| Film | Running Time | Description | Country | Director |
Glacier Bay |
28 | At a party following a grand-nephew's confirmation, ARTIE and
CONNIE find a quiet table off to the side to eat their cocktail appetizers. They are both
elderly, and Artie is deep in the throes of Alzheimer's. The two grouse and bicker as old
married couples will, and the conversation takes many comical and absurd turns as Connie
struggles to make sense of Artie's foggy pronouncements. But the comedy is always shadowed
by the grim presence of Artie's illness, and the memories of happier times that will never
be again. And when niece JILL reveals a crucial bit of forgotten information, Connie is
left to ponder the darkness of her own future. Festivals: Lake Forest Film Festival 2006 (Winner- Best Screenplay), Eureka Springs Digital Film Festival 2006 (Winner- Audience Choice ), Short Film Festival of India 2007 (Winner--Top Film), The Flickering Image Festival 2007 (Top Ten Best Films), Lake County Film Festival 2007 (Winner: Best Dramatic Short). |
USA | Douglas Moser |
Go West |
95 | In the nineties the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Milan, a student, Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. Their lives, both intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. Trapped in Sarajevo during the siege by Serb forces, the lovers manage to flee to Milan's home village and there they take shelter, waiting for Milan's father, Ljubo, to find a way to the Netherlands. Witnessing the brutality of Serb forces and their hatred towards Muslims, Milan desperately improvises: he disguises Kenan as a woman and begins to present him as his girlfriend, Milena. Milan is drafted into the army and the situation becomes unbearable for Kenan. Ranka, a waitress in Milan's father café, a woman whose dark secrets terrify most of the villagers, becomes Milena's only companion and reveals the well kept secret... | Serbia | Ahmed Imamovic |
Goodbye Life |
93 | During the Iran–Iraq war (1980-1988) Maryam, a young woman who is disappointed in her husband and gets a divorce, wants to commit suicide. As she doesn't want to have an ordinary death, Maryam decides to go to war as a reporter and die as a hero. "Goodbye, Life" is the story of a woman who by saying goodbye to her previous life finds a new way to live. | Iran | Ensieh Shah Hosseini |
Grazing |
99 | Two lives. Both are so concerned with their own problems,
loves, small and bigger commitments that they are unable to notice the other. Celine is an
actress, she is thirty years old, a failed wedding in her recent past and a ten year old
daughter. Paolo is a photographer on his forties, who's childish soul hasn't brought him
to consider the idea of a deep relationship with a woman. The occasions to meet are many,
but maybe not enough for someone who isn't able to stop and look, even for one instant, at
the person who could maybe be the right one, who embodies the most intimate dream. Festivals: CINEMA ROMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2006, VILLERUPT FILM FESTIVAL 2006. |
France, Italy | Angelo Orlando |
| Guide Dog
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7 | Animation: Guide dog is the sequel to the Oscar nominated
"Guard dog". This time our hero dog helps blind people with typically disastrous
results.
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USA | Bill Plympton |
Hagar |
15 | The worst hours for Hagar are just before she goes to work on the street. Her encounters with her pimp, customers and violence, are unbearable. She keeps telling herself tonight would be the last time, but still ends up at the same spot every night. One night Hagar meets a wealthy customer. He forces his unfaithful wife's identity on Hagar, temporarily allowing her to escape from her harsh reality. However, it is in this escape that brings Hagar to an identity crisis. Should she adopt the illusion in the new fake identity her client is offering her, disregarding her own name and dreams, or return to the cold but familiar street corner, to her abusive pimp, in one last attempt to save her fading identity? | Israel | Nitzan Ron |
Happy Birthday Yemima |
19 | Yemima’s family believes that she is the reincarnation of her late grandmother. Yemima plays this role with devotion, taking care of her Dad and all the family. But on the evening of her 28th birthday, the house pipes all burst, and a plumber disrupts the family delusion. | Israel | Yishai Orian |
He Works In A Suit |
7 | A bank robbery has occurred and a well dressed man is on the run from police. In his travels he offers a lift to a lone hitchhiker by the roadside. As the strangers journey on, the hitchhiker questions the suspicious briefcase the well dressed man has with him. They continue when suddenly the car breaks down. As the well dressed man gets out to investigate the hitchhiker opens the briefcase. To his horror he finds a blood stained knife. He motions to escape but the well dressed man corners him and throws him to the ground, rupturing copious bank notes from his rucksack. The bank robber turned hitchhiker meets his demise as a well dressed man wanted by police for murder takes another life. | Australia | Robert Davies |
Hunter |
12 | Hunter is drawn from the origins of film noir and follows two men, the collector and the Hunter on their pursuit of a foreign woman. As she manages to consistently elude them, the pressure and anxiety between the men grows till they finally manage to trap her. | United Kingdom | Nigel Douglas |
Infinite Moments |
5 | Haunted by a rapist she could never identify, Jennifer
struggles to find a way to escape the memory and nightmares of the night she was raped.
Unsure of herself, Jennifer joins a self defense class where she learns more than she
could ever imagine but finds herself confronted by the `rapist' she was unable to fight
off before. Festivals: Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 2006, Canadian Showcase FilmExchange 2007, Through Women's Eyes Film Festival 2007, Swansea International Film Festival 2007 |
Canada | Karen Nielsen |
Isola |
25 | Isola is a film about grief and soul-searching, loneliness,
partnership. About the hidden remainder, a process where the surviving party after a
sudden, fatal accident scrutinizes their past life together in search of answers. Festivals: VGIK International Student Film Festival 2006 (Main price), 8th International Student Film Festival 2006 (Award of the Int. Student Film Camp Interaction), Beijing Film Academy 5th Int Student Film and Video Festival 2006 (The Award of the Audience) |
Norway | Andreas J. Riiser |
Jukebox |
3 | Animation: This film is based on the song "Jukebox" and original drawings by Jim Avignon (aka Neoangin) from his album "Scratchbook". Animation unites Jim's song and drawings into a visual story of a strange looking pig-like character, who is trying to get a song out of the broken Jukebox. Jim Avignon is considered the pioneer of a new generation of pop artists. A lauded and much-respected cult figure in Techno subculture in Berlin. | USA | Alex Budovsky |
Kathy In Her Bedroom |
4 | Animation: Kathy In Her Bedroom is a music video for Los
Angeles-based band Bedroom Walls' new album, 'All Good Dreamers Pass This Way.' Festivals: Bluegrass Independent Film Festival 2006, Stockholm International Film Festival 2006 |
USA | Nancy Jean Tucker |
Knife Shift |
14 | Everybody has something to hide in the murky shadows at Stone River Hotel. Shane, a loner night porter, doesn't seem to need a knife, and yet he keeps one in his locker. Shouts can be heard late at night behind door 110, where the beautiful and fragile Rachel is staying with her bully-boy husband. And when a hotel guest turns up dead, Shane finds himself drawn into a shocking mystery. Featuring a high profile cast including Craig Hall (The World's Fastest Indian, King Kong), Kate Elliott. and Phil Brown, Knife Shift is a gripping film noir in which its labyrinthine plot unfolds in just 13 minutes. | New Zealand | Jim Hudson |
