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1440 SKETCHES
Dir: Maurice Falise, France, 3 min, 2004, Animation
The drawing is filmed in its original state without alteration or special effects. Two people, static on the page, dance on the screen. Their movement is c ... more »
1976
Dir: leftchannel, United States, 3 min, 2004, Animation
Art becomes life, and life becomes art. 1976 journeys through the ghettos and farmlands and lifestyles of Cuba as scenes build and unfold blurring the dis ... more »
5 LBS. OF DAMN HANDSOME
Dir: Molly Schwartz, United States, 2 min, 2005, Animation
A 1.5 minute plastic rainforest lounge diorama collage about a very small 12 year old dog animated from paintings and photographs taken in and around an ol ... more »
ABSOLUT
Dir: Romed Wyder, Switzerland, 95 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
What if, one day, two hackers managed to penetrate into the heart of a financial network? And what if they decided to plant a virus there? And what if, t ... more »
ALONGSIDE THE QUAY
Dir: SARA {Anne de La Roche Saint-Andre}, France, 5 min, 2004, Animation
A captain looks for a bar and cigarettes in a harbour. A dog falls in friendship with him. The captain tries to get rid of him. But he fails. ... more »
AMAL
Dir: Ali Benkirane, France, 17 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Amal is a 12 year old girl who lives in the Morocco countryside. Everyday, she wakes up and walks with her brother to the school located a few miles away f ... more »
ANACONDA TARGETS
Dir: Dominic Angerame, United States, 12 min, 2004, Experimental
About 2,000 troops from the US led military coalition were engaged in close in combat on March 4, 2002 with small pockets of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban ... more »
ANCESTOR, THE
Dir: Claudio Capanna, Italy, 6 min, 2004, Experimental
I want to watch the transparency of the object that I am creating. Then I see a train and a child, the rain and a gun. I still watch and arrive beyond sta ... more »
BANQUISE
Dir: Claude Barras & Cedric Louis, Switzerland, 7 min, 2005, Animation
Marine, an obese young girl, suffers from the way other people look at her and from the heat of summer. She dreams of a better life among the penguins on a ... more »
BATTAGLIA
Dir: Daniela Zanzotto, England, 58 min, 2004, Documentary Feature
A journey through the life of the extraordinary Sicilian photographer and anti-Mafia activist Letizia Battaglia. A story of passion, pain and the struggle ... more »
BEHIND THE SCENES OF P.
Dir: Margarita Jimeno, Colombia, 2 min, 2005, Documentary Short
In a room of a brothel, a prostitute tells her friends some news that might change her life. ... more »
BEROCCA
Dir: Martin Taylor, England, 13 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Kole, a disabled salesman, takes his autistic son from a care-home, and embarks on a road-trip across the north, to reunite his family; to take his estrang ... more »
BEYOND THE VISION
Dir: Bruno Derlin & Mark Doyle, United States, 25 min, 2005, Documentary Short
Filmmakers Bruno Derlin and Mark Doyle combine event footage, miscellaneous film clips, and personal insight in a behind-the-scenes look at the history and ... more »
BIG RACE, THE
Dir: Phil Aupperle, United States, 5 min, 2004, Documentary Short
What do two boys in Madagascar do with a free day? Tulch and Noel, best friends with a day off from school, successfully illustrate that you don't need fan ... more »
BIG THING, THE
Dir: Carl Laudan, Canada, 9 min, 2004, Narrative Short
1850: First mass-production of vulcanized rubber condoms. 1851: Elias Howe receives patent for an "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure" (zipper) 1889: T ... more »
BRIEF PEACE, A
Dir: Ata Hayati, Iran, 52 min, 2004, Documentary Feature
Twenty years after the disappearance of the young Iranian Ali, his mother can finally bury him. He used to work for the air force and died as a martyr, she ... more »
CENSUS TAKER, THE
Dir: Phil Dale, England, 9 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A lone female census taker working in the valleys of Wales has one last questionnaire to complete, but when her car breaks down at a remote cottage, the da ... more »
CHYENNE
Dir: Alexander Meier, Switzerland, 5 min, 2004, Narrative Short
On a piece of lawn, between two buildings, a girl "Chyenne" seems to get lost in the lethargic grey and cloudy afternoon. Suddenly she sneaks up to a raven ... more »
CIRCULAR CAPITAL
Dir: Ricardo Mehedff, Brazil, 10 min, 2004, Narrative Short
