| 2007 Sundance Film Festival | |
| Opening: | Chicago 10[1] |
| Closing: | Life Support[2] |
| Host: | Sundance Institute |
| Date: | January 18–28, 2007 |
| Number: | 122 |
| Location: | Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah |
| Language: | English |
| Preceded By: | 2006 Sundance Film Festival |
| Followed By: | 2008 Sundance Film Festival |
The 2007 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 18 until January 28, 2007, in Park City, Utah with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ogden, Utah. It was the 23-rd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.[3] The opening night film was Chicago 10;[1] the closing night film was Life Support.[2]
3,287 feature films were submitted, of which 1,852 were U.S films (compared to 1,764 in 2006) and 1,435 were international films (vs. 1,384 in 2006). From these, 122 feature films were selected and include 82 world premieres, 24 North American premieres, and 10 U.S. premieres from 25 countries. The festival had films from almost 60 first or second-time feature filmmakers.[4] [5]
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.http://history.sundance.org/events/42
Dawn Hudson, Elvis Mitchell, Catherine Hardwicke, Pamela Martin, Sarah Polley, George C. Wolfe
For a full list of films appeared at the festival, see List of films at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An American Crime | United States | |||
| Away From Her | Canada | |||
| Black Snake Moan | United States | |||
| Summer Rain | El Camino de los ingleses | Spain | ||
| Chapter 27 | United States | |||
| Chicago 10 | United States | |||
| Clubland | Australia | |||
| The Good Night | United States | |||
| King of California | Mike Cahill | United States | ||
| Life Support | United States | |||
| Longford | United Kingdom | |||
| The Nines | United States | |||
| Resurrecting the Champ | United States | |||
| The Savages | Tamara Jenkins | United States | ||
| Son of Rambow | United Kingdom | |||
| Trade | United States | |||
| Year of the Dog | United States | |||
The 16 films below were chosen from 856 submissions by U.S. filmmakers and each film is a world premiere.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banished | United States | |||
| Chasing Ghosts | Lincoln Ruchti | United States | ||
| Crazy Love | Dan Klores | United States | ||
| Everything's Cool | Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand | United States | ||
| For the Bible Tells Me So | Daniel Karslake | United States | ||
| Ghosts of Abu Ghraib | United States | |||
| Girl 27 | United States | |||
| Hear and Now | Irene Taylor Brodsky | United States | ||
| Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) | Jason Kohn | United States | ||
| My Kid Could Paint That | Amir Bar-Lev | United States | ||
| Nanking | Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman | United States | ||
| No End in Sight | United States | |||
| Protagonist | United States | |||
| War/Dance | Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine | United States | ||
| United States | ||||
| Zoo | Robinson Devor | United States | ||
The 16 films below were chosen from 996 submissions and each film is a world premiere.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrift in Manhattan | Alfredo de Villa | United States | ||
| Broken English | United States | |||
| Four Sheets to the Wind | Sterlin Harjo | United States | ||
| The Good Life | United States | |||
| Grace Is Gone | United States | |||
| Hounddog | United States | |||
| Joshua | George Ratliff | United States | ||
| Never Forever | Gina Kim | United States | ||
| On the Road with Judas | United States | |||
| Padre Nuestro | Christopher Zalla | United States | ||
| The Pool | Chris Smith | United States | ||
| Rocket Science | Jeffrey Blitz | United States | ||
| Snow Angels | United States | |||
| Starting Out in the Evening | Andrew Wagner | United States | ||
| Teeth | United States | |||
| Weapons | United States | |||
The 16 films below were chosen from 506 submissions.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accident | Accidente | Cao Guimarães, Pablo Lobato | Brazil | |
| Bajo Juárez: The City Devouring Its Daughters | Bajo Juárez: La ciudad devorando a sus hijas | José Antonio Cordero, Alejandra Sánchez | Mexico | |
| Cocalero | Cocalero | Alejandro Landes | Bolivia/Argentina | |
| Comrades in Dreams | Uli Gaulke | |||
| Crossing the Line | Daniel Gordon | |||
| Three Comrades | Drie kameraden | Netherlands | ||
| Hot House | Shimon Dotan | Israel | ||
| In the Shadow of the Moon | David Sington | United Kingdom | ||
| Manufactured Landscapes | Canada | |||
| Pernille Rose Grønkjær | Denmark | |||
| On a Tightrope | Petr Lom | |||
| A Very British Gangster | Donal Mac Intyre | United Kingdom | ||
| VHS—Kahloucha | Nejib Belkadhi | Tunisia | ||
| Enemies of Happiness | Vores lykkes fjender | |||
| Welcome Europa | Bruno Ulmer | France | ||
The 16 films below were chosen from 506 submissions.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Mud | Adama Meshuga'at | Dror Shaul | Israel | |
| Driving with My Wife's Lover | Ane-eui Aein-eul Mannada | Kim Tai-sik | South Korea | |
| The Night Buffalo | El Búfalo de la Noche | Jorge Hernandez Aldana | Mexico | |
| Eagle vs Shark | New Zealand | |||
| Ezra | France/Nigeria/Austria | |||
| Blame it on Fidel | La Faute à Fidel | Julie Gavras | France | |
| Ghosts | ||||
| The Legacy | L' Héritage | France | ||
| How She Move | ||||
| How Is Your Fish Today? | Jin tian de yu zen me yang? | Xiaolu Guo | United Kingdom | |
| Khadak | Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | |||
| Noise | ||||
| Drained | O Cheiro do Ralo | Heitor Dhalia | Brazil | |
| Once | Ireland | |||
| The Island | Ostrov | Pavel Lounguine | Russian Federation | |
| Buried Dreams | Rêves de poussière | |||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Light | Paul Chan | United States | ||
| Academy | United States | |||
| Cluster | Lincoln Schatz | United States | ||
| Copenhagen Cycles | Eric Dyer | United States | ||
| Klip//Effect | Klip Collective | United States | ||
| The Last Dining Table | South Korea | |||
| Lynn Hershman Leeson In Second Life | United States | |||
| Meet Me In Wichita | Martha Colburn | United States | ||
| Mobiopera | Shu Lea Cheang | United States | ||
| Offscreen | Denmark | |||
| Phantom Love | Nina Menkes | United States | ||
| Pierre Huyghe Artist Spotlight | France | |||
| Play | R. Luke DuBois | United States | ||
| Slipstream | Anthony Hopkins | United States | ||
| Soapbox Agitation #1: Proving Ground | Travis Wilkerson | United States | ||
| Strange Culture | United States | |||
| You Are Here | James Graham | United States | ||
| Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno | United States | |||