The following films were shown at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

• An American Soldier
• American Teen
• Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
• Fields of Fuel
• Flow: For Love of Water^{[citation needed]}
• Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
• The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
• I.O.U.S.A.
• Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)
• The Order of Myths
• Patti Smith: Dream of Life
• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
• Secrecy
• Slingshot Hip Hop
• Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
• Trouble the Water

• American Son
• Anywhere, U.S.A.
• Ballast
• Choke
• Downloading Nancy
• Frozen River
• Good Dick
• The Last Word
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
• North Starr
• Phoebe in Wonderland
• Pretty Bird
• Sleep Dealer
• Sugar
• Sunshine Cleaning
• The Wackness

• Alone in Four Walls (Germany)
• The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins (New Zealand)
• Be Like Others (Canada, United Kingdom, U.S.A., Iran)
• A Complete History of My Sexual Failures (United Kingdom)
• Derek (United Kingdom)
• Dinner with the President (Pakistan)
• Durakovo: The Village of Fools (France)
• In Prison My Whole Life (United Kingdom)
• Man on Wire (United Kingdom)
• Puujee (Japan)
• Recycle (Jordan)
• Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains (France)
• Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma (Canada)
• Up the Yangtze (Canada)
• The Women of Brukman (Canada)
• Yasukuni (Japan, China)

• Absurdistan (Germany, Azerbaijan)
• Blue Eyelids' (Mexico)
• Captain Abu Raed (Jordan)
• The Drummer (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany)
• I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (France)
• Just Another Love Story (Denmark)
• King of Ping Pong (Sweden)
• Máncora (Spain, Peru)
• Megane (Japan)
• Mermaid (Russia)
• Perro Come Perro (Colombia)
• Riprendimi (Italy)
• Strangers (Israel)
• Under the Bombs (Lebanon)
• The Wave (Germany)
• The Wind and the Water (Panama)

• Assassination of a High School President
• Be Kind Rewind
• CSNY Déjà Vu
• The Deal
• Death in Love
• Diminished Capacity
• The Escapist
• The Great Buck Howard
• The Guitar
• Hamlet 2^[1]
• Henry Poole is Here
• In Bruges
• Incendiary
• The Merry Gentleman
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Savage Grace
• Sleepwalking
• Smart People
• Towelhead
• Transsiberian
• U2 3D
• The Visitor
• What Just Happened
• The Year of Getting to Know Us
• The Yellow Handkerchief

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• The Black List
• Kicking It
• The Linguists
• Made in America
• Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
• Young@Heart
• August
• Baghead
• Birds of America
• Blind Date
• Bottle Shock
• Chronic Town
• Goliath
• A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy
• Love Comes Lately
• Momma's Man
• Quid Pro Quo
• Red

• Adventures of Power
• The Brøken
• Donkey Punch
• Funny Games
• George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
• Hell Ride
• Otto; or, Up with Dead People
• Timecrimes

• Edward II
• The Living End

• Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Parts 4 and 5
• casting a glance
• Eat, for This Is My Body
• Fear(s) of the Dark
• Half-Life
• Reversion