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Dir: Edouard Salier, France, 17 min, 2009, Experimental
Four letters. 400 000 possibilities. Only one is real. ... more »
AFTER TOMORROW
Dir: Emma Sullivan, England, 15 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Returning to the village of his estranged wife, James grows increasingly concerned when the sinister owner of the guest house refuses to let him leave. A ... more »
ALTER EGO
Dir: Cédric Prevost, France, 20 min, 2008, Narrative Short
In a park of Paris, Esther and Nadir come across each other, having apparently very little in common. Apparently... ... more »
BACKWARDS
Dir: Aaron Hughes, United States, 4 min, 2009, Animation
A love story so backwards it has to be told in reverse. ... more »
BEACHCOMB REVUE
Dir: Alec Mathewson, Canada, 1 min, 2007, Experimental
An idealistic young garbage enthusiast sets out to scour the shoreline during his bi-weekly scavenge. Who knows what treasures he'll find? Spoiler Alert: i ... more »
BEETLE, THE
Dir: Yishai Orian, Israel, 70 min, 2008, Documentary Feature
Yishai Orian, the director of the movie and the owner of an old Volkswagen beetle, is about to become a father. His mechanic says that the car will not las ... more »
BEGUINE
Dir: Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands, 5 min, 2009, Experimental
A short movie about losing ones Love and the survival that follows after. I sing, I drink, I laugh, I dance, while my heart weeps. The melancholy, imaginat ... more »
BETWEEN THE FOLDS
Dir: Vanessa Gould, United States, 55 min, 2008, Documentary Feature
The film chronicles ten fine artists and eccentric scientists who have devoted their lives to the unlikely medium of modern origami. Through their determin ... more »
BORDERLINE
Dir: Lyne Charlebois, Canada, 110 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Borderline, a film version of the novels Borderline and La Brèche, tells the story of Kiki at various stages of her life. With her mother institutionalized ... more »
BOUNCE
Dir: Marina Shoupe, United States, 5 min, 2007, Experimental
Bounce travels in time to when we were kids, summers were long and un-complicated by time. Bounce returns to the middle present, and we hear a middle aged ... more »
BREAKING UPWARDS
Dir: Daryl Wein, United States, 88 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Breaking Upwards explores a young, real-life New York couple who, battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. Based on an a ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Grand Chameleon Award, Best Narrative Feature
CAGE, THE
Dir: Jae Hoon Lee, United States, 3 min, 2008, Animation
The invasion of creature who steal what people have inside! If you encounter that creature, what will you do? Do you have any valuable? If so, Is it more t ... more »
CHAMBERMAID, THE
Dir: Ann Holmgren, Norway, 22 min, 2008, Narrative Short
A young man arrives at a hotel on a small island. He contacts an elderly woman who works at the hotel as a chambermaid. It proves that they have a common ... more »
CHORD
Dir: Simon Rauh, Germany, 12 min, 2008, Experimental
Nocturnal-blue figures move through a dark, abstract landscape, their motions jerky and sharply-awkward - animated sculptures as dream and trance-like insc ... more »
CONCERTO
Dir: Filippo Conz, United States, 14 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Detective Ray Lorenz returns home to discover his wife sleeping with Phillip, her violin teacher. When Ray impulsively kidnaps Phillip, the two go on a jou ... more »
COTTON CANDY
Dir: Aritz Moreno, Spain, 11 min, 2008, Narrative Short
The cold always complicates things. ... more »
COVENANT OF MR KASCH, THE
Dir: Joshua Beahan & Ruwan De Silva, Australia, 11 min, 2008, Experimental
Kasch, a rich dignity abandoned by the old world, rots in his hovel, mourning the death of his beloved. Choking on his Covenant to be hers forever, Kasch f ... more »
CRYPTIC
Dir: John Weiner & Danny Kuchuck, United States, 83 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Cryptic is a thriller that takes place in a land we call a slacker Twilight Zone. With her life at a dead end, 19 year-old Jessie finds her old cellphone ... more »
CUT LOOSE
Dir: Jan Verheyen, Belgium, 100 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Based on the best selling novel by Tom Naelgels, CUT LOOSE, is a funny, heartfelt and emotional film about racial integration and other serious issues. - M ... more »
DANSE MACABRE
Dir: Pedro Pires, Canada, 9 min, 2009, Experimental
For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are these spasms m ... more »
DE SI PRÈS
Dir: Rémi Durin, France, 13 min, 2009, Animation
