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Narrative Feature

AARDVARK

Dir: Kitao Sakurai, United States, 80 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

AARDVARK is perhaps the first narrative film to star a man blind since birth. In a role inspired by his own life, Larry Lewis plays a solitary man recoveri ... more »


AMY GEORGE

Dir: Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas, Canada, 97 min, 2011, Narrative Feature

Thirteen year old Jesse wants to be an artist, but believes that his mundane middle class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on wha ... more »


ATHLETE, THE

Dir: Davey Frankel & Rasselas Lakew, Ethiopia, 93 min, 2009, Narrative Feature

Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefoot Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila ... more »


BENEATH CONTEMPT

Dir: Benjamin Brewer, United States, 100 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

When Sean Beckett was 18 years old he killed everyone he thought was cool. It was early in the morning when Sean lost control of the car and ended the live ... more »


DAVID

Dir: Joel Fendelman, United States, 80 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

'David' tells the story of Daud, an eleven year old religious Muslim boy growing up in Brooklyn. Concealing his Muslim identity, Daud inadvertently befrien ... more »


FIVE DAYS GONE

Dir: Anna Kerrigan, United States, 85 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

After her father passes away, Camden discovers she has an illegitimate half sister: Alice. The two couldn't be more different; but Camden is confident tha ... more »


MARY MARIE

Dir: Alexandra Roxo, United States, 80 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

Two sisters, Mary and Marie, return to their childhood home after their mother's death to enjoy one last summer together there. The heat and isolation of t ... more »


MY LAST DAY WITHOUT YOU

Dir: Stefan Schaefer, United States, 92 min, 2011, Narrative Feature

When a young business executive, NIKLAS, is sent from Frankfurt to New York to shut down a division of his firm, he doesn't realize his life is about to be ... more »


ON THE SHORE

Dir: Julien Donada, France, 90 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

"Beau Rivage" is an excellent new entry into the Mediterranean Noir genre, telling the story of a hardboiled cop desperately looking for an impossible love ... more »


SIBERIA, MONAMOUR

Dir: Slava Ross, Russia, 101 min, 2011, Narrative Feature

As unrelenting as a wild dog attack, "Siberia, Monamour" is a powerful story of life and death on the fringes of Russian society. In a deserted Siberian vi ... more »


SNOW ON THA BLUFF

Dir: Damon Russell, United States, 79 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

Snow On Tha Bluff tells the story of Atlanta robbery boy and crack dealer, Curtis Snow. When Curtis steals a video camera from some college kids in a dope ... more »


SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE

Dir: Jack Perez, United States, 93 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

Destined to be a cult classic, "Some Guy Who Kills People" is an off-kilter black comedy about a small town loner who sets out to kill the men he deems res ... more »


TAKE ME HOME

Dir: Sam Jaeger, United States, 97 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

How much does it really cost to take a NYC taxi across the country? Claire Barrow is about to find out. Claire isn't having a good day. First she comes hom ... more »


W ZAPPATORE

Dir: Massimiliano Verdesca, Italy, 84 min, 2010, Narrative Feature

This hilarious, quirky Italian comedy explores the question: is it better to play the music of Satan or listen to the word of God? Marcello Zappatore i ... more »


Narrative Short

AFTER THE SNOW

Dir: Brooke Sebold, United States, 8 min, 2010, Narrative Short

A gun rests on a pregnant belly, rising and falling with the quivering breaths of June Allman. Through the frosted windows of her car, June glares at a lon ... more »


ASSESSMENT

Dir: Mark Gutteridge, England, 12 min, 2010, Narrative Short

Rachel's developing adolescent shape is of concern to her tutors at a top London ballet school. Michael, a boy at a local urban school, is struggling with ... more »


BABYLAND

Dir: Marc Fratello, United States, 27 min, 2011, Narrative Short

A woman seeks love and beyond in a small, working class town. ... more »