In a tale about survival in the streets of Rio, the protagonist is an imported "hot" car. It's ephemeral owners come from every social class and will do al ... more »
CITY LIMITS
Dir: Andrea Costantini, Italy, 107 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
Superintendent Chessari is sent to run a small police station on the outskirts of Rome - a temporary posting in a difficult area, with not much backing and ... more »
CODE 33
Dir: Beilinson, Hawley, Galinsky, Werner, United States, 82 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
The summer 2003 search for the notorious Miami-Dade serial rapist is revealed in this engrossing behind-the-scenes documentary that reveals not only the ra ... more »
CRICKETS
Dir: Matan Guggenheim, Israel, 16 min, 2004, Narrative Short
After his parents are killed in a terrorist attack, Ido is forced to deal with his trauma in unconventional ways as he fights to maintain his sanity in a w ... more »
DEFINITION OF INSANITY, THE
Dir: Robert Margolis & Frank Matter, United States, 85 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY is a tragi-comedy about elusive dreams, love, loss, and the passions that drive us. It is structured as a documentary about Robe ... more »
DENSE DEATH
Dir: Jurandir Muller & Kiko Goifman, Brazil, 55 min, 2003, Documentary Feature
Differently from this serial killer movie craze we see spread all over the world, the main purpose of this documentary is to reveal the meaning of death fo ... more »
DENTIST
Dir: Signe Baumane, United States, 10 min, 2004, Animation
An enthusiastic Dentist, a reluctant patient and a strange picture on the wall... ... more »
DEVOT
Dir: Igor Zaritzki, Germany, 92 min, 2003, Narrative Feature
Henry sees what he believes to be a prostitute on the bridge. He propositions Anja, and although his shrewd perceptions immediately tell him that she is no ... more »
DIMMER
Dir: Talmage Cooley, United States, 12 min, 2004, Documentary Short
Dimmer is a glimpse into the life of Mike, a blind teenager growing up with a gang of blind friends amid the decaying rust belt factories and neighborhoods ... more »
DUBLIN 1
Dir: Jason Tammemagi, Ireland, 11 min, 2004, Animation
As the face of Dublin is changing, this film embodies a moment in time. It's history and it's future are all there for those who wish to see it, but they a ... more »
ELECTRONIC PERFORMERS
Dir: A. Ganzerli, L. Bourdoiseau, J. Blanquet, France, 6 min, 2004, Animation
Has feeling got a physical representation? This video is the story of a feeling represented by a warm vibration spreading all over the body. ... more »
ELEMENT - PLAYING PLANET
Dir: Eliane Koller, Germany, 72 min, 2004, Experimental
Element is a spiritual rock and film opus. At the beginning there was music. Various musicians were playing (and singing) with complete devotion, knowing ... more »
EMPIRE
Dir: Edouard Salier, France, 4 min, 2005, Experimental
The Pax Americana takes care of our peace, ensures our comfort, guarantees our prosperity. An idyllic postcard of the new Empire. ... more »
EROSION
Dir: Ann Lu, United States, 100 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Haunted by a failing relationship, a man devises a dangerous game for escape: breaking into strangers' homes to have sex with his accomplice, a married wom ... more »
FACECHASERS
Dir: Gabriel Judet-Weinshel, United States, 4 min, 2005, Experimental
A man and a woman are chased through a bleak desert by faceless creatures and animated attack dogs. In the pursuit, one of them loses his life and one conc ... more »
FLAMES OF PASSION
Dir: David Chai, United States, 2 min, 2004, Animation
An emotional account of heartache, desire, arousal, amour, betrayal, and sorrow in one minute and thirty-eight seconds. ... more »
FLIP A COIN
Dir: David Flamholc, England, 97 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
An un-romantic comedy in "French Wave" style, set in modern East London. Philip and Casper, two flatmates in London's east end, flip a coin about most dec ... more »
FORSAKEN
Dir: Antonio Galloro, Canada, 7 min, 2004, Narrative Short
The temptation of Christ by Lucifer. ... more »
FOSTER SON, THE
Dir: Ellen-Alinda Verhoeff, United States, 18 min, 2004, Narrative Short
A teenage runaway finds shelter with a warm, elderly couple. Slowly, he lets his guard down - but by then, it may already be too late. ... more »
FOUR EYED MONSTERS
Dir: Arin Crumley & Susan Buice, United States, 81 min, 2005, Narrative Feature
Arin is wedding videographer, in his spare time he makes video art and is hounded by his girl-crazy roommate who can't understand why Arin is not intereste ... more »
FRIJOLITO, GO!
