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Narrative Feature

ABLE DANGER

Dir: Paul Krik, United States, 85 min, 2008, Narrative Feature

Thomas Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical cafe-bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard-hitting 9/11 conspiracy expose, finds himsel ... more »


APOLLO 54

Dir: Giordano Giulivi, Italy, 98 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

Strange symbols have been interrupting television broadcasts for days. Nobody knows who sends them, and the media begins to wonder about the nature of the ... more »


AUGUST

Dir: Austin Chick, United States, 111 min, 2008, Narrative Feature

AUGUST follows Tom Sterling (Josh Hartnett) as an aggressive, young dot-com entrepreneur who fights to keep his start-up company afloat. Tom finds himself ... more »


BIGGA THAN BEN

Dir: S A Halewood, England, 85 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

Cobakka and Spiker are two Moscow drop-outs who visit London with dreams of golden pavements. But the city is a cold, unwelcoming place and the two soon fa ... more »


BLUE HOUR, THE

Dir: Eric Nazarian, United States, 93 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

In "The Blue Hour," several strangers in Los Angeles weave their stories of loss and hope, not knowing that their lives have brushed up against each others ... more »


CACTUS

Dir: Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan, Australia, 89 min, 2008, Narrative Feature

To gain some much needed cash John Kelly accepts a job to kidnap and deliver professional gambler Eli Jones to his keepers in the Australian outback: No qu ... more »


CLASS, THE

Dir: Ilmar Raag, Estonia, 97 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

It's a story about dignity. It begins with a misunderstanding: a regular guy, Kaspar, stands up for the loser of the class, Joosep. It is an accident, a mi ... more »


COLLECTIVE, THE

Dir: Judson Pearce Morgan & Kelly Overton, United States, 83 min, 2008, Narrative Feature

In New York City knowing what to believe is never easy. When Tyler Clarke gets a cryptic voicemail from her sister, she is left with no choice but to fly a ... more »


COYOTE

Dir: Brian Petersen, United States, 94 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

After their friend is deported to Mexico, two young Americans decide to smuggle him back across the border, a single event that quickly escalates into a lu ... more »


FIX

Dir: Tao Ruspoli, United States, 93 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

Racing across Los Angeles in one, unwieldy day, documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo must race from Beverly Hills to Watts--and places in between--in orde ... more »


LOCAL, THE

Dir: Dan Eberle, United States, 90 min, 2008, Narrative Feature

A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to extract his daughter from the drug-induced stranglehold of her lover, a sadistic war-scarred veteran. "The ... more »


NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

Dir: Julia von Heinz, Germany, 100 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

Carla runs away from home with grand plans of traveling to Lyon to study fashion. When her luggage is stolen at the train station, she is forced to accept ... more »


ON THE SAFE SIDE?

Dir: David Dietl, Germany, 72 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

Journalist Sandra Harkow is producing an Infomercial for the Biometric-Lobby. It is to be presented in front of important State and Business Representative ... more »


OUT OF BOUNDS

Dir: Fulvio Bernasconi, Switzerland, 86 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

"Out of Bounds" is the story of Mike, a young Italian boxer from Trieste. A troubled man, like many of his peers, Mike is thirty years old and still a drea ... more »


PANMAN, RHYTHM OF THE PALMS

Dir: Sander Burger, Netherlands Antilles, 90 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

"Panmans" tells the story of the rise and fall of the steel drum pan player Harry Daniel. Harry is an icon of the Caribbean whose personal life suffers whe ... more »


SAVE ANGEL HOPE

Dir: Lukas Erni, Switzerland, 99 min, 2007, Narrative Feature

"Angel Hope" is a fictitious nun - a little like Mother Teresa, only much younger and prettier - who works at a fictitious hospital in the South Pacific. T ... more »


UNIDENTIFIED, THE

Dir: Kevan Tucker, United States, 113 min, 2008, Narrative Feature

Estlin, a young idealist, is thrust into the real world without the protective bubble of college he's grown accustomed to. His job at a local newspaper doe ... more »