CINDERELA

Dir: Magali Magistry, Brazil, 11 min, 2011, Narrative Short

A heartbroken Rio de Janeiro bartender, Luiza, has to suffer the cruelty of watching her former lover and his fiancée celebrate their engagement. As the ca ... more »


COUNTERFEIT

Dir: Geoff Bailey, United States, 20 min, 2010, Narrative Short

Among the counterfeit watches and knock-off handbags that litter New York's Chinatown markets, a West African immigrant has found his corner of the America ... more »


DAYS OF WRATH

Dir: Charles Redon, France, 21 min, 2010, Narrative Short

Léopold has an extraordinary body and incredible physical capacities. However, he is an undocumented immigrant in France. He is exploited and downtrodden a ... more »


DOCTOR'S JOB, A

Dir: Julio O. Ramos, Peru, 10 min, 2010, Narrative Short

A doctor, forced by circumstance to also drive a cab, finds himself challenge by his latest fare. ... more »


FIRST FRUITS

Dir: Pao Paixao, Switzerland, 29 min, 2011, Narrative Short

Joshua (18) and Simone (19) meet. They let themselves be driven by their desires. While diving in their intimacy, they fall in love with a young beautiful ... more »


FOAL, THE

Dir: Josh Tanner, Australia, 9 min, 2010, Narrative Short

Young Chloe goes to live on her uncle's ranch after the death of her mother, finding solace in a foal with whom she strives to exercise some control over i ... more »


FORGET ME NOT

Dir: Vladimir De Fontenay, United States, 5 min, 2011, Narrative Short

A troubled woman steals a lonely kid waiting for his parents outside of school ... more »


FUNCTION, A

Dir: Hyunsoo Lee, Korea, 8 min, 2011, Narrative Short

In an empty classroom, a girl is sitting at her desk, solving a math quiz. If she cannot solve it in time, something horrible will happen. The clock is tic ... more »


GHOSTS, THE

Dir: Eddie O'keefe, United States, 13 min, 2011, Narrative Short

Kathy, a sheltered and sensitive teenage girl comes of age when her small sleepy suburb is turned upside down with the mysterious appearance of The Ghosts, ... more »


GOWANUS 83

Dir: Michael Wood, United States, 11 min, 2011, Narrative Short

Ex-con Dame wants nothing more than to leave behind his life of crime. But when he gets into Gowanus Taxi Cab 83, he finds himself in a world of kidnapped ... more »


HARD BOILED

Dir: Erik Beck, United States, 3 min, 2011, Narrative Short

A tech-savvy detective takes a cold case into his own hands, but is he prepared for answers? ... more »


LAST WISH

Dir: Alessandro Maresca, Italy, 2 min, 2005, Narrative Short

John Black, 33 years old. The last minute of his life. He's going to die by electrocution, for a crime he never committed, nor even thought of. Fortunately ... more »


LEA'S SUNDAYS

Dir: Yohann Kouam, France, 19 min, 2011, Narrative Short

Lea, 18, woke up naked with a killer headache in the bed of a stranger who must have been twice her age. All she remembered from the night before was headi ... more »


LITTLE WHITE LIES

Dir: Stuart Napier, England, 10 min, 2010, Narrative Short

Two young brothers, both in temporary foster care, look forward to a picnic with Mum but the unexpected arrival of Mum's new boyfriend Greg, has unforeseen ... more »


MONEY DOG

Dir: Michael Holman, United States, 14 min, 2011, Narrative Short

Two teenage boys living on the desperate streets of the 1980's South Bronx steal a pit bull puppy from Paco the Psycho. They plan to train the dog to one d ... more »


NOBODY BUT HER

Dir: Phillip Jordan Brooks, United States, 7 min, 2010, Narrative Short

The terrifying story of 8-year old Greta and her abusive grandmother. After her grandmother's strange death, two detectives work to unravel the mystery by ... more »


