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12Narrative Feature
7 DAYS
Dir: Fernando Kalife, Mexico, 94 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
"7 Days" is the story of desperate Claudio Caballero, a man who lives in the shadow of how great an event organizer his dead brother was. Claudio convince ... more »
AMOUR FOU
Dir: Felicitas Korn, Germany, 92 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
Nadja utterly storms through life, without compromise. She is looking for the true moments in life: in her pictures during the day as a photography student ... more »
ARRANGED
Dir: Stefan Schaefer & Diane Crespo, United States, 89 min, 2007, Narrative Feature
Two young women - one an Orthodox Jew, the other Muslim - meet and become friends as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Grand Chameleon Award, Best Narrative Feature
BODY/ANTIBODY
Dir: Kerry Douglas Dye & Jordan Hoffman, United States, 98 min, 2007, Narrative Feature
Kip Polyard (Robert Gomes) suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and hasn't left his Manhattan apartment in 10 months. When the beautiful Celine (Lesl ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Best Original Score, Audience Award
COVER BOY...LAST REVOLUTION
Dir: Carmine Amoroso, Italy, 100 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Cover Boy is the story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds apart: the t ... more »
DEEP
Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp, Netherlands, 86 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
A romantic girl in search of love collides with the reality of the turbulent seventies. She experiences a high speed change from a roller skating girl into ... more »
ELEPHANT KING, THE
Dir: Seth Grossman, United States, 92 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
Facing fraud charges in the US, Jake (Jonno Roberts) has escaped to Thailand, where he has abandoned his anthropology research in favor of whiskey, women a ... more »
FISSURES
Dir: Alanté Kavaïté, France, 87 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
Charlotte is a sound engineer whose mother is murdered in her house in the countryside. Once in the village, Charlotte realizes that she doesn't know much ... more »
FORFEIT
Dir: Andrew Brendan Shea, United States, 84 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
FORFEIT explores the human traits of greed, obsession, and revenge. This clever and engaging heist flick tells the story of a man hell-bent on exacting ve ... more »
HAVE YOU ANOTHER APPLE?
Dir: Bayram Fazli, Iran, 90 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
In an unidentified, atemporal dystopia, a despot rules with an iron fist. Helping him to maintain control over the people are Dasdaran - black-clad warrior ... more »
HOUNDED
Dir: Angelina Maccarone, Germany, 87 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
In an obsessive sexual encounter with a sixteen-year-old boy Elsa is exposed to the relentless revelation of her own desires. Elsa Seifert (MAREN KROYMAN ... more »
MADE IN BROOKLYN
Dir: Alosio, Angela, Mazzola, Tabb, Palanca, United States, 88 min, 2007, Narrative Feature
Made in Brooklyn is a film about the neighborhood. Four stories woven together by a cute little girl selling lemonade on a corner. ... more »
NICKY'S BIRTHDAY CAMERA
Dir: Andrew J. Traister, United States, 93 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
A 12-year-old boy's home video ruins his parents marriage, sends his father to jail, and solves a murder mystery. Shot completely from the boy's POV. ... more »
RANG DE BASANTI
Dir: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, India, 171 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
India's submission to the Academy Awards, Rang de Basanti, translated "paint it yellow," is a story about the youth of India today. A young London-based fi ... more »
ROCKET, THE
Dir: Charles Binamé, Canada, 125 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
The only thing that matters to 17 year-old Maurice Richard is playing hockey. Every night, after working to earn a living at a Montreal factory, young Maur ... more »
SALTY AIR
Dir: Alessandro Angelini, Italy, 87 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
Fabio is a young educator full of energy who works with passion and dedication helping former prison inmates with their reintegration into society. One day ... more »
SLIPPERY SLOPE
Dir: Sarah Schenck, United States, 79 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
In the comedy "Slippery Slope," a fierce young feminist filmmaker who is desperate for cash to finish her documentary "Feminism for Dummies" secretly takes ... more »
STANLEY CUBA
Dir: Per Anderson, United States, 80 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
A rectangular black obelisk, intellectual property lawyers from hell, the most gratuitous lesbian kiss ever, five Brooklyn bands, aesthetic transcendence t ... more »
SUNNY
Dir: Thorsten Wettcke, Germany, 92 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
Boris returns to his small hometown in the south of Germany, having built a career as a lawyer in Hollywood. Along with him arrives his model girlfriend Re ... more »
VINETA - THE SECRET PROJECT
Dir: Franziska Stünkel, Germany, 93 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
Sebastian Färber, top architect and workaholic with a heart condition is summoned to a secret project in a remote house. There, 6 men meet for a workshop t ... more »
WINTER JOURNEY
Dir: Hans Steinbichler, Germany, 100 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
In Hans Steinbichler's Winter Journey, actor Josef Bierbichler is a force of nature - a big, belligerent man with even bigger problems. Suffering from mani ... more »
Narrative Short
AIRPLANES
Dir: Jen Heck, United States, 10 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Airplanes is the story of two teenage girls who secretly hook up one day at a traveling carnival. Although their encounter is brief, like an airplane it's ... more »
BARYE
Dir: Fred Gasimov, France, 11 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Manu, a homeless man living on the streets on Christmas eve, finds some pieces of porcelain in a trash can. He carefully reassembles the fragments to find ... more »
BIT ON THE SIDE, A
Dir: Steve Sullivan, England, 12 min, 2006, Narrative Short
A Bit On The Side is a wry story that tries to find some sense in one man's obsession with drills. Tony is fixated with drills of all shapes and sizes. As ... more »
CHAIN
Dir: Dan Chyutin, Israel, 29 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Rami was never troubled by much till that day in the park when his daughter was bitten by a dog. Since then, he is consumed with guilt. Was I at fault? Did ... more »
CONTACT
Dir: Hanro Smitsman, Netherlands, 10 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Contact is a short, tragi-comic thread story about the search for happiness of a boy, his mother, and her lover. ... more »
DVD
Dir: Ciro Altabas, Spain, 17 min, 2006, Narrative Short
This short film includes: scene selection / trailer / selected cut scenes / alternative ending / eliminated scene / videoclip / featurette: "What's a freak ... more »
FAMILY REUNION
Dir: Isold Uggadottir, Iceland, 19 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Filmed in Reykjavik and New York City, "Family Reunion" focuses on the themes of sexuality, secrets, love and family. New York lesbian Katrín is returning ... more »
FIFTH, THE
Dir: Ryan Levin, United States, 14 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Four friends have invited a fifth player to join them for their weekly poker game. Will the new guy survive the night? ... more »
FINKLE'S ODYSSEY
Dir: Barney Clay, England, 17 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Struggling young writer Finkle is so hampered by his inability to create he will go to any length in his search for inspiration. His dream draws closer whe ... more »
FIRST.
Dir: DB Woodside & Nick Sivakumaran, United States, 26 min, 2007, Narrative Short
First love, first kill, first grace. Throughout our lives we experience love, loss, and, in rare instances, rebirth. Meet James Mooney, an American Profess ... more »
GOLDEN WEDDING
Dir: Nimrod Amitai, Chile, 12 min, 2006, Narrative Short
An old widower carries a red couch through the streets of Santiago City. Every night a tired hooker walks around his neighborhood. Tonight, both of them wi ... more »
GREAT MAGICIAN, THE
Dir: Elisabet Gustafsson, Estonia, 14 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Once upon a time, there was a great magician who was living in the guise of an anonymous bank clerk. Though he is surrounded by inimical people, he refrain ... more »
HAJIME
Dir: Kenshin Nawa, Japan, 12 min, 2006, Narrative Short
An elderly couple live in a mountain village in Japan in the years after World War II. One night a young man comes to their home seeking shelter from the r ... more »
HAPPINESS
Dir: Sophie Barthes, United States, 11 min, 2006, Narrative Short
What if happiness was for sale? One evening, after work, Iwona buys a box of happiness in a strange discount store and has to decide what to do with it. A ... more »
HOOKER & A DIRT ROAD END, A
Dir: John Nijhawan, United States, 12 min, 2006, Narrative Short
In the face of global disaster an aging, small-town hooker sets out in search of one tender human-to-human moment... something that is not a transaction. ... more »
LAST CHIP, THE
Dir: Heng Tang, Australia, 21 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Madam Fang, Mrs Nguyen and Sister Ah Lan appear to have little more in common than unfulfilled dreams. Yet together they're tempted to leave their everyday ... more »
LAST DAY OF DECEMBER
Dir: Bogdan George Apetri, Romania, 15 min, 2006, Narrative Short
