Sundance reflected our woeful world

January 30, 2007 If audiences are giving a standing ovation while critics are rushing from the theater with handkerchiefs over their mouths, it must be the Sundance Film Festival. If you're exhausted, sleepy and bleary-eyed yet somehow strangely comforted that some filmmakers at least are confronting the dark world we live in, you know Sundance has just wrapped. Contemporary horror was captured in disturbing images in Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's "The Devil Came on Horseback," concerning the humanitarian catastrophe in the Darfur region of Sudan, and Rory Kennedy's "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib," tracing the prisoner abuse of the Iraq War all the way back to the Oval Office and Defense Department.

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