis with Alan, a legendary music producer twice her age...When Alan's estranged adult son comes for a visit a bond develops between them that destabilises her ordered world." - while Why We Fight - examining how the American arms industry has become an economic necessity - was named best documentary. In the World Cinema competitions, Shape Of The Moon - about three generations of a Christian family living in Muslim-dominated Indonesia - won the Documentary Award, while and drama about post-civil war Angola - The Hero - won the Dramatic plaudit. Audience Documentary awards went to Murderball and Shake Hands With The Devil, and their Dramatic votes went to Hustle & Flow and Brothers.

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Sundance Film Festival Latest Reviews

	Shake Hands With The Devil Story of Canadian Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire's UN role in Rwanda, tracing his return to the country 10 years after the genocide.
	The Dying Gaul A recently bereaved screenwriter struggles to get his film produced without too many compromises, but personal compromises can be much more dangerous.
	On a Clear Day A redundant shipworker from Glasgow dreams of swimming the English Channel.
	The Upside Of Anger Deflecting the fury of a woman scorned with frequent showers, Bloody Marys and a little light humour.
	Tony Takitani A lonely man's search for happiness.
	Kekexili: Mountain Patrol True story of poacher hunters in the mountains of Tibet.
	Three Extremes Three of Asia's premier horror directors deliver spine-tingling short tales of terror, torture and tormented twins.
	Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing And Charm School A sad baker helps a dying motorist and discovers that he's not the only one who can't dance.
	Pretty Persuasion A clever girl in a Beverly Hills private school has no inhibitions about causing emotional havoc.
	Hard Candy A thirtysomething man picks up an underage girl in a cyber cafe and gets more than he bargained for.

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Sundance Film Festival Festival Features

Sundown at Sundance 2005
Topical doc Why We Fight and Forty Shades of Blue win Grand Jury Prizes; Sundance Awards Party and winners.

Sundance Film Festival - Day 8
Mardi Gras beads of sweat and pain; gay thriller The Dying Gaul; class drama Junebug; Utah's odd booze laws.

Sundance Film Festival - Day Seven
Herzog's grizzly doc; Rwanda revisited; On A Clear Day gets U.S. distrib.; special needs shocker What Is It?.

Sundance Film Festival - Day Six
Amazing amnesia documentary; hot shorts; poetry and song at Sundance.

Sundance Film Festival - Day Five
Missing a deer and a dead elk, Elf lands poolside with brill trio from Brit fantasy MirrorMask; US Lackawanna Blues one to watch.

Sundance Film Festival - Day Four
Sundance and stars? Go directly ahead, past the dead skunk...

Sundance Film Festival - Day Three
Picking up penguins; search for Mullan ends; doc asks Why We Fight.

Sundance Film Festival - Day Two
The day things almost Peter-ed out...

Sundance Film Festival Opening Night and Day One
Happy Endings opens, Scots cast out in force for "On A Clear Day".

Sundance Film Festival 2005 Preview
We look forward to a fortnight of top indie films in snow-covered Park City, Utah.

Scarily familiar
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Sparkling Perry
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The kids are all right
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Glasgow Film Festival reports record takings
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