FEATURES:

COWBOYS AND ANGELS

			Kevin is an eleven-year-old boy whose mother is more occupied with drinking and men than her son. Kevin decides to take off and make his way to Spain to see his father. He talks a down-on-his-luck poker player named Louis to drive him, and although the two bicker at first, they soon grow fond of each other. Their trip teaches them as much about themselves as it does about each other.
Director: Kim Massee		Country: France		Runtime: 100m
Disc 1	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Rotterdam International. Film Festival

FAMILY RULES

			Oliver is lonely. So he steals what he lacks most: A wife, three kids, a grandma, a granddad and a dog. Now he has his perfect family. He sets up strict family rules which he claims will guarantee happiness. Completely walled in from the world outside, all their neuroses and personal problems are soon revealed. But it all they discover more about themselves than they ever could in the “outside world”.
Director: Mark Meyer		Country: Germany		Runtime: 102m
Disc 2	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Sofia International. Film Festival

I AM FROM TITOV VELES

(Jag sum od Titov Veles)

			In the centre of the city of Titov Veles is a lead factory built during Tito`s communist regime. It spews pollution day and night. In this wilting community, three sisters live together. Sapho, the youngest, plays handball and goes out with lots of men. A lot of men: she hops from bed to bed to avoid solitude and escape this terrible place for fleeting moments.
Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska		Country: Macedonia/Slovenia		Runtime: 102m
Disc 3	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Toronto Int. Film Festival + Berlinale

SATELLITES & METEORITES

			A quirky love story set in the subconscious imagination of two coma patients after a car accident in which they were both involved. Having never met prior to the accident, Daniel and Lucinda literally have a meeting of minds as they start down the windy road of romance, however, when the hospital where they both lie asleep tries to wake them up, they have to fight to stay in their dream, and to stay together.
Director: Rick Larkin		Country: Ireland		Runtime: 82m
Disc 4	Format: NTSC	Top Honors: Winner, Rhode Island Int. Film Festival

DOCUMENTARIES:

BLIND SPOT

			A documentary that illustrates the current Oil and Energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever our measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking -- we have put ourselves at a crossroads which offer two roads with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don’t our way of life will collapse.
Director: Adolfo Doring		Country: Italy, UK, USA		Runtime: 92m
Disc 6	Format: NTSC	Top Honor: London Independent Film Festival

KORYO SARAM: THE UNRELIABLE PEOPLE

			In 1937, Stalin began forcibly deporting everyone of Korean origin living in Far East Russia to the unsettled steppe country of Central Asia 3700 miles away. This is the story of 180,000 Koreans who became political pawns during the Great Terror and were designated by Stalin as an 'unreliable people' and labeled enemies of the state.
Director:Y. David Chung		Country: Kazakhstan, USA		Runtime: 60m
Disc 7	Format: NTSC	Top Honor: Best Documentary, National Board of Canada

SCHOOL ON THE MOVE

			Teaching standard academic classes as well as traditional ways, and the Evenk language (spoken today only by 9000 people), this nomads school is a desperate attempt to save an ancestral culture. As the mobile school moves across Siberia from village to village, Evenk people tell of their sacrifices to be self-sufficient and to live where their spirits belong.
Director: Michel Debats		Country: France		Runtime: 50m
Disc 8	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Strasbourg International Film Festival

SOZDAR, SHE WHO LIVES HER PROMISE

			As a twelve year old girl she refused to be given in marriage. Thirty years later Nuriye Kesbir is still fighting, now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement. Why does a women turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose for a path that leads to a battle of life and death instead? The film follows Kesbir on her journey, beginning in a Dutch prison and ending in the rough mountains of Northern Iraq
Director: Annegriet Wietsma		Country: Netherlands		Runtime: 70m
Disc 9	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Winner, Arizona Int. Film Festival

VOICES FROM INSIDE - ISRAELIS SPEAK

			The film tells the stories of 16 Jewish Israeli voices of conscience, each representing a different facet of the peace movement inside Israel. Through their eyes and unique perspectives, the film traces Zionism from its beginnings to the reality that exists today, with brutal honesty..
Director: Lucy Martins		Country: Germany, Israel		Runtime: 65m
Disc 10	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Cairo International Film Festival

SHORTS:

APPASIONATA

			Based on a WW II legend: A German soldier awaiting his doom in the pocket of Stalingrad spots an undamaged piano in the no-man's land between the lines. The urge to play one last time becomes irresistible....
Director: Mirko Echghi-Ghamsari		Country: Germany		Runtime: 16m
Disc 11	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Palm Springs Int Film Festival