A man tries to reconcile a harrowing tale from his past and confront old questions that will keep on haunting him forever. But what will it mean for the pr ... more »
LOVE THUNDERBOLT
Dir: Vincent Primault, France, 5 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Two friends are chatting in the street when one of them sees a girl he falls immediately in love with. He decides to go talk to her. ... more »
MACHINE
Dir: Gabe Ibañez, Spain, 17 min, 2006, Narrative Short
A girl breaks through pain and bewilderment to discover her new essence and finds the way to reconcile with mankind. ... more »
MAGIC PARIS
Dir: Alice Winocour, France, 20 min, 2007, Narrative Short
Kate comes alone to Paris for the week-end. In this city she doesn't know, she is going to meet a man and his dog. ... more »
MING OF GOLD
Dir: Jennifer Devoldère, France, 14 min, 2006, Narrative Short
For the first time in her life, 16-year-old Ming is in love. And nothing will prevent her from loving Paul. Neither their cultural differences, nor her fat ... more »
MOMENT, A
Dir: Valeria Ruiz, England, 5 min, 2006, Narrative Short
A portrayal of an elderly woman's grief and her memories of intimate moments. ... more »
NEUTRAL CORNER, A
Dir: Emily Greenwood, England, 14 min, 2006, Narrative Short
When Graham Brien, a young boxer, is out on a training run, he finds himself in a mysterious and desolate town where he is goaded by a dog and a mysterious ... more »
NOT A WORD
Dir: Cathy Mooney, Ireland, 10 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Sheila, Maggie and David work late shifts in a department store. Overexcited Maggie heads off on holiday leaving Sheila behind yearning for some excitement ... more »
OATES' VALOR, THE
Dir: Tim Thaddeus Cahill, United States, 14 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Fourth-chair trombonist, Boyson Oates, flees home after several failed attempts to appease his father's militant demands. ... more »
PICK UP
Dir: Manuel Schapira, France, 17 min, 2006, Narrative Short
From her apartment a young woman calls the public phone across the street. Unknown people pick up. ... more »
PROOF OF BIRTH
Dir: José Luis Orbegozo, United States, 21 min, 2007, Narrative Short
Proof of Birth tells the story of Luis Gonzalez, a young illegal Mexican immigrant on a quest to obtain a legal driver's license in New York City. ... more »
REBEL SONG
Dir: Simon Arthur, Scotland, 15 min, 2007, Narrative Short
A woman and two men play out their broken lives amongst the swaying trees, singing hymns of love, lust and murder. ... more »
RHYME ANIMAL
Dir: PHIL ROC, United States, 22 min, 2007, Narrative Short
A unique blend of hip hop and psychological horror, RHYME ANIMAL is the tale of a Brooklyn DJ who rides the coat tails of an up and coming rapper...who jus ... more »
SEE ME
Dir: Omar Mouldouira, Morocco, 9 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Saïd drives through the streets of Casablanca like a lost soul. At twilight, he comes across Leila in a deserted street, as astray as him. Saïd offers to a ... more »
SHAME
Dir: Tom Geens, England, 4 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Everyone has something they'd rather keep to themselves ... more »
SMALL AVALANCHES
Dir: Lara Fitzgerald, Canada, 22 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Adapted from a short story by award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates, Small Avalanches is the gripping tale of a teenage girl's dangerous encounter with a ... more »
SPYHOLE
Dir: Nicolas Bary, France, 17 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Alone in his apartment, an old man is listening to his neighbors partying. The old man is grasping every sound. He is watching too, through the countless p ... more »
SUB-
Dir: Maia Horniak, Australia, 10 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A girl born and raised in a leaky junk submarine finds an image of a cloud and becomes determined to find out if clouds exist. ... more »
WAY WE PLAYED, THE
Dir: Samir Mehanovic, Scotland, 13 min, 2005, Narrative Short
On the eve of war in Bosnia, two boys go looking for treasure in an abandoned hillfort oblivious to the encroaching danger. Instead of gold they find a g ... more »
WINDOWBREAKER
Dir: Tze Chun, United States, 11 min, 2006, Narrative Short
When a string of break-ins occurs in a racially-mixed suburb, residents are abuzz as to who is responsible. In eleven short minutes, this film weaves toge ... more »
WOODSMEN
Dir: Timo Korhonen, Finland, 10 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Woodsmen is a film about the collision between man and nature. It is a tale about two woodsmen who encounter a wolf-like creature in a beautiful forest. Th ... more »
ZEITGEIST
Dir: Navot Papushado & Guy Raz, Israel, 25 min, 2007, Narrative Short
During a serene voyage to her late grandfather's house, a young woman and her estranged boyfriend stumble upon an old camera. What seems at first as an inn ... more »
Documentary Feature
99 DAYS ON THE ICE
