Darren Burrows in Forty Shades of Blue. Photo courtesy of FSOB LLC.
Forty Shades of Blue, a love triangle involving a country singer (Rip Torn), the Russian immigrant with whom he lives (Dina Korzun), and the singer's estranged son (Darren Burrows) won the best American fiction film award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Ira Sachs directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Rohatyn.
The best American documentary award went to Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight, which explores decades of American war-making through a social, political, economic, and ideological prism. (The director's brother, Andrew Jarecki, won the same award in 2003 for Capturing the Friedmans.)
The World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize went to Zezé Gamboa's O Herói / The Hero, the story of an Angolan man who tries to rebuild his life in the aftermath of that country's 30-year civil war.
Dutch filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich's Stand van de maan / Shape of the Moon, a portrait of a poor family's daily life in Indonesia, won the World Documentary jury prize.
Noah Baumbach won both the Directing and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting awards for The Squid and the Whale, a semi-autobiographical dramatic comedy about two brothers trying to cope with the divorce of their ultra-intellectual Brooklyn parents (Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney).