17 January – 26 January
Smooth Talk – (Grand Jury Prize)
1987
16 January – 25 January
1988
15 January – 24 January
Heat and Sunlight – (Grand Jury Prize)
1989
20 January – 29 January
True Love – (Grand Jury Prize)
1990
19 January – 27 January
Chameleon Street – (Grand Jury Prize)
1991
Poison – (Grand Jury Prize)The Grifters
1992
19 January – 27 January
In the Soup – (Grand Jury Prize)
1993
Bottle Rocket
Fear of a Black Ha
Public Access
Ruby in Paradise
1994
- Clerks
- Spanking the Monkey
- What Happened Was… – (Grand Jury Prize)
1995
19 January – 29 January
- The Brothers McMullen – (Grand Jury Prize)
- Picture Bride – Audience Award
- Parallel Sons – Dramatic Competition
- Wigstock: The Movie
1996
18 January – 28 January
- Manny & Lo
- Welcome to the Dollhouse – (Grand Jury Prize)
1997
16 January – 26 January
Hurricane Streets – Audience Award, Best Cinematography, Best Director (first narrative film to win three awards)
Sunday – (Grand Jury Prize)
1998
15 January – 25 January
- Clockwatchers
- Slam – (Grand Jury Prize)
1999
21 January – 31 January
Three Seasons – (Grand Jury Prize)
2000
20 January – 30 January
2001
18 January – 28 January
- American Psycho
- The Believer – (Grand Jury Prize)
- Donnie Darko
- Memento
- Rejected
- Super Troopers
2002
10 January – 20 January
- Personal Velocity: Three Portraits – (Grand Jury Prize)
- On line
- Better Luck Tomorrow
- We Are Family
2003
16 January – 26 January
- 28 Days Later
- American Splendor – (Grand Jury Prize)
- Masked and Anonymous
- Some Kind of Monster
2004
15 January – 25 January
- Born into Brothels – (Documentary Audience Award)
- CSA: The Confederate States of America
- DiG! – (Documentary Grand Jury Prize)
- Garden State
- Maria Full of Grace – (Dramatic Audience Award)
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Open Water (film)
- Primer – (Grand Jury Prize)
- Saved!
- This Revolution
- The Butterfly Effect
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- The Woodsman
- Until the Violence Stops
2005
January 20- 30
Forty Shades of Blue – (Grand Jury Prize)
Murderball – (Documentary Audience Award)