Narrative Short

BITTER SWEET

Dir: Yurat Safarov, Russia, 6 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Conceived and shot in the cinema verite style the film tells the wedding celebration story. Sunny day, nice place where all newly married couples come to ... more »


CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

Dir: Jarrah Gurrie, United States, 14 min, 2008, Narrative Short

Haunted by memories of a broken relationship, Oscar decides to join a cuddle group. Here he meets Aida, a woman determined to solve his problems. ... more »


CROSSE

Dir: Liova Jedlicki, France, 13 min, 2007, Narrative Short

An ordinary man sees his evening completely disturbed by the discovery of a gun in the subway. ... more »


EARANO

Dir: Luke Matheny, United States, 13 min, 2007, Narrative Short

In this comic twist on the classic Cyrano de Bergerac tale, a shy, big-eared tutor named Earl longs for a romance with the lovely librarian Roxie. But the ... more »


FACTORY

Dir: Maciej Adamek, Poland, 30 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Adam takes a temporary job at a toy factory in order to pay his future studies. There he meets a girl and this forces him to take a different look at reali ... more »


FIRST

Dir: Tinge Krishnan, England, 6 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Sophie, a teenager with learning difficulties, is a talented pianist. When her best friend Danko enters her into a prestigious composer competition she dis ... more »


FUTURES (AND DERIVATIVES)

Dir: Arthur Halpern, United States, 19 min, 2007, Narrative Short

To impress a disenchanted client, a desperate group of lawyers hires an untested office temp to create a winning presentation -- overnight. The surprise re ... more »


HAPPENSTANCE

Dir: Joyce Draganosky, United States, 7 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Beth discovers she has a lot in common with her son's new girlfriend. ... more »


HER NAME

Dir: Benjmain de Lajarte, France, 21 min, 2008, Narrative Short

In a hotel, Sydney - an american tourist on vacation in France - awakes in the morning and finds out his wife has left him. From his lonely room, he seems ... more »


INTERCOM

Dir: Mark Gutteridge, England, 10 min, 2008, Narrative Short

Simon is a new tenant who likes to go out. He lives in an apartment below Mrs Henley who likes to read, watch TV but mostly stay in. Simon arrives back in ... more »


JOBURG

Dir: Thabo Wolfaardt, South Africa, 22 min, 2007, Narrative Short

A young newspaper vendor struggles to care for his ailing brother. A pregnant woman discovers a terrible secret about her fiance. At the height of their ... more »


JUST MAKE BELIEVE

Dir: Jadrien Steele, United States, 12 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Two lonely dreamers masquerade in lives that are not their own in a search for happiness. But when they discover an uncommon emotional connection, can lov ... more »


KARAOKE

Dir: Carolina Hellsgard, Germany, 15 min, 2008, Narrative Short

Liselotte is an aged actress. She hasn't been on stage for a while and is now trying to earn a living with it again. She is auditioning for different adver ... more »


KILLING TIME

Dir: Haritz Zubillaga, Spain, 14 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Four young friends have park an old rented autocaravan next to a road. Someone is aiming at them with a rifle. When the sniper fires, everything is tinged ... more »


LINE, THE

Dir: Kent Bassett, United States, 23 min, 2007, Narrative Short

A migrant father and son run out of water while crossing the desert border and must seek help from a ranch house. ... more »


LONELY BLISS OF THE CANNONBALL LUKE, THE

Dir: Levi Abrino, United States, 11 min, 2007, Narrative Short

A human cannonball named Luke returns home to a small town in Pennsylvania to launch himself back into the lives of his ex-flame Hannah and her daughter El ... more »


MUMBLER

Dir: Marc Roels & Wim Reygaert, Belgium, 20 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Lubbert Das lives together with his domineering and omnipresent mother somewhere in a remote corner of Flanders; a place where seemingly time has stood sti ... more »


NATURE OF THE BEAST

Dir: Nate Pommer, United States, 16 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Darryl is an ex-con fresh out of the joint and looking to stay out of trouble. Suddenly his old pal Leo shows up, on the run and needing a place to crash. ... more »


ON THE LINE

Dir: Reto Caffi, Germany, 30 min, 2007, Narrative Short

A department store security guard is secretly in love with a clerk in the store's bookshop. When he witnesses a seeming rival being attacked in the train, ... more »


PADAM...