It's springtime. Mr Gerbier is taking a walk with Chloé, his great-granddaughter. Letting her play in the park, the old man is dreaming quietly sitting on ... more »
DIARY OF A TIMES SQUARE THIEF
Dir: Klaas Bense, Netherlands, 60 min, 2008, Documentary Feature
Diary of a Times Square Thief documents a journey of discovery: the search for the writer of a mysterious diary that the filmmaker found on Ebay. This manu ... more »
DINNER, THE
Dir: Karchi Perlmann, Hungary, 26 min, 2008, Narrative Short
The Dinner revolves around a day in the life of a small rural Hungarian family during the riots of September 2006. The day starts when the adult son of the ... more »
DISTANCE
Dir: Thomas Sieben, Germany, 82 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Living in seclusion from the rest of the world, Daniel Bauer goes about his job as a gardener in the botanical gardens. A rather inconspicuous young man wh ... more »
DIVERS
Dir: Paris Mavroidis, United States, 3 min, 2008, Animation
Divers explores the abstraction of the human body into shape and the absorption of the individual into the mass. ... more »
DIX
Dir: BIF Collective, France, 7 min, 2008, Experimental
Marc needs the paving stones on which he walks to move, for fear of stepping on the lines. He starts a treatment to overcome his phobia... ... more »
DOG WITH ELECTRIC COLLAR
Dir: Steve Baker, Australia, 5 min, 2008, Animation
A dog... An electric collar... And plenty to bark at... Sparks will fly! ... more »
DON ROBERTO'S SHADOW
Dir: Juan Diego Spoerer & Hakan Engstrom, Chile, 27 min, 2007, Documentary Short
A boy travels to a saltpeter office with his family, to the city of Chacabuco in the Chilean desert, where he walks along the old buildings. The years pas ... more »
DR. ALEMÁN
Dir: Tom Schreiber, Germany, 102 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Seeking to escape suburban boredom, 26-year-old med student Marc travels to Cali, Colombia, on an exchange. No sooner has he arrived in the hospital than h ... more »
EM
Dir: Tony Barbieri, United States, 93 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Instinctive mutual attraction brings Josh and Amanda together, but when that initial attraction blossoms into a rich romance, and the two decide to start a ... more »
EVOLUTION OF LIFE IN 60 SECONDS, THE
Dir: Claire L. Evans, United States, 1 min, 2009, Animation
The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained time ... more »
FALLING AWAKE
Dir: Agustin, United States, 110 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
"Falling Awake" is the powerful story of Jay (Andrew Cisneros), a young man struggling to find his identity in The Bronx in a house crowded with family mem ... more »
FAMILY
Dir: Marko Maetamm, Estonia, 4 min, 2007, Animation
There is an axe-man running around the flat after his wife and two children. The wife and children try to hide, but the axe-man always finds them. And ever ... more »
FLUX-TERSCHELLING
Dir: Camille Galle & Manolo Bez, France, 5 min, 2007, Experimental
A man and a woman centaur sat in dunes. Transistor, ball and castle. It's raining on the sea. A boat passes on the horizon. It's a centaur galloping in the ... more »
FLYING LOTUS
Dir: Daniel Garcia, United States, 3 min, 2008, Experimental
Concentrate produced this music video for Flying Lotus. The video, 'Infinitum' was directed by Daniel Garcia ... more »
FORBACH
Dir: Claire Burger, France, 35 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Samuel returns to Forbach, his birthplace, to receive a medal. In this coal mining city of Lorraine, everyone is proud of his Parisian success: a native of ... more »
GARDENS WITH RED ROSES
Dir: Richard Oliver, England, 16 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Set in May 1997 at the time of the New Labour election victory, 'Gardens with Red Roses' is an independently produced and funded short film about love, asp ... more »
GLASS TRAP
Dir: Pawel Ferdek, Poland, 15 min, 2008, Documentary Short
Cash, a car and a mobile phone... as well as fish. A group of tough men from near Warsaw organize a new form of entertainment. Their customary meetings ove ... more »
GLOBAL WARMING
Dir: Eriyat Suresh, India, 1 min, 2008, Animation
Global Warming combines the fun of a festival in India where people form a human pyramid to break a pot strung high up, with the importance of using CFL bu ... more »
HILLSIDE CROWD, THE
Dir: Berni Goldblat, Switzerland, 72 min, 2009, Documentary Feature
Like a modern-day version of Deadwood, a makeshift gold mine on the remote Diosso hillside in Burkina Faso has attracted a swarm of gold-diggers and dynami ... more »
I LIVE IN THE WOODS
Dir: Max Winston, United States, 4 min, 2008, Animation
