August

Unwanted visitors disturb the tranquillity of a campsite in the middle of summer.

Grosse Pläne

Despite immense inventive genius, building an apple machine turns out to be more difficult than expected.

Signalis

A film about Erwin the Weasel and his stressful everyday life.

ON/OFF

The effects of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) in the everyday life situations of a young woman.

La canción de los niños muertos (The Dead Children's Song)

My mother was murdered and my father remained alone with five children. It was summer, and the only thing I wanted was to leave that place.

La espera (The Wait)

A man recalls a promise made in his childhood, waking the curiosity of seeing an old girlfriend again.

Prrrride

The relationship between mother and son. Their attitude towards compulsory military service.

My Dear Grandma

Dolores dreams... Her reality is hell.

Baba Ab Dad (Father Gave Water)

Mojtaba is late for school and a pencil is missing.

Until I Find You

A story about the relationship between two lovers, revealed through a journey of their little figurine impersonations.

abre sourati (The Pink Cloud)

An old lady and her baby...

Kamera

A camera connects one generation with the next when an old and forgotten film-maker befriends a little girl and teaches her how to use his antique 8-mm film camera.

A Day in a Life

She gets up early every morning. She works hard everyday. A day is like a lifetime to her and yet she carries on…

Slåsskampen (The Fight)

Mads should have told the truth. Actually, he is terrible at fighting.

DERAPAGE V1

A visit into a strange, dark and unknown place. Just an illusion?

Osmose

A blend of painting and video animation give life to hand-painted creations.

Et kjærlighetskapittel (A Chapter of Love)

Per brings his girlfriend home with him for the first time to find his grandfather is cutting a friend’s hair.

A-phan-ousía

A•phan•ousia bases its name on a combination of the Greek words "a" (don’t, without), "pha[n]" (to talk, [to appear, show] and "ousia" (essence, substance). It is an attempt to take three different points of view in relation to a treasured object.

The Bachelor Tree

The story of Miss Peep (a widower), a handsome man who comes to stay, and a tree with some unusual fruit...

Englespill (Playing with Angels)

Marcus' father has become an angel, but is still playing a major part in Marcus' life.

Ceci n'est pas une mouche (This Is Not a Fly)

A man in an art gallery, a painted fly and an angry security camera. Inspired by the painting 'Saint Catherine of Alexandria' by Carlo Crivelli.

Prljavi mali mjehurici (Dirty Little Bubbles)

When a mistress becomes the wife, is there a job opening? Life imitates bad television.

Rastanak (Farewell)

A "Zastava 101" car was one of the symbols of socialism and Yugoslavia. Sometimes it's hard to say goodbye.

Someone or Something

It’s a contemplation of the concept of "waiting".

A szúnyog (Mosquito)

A film from a mosquito’s point of view.

Secret Tunnel

A magical story happens in the remote Tibetan area. A discourse on time and destiny.

Super bomma (Super Grandma)

Every day, Grandma goes for a walk with her cute cat. One day the kitten gets trapped on the top of a skyscraper.

Het plunderbeest (The Pink Plunderbeast)

A huge monster who is never satisfied needs to be fed all the time. But who is this monster? Made by kids from all over the world (Belgium, Burkina Faso, Brazil and Taiwan).

ENTRAINEMENT(S) D'ECRITURE(S)

A frenetic attempt to visualize words.

Repintando Cuba (Repainting Cuba)

Cuban Maria and Juan are both under house arrest due to relationships with foreigners. Their account sheds light on Cuba beyond the official image.

Die Kinder im Mond (Moon Children)

A group of children sleep cosily inside the moon. One night they awake...

Farm in Bologna

Imitating the shooting of a video game.

Hudud

Being 16 in Palestine today means having one's life dictated by curfews, clashes with soldiers at check points and arbitrary arrests...

J'ai faim (I'm Hungry)

Ikouk is a young Inuit who lives on an ice field. He is always hungry...