Dir: Jose Manuel Carrasco, Spain, 12 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Pilar doesn't want to be alone, so she decides to go to a dating agency and she gets a blind date. What she doesn't know is that her date has different pla ... more »


PLAYGROUND, THE

Dir: Jack Tarling, England, 12 min, 2007, Narrative Short

A man with learning difficulties becomes the target of a teenage gang. Can he escape the downward spiral his life has become, or will his actions only make ... more »


RIVER OF COPSA MICA, THE

Dir: Ryan Uzilevsky, United States, 32 min, 2007, Narrative Short

On the European countryside, World War II is changing the course of civilization forever. In the moment of truth, a politician must choose between politi ... more »


SMALL APARTMENT

Dir: Andrew Betzer, United States, 8 min, 2007, Narrative Short

A middle aged man, his son, and his daughter-in-law explore love and perversion in 700 square feet of space. ... more »


SWASHBUCKLERS

Dir: Jean Baptiste Saurel, France, 10 min, 2008, Narrative Short

Paris, December 31st, 2007. Arthur, his friend Clément and Clément's sister, Constance, are going to a fancy dress party. Planning to declare his love for ... more »


THICK-SKINNED

Dir: Jean-Bernard Marlin & Benoit Rambourg, France, 14 min, 2007, Narrative Short

A child of 12 years old tries to kill a boy from his neighborhood to impress his father ... more »


THREE BEANS FOR GEORGE

Dir: Sean Anicic, Canada, 5 min, 2007, Narrative Short

This whimsical yet darkly comedic tale tells the story of a man who trades the dusty remains of a friend for a handful of beans in an attempt to bring his ... more »


TOYLAND

Dir: Jochen Alexander Freydank, Germany, 13 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Germany 1942: In order to protect her son Marianne Meissner tried to make him believe that the Jewish neighbours are going on a journey to "Toyland". One m ... more »


TRAIN TOWN

Dir: Keith Bearden, United States, 15 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Two middle aged men stage a culture war in miniature at their model train shop. ... more »


WALNUT

Dir: Amy Gebhardt, Australia, 11 min, 2007, Narrative Short

A lifelong bond between a teenage boy and his dog is coming to an end. Bottled up, the boy's grief becomes a wall that sits between him and the people he l ... more »


WELL-FOUNDED CONCERNS

Dir: Tim Cawley, United States, 14 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Nathan Weller is an unapologetic germophobe. Aside from weekly group therapy, he lives in isolation, happily spending his days in a sealed-off bubble of an ... more »


WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE MY MOTHER

Dir: Norah Mc Gettigan, Poland, 31 min, 2007, Narrative Short

Monika is a 35 year old single mother who lost her legs in an accident two years ago. Her 18 year old daughter, Julia, makes a film entitled What it's like ... more »


Documentary Feature

ABC COLOMBIA

Dir: Enrica Colusso, Italy, 75 min, 2007, Documentary Feature

ABC Colombia is an intimate portrait of a small rural community in a part of Colombia entirely controlled by paramilitary forces, rendered through the eyes ... more »


CARNY

Dir: Alison Murray, Canada, 75 min, 2007, Documentary Feature

CARNY is an intimate, gritty and poetic adventure following the lives of 'carnys' - traveling fairground workers whose experiences are outside the normalc ... more »


CRAWFORD

Dir: David Modigliani, United States, 74 min, 2008, Documentary Feature

What happens to the 705 residents of Crawford, Texas when George W. Bush moves to town? Shoved into the spotlight for political stagecraft, their insular t ... more »


