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10 YEARS TO NASHVILLE
Dir: Katarzyna Trzaska, Poland, 38 min, 2009, Documentary Short
Iza is a 33 year-old cleaning lady in a Polish railway station. Her friend Mariusz owns a railway toilet. Together, they dream of traveling to America, ... more »
5150 ELMS WAY
Dir: Eric Tessier, Canada, 106 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
5150 ELM'S WAY is at the end of a quiet street in a small Canadian town. When student filmmaker Yannick Bérubé falls off his bike nearby, he knocks at the ... more »
AFTER THE WATER THE CLOUDS
Dir: Carmen Rozestraten, Netherlands, 9 min, 2009, Experimental
Playful and poetic voyage of a young Catalan woman whose world becomes more and more surreal as she encounters mythical and unusual characters. ... more »
ALL WE HAVE IS LOVE
Dir: Marko Maetamm, Estonia, 2 min, 2009, Animation
Bedroom. My wife is sleeping in the bed. Suddenly - the door opens, I sneak in and go straight into the bed. Next moment we are both completely awake and h ... more »
AUTOPILOT
Dir: J.B. Herndon, United States, 13 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Everything is on autopilot. A bicycle propels forward with no rider and adolescent boys make internet videos. At home, Mark's family drifts in isolation, e ... more »
BAD DAY TO GO FISHING
Dir: Alvaro Brechner, Spain, 110 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
The former strongest man on earth and his crafty manager tour small-town South America staging wrestling matches and challenging all comers. Arriving in ... more »
BARBEE BUTCHER
Dir: Sophie Laguës, Netherlands, 1 min, 2008, Animation
A greenish clay creature cuts a Barbie doll into pieces with the aim of turning itself into a femme fatale.... with unexpected results! ... more »
BAREHANDED
Dir: Guillaume Foresti & Stéphane Demoustier, France, 13 min, 2010, Narrative Short
On the bus, Dina is once again overwhelmed by the uncontrollable will power of her hands. They start to fondle the hand of a perfect stranger, Luc. He tak ... more »
BEING IN THE WORLD
Dir: Tao Ruspoli, United States, 77 min, 2010, Documentary Feature
Being in the World is a celebration of human beings and our ability, through the mastery of physical, intellectual and creative skills, to find meaning in ... more »
BELLIES, THE
Dir: Philippe Grammaticopoulos, France, 16 min, 2009, Animation
In a very industrialized world, where humans only eat transgenic food, some plates make for surprising dishes.... ... more »
BROWNSTONES TO RED DIRT
Dir: Dave LaMattina & Chad Walker, United States, 85 min, 2009, Documentary Feature
Brownstones To Red Dirt follows four pairs of pen pals from housing projects in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and the slums of Freetown, Sierra Leone. These two "los ... more »
BUBBLE
Dir: Gabriel Olivares & Pedro Casablanc, Spain, 12 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Mari and Pili are friends living in the same village. Mari dreams of getting her drivers license, buying a car and getting out of the village forever. Wh ... more »
BUMMER SUMMER
Dir: Zach Weintraub, United States, 78 min, 2010, Narrative Feature
Via a breathtaking collection of spartan black and white imagery, Bummer Summer observes the emotional fumblings of three not-grown-ups: seventeen-year-o ... more »
CLEAN CAROUSEL
Dir: Andreas Bødker, Denmark, 2 min, 2010, Animation
A dedicated man works hard to provide a sparking clean carousel for the children but the forces of nature are working against him. Thankfully, a clean quic ... more »
CLUBSCENE: THE BARTENDER
Dir: Adriano Valentini, United States, 8 min, 2010, Narrative Short
Gabe the bartender finds himself caught up in a conversation about sex and friendship with a beautiful, mysterious girl. Before he knows it, he's pulled in ... more »
COLD NOODLES
Dir: Kirsten Tan, United States, 6 min, 2009, Narrative Short