Dir: Tony Mosher, United States, 19 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Quincy is a twenty-something repeat loser. He's got a mile-long rap-sheet of petty, nonviolent offenses but hasn't made any effort to change his ways. When ... more »
FROG
Dir: Christopher Conforti, United States, 4 min, 2004, Animation
My film is about a frog who in his search for water, finds himself evading panic-stricken swimmers, a vicious house cat, and eventually passes through the ... more »
GEARS
Dir: Aksel Karcher, Germany, 5 min, 2004, Animation
Driving in his car a man gets involved into an accident. An inhabitant of a nearby house is willing to help, but it is too late for anything but commencing ... more »
GUARD DOG
Dir: Bill Plympton, United States, 5 min, 2004, Animation
Why do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels? what are they afraid of? This film answers that eternal question. ... more »
HANDSHAKE
Dir: Patrick Smith, United States, 4 min, 2005, Animation
In this animated film, an innocent greeting between two people is quickly transformed into a tangled struggle, illustrating the twists and turns of a full- ... more »
HARMFUL
Dir: Antoine Morau, France, 8 min, 2004, Narrative Short
People use to classifie animals in two categories : "harmful" and "useful". A fifty-year-old man takes great care in preparing his fruit snacks. An apple a ... more »
HEART ON FIRE
Dir: Yorico Murakami, United States, 8 min, 2005, Animation
In a lonely house on a hill, a sad young woman sits, allowing a steady succession of empty days and nights to pass her by, until an unlikely disturbance fo ... more »
HELIX
Dir: Frank Richard, France, 15 min, 2004, Experimental
In a long, labyrinthine corridor a woman wanders, guided only by her sense of confinement. Within the boundaries of this uninhabited architecture she trace ... more »
IN THE ROUGH
Dir: Paul Taylor, United States, 4 min, 2004, Animation
In the Rough is a wry prehistoric fable on the pursuit of marital bliss. ... more »
IN TIME
Dir: Maurice Dwyer & Adetoro Makinde, United States, 19 min, 2004, Narrative Short
As a Nigerian-American, Bisi has lived her life balancing between the freedom of an American lifestyle and the beliefs of her Yoruba ancestors. On the eve ... more »
INSOMNIA
Dir: Vladimir Lesciov, Latvia, 7 min, 2004, Animation
She comes at night quiet as a cat to take his sleep away until he feeds her. All she needs is milk brought by him somewhere between sleep and reality. Her ... more »
INTO PIECES
Dir: Guilherme Marcondes, Brazil, 1 min, 2004, Animation
Have you ever got the feeling that things doesn't fit in? ... more »
JANE DOE
Dir: Kramer O'Neill, Germany, 5 min, 2004, Narrative Short
A young woman returns home after a hard day at work... ... more »
JOJO IN THE STARS
Dir: Marc Craste, England, 12 min, 2003, Animation
JoJo in the Stars plays out the heart-wrenching tale of two unlikely lovers: JoJo, a silver-plated trapeze artist, and the nameless hero who worships her. ... more »
JOYRIDE
Dir: John Cernak, United States, 5 min, 2005, Animation
What "THE MAN" wants, "THE MAN" gets... and if you don't pay attention it will all go by in the blink of a sound bite! Hundreds of channels, remote contr ... more »
KEBAB CONNECTION
Dir: Anno Saul, Germany, 96 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
Kebab Connection is a crazily comedic tale of two fast food stands (one Turkish, the other Greek), a frustrated filmmaker, the coolest commercial of all ti ... more »
LE REGULATEUR
Dir: Philippe Grammaticopoulos, France, 16 min, 2004, Animation
A couple adopt a child, whom they built with many different pieces. But the choice of the pieces is so huge that the child will not be as perfect as it sho ... more »
LEO AND SANDRA
Dir: Alessandro Celli, Italy, 7 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Leo is a very quiet boy who would like to introduce himself to his neighbour who studies on the opposite terrace. ... more »
LITTLE RABBIT IN A HOLE
Dir: Hanna Doose, Germany, 11 min, 2004, Narrative Short
After this specific day, that starts out as normal as any other one, the relationship between twelve year old Marcus and his father will never be the same. ... more »
LOST CHILDREN
Dir: Ali Samadi Ahadi & Oliver Stoltz, Germany, 97 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
For over 18 years the civil war in north Uganda started - nearly unnoticed by the world's public. The rebels of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) are waging ... more »
LUCKY
Dir: Nash Edgerton, Australia, 5 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Lucky finds himself in a bind ... more »
MALDOROR: A PACT WITH PROSTITUTION
Dir: Micki Pellerano & Nate Archer, United States, 10 min, 2004, Experimental
Based on the epic prose poem by Lautreamont detailing the metaphysical adventures of the sinister Maldoror. This episode involves Maldoror's hallucinatory ... more »
