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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.
View Films by Strand:
- American Documentary Competition
- American Dramatic Competition
- American Spectrum
- Frontier
- Park City At Midnight
- Premieres
- Special Screenings
- World Documentary Competition
- World Dramatic Competition
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Sundance Latest Reviews
![Layer Cake](/images/stills/l/layer_cake_2004.jpg)
Cockney drug dealer become enmeshed in gang war over stolen happy pills.
![On A Clear Day](/images/stills/o/on_a_clear_day_2005.jpg)
A redundant shipworker from Glasgow dreams of swimming the English Channel.
![3-Iron](/images/stills/0/3iron_2004.jpg)
The silent love affair between a battered wife and a respectful intruder.
![Shake Hands With The Devil](/images/stills/s/shake_hands_with_the_devil_2004.jpg)
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](/images/stills/d/dying_gaul_2005.jpg)
A recently bereaved screenwriter struggles to get his film produced without too many compromises, but personal compromises can be much more dangerous.
![The Upside Of Anger](/images/stills/u/upside_of_anger_2005.jpg)
Deflecting the fury of a woman scorned with frequent showers, Bloody Marys and a little light humour.
![Tony Takitani](/images/stills/t/tony_takitani_2004.jpg)
A lonely man's search for happiness.
![Pretty Persuasion](/images/stills/p/pretty_persuasion_2005.jpg)
A clever girl in a Beverly Hills private school has no inhibitions about causing emotional havoc.
![Oldboy](/images/stills/o/oldboy_2004.jpg)
A revenge drama from South Korea creates a mystery for the long term prisoner who is released. Now out to own as part of the Vengeance Trilogy box set.
![Kekexili: Mountain Patrol](/images/stills/k/kekexili_mountain_patrol_2004.jpg)
True story of poacher hunters in the mountains of Tibet.
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