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AHLAAM
Dir: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq, 110 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Scarred Baghdad 2003... Confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a psychiatric asylum. Voyeuristically we move between the past and pres ... more »
BLOOD - DEATH DOES NOT EXIST
Dir: Libero De Rienzo, Italy, 104 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Stella has just been accepted to the New York Ballet Academy but wonders how she will break the news to her over-dependent brother. Essentially estranged ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Grand Chameleon Award, Best Narrative Feature
CONTACT
Dir: Sergej Stanojkovski, Germany, 95 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
Forty year-old Janko is such a troublemaker, even the warden at his prison wants him let out on parole. He is soon released into the care of his half-brot ... more »
COUSINES
Dir: Richard Senecal, Haiti, 95 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Jessica is a young Haitian woman whose quiet life in Port-au-Prince is turned upside down when her father suddenly dies. Without him around to pay the bill ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Best Producer, Best Actor Female
FACTOTUM
Dir: Bent Hamer, Norway, 93 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Henry Chinaski (Dillon) considers himself a writer, and on occasion writes. Mostly he quests for the booze and women that sidetrack and seduce, rather tha ... more »
FINGER AND BODY
Dir: Kei Horie, Japan, 109 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Jun, a young pimp in Tokyo, is so emotionally estranged from himself and the world around him that he has forgotten much of his past. With the help of an ... more »
GOODTIMESKID, THE
Dir: Azazel Jacobs, United States, 77 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
When two men's paths cross due to having the same names, lives intertwine, and the girl between them gets the chance to escape her daily routine. ... more »
LAST QUEEN OF THE EARTH, THE
Dir: Mohammad Reza Arab, Iran, 89 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
A simple yet powerful film about a young Afghani immigrant who works in a Henna grinding factory in Iran. As a US-led attack becomes more likely in the wa ... more »
LITTLE FUGITIVE
Dir: Joanna Lipper, United States, 90 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Joey and Lenny don't realize how much they love each other. Like so many siblings, they fight often. Each brother sometimes wishes the other were dead. On ... more »
LOWER CITY
Dir: Sergio Machado, Brazil, 97 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Deco and Naldinho are best friends in a constant struggle to earn an honest living in the gritty world of Salvador de Bahia's Lower City. When a beautiful ... more »
MILK AND OPIUM
Dir: Joel Palombo, India, 83 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Swaroop, a young Muslim boy from a caste of musicians, leaves his desert village in search of work with his Uncle Nizam. Swaroop is an innocent and curious ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Best New Director, Best Actor Male
OH IN OHIO, THE
Dir: Billy Kent, United States, 88 min, 2006, Narrative Feature
Priscilla Chase seemed to have everything going for her with one small private exception: She never thought much of sex. When her husband unexpectedly le ... more »
RINGFINGER, THE
Dir: Diane Bertrand, France, 100 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Iris is twenty years old and works on the assembly line of a fizzy drink factory. One day, she loses the tip of her ring finger in an industrial injury, le ... more »
ROAD
Dir: Leslie McCleave, United States, 92 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Two ex-lovers set out on a road trip when Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer, gets her first big assignment: to survey environmental cl ... more »
WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE
Dir: Eyal Halfon, Israel, 104 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Franco, an ex- policeman, who became an agent for a violent gangster, rediscovers himself with the help of Jana, a prostitute from Ukraine. Zeltzer, a me ... more »
Narrative Short
50 CENTS
Dir: Mathijs Geijskes, Netherlands, 5 min, 2005, Narrative Short
a street, a woman and a man... A young woman has to pass a homeless man in her street. She doubts if she will give the man some money; Will he buy alcohol ... more »
AUSTRALIAN SUMMER
Dir: Luke Eve, Australia, 7 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Two men, one alleyway and a whole world to explore. ... more »
AVATAR
Dir: Lluís Quílez, Spain, 15 min, 2005, Narrative Short
AVATAR: [1] Accidental event that usually implies a sudden change in the course of something. Change of fortune. [2] Trials somebody goes through. [3] Inc ... more »
BUDDHA STYLE
Dir: Jung-Hyun Yoo, Korea, 10 min, 2005, Narrative Short
There is the monk of "bong-wha" temple who has much interest in hairdo thinking of the wig in the NIKE shoes box secretly as his the most important thing. ... more »
buttons
Dir: Hector Berrebi, United States, 16 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Billy is gone forever. Bobby knows she will not visit again, he is alone now. In a rundown boardinghouse where he spends his days gazing out windows to a w ... more »
DAD, LOOK...
