# 2005 Sundance Film Festival

The 2005 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 20 to 30, 2005.
It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort. It was the 21st iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.

## Awards

* Special Jury Prize for Editing – Murderball
* Audience Award Documentary – Murderball
* Audience Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow
* Directing Award Documentary – Jeff Feuerzeig for The Devil and Daniel Johnston
* Directing Award Dramatic – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
* Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Education of Shelby Knox
* Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow
* Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Why We Fight
* Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Forty Shades of Blue
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – One Weekend a Month
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Small Town Secrets
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Victoria Para Chino
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Tama Tu
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Ryan
* Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story
* Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Family Portrait
* Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Wasp
* Special Jury Prize Documentary – After Innocence
* Special Jury Prize for Acting – Amy Adams in Junebug
* Special Jury Prize for Acting – Lou Pucci in Thumbsucker
* Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Miranda July writer, director, and actor in Me and You and Everyone We Know
* Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Rian Johnson director of Brick
* Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
* World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Shape of the Moon
* World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – The Hero
* World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Brothers
* World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Liberace of Baghdad
* World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Wall
* World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – The Forest for the Trees
* World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Live-In Maid
* 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Grizzly Man

## Juries

The juries at the Sundance Film Festival are responsible for determining the Jury Prize winners in each category and to award Special Jury Prizes as they see fit.
* US Documentary competition: Stacy Peralta, Jehane Noujaim, Steve James, Jean-Philippe Boucicaut, Gail Dolgin
* US Dramatic competition: Chris Eyre, Vera Farmiga, John C. Reilly, B. Ruby Rich, Christine Vachon
* World Documentary competition: Penny Woolcock, Jean Perret, Miriam Cutler
* World Dramatic competition: Antonia Bird, Mike Goodridge, Fernando León de Aranoa
* Shorts Competition: Sam Green, Ernest Hardy
* Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Peggy LeMone, Shane Carruth, John Underkoffler, Lawrence Krauss, Miguel Arteta

## Films
### Independent Film Competition: Documentary

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| After Innocence | After Innocence | Jessica Sanders | United States |
| The Aristocrats | The Aristocrats | Paul Provenza | United States |
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston | The Devil and Daniel Johnston | Jeff Feuerzeig | United States |
| The Education of Shelby Knox | The Education of Shelby Knox | Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt | United States |
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney | United States |
| The Fall of Fujimori | The Fall of Fujimori | Ellen Perry | United States |
| Frozen Angels | Frozen Angels | Eric Black, Frauke Sandig | United States |
| Mardi Gras: Made in China | Mardi Gras: Made in China | David Redmon | United States |
| Murderball | Murderball | Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro | United States |
| New York Doll | New York Doll | Greg Whiteley | United States |
| Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story | Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story | Dan Klores, Ron Berger | United States |
| Romántico | Romántico | Mark Becker | United States |
| Shakespeare Behind Bars | Shakespeare Behind Bars | Hank Rogerson | United States |
| Trudell | Trudell | Heather Rae | United States |
| Twist of Faith | Twist of Faith | Kirby Dick | United States |
| Why We Fight | Why We Fight | Eugene Jarecki | United States |

### Independent Film Competition: Dramatic

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Between | Between | David Ocañas | United States |
| Brick | Brick | Rian Johnson | United States |
| The Dying Gaul | The Dying Gaul | Craig Lucas | United States |
| Ellie Parker | Ellie Parker | Scott Coffey | United States |
| Forty Shades of Blue | Forty Shades of Blue | Ira Sachs | United States |
| How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer | How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer | Georgina Garcia Riedel | United States |
| Hustle & Flow | Hustle & Flow | Craig Brewer | United States |
| Junebug | Junebug | Phil Morrison | United States |
| Loggerheads | Loggerheads | Tim Kirkman | United States |
| Lonesome Jim | Lonesome Jim | Steve Buscemi | United States |
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July | United States |
| Police Beat | Police Beat | Robinson Devor | United States |
| Pretty Persuasion | Pretty Persuasion | Marcos Siega | United States |
| The Squid and the Whale | The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | United States |
| Thumbsucker | Thumbsucker | Mike Mills | United States |
| Who Killed Cock Robin? | Who Killed Cock Robin? | Travis Wilkerson | United States |

