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1985 Sundance Film Festival

Now under the administration of Sundance Institute, The United States Film Festival presented over 80 feature-length films this year, including: STRANGER THAN PARADISE, THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN, MRS. SOFFEL, BEFORE STONEWALL: THE MAKING OF A GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY, THE KILLING FLOOR, BLOOD SIMPLE, THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK, BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, THE KILLING FIELDS, and WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM. The Festival also spotlighted the work of Christopher Petit (AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN, FLIGHT TO BERLIN), Francois Truffaut (THE 400 BLOWS, DAY FOR NIGHT), Ivan Passer (INTIMATE LIGHTING, CUTTER'S WAY) and the students of Roger Corman. There was an emphasis on international film, with screenings of seven new Australian works alone.

Awards

Grand Jury Prize Documentary
Seventeen
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Blood Simple
Special Jury Prize Documentary
Kaddish
Special Jury Prize Documentary
America and Lewis Hine
Special Jury Prize Documentary
Streetwise
Special Jury Prize Documentary
The Times of Harvey Milk
Special Jury Prize Dramatic
Almost You
Special Jury Prize Dramatic
The Killing Floor
Special Jury Recognition
The Brother from Another Planet
Special Jury Recognition Documentary
In Heaven There Is No Beer?
Special Jury Recognition Dramatic
Stranger than Paradise

Credits

Barbara Kopple
Documentary Competition Juror
 D.A. Pennebaker
Documentary Competition Juror
Frederick Wiseman
Documentary Competition Juror
 Mirra Bank
Dramatic Competition Juror
Peter Biskind
Dramatic Competition Juror
 Robert M. Young
Dramatic Competition Juror

Panels

Dilemmas Of Finance Finding The Audience
Ivan Passer Directs Roger Corman And His Prodigies
Stars on a Budget What's Real?

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America and Lewis Hine Almost You
A Flash of Green An Unsuitable Job For a Woman
Antoine et Colette A Boring Afternoon
A Love in Germany (Eine Leibe in Deutschland) A Joke of Destiny
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Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community Blood Simple
Bed and Board (Domicile Conjugal) Battle Beyond the Stars
Boxcar Bertha Between Wars
Brady’s Escape
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Cold Feet Chinese Boxes
Cutter’s Way Caged Heat
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Day For Night (La Nuit Americaine) Dementia 13
Death Race 2000 Dialogue with a Woman Departed
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Far From Poland Flight to Berlin (Fluchtpunkt Berlin)
Far Thunder (Enrai)
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Gas-s-s! or, It may become necessary to Destroy the World in order to save It
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Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World Hard Choices
Heartbreakers
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In Heaven There Is No Beer? Intimate Lighting
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Jack Kerouac’s America
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Kaddish
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Law and Disorder Low Visibility
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Mrs. Soffel Mass Appeal
Monkey Grip Moving Out
Mosquito on the Tenth Floor (Jukai No Mosukiito) Mother’s Meat and Freud’s Flesh
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Not For Publication
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Paris, Texas Piranha
Pebbles (Kieselstein)
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Radio On Rock ‘n' Roll High School
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Seventeen Strategic Trust: The Making of A Nuclear Free Palau
Streetwise Stranger than Paradise
Stolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) Silver Bears
Strikebound Squizzy Taylor
Silver City Secret Honor
Sprout Wings and Fly
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The Falcon and the Snowman The Purple Rose of Cairo
The Gospel According to Al Green The Real Thing
The Times of Harvey Milk The Work I’ve Done
The Business of America The World of Tomorrow
The Brother from Another Planet The Killing Floor
The Roommate The Last Seduction
The 400 Blows (Les Quarte Cents Coups) Targets
The Trip The Little Shop of Horrors
The Night the Prowler The Lift (De Lift)
The Go Masters The Gold Diggers
The Illusionist (De Illusionist) Tattoo [Irezumi] Ari (Tattoo)
The Killing Fields The Hit
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Way Down East Wild Angels
Where the Green Ants Dream
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