Dir: Bohdana Smyrnova, United States, 4 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Teenager follows the couple he ran into on the street of Chelsea. They then go to the Chelsea flea market. It is in the end, in Brooklyn cort-yard, that we ... more »
EXPLODING BUDS
Dir: Petra Schröder, Germany, 20 min, 2005, Narrative Short
The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious cha ... more »
FALSE ALARM
Dir: Casimir Nozkowski, United States, 7 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A romantic comedy about a slightly taboo, perfectly acceptable expression of love in contemporary society. ... more »
FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW
Dir: Pedro Touceda, Spain, 20 min, 2005, Narrative Short
The song of a story-teller will plunge us into a sciencie fiction tale: "The Legend of the Starmonster". A tale about the loss of innocence and human condi ... more »
HEADLESS SAILOR, THE
Dir: Lorenzo Recio, France, 19 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Alonso Samoza is a sailor who felt in love with 2 twin sisters. But to be able to marry one he has to kill first the other one. One day, the cargo he worke ... more »
HEAVY SOUL
Dir: Oren Shai, United States, 14 min, 2005, Narrative Short
1959. In a world of teenage lust and twisted morals, of drive-in movies and rock 'n' roll, it is hard to keep one's innocence. With a simple roll of the di ... more »
I LOVE MY SUIT
Dir: Peter Brogna, United States, 11 min, 2006, Narrative Short
A man wears a seersucker suit all the time. ... more »
INVULNERABLE
Dir: Alvaro Pastor, Spain, 25 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Elias, a young high school teacher, is after discovering he is HIV positive. Right then he is starting a relationship with Pedro, one of his co-workers. He ... more »
LAST BREATH, THE
Dir: Paola Charuand Lara, Mexico, 18 min, 2005, Narrative Short
An elderly villager, is about to pass away. His state of health is severely fragile, but he mantains all his strenghth to stay alive. His family, Damiana ... more »
LUCKY
Dir: Avie Luthra, South Africa, 20 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Lucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village for the bright lights of Durban. He is full of excitement and hope but Lucky has to learn ... more »
MAGNETIC POLES
Dir: Maria Rosenblum, United States, 29 min, 2005, Narrative Short
"Magnetic Poles" is about life's attractions and repulsions. Sonja, a cater waiter, is having a bad week. Her most recent intimate moment is with a cockro ... more »
MARILENA FROM P7
Dir: Cristian Nemescu, Romania, 45 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Andrei, a 13 year old teenager, living on Bucharest outskirts, decides one day to steal a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute he fell in ... more »
MELODRAMA
Dir: Filip Marczewski, Poland, 19 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A tale of 14-year-old boy who is in search of love. ... more »
OUSMANE
Dir: Dyana Gaye, Senegal, 15 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane a 7 years old child, who begs in the streets, decides to write a letter to Santa Claus... ... more »
PINK MINUTE
Dir: Sunita Prasad, United States, 16 min, 2006, Narrative Short
Having discovered that she is pregnant, 20-year-old Luisa prepares to have an abortion. Feeling alternately detached and anxious about the situation, she ... more »
PITCH PERFECT
Dir: J Blakeson, England, 10 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Bob and Ellis are screenwriters with integrity, talent and the willingness to do absolutely anything to sell their movie. Over four frustrating meetings w ... more »
PRESENCES
Dir: Patrick Lecomte, France, 11 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A young man enters into the bedroom of a house. He takes keys, a jacket leather, the scooter in the garage and runs away. A woman goes out of the house and ... more »
REMAINING DAYS, THE
Dir: Simon Olivier Fecteau, Canada, 8 min, 2004, Narrative Short
While cleaning out his closet, a very old widower finds a list of things he wanted to do in his life. Seeing that he might not have much time left, he deci ... more »
SANS SUPERVISION
Dir: Andrew Betzer, United States, 11 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A young couple finds many ways to distract their little girl while they spend intimate time together. Over three seperate outings, the young girl begins ... more »
SLUMBER PARTY
Dir: Variety Shac, United States, 5 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Comedic short film. See what happens when four grown women have a slumber party. It's supposed to be tons of fun! It's a humorous look at those weird negot ... more »
SPACE CHASE
Dir: Daniel Duncan & Jonathan Pearson, England, 5 min, 2006, Narrative Short
A fast-paced short film from Catsnake Studios. Our hero and heroine become locked in a frantic race using elements of Parkour to reach their goal. ... more »