### World Cinema Competition: Documentary

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | Melancholian 3 huonetta | Pirjo Honkasalo | Finland |
| Dhakiyarr vs. the King | Dhakiyarr vs. the King | Tom Murray, Allan Collins | Australia |
| Grizzly Man | Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | United States |
| I Am Cuba, The Siberian Mammoth | Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano | Vicente Ferraz | Brazil |
| El Inmortal | El Inmortal | Mercedes Moncada | Nicaragua, Spain, Mexico |
| The Liberace of Baghdad | The Liberace of Baghdad | Sean McAllister | United Kingdom |
| Odessa, Odessa | Odessa, Odessa | Michale Boganim | Israel, France |
| Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire | Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire | Peter Raymont | Canada |
| Shape of the Moon | Stand van de maan | Leonard Retel Helmrich | Netherlands |
| Unknown White Male | Unknown White Male | Rupert Murray | United Kingdom |
| Wall | Mur | Simone Bitton | France, Israel |
| Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Modelworks | Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Modelworks | Yan Ting Yuen | Netherlands |

### World Cinema Competition: Dramatic

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Brothers | Brødre | Susanne Bier | Denmark |
| Crónicas | Crónicas | Sebastián Cordero | Ecuador, Mexico |
| The Forest for the Trees | Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen) | Maren Ade | Germany |
| Green Chair | Noksaek uija | Park Chul-soo | South Korea |
| The Hero | O Herói | Zézé Gamboa | Angola, Portugal, France |
| Kekexili: Mountain Patrol | 可可西里 | Lu Chuan | China |
| Lila Says | Lila dit ça | Ziad Doueiri | France, Italy, United Kingdom |
| Live-In Maid | Cama adentro | Jorge Gaggero | Spain, Argentina |
| Monsterthursday | Monstertorsdag | Arild Østin Ommundsen | Norway |
| On a Clear Day | On a Clear Day | Gaby Dellal | United Kingdom |
| Palermo Hollywood | Palermo Hollywood | Eduardo Pinto | Argentina |
| Stranger | Ono | Małgorzata Szumowska | Poland |
| This Charming Girl | Yeoja, Jeong-hye | Lee Yoon-ki | South Korea |
| Tony Takitani | トニー滝谷 | Jun Ichikawa | Japan |
| Unconscious | Inconscientes | Joaquín Oristrell | Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany |
| Wolf Creek | Wolf Creek | Greg McLean | Australia |

### Premieres

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 3-Iron | Bin-jip | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea |
| The Ballad of Jack and Rose | The Ballad of Jack and Rose | Rebecca Miller | United States |
| The Chumscrubber | Glück in kleinen Dosen | Arie Posin | United States, Germany |
| Dear Wendy | Dear Wendy | Thomas Vinterberg | United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Germany |
| Drum | Drum | Zola Maseko | South Africa |
| Game 6 | Game 6 | Michael Hoffman | United States |
| The Girl from Monday | The Girl from Monday | Hal Hartley | United States |
| Happy Endings | Happy Endings | Don Roos | United States |
| Heights | Heights | Chris Terrio | United States |
| Inside Deep Throat | Inside Deep Throat | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | United States |
| The Jacket | The Jacket | John Maybury | United States |
| Kung Fu Hustle | 功夫 | Stephen Chow | Hong Kong, China |
| Lackawanna Blues | Lackawanna Blues | George C. Wolfe | United States |
| Layer Cake | Layer Cake | Matthew Vaughn | United Kingdom |
| Loverboy | Loverboy | Kevin Bacon | United States |
| Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School | Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School | Randall Miller | United States |
| The Matador | The Matador | Richard Shepard | United States, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom |
| MirrorMask | MirrorMask | Dave McKean | United Kingdom, United States |
| Mysterious Skin | Mysterious Skin | Gregg Araki | United States, Netherlands |
| Nine Lives | Nine Lives | Rodrigo García | United States |
| Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical | Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical | Andy Fickman | United States |
| Rory O'Shea Was Here | Rory O'Shea Was Here | Damien O'Donnell | Ireland, United Kingdom, France |
| Snowland | Schneeland | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Germany |
| The Upside of Anger | The Upside of Anger | Mike Binder | United States |

### Special Screenings

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Ballets Russes | Ballets Russes | Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller | United States |
| The Garden | The Garden | Frederick Wiseman | United States |
| March of the Penguins | La Marche de l'empereur | Luc Jacquet | France |
| Protocols of Zion | Protocols of Zion | Marc Levin | United States |
| Reel Paradise | Reel Paradise | Steve James | United States |
| Rock School | Rock School | Don Argott | United States |