"Cold Noodles" is an absurdist black comedy. Events conspire against O, who has flagrantly tempted Fate by eating ramen on a fire escape in just his boxers ... more »
COLIN HEARTS KAY
Dir: Sebastian Conley, United States, 82 min, 2010, Narrative Feature
Brooklyn has been called "The Bloggiest Place in America" and this charming, wildly inventive feature is one of the first films set in the world of Brook ... more »
COST OF A SOUL
Dir: Sean Kirkpatrick, United States, 109 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
Cost of a Soul captures the struggle of two wounded veterans who return home from Iraq to find themselves trapped in the war-zone of the slum neighborhood ... more »
COW WHO WANTED TO BE A HAMBURGER, THE
Dir: Bill Plympton, United States, 6 min, 2010, Animation
A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love. ... more »
D. BILLY: SITE INTERVENTIONIST
Dir: Brandon Bloch, United States, 3 min, 2009, Experimental
Bushwick, Brooklyn: Artist D. Billy walks the streets looking to "activate" and animate the decayed urban streetscape with flourishes of colorful tape an ... more »
DARK HOUSE, THE
Dir: Wojtek Smarzowski, Poland, 105 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
The Dark House has been called a "Polskie Fargo" but this film is darker and more twisted than anything the Coen Brothers have dreamed up. Set in Communist ... more »
DEEPER THAN YESTERDAY
Dir: Ariel Kleiman, Australia, 19 min, 2009, Narrative Short
After three months submerged underwater, the men have become savages. Oleg fears that losing perspective may mean losing himself. ... more »
DEPARTURE FROM A LOVE
Dir: Ishmael Islam, United States, 9 min, 2009, Documentary Short
A Brooklyn resident writes a letter of departure for his lady, which in reality is his hometown of Brooklyn, NY. ... more »
DIFFERENT BUNNY, A
Dir: Danijel Zezelj, United States, 3 min, 2010, Animation
A small bunny in a big city looks for love in the wrong place. ... more »
DISPOSABLE
Dir: Alexis Gambis, United States, 6 min, 2010, Narrative Short
Searching for an immediate love connection, Zoë, the quintessential femme fatale, meets up with a robot on a blind date in a junkyard in Brooklyn. A tandem ... more »
DIVINA
Dir: Dimitri and Benjamin Djahanbani, Belgium, 4 min, 2009, Experimental
A 21-year-old girl born to a wealthy family is raised by her Creole nanny in the deep south. Constrained by restrictive, body correcting shoulder braces, ... more »
EMPIRICAL
Dir: Juan Cruz Pochat, United States, 7 min, 2009, Narrative Short
He enters one last time into his parlor, where his old typewriter awaits him at the end of the hall. He takes his time and walks through the obscure room. ... more »
FAO
Dir: Aitor Echeverria & Carolina Alejos, Spain, 7 min, 2010, Experimental
Hunger, loneliness and the will to survive push Fao to embark on a journey that will bring her face to face with her fears. ... more »
FIRST DAY OF PEACE
Dir: Mirko Rucnov, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 15 min, 2009, Narrative Short
The story takes place during the civil war in Bosnia. It follows Marko, a middle-aged peasant, who decides to plow his land at the disputed border on the d ... more »
FISH IN BARREL
Dir: Randall Okita, Canada, 7 min, 2009, Experimental
A live action experimental drama focused on a young man's psychological struggle that combines elements of sculpture, photography, and video to slow time a ... more »
FLAG BEARER, THE
Dir: Philip Vogt, Germany, 82 min, 2010, Documentary Feature
Zef Sokoli is the Bajraktar of the Dukagjin - "He Who Holds the Flag." He calls his men together with a rifle shot and leads them to war when someone threa ... more »
FLESH CHAPTER 1, ANGLE OF TRAJECTORY, THE
Dir: Sam Barnett, United States, 7 min, 2010, Animation
The subconscious of the Wireman controls everything that happens in the strange world in which he finds himself trapped. The Wireman wakes up into this wor ... more »
FREDDY'S
Dir: Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, United States, 99 min, 2010, Documentary Feature
Freddy's Bar & Backroom was a thriving cultural hub situated in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Open since prohibition, the bar featured a unique and colorf ... more »
FUTURE IS NOW, THE
Dir: Sandra Gomez, Cuba, 35 min, 2009, Documentary Short
Life in Havana, suspended in a state of waiting. For the first time since the revolution, Fidel Castro is not in power. Seven people express their compleme ... more »
FUZZY INSIDES
Dir: Michaela Olsen, United States, 6 min, 2009, Animation
Take a peek into the secret nightlife of the suburbs. Four stop-motion vignettes portray relationships that develop romantically and sexually, with a touch ... more »
GABI ON THE ROOF IN JULY
Dir: Lawrence Michael Levine, United States, 99 min, 2010, Narrative Feature
An edgy character-driven ensemble comedy about ex-girlfriends, sibling rivalry and whipped cream set in a city that's constantly in flux. Gabi, a fiery Obe ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor Female
GEHENNAH
Dir: Mauro Mueller, Lebanon, 12 min, 2010, Narrative Short
Ge.hen'nah is a drama set in a small rural town in Lebanon. Yvette is past thirty, unmarried, devoutly religious and still living with her parents. She i ... more »
GO TO SLEEP
Dir: Luis Carlos Uribe, Colombia, 3 min, 2009, Animation
The story of Mandy and Frank, a married couple that's been having some differences when its time to sleep. ... more »
GOING BACK
Dir: Adam Keleman, United States, 11 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Lorna, a down-and-out LA model, comes back to her small, quiet home town. She holes up in a motel room while looking for work. She grabs a bite at a nearby ... more »
GREEN
Dir: Roberto Zibetti, Italy, 20 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Summer 1978. Andrea, seven years old, is in the countryside with his mom and brothers who attend a music school directed by a somber Japanese teacher. One ... more »
HASAN EVERYWHERE
Dir: Andrew Kavanagh, Ireland, 7 min, 2009, Animation
They were young, talented and free in New York. Dorit Rabinyan was an Israeli novelist and Hasan Hourani was a Palestinian artist. Their passionate frien ... more »
HIGGS, INTO THE HEART OF IMAGINATION
Dir: Hannie van den Bergh & Jan van den Berg, Netherlands, 54 min, 2009, Documentary Feature
Higgs takes us inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on a quest for the Higgs particle. Sometimes called "The God Particle," this is the missing link in p ... more »
HIRCINE AIRLINES
Dir: Benjamin Hendricks, United States, 6 min, 2009, Animation
Hircine Airlines is a story about the greed of a corporate aristocracy, and the delusion and chilling isolation it ultimately brings to its most elite. ... more »
I
Dir: Ivana Todorović, Croatia, 4 min, 2009, Experimental
Sexual identity is the subject of "I".The protagonist is a woman trapped in a man's body. Striving to be free from the body, the voyager undertakes a tri ... more »
I AM SIMON
Dir: Tünde Molnár, Hungary, 12 min, 2009, Animation
Simon and his friends have their daily run together until one of them gets injured badly... ... more »
JESUS 2000
Dir: Remi Bastie, Clement Desnos, Jean Baptiste Cumont, Nicolas Pegon, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, France, 2 min, 2009, Animation
Year 2000, the Future, A new Era, a Prophet ... more »
JUNKO'S SHAMISEN
Dir: Sol Friedman, Canada, 10 min, 2009, Experimental
Set in the rural backwoods of feudal Japan, a young peasant girl named Junko, returns home to discover her blind grandfather brutally murdered. Filled with ... more »
KIDS MIGHT FLY
Dir: Alex Taylor, England, 7 min, 2009, Narrative Short
A young homeless girl is taken into care. Set in an urban wilderness, this film is an offbeat and touching experimental drama about East London kids. ... more »
LIVE A BIT LONGER...