SWAN, THE
Dir: Nin Brudermann, United States, 13 min, 2005, Narrative Short
An intimate miniature of an urban fable that unfurls in front of the artist's window upon the unexpected arrival of a beautiful and stubborn swan in New Yo ... more »
THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT
Dir: Stephen O' Regan, United States, 8 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A strange conversation about an unusual discovery. Based on the award winning short story by writer Terry Bisson. Staring acclaimed NY actor Tom Noonan, an ... more »
TIME OF THE CHERRIES
Dir: Jean-Julien Chervier, France, 15 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A 75 year-old man and woman meet through a small advertising to do a demonstration. But the demonstration will quickly turn into one of their desires. ... more »
TRANSIT
Dir: Bani Khoshnoudi, France, 30 min, 2004, Narrative Short
On the road to England, Arya, a young Afghan boy, crosses Europe's borders with other exiles. Near Italy he is separated from the group and sent by smuggle ... more »
VANCOUVER
Dir: Jesse McKeown, Canada, 11 min, 2005, Narrative Short
It's 3am in the city of Vancouver. Two cops make a startling discovery when they respond to a report of a disturbance at an elementary school. ... more »
WINTER, THE
Dir: Zhao Jing, China, 16 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A stray dumb child met a thief in an escaping event. He got curious and tailed the thief, then got beaten up as cahoots while he was together with the thi ... more »
WOLF'S DREAM
Dir: Maria-Anna Rimpfl, Germany, 15 min, 2006, Narrative Short
In a gothic mansion nestled at the edge of a deep forest, lives a family caught in a web of secrets and veiled horror. At the center of the psychological s ... more »
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
Dir: Marçal Forés, Spain, 12 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Annika has made out with almost all the guys from her high school. Passion, Bananas, blood, kissing, death and dancing. This is a teenage love short with ... more »
Documentary Feature
BEFORE FLYING BACK TO THE EARTH
Dir: Arunas Matelis, Lithuania, 52 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
A lyric and ascetic documentary essay about children's hospital, about its lessons in strength and love, about possibilities happiness there. How comes lif ... more »
CALL IT DEMOCRACY
Dir: Matt Kohn, United States, 87 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
Call It Democracy is a fresh perspective on voting rights, election reform and the unresolved electronic voting controversies threatening to undermine conf ... more »
CROSSING ARIZONA
Dir: Joseph Mathew & Dan DeVivo, United States, 95 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
An up-to-the-moment look at the hotly debated issues of illegal immigration and border security on the U.S./Mexico border. With Americans on all sides of t ... more »
EVERYONE THEIR GRAIN OF SAND
Dir: Beth Bird, United States, 87 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
This award-winning documentary reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government's attempts to ... more »
IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALMS: IRAQ
Dir: Wayne Coles-Janess, Australia, 90 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
As the world is engulfed in a storm of propaganda, we capture a very different reality in Iraq. We document how life really is for the society and people l ... more »
KOKOYAKYU: HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL
Dir: Kenneth Eng, United States, 53 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
Taking Western viewers inside a never-before-seen world, the film follows two of the 4,000 high school baseball teams in Japan striving to make it to the N ... more »
MUSKRAT LOVELY
Dir: Amy Nicholson, United States, 57 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
Every year in the town of Golden Hill, Maryland, contestants gather for two important competitions in the National Outdoor Show. Local high school girls co ... more »
RADIOPHOBIA
Dir: Julio Soto, Spain, 56 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
Twenty years ago, on April 26, 1986, a security test at Chernobyl's nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union, triggered the greatest civilian nuclear catas ... more »
RAZOR WIRE RODEO
Dir: Nicolas Pallay, Switzerland, 52 min, 2006, Documentary Feature
On June 16 1995, Jerry Brown, 18, killed a man for a small bag of marijuana. He was sentenced to life without parole and sent to the Louisiana State Penite ... more »
SHOOTING UNDER FIRE
Dir: Sacha Mirzoeff, Germany, 72 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
This moving and sometimes shocking film shows the lives behind some of the strongest photos taken in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza during the conflict. ... more »