### American Spectrum

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 212 | 212 | Anthony Ng | United States |
| 5th World | 5th World | Blackhorse Lowe | United States |
| Duane Hopwood | Duane Hopwood | Matt Mulhern | United States |
| High School Record | High School Record | Ben Wolfinsohn | United States |
| Love, Ludlow | Love, Ludlow | Adrienne Weiss | United States |
| Mitchellville | Mitchellville | John D. Harkrider | United States |
| The Motel | The Motel | Michael Kang | United States |
| The Puffy Chair | The Puffy Chair | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass | United States |
| Rize | Rize | David LaChapelle | United States |
| The Salon | The Salon | Mark Brown | United States |
| Saving Face | Saving Face | Alice Wu | United States |
| Steal Me | Steal Me | Melissa Painter | United States |
| Swimmers | Swimmers | Doug Sadler | United States |
| The Talent Given Us | The Talent Given Us | Andrew Wagner | United States |
| This Revolution | This Revolution | Stephen Marshall | United States |

### Park City at Midnight

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 9 Songs | 9 Songs | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| Dirty Love | Dirty Love | John Mallory Asher | United States |
| Hard Candy | Hard Candy | David Slade | United States |
| Matando Cabos | Matando Cabos | Alejandro Lozano | Mexico |
| Old Boy | Oldŭboi | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| Strangers with Candy | Strangers with Candy | Paul Dinello | United States |
| Three... Extremes | Sāngēng 2 | Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea |
| What Is It? | What Is It? | Crispin Glover | United States |

### Frontier

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Film Actions V | Film Actions V | Luke Savisky | United States |
| The Joy of Life | The Joy of Life | Jenni Olson | United States |
| Room | Room | Kyle Henry | United States |
| Sugar | Sugar | Patrick Jolley, Reynold Reynolds | United States |
| Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 | Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 | William Greaves | United States |
| Tropic of Cancer | Tropic of Cancer | Eugenio Polgovsky | Mexico |

### Online

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War | Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War | Sesh Kannan | United States |
| Forest Grove | Forest Grove | Maya Churi | United States |
| How-to-Bow | How-to-Bow | Nora Krug | United States |
| Julia 1926 | Julia 1926 | Johannes Weymann | Germany |
| Stand by Your Guns | Stand by Your Guns | Jillian McDonald | United States |

### Sundance Collection

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Harlan County, USA | Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple | United States |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | United States |

### Short films
#### US Dramatic

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Act | The Act | Susan Kraker, Pi Ware | United States |
| America's Biggest Dick | America's Biggest Dick | Bryan Boyce | United States |
| American Fame, Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis | American Fame, Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis | Cam Archer | United States |
| Among Thieves | Among Thieves | Oscar Daniels | United States |
| Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? | Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? | Miguel Arteta | United States |
| Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer! | Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer! | Jamie Donahue | United States |
| Broadcast 23 | Broadcast 23 | Tom Putnam | United States |
| Choked | Choked | Brad Barnes | United States |
| Cry for Help | Cry for Help | Nicholas McCarthy | United States |
| Eating | Eating | Rebecca Cutter | United States |
| Estes Avenue | Estes Avenue | Paul Cotter | United States |
| Everything's Gone Green | Everything's Gone Green | Aaron Ruell | United States |
| Exactly | Exactly | Lisa Leone | United States |
| Flotsam/Jetsam | Flotsam/Jetsam | David Zellner | United States |
| Goodnight Irene | Goodnight Irene | Sterlin Harjo | United States |
| Husk | Husk | Brett A. Simmons | United States |
| In the Morning | In the Morning | Danielle Lurie | United States |
| In Time | In Time | Maurice A. Dwyer, Adetoro Makinde | United States |
| The Last Full Measure | The Last Full Measure | Alexandra Kerry | United States |
| Late Bloomer | Late Bloomer | Craig William Macneill | United States |
| Let the Good Times Roll | Let the Good Times Roll | Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn | United States |
| Love and Laundry | Love and Laundry | Barbara Alvarez | United States |
| Mary | Mary | Aaron Ruell | United States |
| Motion Studies #3: Gravity | Motion Studies #3: Gravity | Jake Mahaffy | United States |
| Oh My God | Oh My God | John Bryant | United States |
| One Weekend a Month | One Weekend a Month | Eric Escobar | United States |
| Planet of the Arabs | Planet of the Arabs | Jacqueline Salloum | United States |
| Pura Lengua (All Tongue) | Pura Lengua (All Tongue) | Aurora Guerrero | United States |
| The Raftman's Razor | The Raftman's Razor | Keith Bearden | United States |
| Raw | Raw | Tonia Lynn Barber | United States |
| The Sailor's Girl | The Sailor's Girl | Brett Simon | United States |
| Spelling Bee | Spelling Bee | Phil Dornfeld | United States |
| Staring at the Sun | Staring at the Sun | Toby Wilkins | United States |
| Swim Test | Swim Test | Alex Chung | United States |
| A Thousand Roads | A Thousand Roads | Chris Eyre | United States |
| Un dia en la vida | Un dia en la vida | Marco Orsini | United States |
| West Bank Story | West Bank Story | Ari Sandel | United States |
| The Youth in Us | The Youth in Us | Joshua Leonard | United States |

