| Film | Running Time | Description | Country | Director |
Dandelions |
20 | More than a million U.S. children are homeless on any given night. 'Dandelion's a short film about one teenage runaway who decides to leave the streets and go back home. The film chronicles a day in a life of a homeless teen, his friends, the drugs, the panhandling, the tricks and the city's downtown filthy streets, grimy tunnels, illicit drugs and immense underworld of homeless youth, all lost in a vast wasteland. Heroin is almost a necessity for these teens. Most of them run away from home due to physical, mental and sexual abuse. The drugs are their escape from reality. It numbs them and gets them through another day. | USA | yariv ozdoba |
Dear Sweet Emma |
6 | Animation: As the search is given up for Emma's latest husband, Tucker, a private look reveals that Emma has a secret and uncontrollable dark side. The sweetest angel and favorite citizen of Fishtickle would indeed pose an uncomfortable dilemma for all if her problem were ever found out.
Festival: Hollywood Underground Film Festival 2003 (Winner-Short Animation), Woodstock Film Festival 2003 (Best Animation), California Independent Film Festival 2003 (Slate Award-Best Animation), St. Louis Int'l 2003 ((Acadamy Awards Nominations) Best Animated*), Bristish Acadamy of Film & Television Arts 2004 (Nomination), Garden State Film Festival 2005 (Animation CGI Award) |
USA | John Cernak |
Desolation Angels |
38 | A worn down travelling salesman pulls into a pub in the middle of nowhere. Consumed by his problems and uncertain future, he takes a few moments to have a rest outside, but notices the same black truck driving up and down the same lonely patch of road. Curiosity getting the better of him, he asks the local drunk about it, who tells him the story of Neal Clarke. After a failed attempt at marriage, Neal, heartbroken and angry, leaves behind the white picket fences and hits the road, searching for purpose in his life. He travels all over the country eventually losing all contact with those around him. Late one night he picks up Mary hitchhiking and is immediately taken by her beauty and innocence. | Australia | Kurt Breitenmoser |
| Distant Memory
|
11 | During the Nazi period in Germany, young Marie meets the Jewish clown Jakob who gives away balloons for the price of a smile. But Marie cannot satisfy Jakob's wish. Through a tragic misunderstanding the situation escalates and for a while it seems as if Marie will have to owe him her smile forever. But decades later, fate brings the two of them back together again. |
Germany | Michael Schafer |
| Dog Years
|
3 | Ben, 39, Leo, castrated mongrel needs love. |
United Kingdom | Sam Hearn, Richard Penfold |
| Down The P.C.H.
|
95 | While serving a 2 year sentence for supposed drug dealing, 26y/o Garrett
O'Hara found his politician father and mother had all but disowned him. Upon his release,
Garrett is determined to get his life back on track. Only to find out the $30K he had
tucked away, has disappeared. After having an argument with his younger brother Noah,
Garrett heads to a local bar for a cocktail. There he meets the sexy Samantha and the two
hit it off and begin what becomes a very tumultuous relationship. When Garrett finds out
Noah has run away, and is working for the charismatic drug dealer Doc, Mr. and Mrs. O'Hara
must seek help from the very son they once turned their backs on. Festival: Baja, CA Film Festival 09/2006 |
USA | Sean Michael Beyer |
| Dream A Little Dream...
|
8 | Where do dreams end and reality begin? Sam and James dream of the perfect life and then they wake up... |
Australia | Suzan Scott |
Dream Systems |
8 | Animation: Dream Systems is an animated music video for Filipino indie
band the Purplechickens. Directed by Paraluman Cruz and created by the Artist Society, it
tells the story of a man and a woman living oblivious on separate sides of a small planet,
until an accidental stone throw results in their desperate attempt to reach each other.
Dream Systems is a volunteer project made by more than 80 artists over two years of
production. To bring the song's strong emotions to life, the video combines live action,
3D graphics, and traditional painting techniques. Using old-fashioned rotoscoping, each
frame was hand-painted in watercolor, giving Dream Systems an authentic and highly
original look. The result is a fairy-tale world rich with color and movement. Festival: MTV Philippines airplay 2006, 19th Gawad CCP for Experimental Film and Video 2007 (Best Animation) |
Philippines | Paraluman Cruz |
| Dreamworld
|
28 | DOCUMENTARY: 30 year old Patrick Hageman from Amsterdam just started a new live: a virtual live. With his avatar he flies and chats around in a world called ' Second Life'. He builds houses, tries to make money and is looking for friends. When he falls in love with an other avatar Aurora, he decides to escape from his reallife girlfriend and visit his virtual love in Boston. There he finds out how real their new virtual love is... | Netherlands | jorien van nes |
| Drifting on the Wind
|
6 | A lyrical tale of a restless spirit's longing for home. After the removal of Saddam, Ali, an Iraqi exile is invited to return to Baghdad. As the moment of his return draws closer, it re-ignites a series of memories and reawakens anxieties, which he thought that he left behind when he fled as a child from East to West. As these feelings become more intense, Ali is forced to re-evaluate the meaning of his journey and reconcile notions of home and belonging. What awaits him now in post-Saddam Baghdad? Ali's fears and doubts are only alleviated when he connects with the memory of his own childhood in the Middle East, where as a little boy he set his spirit free on the wind. | Iraq, United Kingdom | Maythem Ridha |
| DVD
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17 | The main purpose of the short film was to tell a classic story of "Boy meets Girl" in a different way, and starring movie, video-games and comic-book geeks. We take a peek inside the geek world as if we were watching a dvd, with audio commentary, scene selection, music video, trailer, deleted scene, alternative ending, etc. | Spain | Ciro Altabas |
Eramos Pocos |
16 | When his wife leaves him, Joaquín turns to his son to help him bring his
mother-in-law out of a home to do the housework Festival: Academy Awards 2007, Basque Film Festival 2006 |
Spain | Borja Cobeaga |
| Finally the Sea
|
90 | Tony is a Cuban-American Metals trader. One sunny morning, while fishing off Key West-Florida, he finds the wreck of a makeshift raft floating close to the beach. The rafters names were carved on the wood of the boat (Pablo and Mariana). Tony travels to Cuba to find the Family of the rafters to tell them what he had found. This journey also becomes a discovery of his own Cuban roots. Tony finds the family and, shocked and surprised, finds the beautiful Mariana whom he presumed had died at sea, and she awakens in him his true destiny |
Argentina | Jorge Dyszel |
Firefighter |
20 | After 9/11, NYC Firefighter Kenny Ruane finds his strong beliefs challenged until a fire rescue frees him from his guilt and he's able to return home to his family. Festivals: Action On Festival 2005 (Winner Best Director Award), Long Island International Film Expo 2005 (Winner Best Story), SoCal Film Festival 2005 (Winner Best Short Film), Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival 2005 (Winner Best Short Film), Rebel Planet Short Film Festival 2006 (Best Female Director). |
USA | Vanessa Ruane |