MANTRA
Dir: Arcadi Palerm, Mexico, 10 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Martin Mantra has developed his own strategies to overcome fear. He jumps into the emptiness. MANTRA the moment when two brothers in arms meet. A sacred m ... more »
MARY
Dir: Aaron Ruell, United States, 3 min, 2005, Narrative Short
Two young Catholic girls are visited by the Virgin Mary with modern day implications. ... more »
MOUTH TO MOUTH
Dir: Alison Murray, England, 102 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
How Sherry loses her virginity, her illusions and her lip ring in one trippy road trip. After hooking up with a bizarre collective called SPARK and driving ... more »
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MR WURFEL
Dir: Rafael Sommerhalder, Switzerland, 8 min, 2004, Animation
Mr Wurfel has a passion: he loves making decisions. In fact, he loves it so much that it took him three years, two months and nine days to decide on his ne ... more »
MY 48 PONTIAC
Dir: Michael Hamm, Canada, 3 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Sometimes looking at the life of your favourite car is like looking at life... sometimes through the rearview mirror, sometimes with the headlights on. ... more »
MY FIRST FILM NOIR
Dir: Neil Ira Needleman, United States, 9 min, 2004, Experimental
A very simple narrative, this movie has all the cliches of a classic Noir: the femme fatale, the entrapped man, shootouts, double-crosses, the tightening n ... more »
MY SCARLET LETTER
Dir: Karen Dee Carpenter, United States, 10 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Marked as outsiders, Emily and her friends are searching for a quick escape from their small town on this Friday night. They long to break free from the cl ... more »
NATIVITY
Dir: Mahyar Abousaeedi, United States, 7 min, 2005, Animation
Nearly 70,000 tons of steel from the World Trade Center was shipped across the globe to India after September 11. Dozens of smelting towns will reprocess t ... more »
NEVER
Dir: Thomas Kiel & Nico Vogelsang, Germany, 3 min, 2004, Experimental
Taking place in a "perfect" future world, this music video describes the effects of everyone being a flawless person: Interaction is futile, as everybody l ... more »
NIGHT IN A HOTEL
Dir: Matus Libovic, Slovakia, 8 min, 2004, Narrative Short
It's something natural, that eyes and the feelings are the most important in a human life. However, sometimes the man becomes only a little part in the cir ... more »
NIGHTINGALE IN A MUSIC BOX
Dir: Hurt McDermott, United States, 96 min, 2003, Narrative Feature
NIGHTINGALE IN A MUSIC BOX is a prison escape movie for the 21st century. The prison is no longer made out of concrete and steel but out of the thoughts of ... more »
NIGHTLIGHT
Dir: Chris Messina, United States, 10 min, 2005, Experimental
An experiment in digital photography exploring the nights and lights along the Charles River in Boston. This film is made up entirely of still photographs ... more »
OBRAS
Dir: Hendrick Dusollier, France, 12 min, 2004, Animation
In one single shot, Obras proposes a poetic and graphic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction and reconstruct ... more »
OH MY GOD
Dir: John Bryant, United States, 10 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Oh My God. How did this happen? ... more »
OLLI
Dir: Jack Rath, Germany, 11 min, 2005, Narrative Short
A cinema tale about a little boy who escapes his tormented life at home and discovers freedom through his will and imagination. Olli moves from closure to ... more »
OMR - THE WAY WE HAVE CHOSEN
Dir: Stephane Beve & Mathieu Auvray, France, 4 min, 2004, Animation
A ruffled sheet of paper is projected in a labyrinthine city made of typography. The ball tries to cut through a path in this universe inhabited by papers ... more »
PAPAL CHASE, THE
Dir: Kenny Hotz, Canada, 53 min, 2004, Documentary Feature
The Papal Chase follows director Kenny Hotz's hilarious quest to meet the Pope. When a friend bets him $1,000 he can't meet the Pope during his 2002 visi ... more »
PAPILLON D'AMOUR
Dir: Nicolas Provost, Belgium, 4 min, 2003, Experimental
By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis in ... more »
PERFECT FIT, A
Dir: Ron Brown, United States, 85 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
An unstable man, tormented by nightmares, seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relati ... more »
PERPETUAL MOTION IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
Dir: AL and AL, England, 6 min, 2004, Experimental
AL and AL's Grandfather is a retired engineer and inventor who has been on a life time quest to create perpetual motion and supply free power for the peopl ... more »
PHANTOM INVENTORY, THE
Dir: Franck Dion, France, 10 min, 2004, Animation
The bailiff Soms visits an old man who collects mementos no one wants anymore. In the empty, wretched apartment, the official open a secret door and discov ... more »