HEAVY LOAD

Dir: Jerry Rothwell, England, 91 min, 2008, Documentary Feature

Heavy Load are Lewes' answer to the Ramones, a punk band subject to the usual inflammatory mix of ego, fantasy, and desire. They're also, uniquely, made up ... more »


PANG NAT DET

Dir: Andreas Geiger, Germany, 87 min, 2007, Documentary Feature

In Indonesia, one of the largest Islamic countries in the world, kids are punking out, and the motto isn't NO FUTURE, but DIY- DO IT YOURSELF. An aging pun ... more »


REINDEER AT WAR

Dir: Svein Andersen & Karl Rikardsen, Norway, 51 min, 2006, Documentary Feature

Military authorities want the Oskal family to slaughter their entire herd of 2,000 reindeer and abandon their traditional way of life in the arctic wildern ... more »


SEEDS OF SUMMER

Dir: Hen Lasker, Israel, 63 min, 2007, Documentary Feature

Seven years after completing the Israel Defense Force (IDF) training for female combat soldiers, the director returns to the place where, for the first tim ... more »


SUDDENLY, LAST WINTER

Dir: Gustav Hofer & Luca Ragazzi, Italy, 80 min, 2008, Documentary Feature

Suddenly Last Winter is the story of Gustav and Luca. Their life changes when the Italian government presents a draft law that would give rights to unmarri ... more »


THING WITH NO NAME

Dir: Sarah Friedland, United States, 84 min, 2007, Documentary Feature

Thing With No Name, a feature-length documentary, provides an unprecedented, intimate glimpse into the traditional life of a rapidly changing culture. Set ... more »


Documentary Short

BLOOD AND INCENSE

Dir: Carl Valiquet, Canada, 17 min, 2008, Documentary Short

In Bali, during certain ceremonies, blood must be spilled to pacify the bhutas, the evil spirits that live underground. A cockfighting arena is built next ... more »


COCAIS, THE REINVENTED TOWN

Dir: Ines Cardoso, Brazil, 15 min, 2008, Documentary Short

A poetic documentary film made with the patients and employees of an asylum town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This is the story of a town that reinve ... more »


CROWN, THE

Dir: Isabel Vega & Amanda Micheli, United States, 40 min, 2007, Documentary Short

The contestants in this beauty pageant are thieves, murderers, and guerillas. The runnerup wipes her tears with a tattooed hand when the tiara is not place ... more »


DANCE LIKE YOUR OLD MAN

Dir: Gideon Obarzanek & Edwina Throsby, Australia, 10 min, 2007, Documentary Short

Six women imitate their dads' dancing in a film about fathers as seen through the eyes of their daughters. The unseen men come to life through the dances a ... more »


ELEGY FOR THE ELSWICK ENVOY

Dir: Nancy Willis, England, 24 min, 2007, Documentary Short

Disabled artist Nancy Willis is in search of a home for her much loved, but aging car - the Elswick Envoy. This unique small car was designed to be driven ... more »


END FOR BEGINNERS, THE

Dir: David Lale, England, 23 min, 2007, Documentary Short

In a retirement home in Paris, the elderly residents wait out their last days. Nothing much happens other than the odd bout of Muzak and trouble with the l ... more »


ESMA

Dir: Alen Drljevic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 26 min, 2007, Documentary Short

In 1995, during official negotiations inside a UN protected area in Zepa, the Bosnian Serb Army abducted Colonel Avdo Palic, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Arm ... more »


GAZA SOUVENIRS

Dir: Samuel Albaric, France, 46 min, 2008, Documentary Short

In a succession of phone calls between a young Palestinian, Wissam, and a young French filmmaker, Sam, they bring back memories of a phantasmagorical Gaza, ... more »


RA, THE MECHANIC

Dir: Mamadou Cisse, Mali, 26 min, 2007, Documentary Short

In the busy streets of Bamako, a young woman, about 25 years old, repairs generators. Engaged to be married, Ra does "a man's job" and supervises a crew of ... more »


Animation

24 FRAMES

Dir: Brad Pattullo, United States, 18 min, 2007, Animation

24 Frames is a stop-motion animated black comedy mockumentary about a stop-motion animated film production at an art college in the southern U.S. The crew, ... more »


AFTER YOU LEAVE...

