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The Slamdance Film Festival, that rogue upstart running alongside the Sundance Film Festival, has announced its competition slate for narrative and documentary films.

The slate features 11 narrative films and eight documentaries, all directorial debuts and all with budgets of less than $1 million and without U.S. distribution. The bulk are American-made, but some are from as far away as Turkey, Brazil, Austria, Italy and Ireland.

Slamdance runs Jan. 23-29 at the Treasure Mountain Inn, 255 Main St. in Park City.

(Sundance, by the way, announces the first block of its 2015 slate on Wednesday.)

Here are the films in Slamdance's competition. Descriptions are courtesy of Slamdance.

Narrative Features:

"Across the Sea" (Turkey/U.S.) • Directors and Screenwriters: Nisan Dag, Esra Saydam: "Young, beautiful and pregnant, Damla has to confront her first love in a Turkish summer town before she can fully embrace her new life in New York."

"Asco" (Brazil) • Director: Ale Paschoalini; Screenwriters: Ale Paschoalini, Rafael Baliu: "Needs and desires are simplified in this experimental, black and white portrayal of the poisonous destruction of a broken heart."

"Body" (U.S.) • Directors & Screenwriters: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen: "After three twenty-something girls break into a mansion and inadvertently murder the groundskeeper, they slowly self-destruct as they decide what to do with the dead body in the living room."

"Clinger" (U.S.) • Director: Michael Steves; Screenwriters: Michael Steves, Gabi Chennisi Duncombe, Bubba Fish: "When her possessive high school boyfriend dies in a gruesome accident, Fern Petersen's life is thrown into turmoil. Things go from bad to worse when he returns as a love-sick ghost to kill her so they can be together for eternity."

"Darkness on the Edge of Town" (Ireland) • Director & Screenwriter: Patrick Ryan: "A troubled teenage sharpshooter decides to avenge the death of her estranged sister after she is found murdered in a public bathroom."

"Diamond Tongues" (Canada) • Director: Brian Robertson, Pavan Moondi; Screenwriter: Pavan Moondi: "Edith Welland is an actress. Things haven't been going very well. When her ex-boyfriend becomes an actor on a whim and almost immediately books a leading role, Edith decides if she's going to get ahead, she'll need to get ruthless."

"High Performance" (Austria) • Director & Screenwriter: Johanna Moder: "Rudi wears a suit, Daniel rides a bike, and they are both interested in Nora for very different reasons; the story of two grown up brothers who still know how to hurt each other."

"Ratter" (U.S.) • "Emma is being watched by a stalker who has hacked into all of her personal technology – laptop, cell phone, and other web connected devices – to record her most intimate moments. Eventually the video feeds aren't enough and the stalker moves from the virtual to the physical." Stars Ashley Benson ("Pretty Little Liars").

"They Look Like People" (U.S.) • Director & Screenwriter: Perry Blackshear: "Suspecting that those around him are actually malevolent shape-shifters, a troubled young man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself."

"Tired Moonlight" (U.S.) • Director & Screenwriter: Britni West: "Drifting between small-town gossip and dreams of the outside world, two middle-aged womens' lives are slowly upended as they start caring for a young girl and a ramblin' man from the past rolls through their small town." Alex Karpovsky ("Girls") stars.

"Wendell and the Lemon" (U.S.) • Director & Screenwriter: Lawrence Krauser: "A young man finds a lemon on the sidewalk, takes it home, and becomes inordinately fond of it. Complications ensue."

Documentary Features:

"20 Years of Madness" (U.S.) • Director: Jeremy Royce: "Twenty years after the success of a 90s cult TV show, '30 Minutes of Madness,' founder Jerry White Jr. brings the rag tag team of misfits back together to film one final episode – only to find the majority of his cast now suffer from a variety of personal struggles."

"Alberi che Camminano" (Italy) • Director: Mattia Colombo; Screenwriters: Erri De Luca, Mattia Colombo: "A meditative look at the two distinct lives of trees and their deep relationship with human beings."

"Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang" (U.K.) • Director: Colin Offland; Screenwriter: Matt Baker: "An intimate behind the scenes look at Dennis Rodman's unlikely friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and the staging of the most controversial game of basketball the world has never seen."

"I Am Thor" (U.S.) • Director: Ryan Wise: "Before Chris Hemsworth, there was Jon Mikl Thor – the original hammer-wielding, steel bending, brick smashing rock star of the 70s band Thor. But does he still have the magic to thunder a comeback?"

"My Fathers, My Mother and Me" (Austria) • Director: Paul-Julien Robert: "Twenty years after leaving the Austrian commune where he was raised, Paul-Julien Robert embarks on a personal journey to confront what went wrong and explore ideas of family."

"On Her Own" (U.S.) • Director & Screenwriter: Morgan Schmidt-Feng: "A woman and her family try to save their 5th generation family farm during the Great Recession."

"The Resurrection of Jake the Snake" (U.S.) • Director: Steve Yu: "Legendary wrestler Jake 'The Snake' Roberts charts his personal and professional comeback while battling crippling addictions." Roberts and fellow pro wrestlers "Diamond" Dallas Page, Chris Jericho and Steve Austin are featured.

"Sweet Micky For President" (U.S.) • Director: Ben Patterson: "With the help of Pras Michel of the Fugees, presidential candidate Michel Martelly, aka Sweet Micky, campaigns against all odds in Haiti's third-ever democratic election."