PILLOW GIRL
Dir: Ronnie Cramer, United States, 7 min, 2004, Experimental
PILLOW GIRL was originally a sound-art work created for the February 2004 Risque Invitational at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Musician/Artist Ron ... more »
PLAN, THE
Dir: Eduardo Martinón, Spain, 16 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Two beggars, FELIX and TONO, are expelled from their "home" on a Christmas nigh and therefore forced into crime. FELIX devises a PLAN: to break a shop wind ... more »
POST-PARTUM
Dir: Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre, Canada, 10 min, 2004, Documentary Short
When I was two months old, my mother abandoned me to my grandmother. She could no longer bear the sound of my incessant crying. I decided to make a film i ... more »
PRICE OF LETTER
Dir: Ugyen Wangdi, Bhutan, 68 min, 2004, Documentary Feature
Lingshi is a mountain village 12,000 ft. (altitude) located in the Greater Himalayas of Bhutan. It takes four days trek into this wilderness. Our protagon ... more »
PRISONERS OF AGE
Dir: Stan Feingold, Canada, 48 min, 2004, Documentary Short
The people in the photos may look like your brother or your grandfather, but they are murderers and sex crime perpetrators, in jail for life - the self-des ... more »
PRUDENCE 'A TORT OU A RAISON'
Dir: Joris Clerté & Philippe Massonnet, France, 2 min, 2004, Animation
Three people talk around a restaurant table. ... more »
PURPLE HEARTS
Dir: Roel van Broekhoven, Netherlands, 80 min, 2004, Documentary Feature
The film tells the story of 5 young American soldiers who were badly wounded in the Iraq war. Back from Iraq they try to rebuild their lives. Suprisingly, ... more »
QUADRILATERAL
Dir: Jose-Carlos Ruiz, Spain, 17 min, 2004, Narrative Short
Four characters with no name, incapable of expressing their feelings, try to love each other without being loved. ... more »
REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN, THE
Dir: Taggart Siegel, United States, 83 min, 2005, Documentary Feature
The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a personal documentary about John Peterson, a farmer, artist, and eccentric/innovative thinker cast in rural Illinois. Film ... more »
REVENGE OF THE TEENAGE ZOMBIES, THE
Dir: Matthias Dinter, Germany, 88 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
Philip and his two best friends, Meatball and Conrad, are genuine nerds. Fellow students, parents, teachers - everybody picks on them. Nonetheless, Philip' ... more »
RIO PELIGROSO: A Day in the Life of a Legendary Coyote
Dir: Duane Graves & Justin Meeks, United States, 25 min, 2004, Narrative Short
This comedy short follows the antics of Julio 'The Pepper' Chavez, an honest-to-goodness 'coyote' working in a tiny, dilapidated South Texas border town. ... more »
SCENT OF A ROBOT
Dir: UVPhactory, United States, 3 min, 2004, Animation
Scent of A Robot is a music video depicting a human discovering he's a robot. It is a metaphor for all of us: we can be programmed to live our daily lives ... more »
SEOUL TRAIN
Dir: Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky & Lisa Sleeth, United States, 54 min, 2004, Documentary Feature
With its riveting footage of a secretive "underground railroad," SEOUL TRAIN is the gripping documentary expose' into the life and death of North Koreans a ... more »
SHARDS
Dir: Jonathan Levine, United States, 23 min, 2004, Narrative Short
After his best friend overdoses on crystal meth, a hip hop DJ attempts to kick the habit and leave his hometown behind. ... more »
SHOOTING DAYS
Dir: Michal Kafra & Deva Melman, Israel, 58 min, 2004, Documentary Feature
In reality, a world without logic, all that is left is the ability to document the fleeting moments and people. Once a week, over a period of two years, th ... more »
SHORT CIRCUIT
Dir: Antanas Janauskas, Lithuania, 4 min, 2003, Animation
A very condenced expression dealling with the relationship between man and woman. An accidental collision of a man and a woman sparks on an amusing rollin ... more »
SITE SPECIFIC_ROMA 04
Dir: Olivo Barbieri, Italy, 12 min, 2004, Experimental
A great photographer films Rome from a helicopter and transforms it into a city never seen before: a temporary installation, where center and suburbs, stru ... more »
SMALL TOWN SECRETS
Dir: Katherine Leggett, United States, 7 min, 2004, Documentary Short
A textured film that travels back to the early 1980s when the filmmaker was growing up with closeted gay parents in a small, Mid-western town. By weaving t ... more »
STEAL ME
Dir: Melissa Painter, United States, 95 min, 2004, Narrative Feature
Jake is lost somewhere between boyhood and manhood, existing only on a strong instinct to survive. A loner and a thief, he is proud of his sexual prowess b ... more »
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