AUSTERLITZ STATION

(Gare d'Austerlitz)

			Unexpectedly finding herself in Paris exactly 15 years to the day she lost a baby in Gare d’Austerlitz, the filmmaker takes leave of her friends to revisit the train station for the first time since. In the waiting room, trying to remember the events of that day, she writes this film. The next year she returns with a video camera to document the station to which she has formed an unusual connection.
Director: Lisa Martin		Country: France		Runtime: 15m
Disc 12	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Strasbourg International Film Festival

THE BASKET CASE

			A love story set somewhere in small-town Ireland. It traces the lives of Ambrose and Josephine Cassidy, a bohemian couple who live in the Wicklow mountains. Ambrose walks calmly through a Biblical storm, to buy among other things, a dead pig for his dying wife. But what is he building for her?
Director: Ailish Bracken		Country: Ireland		Runtime: 17m
Disc 13	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Palm Springs Int Film Festival

BETA TEST

			Beta is the second letter of the Greek alphabet, the letter B. Beta test is the story of a city. Beta is the first version of software that has to be tested before going out in the market. Beta test is about our future. It is about surveillance, urbanity, communication and the feeling of non-existence. Beta test is a love story. It can happen to anyone.
Director: George Drivas		Country: Greece		Runtime: 13m
Disc 14	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Winner, Moscow Int. Film Festival

BLINDNESS

			The paths of Richard, a terribly shy man, and Karen, a beautiful blind woman, accidentally cross leading to an intense and tender yet twisted love story. As their intimacy grows, a shocking development unfolds which peels off unexpected layers of their personalities and fears, and finally results in unintended and dramatic consequences for both.
Director: Helio San Miguel		Country: Spain		Runtime: 32m
Disc 15	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Long Island International Film Festival

THE CHEF’S LETTER

			A successful chef who runs his kitchen with precision unexpectedly falls in love with a worker in his kitchen and decides to declare his passion in a letter, but will suspicions of intimacy between the easy-going kitchen staff undermine the future he has imagined?
Director: Sybil Mair		Country: UK		Runtime: 14m
Disc 16	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Filmstock International Film Festival

DAWN

(Alba)

			The fantastical adventures of a young hero are entwined with the somber reality of the hospital wards. In order to defeat his illness, represented by a evil dragon, a boy becomes a dauntless knight in a shiny armor. Shiny like the sun rising from a misty dawn, which the knight will see after being reunited to his beloved mother.
Director: Giorgia Farina		Country: Italy		Runtime: 9m
Disc 17	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Venice Film Festival

DAS DORES

			The story of two teenagers that end up trapped in an abandoned petrol station while trying to run away from home. It becomes apparent that beyond their actions lies another - always repeating - pattern. We see the story of this young couple repeated three times with three different sound designs and soundtracks.
Director: Gabriel Tupinamba		Country: Brazil, UK		Runtime: 28m
Disc 18	Format: NTSC	Top Honors: World Premier

ELEGY

			An animated journey through lost love that brings us back to living.
Director: Shereen Abdul-Baki		Country: Netherlands		Runtime: 3m
Disc 19	Format: PAL	Top Honors: California Int. Animation Festival

FAUX MOUVEMENTS

			Experimental. Specific neurons in the brain are responsible for perceiving motion. This film acts directly on those neurons, to create novel motion effects, not on the screen but directly in the brain. Made by bipacking 16mm loops of trains and spirals on the contact printer.
Director: Pip Chodorov		Country: France		Runtime: 15m
Disc 20	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Toronto Film Festival

FOR A FEW MARBLES MORE
(Voor een paar knikkers meer)

			Four ten–year-olds are kicked out of their favorite playground by two aggressive drunkards. When they realize their parents are not going to help them, there’s only one solution. They have to find a way to get the toughest boy in the neighborhood to help them.
Director: Jelmar Hufen		Country: Netherlands		Runtime: 11m
Disc 21	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Winner, Young Cuts Int. Film Festival

IT’S LIKE FLYING

(Si vola)

			Sindirela is a young Albanian girl living in Italy. She lost her older brother Mario to an acute leukemia . This documentary shows her past and her present trough a narrative expedient, the quest of a little dog, that allows to go inside her life, her joy, her courage but also her hurt.
Director: Laura Viezzoli		Country: Italy		Runtime: 30m
Disc 22	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Winner, Italy’s national doc film festival

KIZI MIZI

			Playing with the dimensions of the medium itself and filled with a wonderful and bizarre score, Kizi Mizi tells the love story of a cat and a mouse. Betrayal, intrigue and alienation classify this noir-ish tale of interspecies sex..
Director: Mariusz Wilczynski		Country: Poland		Runtime: 21m
Disc 23	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Berlinale

THE LAST TRIP

			Bob has just returned from his best friend's funeral, and sets to work to fulfill his friend's dying wish - to send his ashes into space. He sets to work, with the help of the local community. Shot on a single reel of super 8 with only in-camera editing.
Director: Malcolm Finlay		Country: Wales, UK		Runtime: 5m
Disc 24	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Strasbourg International Film Festival

LATE
(Tarziu)

			A young, and, as yet unsuccessful journalist is assigned to write an article about a teacher at his old school who is suspected of sexual misconduct. He approaches a former fellow-pupil for help. Their meeting has unexpected consequences.
Director: Paul Negoescu		Country: Romania		Runtime: 23m
Disc 25	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Berlinale

MEGATRON

			It's Maxim birthday. He's 8 years old. He lives with his mother in a village quite far from the nearest city. For his birthday, his mother takes him to a McDonald's restaurant.
Director: Marian Crisan		Country: Romania		Runtime: 14m
Disc 26	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Winner, Palm d’Or, Cannes

MY BANANA

			Experimental. A view at a future after a break-up. Man's unhappiness is expressed with a sudden growth of hair
Director: Alex Kuznetsov		Country: Latvia		Runtime: 5m
Disc 27	Format: NTSC	Top Honors: World Premier

THE ROAD OF DESIRE

(El Camino del Deseo)

			Ana, a young Spanish woman, hitch hikes near a desolate highway in the middle of the night. She lives in a world of truckers, highway restaurants and passing strangers. Ana is lonely, until she is taken up by a rock band that introduce her to a world of decadence. She quickly starts an affair with Daniel, the band’s lead singer. Ana finds herself dazed and caught in her new surroundings.
Director: Eva Cools		Country: Belgium		Runtime: 23m
Disc 28	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Ghent International Film Festival

ROBIN

			8-year-old Robin comes back into his family after 3 months in a foster home and finds himself lost, trying to cope with a very difficult family situation. When his parents accidentally hurt his new born baby sister in a quarrel, Robin has to deal with the situation on his own. Torn apart between love and loyalty, Robin is forced to make a very difficult decision.
Director: Hanno Olderdissen		Country: Germany		Runtime: 10m
Disc 29	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Berlinale

SECRET ADVENTURES OF THE PROJECTIONIST

			The story of a cinema projectionist who discovers a mysterious film and upon projecting it, becomes enamored with a siren-like actress who lures him into the film, only to betray him in order to escape the film and turn into color.
Director: Max Sacker		Country: Germany		Runtime: 5m
Disc 30	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Winner, Rhode Island Int. Film Festival

SPEECHLESS

			D has plenty of time on his hands. He could be doing all sorts of things.... but generally he isn't doing very much. Disillusioned with just about everything around him, he takes solace in gangsta rap and bags of family sized crisps…. And texting.
Director: James Cooper		Country: UK		Runtime: 7m
Disc 31	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Winner, Big Issue Int. Film Festival

TRACES

			One person sets out to re-establish a family connection broken by the Holocaust and the Iron Curtain. This search takes her to Ciechocinek, Poland, where all traces of any Jewish presence have been erased. But today the Internet provides a new kind of tool for tracing relatives...
Director: M Pasanen		Country: Finland		Runtime: 32m
Disc 33	Format: PAL	Top Honors: Portobello Road Film Festival

WELCOME TO THE EARTH
(Dobre Doshli na Zemiata)

			A man ends up a world after death. An female employee reassures him that nothing special changed and puts him under a test in order to destine his fate in the outer world. The result is going back on Earth. He faces the choice of selecting the country in witch he wants to live and pick a profession, and new mom and dad too. In short, life goes on?
Director: Kutsy Vaptsarov		Country: Bulgaria		Runtime: 26m
Disc 33	Format: NTSC	Top Honors: Winner, Philadelphia Int. Film Festival

YUNGFRAU

			A metaphoric story of a doll that turns into a real woman after her encounter with a young man who falls in love with her. She chooses to become mortal. Is it better for her to live free, even if just for a few days, than to remain a beautiful toy in somebody’s hands for eternity?
Director: Aglaya Kurnosenko		Country: Russia		Runtime: 40m
Disc 33	Format: PAL	Top Honors: World Premier