Documentary Short
BEG, BORROW OR STEAL
Dir: Andreas Koefoed, Denmark, 36 min, 2006, Documentary Short
Rahi has seen it all: 36 countries on three continents - on his bicycle from India! Now, 89 years of age and a self-appointed Professor of the World, he se ... more »
DO YOU WANT THE ELEPHANT MUSIC
Dir: Leslie Dektor, United States, 17 min, 2005, Documentary Short
The ring allows us to see the lives and feelings of circus performers and how they mirror our own lives. ... more »
EVICTION
Dir: Steve Loff, United States, 5 min, 2006, Documentary Short
A family is forcefully evicted from a Harlem apartment. ... more »
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN
Dir: Lizbeth Mejia, United States, 7 min, 2005, Documentary Short
My film is about three people, two in the present and one in the past. My friends Marilyn and Yasmine both became pregnant last spring. I know about tee ... more »
MADE IN THE BRONX
Dir: Stephen Dypiangco, United States, 10 min, 2006, Documentary Short
In the middle of the Bronx, a group of inner-city teenagers learn how to succeed by working together to create something extraordinary. ... more »
NEW AMERICAN CENTURY, A
Dir: Anthony Wilson & Sam Hollenshead, United States, 36 min, 2006, Documentary Short
In October 2004, artist Anthony Wilson traveled across the United States publicly displaying six paintings of Bush Administration figures. "A New American ... more »
OUR DAILY BREAD
Dir: Khavn De La Cruz, Philippines, 5 min, 2006, Documentary Short
A short documentary on how one family lives out each day to earn their daily bread. How one man's trash is literally transformed into this family's treasur ... more »
PREACHER WITH AN UNKNOWN GOD
Dir: Rob VanAlkemade, United States, 16 min, 2005, Documentary Short
Compelled to somehow cover the 2004 political season, but finding himself profoundly alienated with politics, protests, and even much of the filmmaking pro ... more »
RACER, THE
Dir: Yao Guofa, China, 33 min, 2005, Documentary Short
Pak Goo is the head of her Female Dragon Boat Racing Team. The team won the runner-up position last year in Guangzhou International Dragon Boat Tournament, ... more »
RECYCLED LIFE
Dir: Leslie Iwerks, United States, 38 min, 2006, Documentary Short
For over sixty years, children have been born and raised here, parents and grandparents eat and survive here... Thousands of families have thrived in the l ... more »
WALKING BY MY SIDE - PARENTS' HEARTS
Dir: Winnie HO, Hong Kong, 22 min, 2006, Documentary Short
Choi Ma is a single mother of a pair of twin boys (Ah Choi and Ah Shing). She is a China mainlander married to a Hong Kong man. In 1998 , when the twins we ... more »
Animation
ALIVE
Dir: Lucy Blackwell, United States, 3 min, 2006, Animation
Two insects are born into a luscious alive world of food. As they explore their home, they realize they are living inside a tiny bubble. One of the insects ... more »
ALL PEOPLE IS PLASTIC
Dir: Harald Hund, Austria, 10 min, 2005, Animation
In the history of cinema the modern big city has often served as a screen onto which dystopian fantasies are projected: The idea of the urban space as a cr ... more »
BLACK DAY FOR FREEDOM
Dir: Rob Chiu, England, 4 min, 2005, Animation
Created as a fictional back story to the global problem of the displacement of peoples, Black Day to Freedom portrays a city in turmoil with the loss and t ... more »
BOB LOG III'S ELECTRIC FENCE STORY
Dir: Sebastien Wolf & Tinka Stock, Germany, 2 min, 2004, Animation
Big difficulties are encountered by Bob Log III, one-man-band from Tucson, Arizona, while trying to knock over sleeping cows in the Black Forest, Germany. ... more »
CHAMBER, THE
Dir: Yu Seock hyun, Korea, 5 min, 2005, Animation
With sound of knock, an old guy who looks like a salesman comes into an empty room. When he sees a miniature house in the room, he puts his hand into the h ... more »
CRAB REVOLUTION, THE
Dir: Arthur de Pins, France, 5 min, 2004, Animation
In the browny waters of Gironde estuary, between the rocks repainted with fuel and the muddy sand that provides a home for the best oysters in the world, n ... more »
DEVIL'S CANYON
Dir: Kelly Sears, United States, 6 min, 2005, Animation
Devil's Canyon weaves together a narrative growing out of a collection of abandoned images and super 8 landscapes of the American West. Mechanical horses, ... more »
DOVES: SKY STARTS FALLING
Dir: Reuben Sutherland, England, 4 min, 2005, Animation
This anachronistic video features a stunning blend of live action and VFX work and is based around madness in the sky as a result of a conductor leading a ... more »
DRAGON
Dir: Troy Morgan, United States, 7 min, 2006, Animation
After her parents die in a tragic fire, a young girl is sent to an orphanage where she begins sketching fiery visions. When the head of the orphanage sees ... more »
FOOT STEPS OF WATER, THE
Dir: Alireza Darvish, Iran, 6 min, 2006, Animation
A message from a long journey which remember us everything that we know and that we don't know. One story about the quality of every level of live. A symbo ... more »
FOREST CLEARING
Dir: Simon Robson, England, 3 min, 2005, Animation
A dark figure wants to take over the last forest. A lame deer wants to be king. One holds the key to the others dreams. But if you sell your soul, be sure ... more »
FUMI AND THE BAD LUCK FOOT
Dir: David Chai, United States, 7 min, 2006, Animation
A heartwarming tale of female empowerment and overcoming one's adversities; along with shotgun barrage, wild moose attack, and infant electrocution. ... more »
GENIE IN A TIN OF RAVIOLI, THE
Dir: Claude Barras, Switzerland, 7 min, 2005, Animation
Armand works on the assembly-line of a tinned pasta factory. One evening he opens up a tin of ravioli for dinner. Much to his surprise, a Genie jumps forth ... more »
GOD ON OUR SIDE
Dir: Michal Pfeffer & Uri Kranot, Netherlands, 7 min, 2005, Animation
Inspired by Picasso's Guernica (1937), this film is fundamentally about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the name of God, people are infused with rage ... more »
HALF MAN, A
Dir: Firas Momani, Canada, 5 min, 2005, Animation
A half of a man has trouble living in society without his organs falling out. ... more »
IN THOSE DAYS
Dir: Nadine Buss, France, 8 min, 2005, Animation
Rare it must be that Germans came to take refuge in France after the Liberation. It is the case of my father. His nightmare: that someone discovers his n ... more »
INFINITE JUSTICE
Dir: Karl Tebbe, Germany, 2 min, 2006, Animation
INFINITE JUSTICE takes fragments from war reports shown on German television - Iraq war at its best - and reconstructs these frame by frame with action fig ... more »
JOURNEY TO MARS
Dir: Juan Pablo Zaramella, Argentina, 16 min, 2004, Animation
In the mid 60's, Antonio is 5 years old. He is fascinated by a TV serial about Mars, and one day he tells his grandfather that he would love to travel to M ... more »
KONTROL ESKAPE
Dir: Stephane Beve & Mathieu Auvray, France, 11 min, 2005, Animation
In an out of time urban universe, a crowd of small bits of paper slowly wander, like zombies, under the yoke of tyrannical and violent hands. Their life se ... more »
LIFE IN TRANSITION
Dir: John R. Dilworth, United States, 4 min, 2005, Animation
Life in Transition is a visual and symbolic journey depcting the continual transformations of life from birth to death to re-birth. ... more »
MINISTRY MESSIAH
Dir: Gints Apsits, Latvia, 3 min, 2005, Animation
One day I woke up from my deepest dream .... my dream was reality. So, I'm in strange house. Rooms have no windows, no doors - like in prison. Not even wa ... more »
NOT THERE YET
Dir: Jason Tammemagi, Ireland, 5 min, 2004, Animation
Not There Yet, the title taken from Irish Rail's inspired advertising campaign, is a journey into Irish transport, one of the finest examples of transport ... more »
NOVECENTO, PIANIST
Dir: Sarah Van den Boom, France, 17 min, 2005, Animation
Born during an ocean crossing, Novecento is thirty-years-old and has never been ashore. Sailing endlessly the Atlantic, he spends his life in the piano lou ... more »
NUCLEAR PHYSICIST GIVES HIS SON FREE ADVICE, THE
Dir: Hanan Harchol, United States, 16 min, 2006, Animation
In this funny and poignant animated short, the animator has impersonated the voices of his Israeli parents. The parents provide their "words of wisdom" on ... more »
OUR MAN IN NIRVANA
Dir: Jan Koester, Germany, 10 min, 2005, Animation
John, a famous rockstar, dies during a live gig with his band and awakes in nirvana. There he has to face his wishes and deeds. ... more »
PAGÜEY RIVER, THE
Dir: Ramón París & Tere Castillo, Spain, 4 min, 2005, Animation
At the shores of the Pagüey River, Honorio prepares to leave his home due to the coming flood, when an unexpected scream transforms his fled into a person ... more »
PAINFUL GLIMPSE INTO MY WRITING PROCESS, A
Dir: Chel White, United States, 1 min, 2005, Animation
Dark and humorous, this extremely short film is a stream-of-conscious look at the writing process, told with animated images straight from the subconscious ... more »
REFLECTIONS
Dir: Suki, France, 8 min, 2006, Animation
One year ago, Thomas Bresson, a brilliant and ambitious lawyer, and Elise, his fiancée, hit a man on the street by accident and ran away. From this time, e ... more »
SCENTSORY DESIGN®
Dir: Jenny Tillotson, England, 5 min, 2005, Animation
Scentsory Design® is a film that explores the fusion of "Emotional Fashion" with health and olfaction science, to create a new concept in perfumery. It is ... more »
SCOPE
Dir: Makoto Yabuki, Japan, 3 min, 2005, Animation
A primitive part and the consideration that exists in bases of various one to change shape easily with "Substance" as the theme are expressed. ... more »
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