Dir: David Lambert, Belgium, 15 min, 2009, Narrative Short
In the early hours of every single morning, while his lover Pierre is asleep upstairs, Nico works with his father the baker. All of the sudden, he falls to ... more »
LOVE, PARTITION
Dir: Tong Hoi Ka, Hong Kong, 15 min, 2009, Narrative Short
This is a record of the love between Him and Her, told through nine different thirteen-minute-long shots which are separated into nine pieces and shown s ... more »
LUCKY GIRL
Dir: Alexandra Grimanis, Canada, 5 min, 2009, Experimental
Moments in our lives that seem insignificant at the time they occur can stay with us for years, if not forever. We are haunted by what could have been, wha ... more »
LUNATIC COUNCIL, THE
Dir: Christophe Gautry& Arnaud Demuynck, France, 12 min, 2009, Animation
A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice ... more »
MACHINE, THE
Dir: Rob Shaw, United States, 5 min, 2009, Animation
A fable that follows an innocently forged creation as he becomes determined to consume everything in his path. The characters and scenes of this story are ... more »
MAKE PIECE
Dir: Cat Campbell-Berry & Jo Wallace, England, 5 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Alone in a factory, an engineer with a broken heart turns to his dispassionate machines in a desperate attempt to manufacture the piece to fill the gap lef ... more »
MAN WHO SLEPT, THE
Dir: Inès Sedan, France, 12 min, 2009, Animation
Sofia lives with her husband and really loves him. But he sleeps all the time ; and Sofia has to admit that he will maybe never wake up... ... more »
MARISA
Dir: Nacho Vigalondo, Spain, 3 min, 2009, Narrative Short
All women are Marisa, but Marisa is just one woman. ... more »
MEATWAFFLE
Dir: Leah Shore, United States, 8 min, 2009, Experimental
An old man recalls his strange and bizarre memories. ... more »
MEGAFAUNA
Dir: Kaz Phillips, United States, 14 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Feeling set adrift in her own marriage, Anna corners her estranged husband Milo in a conversation about the nature of love and commitment, but ends up gett ... more »
MEI LING
Dir: Stephanie Lansaque & Francois Leroy, France, 15 min, 2009, Animation
Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides ... more »
MEMORY OF ABSENCE
Dir: Kunitoshi Okuno, Japan, 5 min, 2010, Experimental
The original images are single8 film taken by my father. I think these images are general sights seen in the 1970's. I removed me from these old images in ... more »
MINUTEMEN MOVIE, THE
Dir: Corey Wascinski, United States, 82 min, 2010, Documentary Feature
In 2005, the Minutemen positioned themselves along the U.S./Mexico border. Dissatisfied with the influx of undocumented immigrants and fed up with the lack ... more »
Full details » | Trailer » | Grand Chameleon Award, Best Documentary
MIRAMARE
Dir: Michaela Müller, Croatia, 8 min, 2009, Animation
A look at life on the Mediterranean borders of Europe, where tourists try to relax at the same time as "illegal" immigrants struggle for a chance for a bet ... more »
MONKEYWRENCH
Dir: Chris Teague, United States, 10 min, 2009, Narrative Short
A young environmental activist finds her ideology tested in a forest on the verge of being clearcut. ... more »
MOSQUITO
Dir: Jeremy Engle, United States, 12 min, 2009, Narrative Short
MOSQUITO is about humiliation and redemption - the coming of age story of Cesar, a 13-year old Dominican boy whose awkward bravado and fanciful imagination ... more »
MRDRCHAIN
Dir: Ondrej Svadlena, France, 10 min, 2010, Animation
The trials and tribulations of Sliceman in the dark and frightening land of the murderchain. ... more »
MYSTERY OF FLYING KICKS, THE
Dir: Matthew Bate, Australia, 14 min, 2009, Documentary Short
Murder, sex, drugs, art, politics... sneakers hanging on telephone lines have become a powerful urban symbol, inspiring genesis theories both hilarious and ... more »
N.A.S.A. "A Volta"
Dir: Alexei Tylevich, United States, 5 min, 2009, Animation
Another day, another drug deal gone wrong in this NC-17 bit of ultra violence set in 8-bit isometric metropolis. ... more »
NAISSANCES
Dir: Anne Émond, Canada, 17 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Naissances examines an ephemeral connection between strangers and the false hope borne of living in a moment that does and does not belong to you. ... more »
NECESSARY GAMES
Dir: Sophie Hyde, Australia, 19 min, 2009, Experimental
A dance film triptych about the human need to connect and the games we play. ... more »
NEVER DRIVE A CAR WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
Dir: Gregor Dashuber, Germany, 10 min, 2009, Animation
The awkward hero stumbles over a long forgotten piano. Music leads him from his run down existence out into the city life. There he plays a last funeral ... more »
NOISE
Dir: Esther Löwe, Germany, 24 min, 2010, Experimental
Caroline encounters a young man in a cinema and accepts his invitation to meet. During a subsequent graffiti session the two of them are ambushed by a ga ... more »
NOON
Dir: Dan Popa, Canada, 7 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Today is Koppa's birthday, and he is celebrating it by sitting on his 9th floor balcony and putting the finishing touches on his customized fishing hooks. ... more »
OFF SEASON
Dir: Jonathan van Tulleken, United States, 13 min, 2009, Narrative Short
An alcoholic transient, with only his dog for a companion, steals from summer cottages during the brutal winter of the off season. When he ventures from hi ... more »
ON THIN ICE
Dir: Alli Haapasalo, Finland, 60 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
It's Christmas Eve in Helsinki. Young taxi driver Samu is working to escape a family Christmas with his fiancé and baby. At the airport, he picks up a da ... more »
ONE ARM
Dir: Akemi Tachibana, Japan, 15 min, 2008, Experimental
A man gets one arm of a woman whom he fell in love with, after just one night. Then the man has a tragic nightmare because of one arm. ... more »
OUR HOUSE
Dir: Greg King & David Teague, United States, 58 min, 2010, Documentary Feature
On Dan Taylor's first day out of prison he had nowhere to go, and faced one of the most important choices of his life: to return to his past of drug addict ... more »
PROSPECTS, THE
Dir: David Brundige, United States, 79 min, 2010, Narrative Feature
In order to fund their dreams of a banjo-music recording studio, two quirky young Park Slope residents plot to rob an old man of his valuable baseball card ... more »
QUEEN OF THE SUN
Dir: Taggart Siegel, United States, 83 min, 2010, Documentary Feature
Without bees, Albert Einstein said, "man would only have four years of life left." From the director of The Real Dirt on Farmer John comes a profound, alte ... more »
QUEEN OF WILLIAMSBURG, THE
Dir: Klara Egei, United States, 10 min, 2009, Documentary Short
Leonora Russo is a widower who has been living in the same rent controlled Williamsburg apartment for the past 60 years. This short documentary follows her ... more »
REDLAND
Dir: Asiel Norton, United States, 104 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
A rural family struggles to survive extreme hardship in the American wilderness during the Great Depression. Hauntingly dark, this story about the eternal ... more »
RETEP.
Dir: Mathijs Geijskes, Netherlands, 4 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Peter, 42 years old, suffers from an early midlife crises... or does he sees things different from reality? ... more »
SECRETS OF ANGELS
Dir: Toby Meakins, England, 10 min, 2009, Experimental
Guardian angels reveal they're as lost, fallible and heartbroken as those they watch over in this collection of impossible monologues. The mysterious Guard ... more »
SHELTER, THE
Dir: Antoine Duquesne, Belgium, 12 min, 2009, Narrative Short
In the heart of a big city threatened by an impending danger, a man and a woman barricade themselves in a hotel room... ... more »
SKYLIGHT
Dir: David Baas, Canada, 5 min, 2009, Animation
A mock animated documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the rest of the world. ... more »
SMALL ARMY OF THE SILVER MOUNTAIN, THE
Dir: Jason Boënne, Belgium, 16 min, 2009, Documentary Short
In a world where firearms are simultaneously glorified and condemned by mainstream media, you can find a small group of people in the Antwerp underground t ... more »
SNIFF
Dir: Christine Jones, England, 7 min, 2008, Narrative Short
Gloria and Harry, both in their late 60s, are lovers. They meet in a hotel room, having not seen each other in months. Will they rediscover their passion ... more »
SPUTNIK 5
Dir: Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italy, 9 min, 2009, Animation
The Soviet satellite Sputnik 5 has been launched the 19th august 1960.The crew was composed of animals: dogs, rats, mice, insects. The movie tells us their ... more »
STONEY
Dir: Jacob LaMendola, United States, 15 min, 2009, Narrative Short
A man goes through Hell to kill a mouse. ... more »
SURVIVAL SONG
Dir: Yu GuangYi, China, 94 min, 2008, Documentary Feature
Survival Song is a modern day story of outlaws, poachers, squatters and misfits fighting to survive on the fringes of Chinese society. Han, a college gradu ... more »
TEA OF FORGETFULLNESS, THE
Dir: Sandra Desmazieres, France, 13 min, 2008, Animation
Night is falling on town. A young lady is finishing her cup of tea before getting out. Rain is falling. The young lady is walking slowly, lost among other ... more »
TECHNICIAN, THE
Dir: Simon Olivier Fecteau, Canada, 7 min, 2009, Narrative Short
A cable guy is on a call to fix a television set with very strange problems. He soon realizes that the real problem lies with the content: war zones, famin ... more »
TEHERAN KITCHEN
Dir: Pola Schirin Beck, Germany, 17 min, 2009, Documentary Short
What's it like in a student canteen in Teheran (Tehran, Iran) anyway? Between 600 kebab a day and nagging students, we find three cooks and a kitchen helpe ... more »
TEMPORAL: THE ART OF STEPHAN DOITSCHINOFF
Dir: Bruno Mitih, Brazil, 15 min, 2008, Documentary Short
Calma is not only artist Stephan Doitschinoff's street alias, but also the abbreviation of "con alma" (c'alma) in Latin, meaning "with soul". His emblemati ... more »
TEN STORIES TALL
Dir: David Garrett, United States, 96 min, 2010, Narrative Feature
As two New York families grieve the loss of a beloved matriarch, death takes center stage in their own daily struggles: Charlie, who refuses to treat his h ... more »
TERMINAL
Dir: Michael Okum, United States, 6 min, 2010, Experimental
Sharon finds herself in a strange and dark place - an interrogation room. She is watched by a large camera eye at all times. As the machine questions her s ... more »
TIT FOR TAT
Dir: Ivana Lalovic, Switzerland, 6 min, 2009, Narrative Short
A young neo-Nazi finds himself trapped between ideology and humanity when he unwittingly befriends a little black girl. ... more »
VISIT
Dir: Kangmin Kim, United States, 6 min, 2009, Animation
He visits a city. The city already forgot him. The city is still sinking in his dream. The flickering segments of real life and illusion. Only the lighth ... more »
WATER
Dir: Corrie Jones, Australia, 17 min, 2009, Narrative Short
Toby yearns for a life like any other 8-year-old kid, but his mentally disabled father is a constant reminder that life will never be normal. ... more »
WELFARE WORKER, THE
Dir: Lutz Konermann, Switzerland, 93 min, 2009, Narrative Feature
Welfare worker Hans-Peter Stalder possesses the secret code to happiness: a money-multiplying strategy which promises incredible wealth to its hand-picked ... more »
WIN/WIN
Dir: Jaap van Heusden, Netherlands, 83 min, 2010, Narrative Feature
"Cock-a-doodle-doo, you sneaky post-it sucker." Ivan's innocent game of secretly sticking yellow notes with stock tips all over the big investment bank i ... more »
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