RED ROPE, THE

Dir: Vincent Ma, United States, 10 min, 2011, Narrative Short

In a time of scarcity and hardship, a blind woman and her sick daughter struggle to eke out a living in a secluded mountain forest. Using an ingenious sys ... more »


RITA

Dir: Antonio Piazza & Fabio Grassadonia, Italy, 19 min, 2009, Narrative Short

Rita, a blind child, shelters a boy on the run who suddenly breaks into her home. It's a mysterious, enigmatic meeting that lets Rita experience a brief mo ... more »


SEA LEGS

Dir: Amanda Rosa, United States, 9 min, 2011, Narrative Short

When a nine-year-old son of a professional gambler is left alone in a parking garage in Atlantic City, he witnesses an altercation between a showgirl and h ... more »


SIEMIANY

Dir: Philip James McGoldrick, Belgium, 18 min, 2009, Narrative Short

Andrzej and Michal are two young teenagers who come together every summer in the small tourist village of Siemiany, in the Belgian countryside. Their frien ... more »


SUMMER KNOWS

Dir: Jan Seemann, Germany, 11 min, 2011, Narrative Short

An accidental encounter between a young man and a couple turns into a game of light and shadow. ... more »


TEARDROP

Dir: Damian John Harper, Germany, 14 min, 2011, Narrative Short

One afternoon Dan is brutally jumped and accosted by a gang in his neighborhood. The leader of Dans crew demands that he murder his punisher and thus offic ... more »


TIDE

Dir: Sylvia Guillet, France, 17 min, 2011, Narrative Short

Barricaded in her mansion, Mathilde takes care of her husband Andrew, who is suffering from a very strange disease. Mathilde must also defend against those ... more »


TIME FREAK

Dir: Andrew Bowler, United States, 11 min, 2010, Narrative Short

A neurotic inventor creates a time machine only to get lost trying to make yesterday perfect. ... more »


TYRANT'S WOMEN, THE

Dir: Ernesto Solo, Venezuela, 20 min, 2010, Narrative Short

Violent waves crash over the cliffs of 'El Tirane' a small fishing village in Margarita Island whose fish market is run by generations of local women. Mati ... more »


Documentary Feature

AMONG HORSES AND MEN

Dir: Marjoleine Boonstra, Netherlands, 80 min, 2010, Documentary Feature

A unique portrait of a Nevada prison program that trains inmates to become horse trainers. While still officially in prison, the men work outdoors, breakin ... more »


BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN

Dir: Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky, United States, 93 min, 2010, Documentary Feature

BATTLE for BROOKLYN is an intensely intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by owners and residents facing condemnation of their proper ... more »


BED STUY - DO OR DIE

Dir: Daniel Bishop, England, 80 min, 2010, Documentary Feature

This powerful documentary takes viewers deep into the gritty streets of Bed-Stuy with a group of modern-day heroes from the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Am ... more »


DAMN!

Dir: Aaron Fisher-cohen, United States, 72 min, 2011, Documentary Feature

This is the story of the charismatic New York gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is 2 Damn High Party, and his rise to international fame ... more »


HIGH LOW

Dir: Jean-louis Schuller & Sam Blair, Luxembourg, 52 min, 2010, Documentary Feature

In Hong Kong and Macau four gamblers take us on a journey into the world of winners and losers created by a culture of speculation, addiction and debt. Gam ... more »


MANN V. FORD

Dir: Maro Chermayeff & Micah Fink, United States, 105 min, 2011, Documentary Feature

One of the worst environmental disasters in the United States is located just 19 miles from New York City. This toxic Superfund site is at the former home ... more »


PYJAMA GIRLS

Dir: Maya Derrington, Ireland, 70 min, 2010, Documentary Feature

Pyjama Girls presents the chaotic friendship of Irish teenagers Lauren and Tara as they navigate the trials of life, dressed all the while in their uniform ... more »


SCRAPPER

Dir: Stephan Wassmann, United States, 88 min, 2010, Documentary Feature

'Scrapper' explores a darkly enigmatic and brazen American outlaw subculture - a small clutch of survivalists and wild-eyed iconoclasts who earn a dangerou ... more »