Dir: Molly Schwartz, United States, 4 min, 2007, Animation

We thought the conflict of the neighborhood existed in the realm of construction, rent increases and population explosion, but there is another offensive u ... more »


BIRD, THE

Dir: Sung-Gil Kim, Korea, 19 min, 2007, Animation

Hu-seom town will be attacked next day and all residents have already left the town. Manh also had to leave, leaving her old dad Sanh alone, who is only he ... more »


COAT, THE

Dir: Orlanda Laforet, France, 15 min, 2007, Animation

Sarah receives a call from the airport, where a suitcase has been found that contains her deceased Father's coat. ... more »


DAY OF GLORY..., THE

Dir: Bruno COLLET, France, 7 min, 2007, Animation

The night before the offensive, a soldier hides in the bottom of an underground. Outside, the war shakes the ground and the man prepares himself with the i ... more »


Ding Dong O'Reilly's History of Ireland

Dir: Cathal Gaffney, Ireland, 5 min, 2007, Animation

A tourist walks into a Dublin pub looking for directions and encounters Ding Dong Denny O�Reilly at the bar who insists on telling him the "real" histor ... more »


HERZOG AND THE MONSTERS

Dir: Lesley barnes, Scotland, 4 min, 2006, Animation

In a digital cut-out animated film, a graphic fairytale is depicts little Herzog's journey through a forest. The woods are full of monsters that are actual ... more »


HEZURBELTZAK, A COMMON GRAVE

Dir: Izibene Oñederra, Spain, 4 min, 2007, Animation

The Basque word hezurbeltzak does not appear in dictionaries. It is a non-existing word used to describe socially invisible groups. Its literal translation ... more »


HOT DOG

Dir: Bill Plympton, United States, 6 min, 2008, Animation

A plucky hero becomes a fireman in order to save the lives and gain the respect he deserves. Hot Dog is the third film in the "DOG" series. ... more »


LETTER TO COLLEEN, A

Dir: Carolyn & Andy London, United States, 9 min, 2007, Animation

Head smack into the purgatory of modern teenage life. Using fittingly raw and economical animation, this film is a harsh and wrenching plea to make sense o ... more »


LONG JOURNEY HOME, THE

Dir: Billie Mintz & Jeffrey Stewart Timmins, Canada, 7 min, 2008, Animation

In a village that never knew sickness a boy is sent into the wilderness to find the cure to his illness. He returns from his great journey to a village tha ... more »


MONSIEUR COK

Dir: Franck Dion, France, 10 min, 2007, Animation

Mister Cok is the owner of a large bomb factory. Looking for efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers by sophisticated robots. The formers ... more »


MY LITTLE BROTHER FROM THE MOON

Dir: Frédéric Philibert, France, 6 min, 2008, Animation

A little girl tries to understand why her autistic brother does not like other children. ... more »


NICO&TINA

Dir: Rodolfo Pastor, Spain, 8 min, 2007, Animation

Nico and Tina are both hardened chain-smokers. They prepare themselves for a date while the tango, "Smoking Waiting," underscores the scene. The song descr ... more »


POPOL VUH

Dir: Ana Maria Pavez, Chile, 10 min, 2006, Animation

A tale of creation based on "Popul Vuh: the Ancient Stories of the Quiché," written by the indigenous Maya Quiché people after the Spanish Conquest. The vi ... more »


PRIMITIVE SCENE

Dir: Daniel Faubert, Canada, 12 min, 2006, Animation

Attempting to change the course of history, the characters in Primitive Scene battle gigantic carnivorous birds. Primitive is the story of a civilization' ... more »


TEAT BEAT OF SEX

Dir: Signe Baumane, United States, 4 min, 2007, Animation

A shocking view of sex is portrayed from a woman's perspective. ... more »


