| Film Name
|
Length
|
Country
|
Description
|
Director
|
Another Day
|
26 |
Israel |
Take 3 friends. Two boys and a girl.Place them in Tel Aviv
2006, a second before high-school graduation.Let them be in love with themselves, and for
all they care nobody else exists.Do you think something could break such a wild bunch? |
Amit Turkenitz |
Ascension
|
14 |
Australia |
Searching for the cause of a blackout late one night,
exhausted trainspotter Tim mistakenly enters a neighbour's apartment, blundering into a
group of cultists desperate to escape earth and ascend to the Thribelian solar system...
unfortunately for Tim, they need a sacrifice! |
Stephen Irwin |
Big Business, Big Union, Small Town
|
46 |
Canada |
The small, quiet city of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, is caught in
the middle of a global battle between one of the largest unions and the world's largest
corporation - Wal-Mart. |
Leif Kaldor |
Children of Islam
|
75 |
Sweden |
Six young people. Some follow Sharia. Others fight Islamic
roles. One is a hip hopper. The other thinks music is a sin. One thinks that the women
must obey her husband. One fights for womens liberation. Some are closely followed by the
Security Police. And it all started 9/11 2001. |
Bo Harringer & Renzo Aneröd |
Damage Done: The Drug War Odyssey
|
54 |
Canada |
Cops Say Legalize Drugs: Ask Me Why |
Connie Littlefield |
| Distant
Memory 
|
10 |
Germany |
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. |
Michael Shafer |
| Eshbal 
|
56 |
Israel |
At Eshbal boarding school - on a hill in Galilee - young socially committed
kibbutz inhabitants meet young people from Ethiopia whom no other institution wants to
take on. Israel’s Ethiopian community, which is still very young, is considered a
‘high-risk’ group which shows all the symptoms of impoverishment and
marginalisation that lead to alcohol and drugs abuse. However, as boarding-school life
shows, these young people - like the kibbutz dwellers, too - are trying to find a place in
Israeli society: each in their own way. |
Ziv Even Tsur |
Fault
|
4 |
USA |
He's out of his element, driving his little red ego, strait into
hell. What would be fun to watch, and fun to
make? The story of a guy we all love to hate. |
Stewart Shaw |
Five
|
75 |
New Zealand |
Every circle of friends has their secrets. Five friends discover
theirs on their last adventure together. |
Amit Tripuraneni |
Flutterby
|
4 |
Australia |
Flutterby is Australia's answer to the Silly Symphonies |
Jack Parry |
From the heart of Odessa
|
60 |
Netherlands |
Alec Kopyt, a musician from Amsterdam returns to Moldavanka
- the former Jewish neighbourhood of Odessa - his place of birth and the cradle of
old-time Russian Mafia songs(Blatnyak). He is looking for musicians to play together these
songs in the restaurant of an old friend. While strolling along the picturesque yards of
the ruinous slums, we meet colourful Odesits who resemble the ancient heroes of the street
songs we hear. A touching portrait of a neighbourhood, its music and performers, Jewish
neighbourhood of Odessa - his place of birth and the cradle of old-time Russian Mafia
songs (Blatnyak). He is looking for musicians to play together these songs in the
restaurant of an old friend. While strolling along the picturesque yards of the ruinous
slums, we meet colourful Odesits who resemble the ancient heroes of the street songs we
hear. A touching portrait of a neighbourhood, its music and performers. |
Andre Schreuders |
Gatos
|
52 |
Israel |
The film
follows 4 young Brazilians from a village that was just recently discovered by tourists.