SKYDANCER

Dir: Katja Esson, United States, 75 min, 2011, Documentary Feature

For more than 120 years, six generations of Mohawk Ironworkers have raised America's modern cityscapes. They are called 'sky walkers' because they walk fea ... more »


Documentary Short

BEST THING I EVER DONE, THE

Dir: M. Emily Mackenzie, United States, 16 min, 2010, Documentary Short

Hailed as the 'godfather of Brooklyn pizza,' for forty-five years Domenico DeMarco, Italian emigre, has been slinging pizzas in his legendary pizzeria, Di ... more »


BROOKLYN BRIDGE, THE

Dir: Derek Garcia, United States, 3 min, 2010, Documentary Short

A Portrait of The Brooklyn Bridge from day to night. ... more »


DAY IN. DAY OUT.

Dir: Carl Valiquet, Indonesia, 29 min, 2011, Documentary Short

This short film is a montage of still and moving images that visually depict the laborious struggle of workers living on different islands of Indonesia. It ... more »


DAY WE DANCED ON THE MOON, THE

Dir: Tristan Daws, Germany, 11 min, 2011, Documentary Short

THE DAY WE DANCED ON THE MOON tells the story of THE CHANNEL ONE BAND, a reggae band of mental health patients, as they journey to the West Coast of Irelan ... more »


PIECE OF SUMMER, A

Dir: Marta Minorowicz, Poland, 23 min, 2010, Documentary Short

It is the last days of the summer holidays. A grandfather, who works in the Bieszczady Mountains, awaits the arrival of his grandson. Surrounded by wild na ... more »


STRANGER

Dir: Christophe Hermans, Belgium, 12 min, 2010, Documentary Short

Sophie lives alone. She spends her time between small jobs and moving ...flats. She creates sculptures of her body to fill the empty space of her life. ... more »


Animation

AFTER ME

Dir: Patrick Jean & P. Jean, T. Bozovic, M. Charruaud, D. Fibleuil, B. Flouw, M. Riciotti, A. Robert, France, 4 min, 2010, Animation

I is another, but it's still me. A frustrated lover chases an illusion, but always ends up finding himself again. ... more »


AMAR

Dir: Isabel Herguera, Spain, 8 min, 2010, Animation

Ines travels to India to visit her friend amar, who has been living in a mental institution for years. Ines remembers the last days they spent together and ... more »


BIRDBOY

Dir: Pedro Rivero, Spain, 12 min, 2010, Animation

A terrible industrial accident changes Little Dinki's life forever. Now, Dinki's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who l ... more »


CASUALTIES OF LOVE

Dir: Faiyaz Jafri, United States, 1 min, 2010, Animation

Casualties of Love is a depiction of the unintentional cruelty to human replicas by children. It is inspired by the intense and uncontrolled love that chil ... more »


CI'IY LIFE

Dir: Mark Phillips, United States, 2 min, 2011, Animation

'Ci'iy Life' is based off the song of the same name produced by oddisee featuring the vocals of Tranqill. The video explores the isolation of winter city ... more »


CONFUSION OF TONGUES

Dir: Em Cooper, England, 6 min, 2010, Animation

Inspired by the work of Sándor Ferenczi, one of the original pioneers of psychoanalysis, Confusion of Tongues takes us into the world of a woman suffering ... more »


DREAM GIVER

Dir: Tyler Carter, United States, 6 min, 2011, Animation

A regular night of dream delivering turns into a literal nightmare when an orphan's book of Ancient Aztec Mythology comes alive. The Dream Giver must save ... more »


DWELLINGS

Dir: Aaron Wendel, United States, 4 min, 2010, Animation

Over time, two houses slowly destroy each other. ... more »


EVERYONE IN THEIR ROOM

Dir: Marco Missano, Italy, 6 min, 2010, Animation

This is a melancholic, romantic, heartbroken story made in stop motion.The last man on the earth, a diver, crosses the wasteland with his metallic boat. Du ... more »