Dir: Jean-Gabriel Leynaud, France, 52 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
Crossing the Arctic, leaving one shore of the ocean and joining up with the other, 100 days later, 2000 km farther... This is the story of the couple who w ... more »
AT THE EPICENTRE
Dir: Ruhi Hamid, England, 50 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
Lampuuk was close to the December earthquake epicentre. The village was flattened. Just one building - the Mosque - was left standing. Out of 7,000 people ... more »
BUSHMAN'S SECRET
Dir: Rehad Desai, South Africa, 65 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuiz ... more »
CHILDREN OF THE WAR
Dir: Alexandre Fuchs, England, 81 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
"Hijos de la Guerra" tells the story of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), an international Hispanic street gang founded by Salvadoran civil war refugees which ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Diane Seligman Award (Best Documentary)
DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM
Dir: Bari Pearlman, United States, 68 min, 2007, Documentary Feature
Daughters of Wisdom is a story of the people of contemporary Tibet told from outside the familiar political narrative of this vast and diverse country. It ... more »
EDGE OF HOPE, THE
Dir: Gerd Schneider, Germany, 52 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
With the disengagement of the Jewish settlers on 17th April 2005 begins a new chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but most Palestinians do not bel ... more »
HIP HOP DIARIES
Dir: Carlo Lavagna, Italy, 76 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
This documentary shows the hip hop crisis by following five characters from NYC as they indulge their own personal conquests for fame: Kez5, one of greates ... more »
MAKING OF A MARTYR, THE
Dir: Alistair Leyland & Brooke Goldstein, Canada, 58 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
On March 24th, 2004, 15 year old Hussam Abdu was apprehended at an Israeli border checkpoint with live explosives strapped around his waist. Yet, instead ... more »
MY BLOOD MY COMPROMISE
Dir: Nuhi de Stani, United States, 60 min, 2007, Documentary Feature
My Blood My Compromise reveals the horror of President Slobodan Milosevic's pursuit of power during the 1998-99 Kosova war. Milosevic's strategic warfare i ... more »
NADIA'S JOURNEY
Dir: Carmen Garcia & Nadia Zouaoui, Algeria, 72 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
As a young woman, Nadia Zouaoui vowed that her suffering would not be in vain. When she was 19, her parents forced her into an arranged marriage with an Al ... more »
RIVER WHERE WE LIVE, THE
Dir: Sylvain L'Espérance, Canada, 92 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
The interior delta of the Niger River in Mali. The river crosses a vast plain in the heart of the Sahel. It is a vivid patchwork of canals, rivers, lakes, ... more »
RWANDA. THROUGH US, HUMANITY...
Dir: Marie-France Collard, Belgium, 105 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
Filmed in Rwanda in April 2004, during performances of the show Rwanda 94, in the context of the 10th commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsis and the m ... more »
SUSAN FOR NOW
Dir: Robin Franzi, United States, 54 min, 2007, Documentary Feature
The narrator of this first person documentary is in her forties, a finance professional with a Masters Degree who had been celibate for ten years while rai ... more »
Documentary Short
CHARGE FOR THAT
Dir: Chris Cassidy, United States, 7 min, 2006, Documentary Short
The streets of New York City have been an endless palette for artist Mark Nilsen. Dog piss, enthusiastic passers-by, and everything in between as Nilsen br ... more »
EMBER'S GLOW, AN
Dir: Niamh Kennedy, Ireland, 12 min, 2006, Documentary Short
This documentary is a personal exploration into the life of the Director's father, Jim Kennedy, a 68-year-old turf cutter attempting to come to terms with ... more »
FEAR
Dir: Niamh Linnie, Ireland, 12 min, 2006, Documentary Short
Fear... a documentary that digs to the core of this primal human emotion. From childhood and beyond, three personal stories relay the spiral of fear, as ex ... more »
JULY TRIP
Dir: Wael Noureddine, France, 35 min, 2006, Documentary Short
Beirut, July 2006. The Israeli bombings strike the city. While Beirut is still on fire, the filmmaker starts a journey across his natal land. The film is n ... more »
SPECKY
Dir: Anne-Claire Pilley, Scotland, 22 min, 2006, Documentary Short
Specky is a humorous short documentary musing on how short-sighted people survived the Stone Age. Through a series of experiments involving her bespectacle ... more »
WAKE UP WORLD
Dir: Carlo Nero, England, 31 min, 2006, Documentary Short
Through exclusive interviews with Kofi Annan (Secretary-General of the United Nations; Ann Veneman (UNICEF Executive Director); UNICEF Ambassadors Ralph Fi ... more »
WORKING FOR A LIVING