Warda

Every day, Warda brings food to her grandmother. But one day, she sees a giant wall has been built, blocking her way...

L'enveloppe jaune (The Yellow Envelope)

Anna lives alone with her dog. One day she receives a letter suggesting she should order her ideal man by catalogue…

Chrigi (Chris)

A young woman recalls her childhood and her mysterious cousin.

Echo

Two boys have murdered a young girl. Through crime reconstruction and meeting the family of the victim they now have to relive the brutal crime they have committed.

Mestre Vitalino e Nós no Barro (Master Vitalino and We on Clay)

A homage to the ceramics artist Mestre Vitalino who depicted the culture and people of north-eastern Brazil.

Encontro em Marte (Meeting on Mars)

Having landed on Mars in his self-made rocket, he comes across an alien.

bring us to ourselves, Mikhaïl

In an airport somewhere, Mikhail Gorbachev’s puppet monologues in the dark, gripped by the threat of the catastrophe erupting outside.

Zanav (Tail)

Haya is a bulimic call girl who shoots herself in the head every day. She blames all her troubles on the horse tail she was born with.

Pabrik Dodol (Delicate Factory)

The making of dodol, a traditional delicacy in Indonesia, in two different ways.

Kabar Gembira (The Good News)

The journey of a hearse driver who has to deliver one more corpse and a father who has apparently just run away and left his son.

Out There

An individual’s strife through trying to find creative expression in his solitary room.

Nemesis

Arne is convinced he has superpowers. He embarks on a search for something every superhero needs: a nemesis.

Sniikkerit (Sneakers)

A whole world of sneakers and urban dance culture, revealed through a pair of shoes.

Matka (Mother)

Tables screwed to the floor. One hour, that must suffice for two weeks, sometimes months.

Milovan Circus

Once the star of the Milovan Circus and now a mere mime, Iakov puts on his face of illusion while recalling his glorious past...

O Pintor de Ceos (The Painter of Skies)

From the darkness of the lost cliffs, a crazy painter and his assistant try to find a solution against perpetual storms.

O Dia M (Before It's Gone)

Almeida learns from his doctor that he has only a few days to live. The sad news doesn’t seem to shock his friends and relatives very much.

Notebook

Illusions and expectations are challenged.

Volgens de Vogels (According to Birds)

When birds awake on a grey morning.

A Terra a Gastar (Wasting Earth)

A man faces the consequences of his excessive consumption and he feels obliged to adopt methods to change his life style.

The Highest Low

"The camera is in my face to tell my story; this piece reveals the struggle to get my life back on track following a life-changing incident." L.M.

Area 17

An experiential simulation of the visual pathway. The piece follows light as it enters the eyes, travels through the optic nerve, and is then processed in the visual cortex.

DARLUZ

“I gave Jose, Antonio and Maria away. I gave them away, and would do it again. No matter how many come, barely have they opened their eyes, I give them away, before they cry. I cannot take care of them.” Darluz

Everything is Poetry Baby

A film about making a difference in someone else’s life and your own.

tHe biRth oF bRAinfLy

A surreal narrative dealing with the process of a person’s individuation in a mental scape.

Zhenshina vnutri kak step' (Within Her There's a Steppe)

Three stories - Warrior, Milk and Wind - describe the life of a woman: her past and future are like a spiral, every turn of it containing and guiding the next one.

Life Must Go on

I’m soon to be 18. What am I doing? My life is the same every day, and I see the same people and do similar things.

Seeing Is Believing

The relationship between seeing is believing and video media.

Otoshimono

Kimura has lost his job and is looking for work. Not easy...

Between Dreams

A documentary about dreams in the third-class sleeping-car of the Trans-Siberian train travelling across Russia.

Understatement

The relationship between man and nature. A motion sequence animation.

Chulayarnnon

Based on the S.E.A. (South East Asia) Write Award winning book by Kanogpong, it shows the similarity of changes in society and that of a child who cannot recall its childhood.

