The Devil and Daniel Johnston won the Sundance directors award

The Devil and Daniel Johnston will be among 80 international films shown over 12 days. The opening film won the 2005 directors award at Sundance festival.

Other films include Buy It Now, which follows a 16-year-old's attempt to sell her virginity on internet site eBay.

Japanese cult film Canary and Russian horror Night Watch will also be shown.

Black comedy

Past Oscar nominee Night Watch is based on the best-selling sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukanenko.

It has won praise from Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino, who said: "If there is only one film you see this year, let this be it."

UK black comedy Guy X features American Pie star Jason Biggs as a soldier mistakenly posted to a desolate military base in Greenland.

Night Watch has already been praised by Quentin Tarantino

The Gingerbread Man features a man who tracks down his daughter's abductor via the internet, while French actors Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteil star as battling policemen in drama 36 Quai des Orfevres.

Punk: Attitude, a documentary by DJ and former Big Audio Dynamite member Don Letts, will be shown, while a 15-minute film of Pete Doherty's previous band The Libertines will be among 130 short films screened.

Raindance festival is also showing The Great Ecstasy Of Robert Carmichael, whose violent closing scenes shocked audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival.