13 TZAMETI / France (Director and Screenwriter: Géla Babluani) – Sebastien has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else. When he reaches his destination, he falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos. North American Premiere.

ALLEGRO / Denmark (Director: Christoffer Boe; Screenwriters: Christoffer Boe, Mikael Wulff) – After a long absence, a famous amnesiac pianist returns to his native Copenhagen where he is contacted by a mysterious messenger who leads him back into his forgotten past. North American Premiere.

EL AURA / THE AURA / Argentina (Director and Screenwriter: Fabián Bielinsky) – Espinoza is an introverted taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first-ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams are unexpectedly made reality with one squeeze of the trigger. North American Premiere.

THE BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO OLIVEROS / Philippines (Director: Auraeus Solito; Screenwriter: Michiko Yamamoto) – Young Maxi's unquestioned devotion to his family of smalltime criminals in a Manila slum is undermined when he is befriended by a principled young policeman. U.S. Premiere.

EVE & THE FIRE HORSE / Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Julia Kwan) – Eve is a precocious nine-year-old growing up in a Vancouver Chinese immigrant family where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her prim authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. U.S. Premiere.

GRBAVICA / Bosnia-Herzegovina (Director and Screenwriter: Jasmila Zbanic) – A chilling story of a woman and her daughter as they fight to survive in the painful aftermath of the recent Balkan war. World Premiere.

THE HOUSE OF SAND / Brazil (Director: Andrucha Waddington; Screenwriter: Elena Soarez) – The story of a woman across three generations. In the remote dunes of Brazil, Maria spends her life while an entire century passes by her, her house and sand. U.S. Premiere.

KISS ME NOT ON THE EYES / Lebanon (Director and Screenwriter: Jocelyne Saab) – An educated young Egyptian woman defends her artistic integrity as a dancer and her social independence in the midst of modern Cairo's culture wars. U.S. Premiere.

LITTLE RED FLOWERS / China (Director: Zhang Yuan; Screenwriters: Ning Dai, Zhang Yuan) – A parable about the nature and complexities of being compelled to – fit in – to a regimented society set in a post – revolutionary Chinese orphanage. World Premiere.

MADEINUSA / Peru (Director and Screenwriter: Claudia Llosa) – Madeinusa is a sweet girl who lives in an isolated religiously zealous village in mountainous Peru. Everything changes when a geologist from Lima arrives and unknowingly reshapes Madeinusa's destiny. World Premiere.

NO. 2 / New Zealand (Director and Screenwriter: Toa Fraser) – Nanna Maria's family has forgotten how to party. She's going to change all that, make them come alive with the heat and passion of the South Pacific. World Premiere.

ONE LAST DANCE / Singapore (Director and Screenwriter: Max Makowski) – An assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper's name – his own. World Premiere.

THE PETER PAN FORMULA / South Korea (Director and Screenwriter: Cho Chang – Ho) – An adolescent boy confronts premature independence as his mother lies in a coma and he experiences the first tugs of sexual desires with an older woman. North American Premiere.

PRINCESAS / Spain (Director and Screenwriter: Fernando Leon de Aranoa) – The story of two women who form an unbreakable friendship despite their differences as they fight to make ends meet in the big city. U.S. Premiere.

SÓLO DIOS SABE / Brazil/Mexico (Director: Carlos Bolado; Screenwriters: Carlos Bolado, Diane Weipert) – On a lark in Tijuana, a young Brazilian art student crosses paths with a roguish Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. World Premiere.

SON OF MAN / South Africa (Director: Mark Dornford – May; Screenwriters: Mark Dornford – May, Andiswa Kedama, Pauline Malefane) – A gripping journey of love, deception and betrayal, SON OF MAN translates Jesus – life to modern – day South Africa, where a new politics of compassion incites revolution during a military dictatorship. The next collaboration from Dimpho di Kopane, a South African lyric theatre ensemble whose U-CARMEN garnered last year's Berlin Golden Bear. World Premiere.

Sundance 2006: Documentary Lineup

Sundance 2006: Dramatic Lineup

Sundance 2006: World Cinema Documentary Lineup