Varmt (Hot)

Because of the melting floe, two penguins have to emigrate with Penguin Airlines and crash-land on a tropical island.

syouzyotachi (little)

The vision of a little Japanese girl's world.

SPACEREK III albo o pochodzeniu jamnikow (Little Walk – The Origin of Dachshund)

Another aspect of the theory of evolution.

Nie smiecic! (Take out the Garbage!)

The jungle law and cultural principles of conduct or even respect of civilization.

Coal Spell

The rise and fall of Fuxin, an old industrial coal city. The film questions both the concept of history and power.

Heroes No Longer

"HERO is a kind of historical complex that leads to the transitions of our history. ‘History’ to us is more like a sort of impression or a virtual reality." X.S.

Yokus (The Slope)

A look at mankind's marathon of life from the perspective of a suburban hospital's janitor.

Renovare

Besides her daily work, mother Doina tries to manage the renovation of the family’s apartment.

Bodiless Lovers

Two people live in different worlds. They only meet when they fall asleep. When they return to reality, they leave a part of themselves in another space.

Mítt Rúm (My Room)

A single mother is frustrated to see her son lonely and unhappy. So she decides to buy him a new computer.

Vann og ventebrød - en helnorsk syretrip (Rendevous with the Viet Cong)

Five youths’ travelogue from an era considered to be rather peculiar nowadays.

Lucky Day

The worst day can be transformed into a lucky day. You only need to rely on the magic of fate waiting for you to turn the corner.

La Nonna (Grandmother)

In a big house every morning, the solitary grandmother faces her daily life until one morning her life is completely changed.

Hamsters Can Fly

A young man smuggles his hamster on a flight from Tokyo to Beirut as a gift for his grandmother.

Yalda Gdola (Grown Up)

In the confusing time between childhood and adolescence, 15-year-old Shira discovers the world of sexuality, jealousy and seduction.

purna virama

A cold-blooded systematic rhythmic breakdown of a "bus".

E.T.A.

Marvin has the most boring job in the universe. But all is not as it seems...

Falópio

From the XX chromosomes to Mary Quant, from Freud to Shere Hite: an abstract evolutionary line of female sexuality in an erotic and plastic universe.

Los extraños (Strangers)

Five girls stay at a country house away from everything for a few summer days. What seems to be a quiet weekend gradually turns into a nightmare.

The Electrician

What happens when an electric-chair executioner becomes unemployed because the government decides to prohibit executions?

Túneles en el río (Tunnels in the River)

Every summer, hundreds of people mysteriously disappear in the waters of the Rio de La Plata. John and his two children go fishing. The rapid rise of the river and the waves endanger the life of one of them.

Reincarnation

The fusion of a soul and flesh.

Jie Wo Yi Sheng (Settled)

83-year-old Zheng Jingkang lives in a residential care home. He was born into a millionaire’s family. But since the 1950s, successive political movements and unwarranted change have turned him into a counter-revolutionist.

ROUE

"ROUE is a Chinese word meaning rubbing something back and forth & disordering it. This piece is composed using fragments of my dreams, memories and emotions." T.W.

Harder Better Faster Stronger

Life and death, illustrated through the contrast between mechanical technology and the organic body.

NIMV

Sights and sounds of urban delirium...

The Diary of Caroline H.

Working with intimate diary records of two persons, this film seems to turn the viewer into a witness of a confrontation.

Chybička se vloudí (Whoops, Mistake!)

Accidentally two storks exchange two babies. Hence a human baby grows up in a family of bears and a little bear in a human family.

Où (Where)

Non-narrative video using a mix of VJ techniques and regular editing.

Aerosol

Two childhood friends, now teenagers, spraying graffiti together. And what about their friendship?

Openland

A reflective audio/visual experience loosely guided by issues surrounding micro states and its derivative definitions.

Yonderland

A lake cleaner finds a female corpse. The image of the dead body haunts him. At the same time, he saves a half insane woman in the same place...