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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 »


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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