#### US Documentary

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story | Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story | Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard | United States |
| Dimmer | Dimmer | Talmage Cooley | United States |
| The Fair | The Fair | Jason Rayles | United States |
| Family Portrait | Family Portrait | Patricia Riggen | United States |
| The Last Days of Jonathan Perlo | The Last Days of Jonathan Perlo | Joe Warson | United States |
| Recycle | Recycle | Vasco Nunes, Ondi Timoner | United States |
| Saving Jackie | Saving Jackie | Selena A. Burks | United States |
| Seal Hunting with Dad | Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu | Andrew Okpeaha MacLean | United States |
| Small Town Secrets | Small Town Secrets | Katherine Leggett | United States |

#### US Animated

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 9 | 9 | Shane Acker | United States |
| A Buck's Worth | A Buck's Worth | Tatia Rosenthal | United States |
| The Meaning of Life | The Meaning of Life | Don Hertzfeldt | United States |
| Motel | Motel | Thor Freudenthal | United States |

#### International Dramatic

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Being Bad | Being Bad | Laurence Coriat | United Kingdom, France |
| Berocca | Berocca | Martin Taylor | United Kingdom |
| Elephant Palm Tree | Elephant Palm Tree | Kara Miller | United Kingdom |
| Elke's Visit | Elke's Visit | Morgan Dews | Spain |
| Email to Mom | Email a mamá | Gerardo Ruiz Miñán | Peru |
| From Cherry English | From Cherry English | Jeff Barnaby | Canada |
| Fuel | Fuel | Nash Edgerton | Australia |
| Green Bush | Green Bush | Warwick Thornton | Australia |
| Home Game | Hjemmekamp | Martin Lund | Norway |
| Kid | Chamaco | Tim Parsa | Mexico |
| Matálo! | Matálo! | Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire | France |
| Mother's Day | Kare Kare Zvako | Tsitsi Dangarembga | Zimbabwe |
| Pizza Shop | Pizza Shop | Mark Mainguy | Canada |
| Plains Empty | Plains Empty | Beck Cole | Australia |
| Stronger | Stronger | Debra Felstead | Canada |
| Tama Tū | Tama Tū | Taika Waititi | New Zealand |
| Tongue Bully | Tongue Bully | Annie Bradley | Canada |
| Victoria para chino | Victoria para chino | Cary Fukunaga | United States, Mexico |
| Waiting for the Man | Waiting for the Man | Rob Stefaniuk | Canada |
| Wasp | Wasp | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom |
| With Diva | Con Diva | Sebastian Mantilla | Spain |
| With What Shall I Wash It? | Con qué la lavaré? | María Trénor | Spain |

#### International Documentary

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Children of Leningradsky | Dzieci z Leningradzkiego | Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski | Poland |
| Meet Michael Oppenheim | Meet Michael Oppenheim | Roni Abulafia | Israel |
| Porter | Solo un cargador | Juan Alejandro Ramírez | Peru |

#### International Animated

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Birthday | Syntymäpäivä | Kari Juusonen | Finland |
| Fallen Art | Sztuka spadania | Tomasz Bagiński | Poland |
| It's Like That | It's Like That | Southern Ladies Animation Group | Australia |
| MOO(N) | MOO(N) | Leigh Hodgkinson | United Kingdom |
| Ryan | Ryan | Chris Landreth | Canada |
| Through My Thick Glasses | Gjennom mine tykke briller | Pjotr Sapegin | Norway, Canada |