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Introduced in 2006. This new out-of-competition category incorporates the categories previously known as American Spectrum and Special Screenings, and has expanded to include international dramatic and documentary films. These changes allow for each of the six out-of-competition categories to present international films. Spectrum films are eligible for the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
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Who Needs Sleep? and The Proposition
Adam's Apples (Adams æbler)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2005; Director: Anders Thomas Jensen; Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen; Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Paprika Steen, Ole Thestrup, Ali Kazim, Nicolas Bro)
A priest who believes in the essential goodness of everything struggles to deal with a neo-Nazi in his church.
US Premiere
An Inconvenient Truth (A Matter Of Degrees)
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Davis Guggenheim; Stars: Al Gore)
Al Gore investigates global warming.
Shown at Sundance under the title A Matter Of Degrees. World Premiere
All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Shari Cookson; Stars: Pam Elliott, Judy Gold, Megan Jacoby, Kelli O'Donnell, Rosie O'Donnell, Jane Skorina, Esera Tuaolo)
World Premiere
Documentary about the maiden voyage of a cruise founded by Rosie and Keli O'Donnell, specialising in gay family holidays.
Battle In Heaven (Batalla En El Cielo)
(Country: Mexico/France/Germany/Belgium; Year: 2005; Director: Carlos Reygadas; Writer: Carlos Reygadas; Stars: Marcos Hernandez, Anapola Mushkadiz, Berta Ruiz, David Bornstien, Rosilanda Ramirez)
An ugly taxi driver and the prostitute daughter of a general go at it and at it and (yawn).
US Premiere
Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Peter Richardson)
World Premiere
A documentary about a rural Oregon timber town that is torn apart when a rift between
conservative and liberal values in the school district threatens a college scholarship that has
paid the tuition of every local graduate for the last 40 years.
An Inconvenient Truth and Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Dreamland
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Jason Matzner; Writer: Tom Willett; Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Kelli Garner, Justin Long, John Corbett, Gina Gershon, Brian Klugman, Chris Mulkey, Luce Rains, Olive Bureker, Jenny Gabrielle, )
World Premiere
A young woman living in a trailer park in the desert struggles with the question of caring for her hapless father and ill friend or fulfilling her own destiny.
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Stewart Copeland; Stars: Terry Chambers, Ian Copeland, Miles A. Copeland III, Stewart Copeland, Dave Gregory, Colin Moulding, Andy Partridge, Danny Quatrochi, Jeff Seitz, Sting, Andy Summers)
World Premiere
A rare documentary compiled from the drummer’s personal Super 8 footage gives an intimate, inside look at what it was like to be a member of the 80's rock band The Police, from CBGB's to Shea Stadium.
Factotum (Factotum (A Man Who Performs Many Jobs))
(Country: Norway, US, Germany, Italy, France; Year: 2005; Director: Bent Hamer; Writer: Bent Hamer, Jim Stark, based on the writings of Charles Bukowski; Stars: Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens, Didier Flamand, Adrienne Shelly, Karen Young, Tom Lyons, Dean Brewington, James Cada, James Michael Detmar, Kurt Schweickhardt, Dee Noah, James Noah, Michael Egan, Terry Hempleman, Emily 'Sophia Simo)
Portrait of the drinker as an artist.
US Premiere
Forgiving The Franklins
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Jay Floyd; Writer: Jay Floyd; Stars: Aviva, Jenica Bergere, Tracy Berna, Mari C. Blackwell, Robertson Dean, Andy Forrest, Vince Pavia, Kimberly Price, Doug Purdy, Khris Scaramanga, Elizabeth Anne Swenson)
World Premiere
A repressed, God fearing Southern family is spiritually changed by an auto accident and their transformation puts them at odds with the conservative values of their community.
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Byron Hurt; Writer: Byron Hurt; Stars: Carmen Ashurst-Watson, William Jelani Cobb, Chuck Creekmur, Chuck D., Mos Def, De La Soul, Michael Eric Dyson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Stephen Hill, Byron Hurt, Jadakiss)
World Premiere
Examination of the hip-hop culture.
Factotum and Adam's Apples
Jewboy
(Country: Australia; Year: 2005; Director: Tony Krawitz; Writer: Tony Krawitz; Stars: Ewen Leslie, Naomi Wilson, Saskia Burmeister, Leah Vandenberg, Nicholas Eadie, Chris Haywood, Nathan Besser, Alice McConnell, Kelly Butler, Alan Flower, Richard Green)
North American Premiere
A film about a young orthodox man searching for his place in the world, his family and his faith.
Journey From The Fall
(Country: Thailand, US; Year: 2006; Director: Ham Tran; Writer: Ham Tran; Stars: Kieu Chinh, Long Nguyen, Diem Lien, Jayvee Mai The Hiep, Khanh Doan, Cat Ly, Nguyen Thai Nguyen, Raul Alba, George Bui, Alex Dorman, Jose Gutierrez)
Set during the thirteenth anniversary of the Vietnam War, Journey From The Fall tells the epic
story of a family who is painfully torn apart by the war, forced to emigrate across a dangerous sea, reunified and struggling to survive in America.