Dir: Preeya Nair, India, 23 min, 2007, Documentary Short
Quamer is a 11 year old girl. She has to work at making bangles with her little sisters in order to earn enough money to live. She lives in the old city of ... more »
Animation
ANIMAL
Dir: Tatu Pohjavirta, Finland, 28 min, 2005, Animation
Animal is the story of a single father who is turning into a werewolf, his son who has mixed his body with a lamb in an accident, and the doctor who is the ... more »
DOG DAYS
Dir: Geoffroy de Crécy, France, 16 min, 2006, Animation
Grace, the newborn of an American upper-class family, is exchanged with Doug, the little baby dog of a "white trash" American family. ... more »
EVEN IN DREAMS
Dir: Alice Taylor, France, 8 min, 2006, Animation
Juliette awakes one morning in a panic. She presses her lover next to her to leave at once because her husband Simon is coming back. But Juliette has made ... more »
FISSION
Dir: Kun-I Chang, United States, 5 min, 2006, Animation
FISSION is a motion graphic film created by Kun-I Chang. It tells the simple story of a man who sees himself as graffiti on the wall. The captivating graph ... more »
GENTLEMEN'S DUEL, A
Dir: Francisco Ruiz & Sean McNally, United States, 8 min, 2006, Animation
In "A Gentlemen's Duel," a new short film presented by Oscar-Nominated Blur Studio, this time-honored tradition is re-imagined with a fantastic blend of bo ... more »
GLITCH
Dir: Peter Ricq, Canada, 10 min, 2006, Animation
When the very fabric of reality collapses around him, George is dragged into a twisted parallel dimension. Relics from his old life confront him as robotic ... more »
GOLDEN AGE
Dir: Aaron Augenblick, United States, 23 min, 2006, Animation
Golden Age is an animated dark comedy revealing the sordid lives of eccentric cartoon characters from yesteryear. Ten segments highlight the stories of an ... more »
GOTYE - HEARTS A MESS
Dir: Brendan Cook, Australia, 4 min, 2007, Animation
A character walks the Earth, calling on its strange inhabitants to leave the wasted planet and follow him to a new world. ... more »
GUIDE DOG
Dir: Bill Plympton, United States, 5 min, 2006, Animation
"Guide Dog" is a sequel to the Oscar nominated short "Guard Dog". This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results. ... more »
I MET THE WALRUS
Dir: Josh Raskin, Canada, 5 min, 2007, Animation
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck and a head full of questions, snuck into John Lennon's hotel ... more »
IN THE HOUSE OF THE SIN EATER
Dir: Paul Kloss & Matt Acheson, United States, 18 min, 2006, Animation
A man mourns his dead wife. He weeps at her bedside. Following Welsh folklore, he performs a ritual that helps the dead release their obligations to this ... more »
LEVIATHAN
Dir: Simon Bogojevic-Narath, Croatia, 15 min, 2006, Animation
Jerky but smiling characters from this short film take the audience through an animated pageant inspired by Thomas Hobbes' "The Leviathan," written in 1651 ... more »
MATOPOS
Dir: Stéphanie Machuret, France, 11 min, 2006, Animation
In a village, a young blind man, victim of a storm, will be iniated by a women to overcome his fears. Thanks to the musical quality of a flute, he will be ... more »
MEMORIAL
Dir: Matt Clausen & Jon Gutman, United States, 6 min, 2006, Animation
After witnessing the death of her father, a young girl's reality blurs with her memories as she journeys into the layered walls of her urban landscape. St ... more »
MEMORIES OF DOGS, THE
Dir: Simone Massi, Italy, 8 min, 2006, Animation
My cheeks brush against the stones, I look out from a break in the wall. ... more »
MIRAGE
Dir: Youngwoong Jang, United States, 9 min, 2006, Animation
MIRAGE is a story of a biomechanical robot who has to fill his glass chest with water in order to sustain his life. He must squeeze a small stem to produce ... more »
Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker
Dir: Stefan Mueller, Germany, 7 min, 2006, Animation
Disturbed by loud music of one of his neighbours Mr. Schwartz calls the police. But initially the officer can't ascertain anything... Then the film starts ... more »
MY DEAR SON
Dir: Antonio Giambanco, Italy, 5 min, 2007, Animation
A father is murdered in a Sicilian cottage. Who is the murderer? A "moral will" explores the risks of a father-son relationship and leads to the revelation ... more »
POSTMAN
Dir: Mischa Rozema, Netherlands, 2 min, 2006, Animation
In space nobody can hear you panic... ... more »
SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS
Dir: Bum Lee, United States, 4 min, 2005, Animation
Sports and Diversions is a series of black and white animations inspired by Sports et divertissements, a collection of piano compositions written by Erik S ... more »
TOLL, THE
Dir: J. Zachary Pike, United States, 7 min, 2006, Animation
The Toll is a Computer Animated mockumentary and a character study in the guise of a student project created by fictional film student Harvey Stevens. Harv ... more »
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