VERY FIRST DESIRE NOW AND FOREVER, THE

Dir: Signe Baumane, United States, 1 min, 2007, Animation

A character's first desire is explored. ... more »


WITH DELICATE RISK

Dir: Dane Webster, United States, 3 min, 2007, Animation

The film explores ideas of creation myth and evolution through the use of various systems of motion applied to a human arm. This animation uses procedural ... more »


X.PRESSION

Dir: Laurie Thinot, France, 3 min, 2006, Animation

Glitches in systems may lead to misunderstandings. ... more »


Experimental

APROP

Dir: Aitor Echeverria, Spain, 6 min, 2007, Experimental

Sleep becomes interrupted by the familiar touch of another body. A finger brushes across a back as a sigh sends the invitation for play. When viewed closel ... more »


DAYS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

Dir: Jan Zajicek, Czech Republic, 4 min, 2008, Experimental

A wild love affair that culminates in a tragic end is captured entirely in one shot by a motion-controlled camera. Time is frozen when the angel of death o ... more »


DEAF MAN, THE

Dir: David Kurs, United States, 9 min, 2007, Experimental

In an era of technological improvements for deaf people, such as the cochlear implant, the destiny of the deaf is examined through one man's experience. ... more »


ETHNOGRAPHY OF NO PLACE

Dir: Rachel Lears & Saya Woolfalk, United States, 14 min, 2007, Experimental

Ethnography of No Place is a series of mock documentary videos that depict an imaginary world. Constructed from household materials (fabrics, sounds, gestu ... more »


FLYING LESSON

Dir: Rosane Chamecki, Phil Harder, Andrea Lerner, United States, 4 min, 2007, Experimental

Two women bat their wings, preparing to take off. They practice the dream of flight. ... more »


GUBI - THE BIRTH OF FRUIT

Dir: Philippa Herrmann, South Africa, 8 min, 2007, Experimental

The first tribe to roam the earth relies on food from the heavens. When Nok's belly grows full after sharing her fruit with Nto, the Queen of the tribe gro ... more »


LAST LETTER

Dir: Ted Ciesielski, United States, 5 min, 2007, Experimental

A stark urban landscape of rooftops, billboards, and highways provide the backdrop for an open love letter that never reaches its recipient: a young soldie ... more »


MACHINE WITH WISHBONE

Dir: Randall Okita, Canada, 6 min, 2007, Experimental

Live action techniques using innovative camera choreography, photo sculpture, and kinetic sculpture depict the story of a stoic mechanical wishbone on its ... more »


MUGS

Dir: Ronnie Cramer, United States, 4 min, 2007, Experimental

One hundred celebrity mug shots morph into one another. A minimalist electronic soundtrack heightens the hypnotic effect the images create. ... more »


NEW EDUCATIONAL SERIES - CANARIES IN COLOUR

Dir: Jill Kennedy, New Zealand, 3 min, 2007, Experimental

Canaries is a nostalgic pastiche of found graphic material from AV learning programs of the 1970s. The birds take on a life of their own as the viewer is t ... more »


NIGHTWALKING

Dir: Ellen Blom, Netherlands, 12 min, 2007, Experimental

The deaf and blind are the main characters of a lyrical depiction of the handicapped. Their movements are enhanced by painterly piano accompaniment along w ... more »


REPLICANTS: USER, THE

Dir: Edouard Salier, France, 4 min, 2007, Experimental

Fingers control a flip book that reveals a series of pictures. With each flashing image, spectator access is denied. People, signals of the digital age, an ... more »


ROASTBEEF

Dir: Francois Begin & Miryam Bouchard, Canada, 6 min, 2007, Experimental

A woman becomes inspired to perform an enticing dance for a butcher who cuts roast beef. ... more »


SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE

Dir: Shad Clark, United States, 4 min, 2007, Experimental

The voice-over of an antidepressant commercial spills across several successive spots as the increasingly disconcerting list of possible side effects revea ... more »


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