A Woodsman's frantic journey driven by happiness, slaughter, and a confrontation with America's God. ... more »
I WAS HERE
Dir: Rene Vilbre, Estonia, 94 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Nobody is born to be a drug dealer. Rass, 17, elite school student, though living alone and poorly in an Estonian slum, has dreams about family and love. O ... more »
IMPASSE
Dir: Bram Schouw, Netherlands, 5 min, 2008, Narrative Short
An encounter between a white boy and an African girl in a night train. They look at each other: he wants to, but doesn't dare. She lets him, but stays elus ... more »
INCELLAR
Dir: Laurie Colson, Belgium, 15 min, 2008, Experimental
It's the history of our urges. The history of our fears. Of the side where they stand. A story in a cellar... ... more »
INTERRUPTED
Dir: Kim Taylor, Australia, 5 min, 2008, Experimental
Take a deep glance into a young girl's mind as her journey into womanhood is interrupted. Based on a true story. ... more »
INVARIANCE
Dir: David Sarma, United States, 5 min, 2008, Animation
In studying math, I recognized a distinct visual underpinning to my preferences and style of working. This project is an attempt to provide a characterizat ... more »
IRAN: A NATION OF BLOGGERS
Dir: Aaron Chiesa, Canada, 2 min, 2008, Animation
An exploration of how the digital world allows many Iranians access to ideas and freedom of expression they haven't had for close to thirty years. Blogging ... more »
JUKKA
Dir: Emmanuel Trousse, Monaco, 12 min, 2009, Experimental
"Two nights ago, a man put the barrel of his gun to my forehead and started to cry..." This film is a labyrinth, a journey into the human condition in tim ... more »
KNIFE POINT
Dir: Carlo Mirabella-Davis, United States, 27 min, 2009, Narrative Short
An evangelical family passing through upstate New York gives a ride to an unusual traveling knife salesman. ... more »
LA BOULE D'OR
Dir: Bruno Deville, Switzerland, 15 min, 2008, Documentary Short
A tranquil little island hidden away under a bridge in Lausanne, the bowling club of La Boule d'Or is home to a team of pensioners who, under the direction ... more »
LA SVEDESE
Dir: Nicolas Liguori, France, 9 min, 2008, Animation
A woman arrives in Italy to meet a lover. The man, a filmmaker fascinated by his country, guides her through the places he likes. When he has to leave to f ... more »
LANDSCAPE NO. 2
Dir: Vinko Moderndorfer, Slovenia, 90 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
The burglars Sergej and Polde steal a valuable painting Landscape No.2. By coincidence Sergej also takes a mysterious document dating back to the end of th ... more »
LAST LULLABY, THE
Dir: Jeffrey Goodman, United States, 93 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Can we make movies thoughtful and quieter and still make them riveting? That's the question at the heart of Lullaby. This beautifully shot contemporary f ... more »
LEFT BEHIND
Dir: Fabian Daub & Andreas Gräfenstein, Germany, 13 min, 2008, Documentary Short
In Waldenburg, situated in the Lower Silesian Coalfield, all mines are closed down. Lukasz and his elder friend Jacek have been digging coal at their own r ... more »
LENNY
Dir: Cyril Amon Schaublin, Germany, 17 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Two teenagers lives are brought together through internet webcams. Anton's desire is awakened after discovering Lenny's personal video blog on Youtube. Awa ... more »
LESSONS FROM THE NIGHT
Dir: Adrian Francis, Australia, 9 min, 2008, Documentary Short
As dusk approaches and workers stream out of the city, Maia, a Bulgarian immigrant, is about to begin her day. She reflects on life, work and toilet bowls ... more »
LILA
Dir: Broadcast Club, France, 13 min, 2009, Documentary Short
This must be the wood, she said thoughtfully to herself, where things have no names. ... more »
LIONESS(ES)
Dir: Jae-Hee Hong, Korea, 20 min, 2008, Narrative Short
A meat market: Jung-hee, a butcher, run away from her abusive husband, Sung-chil, who gambles and even beats her. Her neighbors, pitying her situation, sug ... more »
LONG DISTANCE
Dir: Moritz Siebert, England, 27 min, 2009, Documentary Short
Abiyot is one of several African long distance runners, trying to make a living and career in the US. Once he was a promising member of the Ethiopian natio ... more »
LOOPLOOP
Dir: Patrick Bergeron, Canada, 5 min, 2008, Experimental
In a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam, the houses boarding the railroad are passing by. Using animation and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwar ... more »
LOST TRIBES OF NEW YORK CITY, THE
Dir: Carolyn & Andy London, United States, 3 min, 2009, Animation