FALLING UP

Dir: Djuna Wahlrab, United States, 9 min, 2010, Animation

Falling Up tells the story of a young man facing the adult world for the first time. The protagonist is confident and enthusiastic about his prospects, but ... more »


FRIDAY NIGHT TIGHTS

Dir: Joonki Park, United States, 4 min, 2010, Animation

On a Friday night, one guy puts on his tights. ... more »


HEAVY HEADS

Dir: Helena Frank, Denmark, 7 min, 2010, Animation

In a gray kitchen Monika lives a solitary life, to the sounds of a dripping water tap and a buzzing housefly. Monika is seducing the housefly, when a sad s ... more »


HOW TO TALK TO WOMEN

Dir: Josh Weisbrod, United States, 2 min, 2011, Animation

A simple trip to the neighborhood taco cart turns into a very informative discussion about the fairer sex. ... more »


LAST BATTLEFIELD, THE

Dir: Nico Vogelsang, Germany, 1 min, 2010, Animation

Cinematographic animation of an ancient battlefield with a surprising end. In a transformation of time we see historic wars. In the end the soldiers clash ... more »


LOVE PATATE

Dir: Gilles Cuvelier, France, 13 min, 2010, Animation

Some french fries, a love triangle, a potato with a scar, a huge nose, North of France and a bunny... ... more »


MEANING OF EGGSISTENCE, THE

Dir: Bruce Ryder, Ireland, 8 min, 2010, Animation

A man is attacked by a swan and subsequently gives birth to an egg. He grows to love the egg and looks after it until the day it hatches. ... more »


MILLHAVEN

Dir: Bartek Kulas, Poland, 7 min, 2010, Animation

Fifteen-year-old Loretta knows we all have to die. Will she be able to do a 'dance' of life? The untold story of the narrator in Nick Cave's dark ballad, b ... more »


MOONFISHING

Dir: David Michael Friend, New Zealand, 11 min, 2010, Animation

A fisherman's hobby of sculpting is interrupted when he must perform his monthly task of illuminating the town he lives in. With container on back, fishing ... more »


MORNING STROLL, A

Dir: Grant Orchard, England, 7 min, 2011, Animation

When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll we are left to wonder which one is the real city slicker. ... more »


NATURAL PLASTIC

Dir: Faiyaz Jafri, United States, 2 min, 2010, Animation

Natural Plastic is a metaphor for the delicate balance between man and nature. ... more »


ONE SECOND PER DAY

Dir: Richard Negre, France, 7 min, 2011, Animation

One second of film, meaning 25 drawings per day during one year, that's the goal. ... more »


SHE WAS THE ONE

Dir: Mike and Tim Rauch, United States, 2 min, 2010, Animation

In 2005, StoryCorps, the Peabody-winning oral history project, began a special initiative to honor and remember the stories of survivors, rescue workers, a ... more »


SINISTER SISTERS SLAUGHTERHOUSE

Dir: Michaela Mandel, Austria, 12 min, 2009, Animation

In a city named Franecker, there once was a father who slaughtered a pig, and his children watched. In the afternoon, when the children began playing, the ... more »


STICKY ENDS

Dir: Osman Cerfon, France, 7 min, 2010, Animation

Jinx is a man with the head of a fish. Misfortune bubbles escape from his mouth. When one of them follows somebody, he becomes dogged by bad luck, and come ... more »


Experimental

AD INFINITUM

Dir: Benjamin Ridgway, United States, 2 min, 2010, Experimental

'Ad Infinitum' is an animated exploration of the fractal like details of a sculptural continuum. ... more »


AUDITION, X2.90907, THE

Dir: Thierry Loa, Canada, 17 min, 2009, Experimental

A psychoanalytical drama film about the audition of a young actress; creating an allegorical scenario. ... more »


CLOSED DOOR

Dir: Heather Takahashi, United States, 14 min, 2010, Experimental

A room. A locked door. A pin. One man and two women. All with secrets. Each of three guests strives to discover why each of the others is there. A US produ ... more »


DAME FACTORY INC.