North American Premiere
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Lian Lunson; Stars: Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Bono, Jarvis Cocker, Martha Wainwright, Julie Christensen, Perla Batalla, Antony Hegarty, Beth Orton, Kate McGarrigle, Anna McGarrigle, Teddy Thompson, The Edge, Linda Thompson, Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton)
A tribute concert for Leonard Cohen, with snatches of interviews and scrapbook photos.
US Premiere
Man Push Cart
(Country: Iran, US; Year: 2005; Director: Ramin Bahrani; Writer: Ramin Bahrani; Stars: Ahmad Razvi, Leticia Dolera, Charles Daniel Sandoval, Ali Reza, Farooq 'Duke' Muhammad, Panicker Upendran, Arun Lal, Razia Mujahid, Hassan Razvi, Mustafa Razvi, Altaf Houssein)
The hard life of a Pakistani immigrant trying to survive in New York.
North American Premiere
Off the Black
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: James Ponsoldt; Writer: James Ponsoldt; Stars: Trevor Morgan, Nick Nolte, Rosemarie DeWitt, Thomas Schall, Paul Urcioli, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Noah Fleiss, Sonia Feigelson, Timothy Hutton, James Ponsoldt, Darrell Larson)
World Premiere
An unusual friendship develops between an aging high-school baseball umpire and a teenage pitcher after the young player vandalizes the older man's house.
Special and Battle In Heaven
Open Window
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Mia Goldman; Writer: Mia Goldman; Stars: Joel Edgerton, Robin Tunney, Cybill Shepherd, Elliott Gould, Scott Wilson, Michaela Conlin, Daniel Betances, Justin Ashforth, Matt Keeslar, Shirley Knight, Donn Swaby)
World Premiere
A struggling young photographer and an assistant professor are newly engaged and madly in love when their lives are shattered by a random act of violence.
The Proposition
(Country: Australia/UK; Year: 2005; Director: John Hillcoat; Writer: Nick Cave; Stars: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, John Hurt, David Wenham, Richard Wilson, Robert Morgan, David Gulpilil, Tom Budge)
In the 1880s, an Australian outlaw is offered a pardon if he tracks down and kills his psychotic elder brother.
US Premiere
Punching At The Sun
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Tanuj Chopra; Writer: Tanuj Chopra, Hart Eddy; Stars: Misu Khan, Nina Edmonds, Hassan El-Gendi, Ferdusy Dia, Kazi Rahman, Taran Singh, Mohammad Mirza, Rana Quraishi, Farhad Asghar, Raymond Vasquez, )
World Premiere
In the aftermath of 9/11 and his older brother's murder, a fiery South Asian teen struggles to find a path between rage and redemption on the streets of Elmhurst, Queens.
Special
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore; Writer: Hal Haberman, Jeremy Passmore; Stars: Michael Rapaport, Paul Blackthorne, Josh Peck, Robert Baker, Jack Kehler, Alexandra Holden, Ian Bohen, Christopher Darga, Erich Anderson, David Bear, Karyn Bryant, Amanda Carlin, Howard Ferguson, Howard Ferguson-Woitzman, Andrew Leeds)
An unexpected reaction to medication persuades an ordinary man that he's developing superpowers.
World Premiere
La Tragedia De Macario
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Pablo Veliz; Writer: Pablo Veliz; Stars: Rogelio T. Ramos, Victor Agustin, Juanita Castro, Carlos Chavaria, Milicent Figueroa, Raul Figueroa, Marisal Garza, Antonio Guillen, Dawas Hassan, Murado Hassan, Allan Horwath)
World Premiere
A drama inspired by the tragic, true events of immigrants struggling to cross the Mexican-American border.
What Remains
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Steven Cantor; Stars: Sally Mann, Emmett Mann, Jessie Mann, Larry Mann, Virginia Mann)
World Premiere
An investigation into the creative process and life of controversial and celebrated American photographer Sally Mann.
Who Killed the Electric Car?
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Chris Paine; Writer: Chris Paine; Stars: Martin Sheen, Reverend Gadget, Dave Barthmuss, Ed Begley Jr, Jim Boyd, Alec N Brooks, Alan Cocconi, John R Dabels, Phyllis Diller, Colette Divine, Tom Everhart)
World Premiere
A documentary that investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our country's future.
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Freida Lee Mock; Writer: Freida Lee Mock; Stars: Firdous Bamji, Bill Camp, Harrison Chad, Jay Charan, Linda Emond, David Marshall Grant, Marcia Gay Harden, Joseph Kamal, Justin Kirk, Sean T. Krishnan, Tony Kushner)
World Premiere
This documentary is a rich tapestry of the personal and political life of Tony Kushner, the award-winning playwright and activist whose provocative and truthful work has contributed to a national dialogue on the most pressing issues of our times.
Who Needs Sleep?
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Haskell Wexler; Writer: Haskell Wexler)
An investigation into the dangers of sleep deprivation and the long hours culture.
World Premiere
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