Today's Sundance highlights

Published: Friday, Jan. 28 2005 10:19 a.m. MST

For tickets or more complete listings, go to www.sundance.org.

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8:30 a.m., Holiday II: "I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth," is a Brazilian film that examines the seminal 1964 documentary "I Am Cuba," and looks back at the country's political struggles.

8:30 a.m., Library Center: "Ellie Parker," a dramatic-competition film, stars Naomi Watts as a Los Angeles actress trying to find herself; Chevy Chase co-stars.

9 a.m., Egyptian: "Kekexilii: Mountain Patrol" looks at antelope being slaughtered by poachers in western China, as a Beijing journalist tries to track down the story.

9:15 a.m., Eccles: "The Squid and the Whale," a dramatic-competition film, stars Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney in a dysfunctional domestic drama, written and directed by Noah Baumbach (who co-wrote "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou").

10 a.m., Holiday IV: "Twist of Faith," a documentary-competition film, focuses on a victim of child abuse who discovers that the priest who allegedy abused him lives just five doors away.

11:30 a.m., Library Center: "Rory O'Shea Was Here" is an Irish film about two disparate people in a Dublin residential facility, one a loud-mouthed lout paralyzed from the neck down by muscular dystrophy and the other a quiet young man whose cerebral palsy keeps him wheelchair-bound and impairs his speech.

11:30 a.m., Prospector Square: "Trudell," a documentary-competition film portrait of radical activist John Trudell.

11:30 a.m., Racquet Club: "Forty Shades of Blue," a dramatic-competition film, looks at a Russian woman living with a legendary music producer twice her age, who examines her priorities when his adult son visits; co-starring Rip Torn, Dina Korzun.

Noon, Eccles: "Who Killed Cock Robin?" a dramatic-competition film, looks at the intersecting lives of three disparate men living in Butte, Mont.

Noon, Egyptian: "Harlan County, U.S.A.," a 1976 Oscar-winning documentary about a Kentucky mineworkers strike.

2:30 p.m., Library Center: "The Puffy Chair," a comic road trip, examines the lives of thirtysomething slackers who've never grown up.

2:30 p.m., Racquet Club: "Me and You and Everyone We Know," a dramatic-competition film, is a romantic comedy about a female cabbie who pursues a newly single shoe salesman.

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