Urban anthropologists Andy & Carolyn London interview some of New York City's more overlooked citizens. ... more »
LUXURY
Dir: Jarek Sztandera, Poland, 39 min, 2008, Narrative Short
The lives of two boys converge at the central train station in Warsaw a day before Christmas. One is a teen prostitute nicknamed Luksus (Luxury) and the ot ... more »
MAN WHO WOULD BE POLKA KING, THE
Dir: Joshua von Brown & John Mikulak, United States, 70 min, 2009, Documentary Feature
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE POLKA KING is an irreverent look at the rise and fall of Grammy-nominated polka music superstar Jan Lewan, whose defection from Poland ... more »
MILK IN THE LAND
Dir: Ariana Gerstein & Monteith McCollum, United States, 75 min, 2008, Documentary Feature
Milk has long been considered a staple of the American diet, the perfect food, a pure gift of nature. This quirky and entertaining documentary examines the ... more »
MOTHER'S DAY
Dir: David Lobser, United States, 2 min, 2008, Animation
Mother's Day is a story of birth, love, betrayal, redemption, deception and rebirth. It is the adventure of a young insect making his way through an entic ... more »
MY GATES
Dir: Ted Ciesielski, United States, 3 min, 2009, Experimental
Seasons change as the installation of Christo and Jeanne-Cluade's "The Gates" gets underway in New York City's Central Park. Ted Ciesielski's "My Gates" ... more »
NAIADE
Dir: Nadia Micault & Lorenzo Nanni, France, 12 min, 2008, Experimental
Ava rules over a swamp where fairy creatures live. A strange boy secretly observes her flourishing kingdom, trying to figure out a way to save the life of ... more »
NEXT FLOOR
Dir: Denis Villeneuve, Canada, 12 min, 2008, Narrative Short
During an opulent and luxurious banquet, complete with hordes of servers and valets, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic ... more »
NO MORE SMOKE SIGNALS
Dir: Fanny Bräuning, Switzerland, 90 min, 2008, Documentary Feature
Kili Radio "Voice of the Lakota Nation" is broadcast out of a small wooden house that sits isolated on a hill, lost in the vast countryside of South Dakota ... more »
OBSERVATION
Dir: Klara Elenius, Denmark, 15 min, 2007, Experimental
A dance film inspired by the Scandinavian mentality. The atmosphere is a little bit tense among the three characters in the film, as we meet them in a dark ... more »
ONE DAY AFTER THE TENTH DAY
Dir: Narges Abyar, Iran, 25 min, 2008, Documentary Short
An old man who is given a camel to look after by the village people finds himself bonding with the animal after a few months. ... more »
OPINION POEM
Dir: Suzy Maier, United States, 2 min, 2009, Experimental
An experimental animated film about my struggles in the past. It is animated by hand, in graphite. The monologue is written by me and I have done the voic ... more »
PASSAGES
Dir: Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre, Canada, 25 min, 2008, Animation
It was with great enthusiasm that I found out that I was expecting my first child. While I was awaiting the arrival of my bundle of joy, I never expected m ... more »
PIG HUNT
Dir: Jim Isaac, United States, 100 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Deep country bliss turns into a verdant hell when John, his girlfriend, and a group of buddies head out from San Francisco for a weekend of pig hunting at ... more »
PINCHAS
Dir: Pini Tavger, Israel, 30 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Pinhas & his mother are new immigrants from Russia His mother barely makes a living working night shifts, she devotes her spare time to the affair she has ... more »
POSTMAN RETURNS
Dir: Mischa Rozema, Netherlands, 2 min, 2008, Animation
The long-awaited return of the Postman, providing tricks to create panic. ... more »
PRISONFOOD
Dir: Uwe Flade, Germany, 8 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Set during a very special Sunday in a single prison cell, Prisonfood is a tale of entrapment, tension and the power of the human imagination. With only a s ... more »
PRIVATE LESSONS
Dir: Joachim Lafosse, Belgium, 105 min, 2008, Narrative Feature
Jonas, a teenager who is doing badly at school, meets Pierre, a man in his thirties, who is moved by his situation and takes him under his wing. On the str ... more »
PSICOVIP
Dir: Bruno Bozzetto, Italy, 4 min, 2008, Animation
Minivip and Supervip are two super brothers who are very different from one another. One is as feeble and intelligent as the other is strong and naive. Bec ... more »
Q&A
Dir: Mike and Tim Rauch, United States, 4 min, 2009, Animation
In February 2006, 12-year-old Joshua Littman and his mother, Sarah, recorded an interview at StoryCorps. Joshua was diagnosed with Asperger' Syndrome, a fo ... more »
REVOLUTION THAT WASN'T, THE