Dir: Melanie Abramov, United States, 7 min, 2011, Experimental

"Dame Factory" is a short experimental film. It's a stylish yet grotesque, cynical yet sexy look at how our culture commodifies and objectifies female bodi ... more »


EXTINCTION II.- QUADRATURE OF THE CIRCLES

Dir: Fernando Usón Forniés, Spain, 11 min, 2010, Experimental

A married couple dresses up to attend a ceremony. Life is too brief to be wasted in quarreling. ... more »


I KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

Dir: Matthew Wollin, United States, 4 min, 2009, Experimental

A startling and stunning bright green Rorschach print is the first thing shown, and then quickly gives way to a direct address to the viewer. Via onscreen ... more »


LOVE IS BLIND

Dir: Ertug Tufekcioglu, Turkey, 11 min, 2011, Experimental

A desperately unhappy woman finds love while not expecting at all. And Love makes Serap blind. If it's Love... ... more »


MAKE ME

Dir: John Ma, Australia, 6 min, 2010, Experimental

It is one thing to die for a cause, but what are you prepared to kill for? ... more »


MELT

Dir: Noemie Lafrance, Canada, 9 min, 2011, Experimental

Perched on a wall and wrapped in sculptural beeswax and lanolin costumes that melt away, dancers progress in euphoria and exhaustion, melting until their s ... more »


ODE

Dir: Dawn Hollison, United States, 18 min, 2010, Experimental

A story of Collector and Collected, Ode examines the human cycle of action and effect, and its reflection in the internal experience of recognition, regret ... more »


ONLY IN DREAMS

Dir: Adam Badlotto, United States, 2 min, 2010, Experimental

Over 3,000 images, shot entirely on a flatbed scanner, arranged into an avant-garde stop-motion film that explores the dynamic relationship between sight a ... more »


POSE

Dir: Ivaylo Getov, United States, 28 min, 2010, Experimental

Fascinated by finding beauty in the detritus and refuse of the city around her, a young woman wanders late at night looking in junk piles for items that ca ... more »


REQUIEM FOR CHE, A

Dir: Corey Ogilvie, Canada, 6 min, 2010, Experimental

A modern day historical portrait of che's image of cuba, now and then ... more »


SEE WALL

Dir: Brian Zahm, Guyana, 4 min, 2010, Experimental

Georgetown, Guyana, a city built below sea level, is protected from the mighty Atlantic Ocean by a concrete barrier the locals call, the 'Sea Wall.' It is ... more »


STRANGE THING HAPPENS

Dir: Martin Toro, United States, 22 min, 2011, Experimental

It is a cautionary tale about society losing self -awareness, sincerity and disconnection in everyday relationships. As a trilogy, this alternately tragic ... more »


TIME OF BREADTH

Dir: Ali El-darsa, Canada, 8 min, 2009, Experimental

Time of Breadth is a document of a telephone conversation between the artist and his mother recounting the Lebanese wars. It is a portrayal micro-politics ... more »


TO BE IN ME

Dir: Marina Mello, Brazil, 7 min, 2010, Experimental

Troubled by the echoes of her past, Veronica isolates herself in a world of solitude, dreaming and longing for the days when she was not afraid. She tries ... more »


TRANSPLANT

Dir: Ikko Suzuki, United States, 3 min, 2010, Experimental

A visual poem about pain and recovery. A young woman dreams while undergoing an open heart operation. In the dream, she finds a withered flower in the midd ... more »


WALZER

Dir: Rob Lücker, Netherlands, 16 min, 2010, Experimental

Scrap metal pikey Arec discovers a valuable treasure during his demolishing and gathering work in a dark basement. He decides to keep it for himself, but s ... more »


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