Sundance 2005

The Sundance film festival was founded by Robert Redford 25 years ago in Sundance, Utah. The festival presents 120 dramatic and documentary feature-length films in nine categories each year. It has introduced American audiences to such cult hits as Clerks, Smoke Signals, In the Bedroom, American Splendor and Napoleon Dynamite.

This year the top winners at the Sundance Film Festival covered familiar themes for movies here: stories of the displaced and the disconnected.

Quinceañera, written and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, was both the jury's and the audience's pick for best drama. It's about a 15-year-old Latino girl who is kicked out of her house when she discovers she is pregnant.

God Grew Tired of Us, about Sudanese refugees' lives in the USA, won the grand jury documentary prize and the audience award. It's a first film by New York-based director Christopher Quinn.