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Sundance Film Festival · 2005

Sundance Film Festival 2005

World Documentary Competition

Showcase of 12 factual films from around the world. The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Shape Of The Moon, while the Audience Award votes went to Shake Hands With The Devil. Special Jury Prizes were also given to Wall and The Liberace Of Baghdad. The Alfred P Sloan Award was given to Grizzly Man.

Programme

12 films · 3 reviews

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The 3 Rooms Of Melancholia (Melancholian 3 Huonetta)

A portrait of children in war.

(Country: Finland; Year: 2004; Director: Pirjo Honkasalo; Writer: Pirjo Honkasalo; Stars: Pirkko Saisio)

Dhakiyarr Vs. The King

An Australian Aboriginal's descendants bid to find out what happened to him after he had a conviction overturned and subsequently disappeared.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2005; Director: Allan Collins, Tom Murray; Writer: Tom Murray; Stars: Ted Egan, Djambawa Marawili, Wakuthi Marawilli, Waka Munungurra, Gawaratj Munungurr, Dhukal Wirrpanda, Mulkun Wirrpanda, Wuyal Wirrpanda, Galawarriwuy Wunnungmurra, , )

El Inmortal

A look at twin brothers who fought on opposite sides of the Contra war in Nicaragua.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2004; Director: Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez)

Grizzly Man

Review preview for Grizzly Man

Anyone who has seen Herzog's Fitzcarraldo will know of the director's fascination with doomed quests and magnificent obsessions, and in Treadwell he has found his dream subject.

The Exile · 5 out of 5
Werner Herzog examines the psyche of Timothy Treadwell, a man who lived and died with bears.

(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog; Stars: Werner Herzog, Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Franc G. Fallico, David Letterman, Willy Fulton, Marnie Gaede, Marc Gaede, Sven Haakanson, Jewel Palovak, Val Dexter, Carol Dexter, Kathleen Parker)

I Am Cuba, The Siberian Mammoth (Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano)

Exploration of the strange history of cinematic "classic" I Am Cuba.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2005; Director: Vicente Ferraz; Writer: Vicente Ferraz; Stars: Othon Bastos, Alexander Calzatti, Fidel Castro, Luz María Collazo, Sergio Corrieri, Maurício do Valle, Vicente Ferraz, Raúl García, Jean-Luc Godard, Alfredo Guevara, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)

The Liberace of Baghdad

A man who was a musical phenomenon in pre-Sadam Iraq. Showing how the advent of war affects him and his family.

(Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Sean McAllister; Stars: Samir Peter, Sean McAllister)

Odessa... Odessa!

A poetic journey from Odessa, Ukraine to Brighton Beach, New York to Ashdod, Israel, manoeuvring among ncharacters who summon feelings of Odessa through memory and music.

(Country: France; Year: 2005; Director: Michale Boganim)

Shake Hands With The Devil (Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire)

Review preview for Shake Hands With The Devil

Simultaneously an incredibly powerful indictment of the Western world’s apathy... and a testament to the innate goodness of man.

Caro Ness · 5 out of 5
Story of Canadian Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire's UN role in Rwanda, tracing his return to the country 10 years after the genocide.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2004; Director: Peter Raymont; Writer: Based on the memoires of Romeo Dallaire)

Shape Of The Moon (Stand Van De Maan)

Three generations of a Christian family amid the bustle and texture on the outskirts of Jakarta in Muslim-dominated Indonesia.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2004; Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich; Writer: Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmich, Leonard Retel Helmrich)

Unknown White Male

Review preview for Unknown White Male

Whether the story is true or not does have a bearing on how good you think it is.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
Controversial documentary about an amnesiac.

(Country: USA, UK; Year: 2005; Director: Rupert Murray; Stars: Doug Bruce and family)

Wall (Mur)

A haunting portrait of one of the most profound geographical markers of our time: the wall of separation constructed by Israel that shields it from Palestine.

(Country: France, Israel; Year: 2004; Director: Simone Britton)

Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Model Works (Yang Ban Xi, De 8 Modelwerken)

Exploration of the propagandist musicals that were virtually the only filmed intertainment for a generation of Communist Chinese.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2005; Director: Yan Ting Yuen; Writer: Yan Ting Yuen)