Dir: Aliona Polunina, Estonia, 97 min, 2008, Documentary Feature
Russia, 2007. Exactly a year before the next presidential elections. The opposition is set to act decisively and take power. Anatoly and Andrei are veteran ... more »
ROOTS
Dir: Eileen Hofer, Switzerland, 18 min, 2008, Narrative Short
In a small Turkish village, doomed to be flooded by the construction of a dam, an unemployed widower wants to celebrate his birthday of his child, who drea ... more »
SALT IN THE SCARS
Dir: Fiorella Castanotto, Switzerland, 17 min, 2008, Documentary Short
The saltpans of Marakanam in South India. While following Reena, a woman who earns her living collecting sea salt,viewers are challenged to consider the im ... more »
SANTA: THE FASCIST YEARS
Dir: Bill Plympton, United States, 4 min, 2008, Animation
We all think of Santa as "Jolly ole St.Nick". But who knew that he has a dark hidden past that's very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explores Santa ... more »
SARI SOLDIERS, THE
Dir: Julie Bridgham, Nepal, 90 min, 2008, Documentary Feature
Filmed over three years during the most historic and pivotal time in Nepal's modern history, The Sari Soldiers is an extraordinary story of six women's c ... more »
SEA LEGS
Dir: Craig Butta, United States, 82 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
With the power of gesture and a minimum of words, a riveting character embarks on a doomed enterprise -- his responsibility for his father's inheritance i ... more »
SEBASTIAN'S VOODOO
Dir: Joaquin Baldwin, United States, 5 min, 2008, Animation
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death. ... more »
SIRENS
Dir: Alejo Levis, Spain, 6 min, 2008, Experimental
She lost the baby. She stares out the window. Every night when he arrives home, an argument. One day she told him, a few black women on the street walked s ... more »
SIX AND A HALF
Dir: Ana Lily Amirpour, United States, 5 min, 2008, Narrative Short
When a little girl tries to catch a frog in a pond, she has a painful accident and blames the frog... so she goes back for revenge. ... more »
SKHIZEIN
Dir: Jeremy Clapin, France, 14 min, 2008, Animation
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living 91cm precisely from himself... ... more »
SMALL COLLECTION
Dir: Jeremiah Crowell, United States, 6 min, 2008, Narrative Short
A different kind of love story - unfolding not in real time, but in the corridors of memory. The lovers' faces are never seen, only their voices heard. We ... more »
SOARING ROARING DIVING
Dir: Miriam Harris & Juliet Palmer, New Zealand, 6 min, 2008, Experimental
In a letter that she penned in 1941, Virginia Woolf wrote the words "soaring, roaring, diving..." to describe the range of human experience and life's joys ... more »
SPOTTER, THE
Dir: Thomas Beug, United States, 14 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Set on a fire escape in Brooklyn at dawn, a boy and girl meet to perform a weekly ritual in their makeshift crow's nest. She's the spotter, he's the sniper ... more »
STINGRAY SAM
Dir: Cory McAbee, United States, 62 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
A dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space convicts as they earn their freedom in exch ... more »
SUSPENDED
Dir: Kimi Takesue, United States, 9 min, 2009, Documentary Short
SUSPENDED both documents and re-contextualizes the experience of suspended time among a cross-section of people. The film captures a range of evocative mom ... more »
TAIAN LU
Dir: Mathieu Borysevicz, China, 13 min, 2008, Narrative Short
The story centers around Taian Lu No.6, a dilapidated colonial era building, now home to an eclectic cross section of Shanghai's demography. Through the da ... more »
TEAM QUEEN
Dir: Leah Meyerhoff, United States, 3 min, 2007, Experimental
You are cordially invited to a gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling, post-punk rock 'n roll prom. The new girl in school is thrown into a topsy- ... more »
THAWING OUT
Dir: Jean-Julien Chervier, France, 27 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Since he arrives to the nude-camp forced by his mother, Leo a 12 year-old, feels like dying. Until he meets Antoinette and her magic mushrooms... ... more »
THIS WAY UP
Dir: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith, England, 9 min, 2008, Animation
Laying the dead to rest has never been so much trouble. ... more »
TIMEKEEPER, THE
Dir: Louis Bélanger, Canada, 102 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
In this film adapted from Trevor Ferguson's eponym novel, the year is 1964. Martin Bishop is 18. His recently deceased father has left him a good education ... more »
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