It shows the immense influence that the tourists have over the lives of the locals, and
the difference between the way the tourists conceive the locals and the reality that is
filmed. The arrival of foreigners to the village has created a new variety of options for
self fulfillment, that doesn't go hand in hand with the economical and social
possibilities of the locals. |
Gali Meiri |
Hard Rain
|
77 |
Australia |
Traversing five countries - China, France, UK, Japan and Australia, A
Hard Rain exposes the hidden agendas behind the latest push for Australia to go nuclear
and presents a compelling--and frightening--argument against allowing this to happen. |
David Bradbury |
Hold On
|
21 |
U S A |
'Hold On,' starring Jackie Julio, Doug Olear ('The Wire,'
'Something the Lord Made') and Dominic West ('300,' 'Chicago'), featuring music by Bruce
Springsteen, is a quirky comedy about Rose, a spirited, quadriplegic, physicist who goes
to extreme measures in her quest for romance. This engaging, short film is sprinkled with
absurdity and symbolism, adding a little spice for the consummate film lover. |
Doug Olear, Jackie Julio
|
| Israeli
Intelligence 
|
45 |
Israel |
Rami Haruvi, a daring Mossad Agent, is sent to rescue the abducted
US ambassador. If Rami fails,
the annual Mossad agent vacation to the Olga Resort will be cancelled. The Mossad Head
brings a new agent to join Rami, the daughter of a mythological Mossad agent named Shuki.
Rami and the new agent climb a professional and emotional rollercoaster that culminates in
a surprising finale. Are the Americans good? Are the terrorists bad? Everything becomes
dwarfed in comparison with the real question: will the Mossad Head take his annual
dream-vacation at the Olga Resort? |
Alon Gur Arye |
Jonas
|
45 |
U S A |
An exploration of my brother and his struggle with
schizophrenia. |
Eli Daughdrill |
Les Paul - Chasing Sound!
|
86 |
U S A |
A verité performance-documentary depicting the eventful
life and important cultural contributions of 90-year-old jazz guitarist Les Paul, 1950s
pop hit-maker, inventor of overdubbing and multi-track recording, father of the solid-body
electric guitar, architect of rock 'n' roll. |
John Paulson |
Lucky 8 |
7 |
Australia |
A boy and girl born on the same supposedly lucky day of the
8th of the 8th 2008 are unlucky in everything but will they be lucky in love? |
Chris Lee |
Lucky dip
|
12 |
United Kingdom |
Joe, a work-shy dreamer fantasises about winning the
lottery. Under pressure from friends and his girlfriend seeks work, but fails to notice
when his girlfriend wins a competition he entered on her behalf. Angry with his lack of
interest she leaves and he is left to continue his lottery fantasies. |
Chaz Lyon |
Marcelino and Bartolomeo: 'Bye-Bye!'
|
2 |
Canada |
Marcelino and Bartolomeo are playing an old computer video
game at their office when they are supposed to be working. Unfortunately, their boss shows
up! |
Mario Pochat |
M y
Dharamsala
|
1 8 |
I srael |
My Dharamsala (2007,Drama) tells the story of Amir and his inner struggle to
fight the emptiness of his soul and to become a person who feels again. The film takes us
back to his travels in India, a rite-of-passage for many post-army Israelis today, and his
coming to terms with these experiences in Israel. |
E lad
Wexler |
My Home - Your War
|
52 |
Australia |
Shot in Baghdad over three years, before, during and after
the Coalition attack on Iraq, MY HOME-YOUR WAR takes us inside the home of an Iraqi family
as they deal with the disruptions and terror of war as it affects their daily lives. Meet
Layla, her shy teenager son who she suspects is working with the anti-US resistance, her
workaholic husband and her once radical sister .This film is not only a historical
document of the Middle East, it is a personal account of how these changing times are
playing out in Arab women?s lives, and how Iraqi women have become the first casualties of
denied democracy |
Kylie Grey |
My way
|
105 |
Spain |
'My way' is an intimist drama, with doses of a thriller,
that tells the story of Marco (Ariel Casas), a small-time drug dealer who wants to quit
the 'profession' and lead a normal life with his wife (Silvia Marsó), his daughter
(Susana Fawaz) and his brother (Jaume García Arija). But, after the death of his mother
(Asunción Balaguer), he discovers that his father (Joan Dalmau), who he hasn't seen in
years, has Alzheimer's, and he decides to take him home. This new family environment,
which is becoming more and more complicated and tense, as well as the shadow of his drug
dealings, make things happen in a hasty and unpredictable way. |
J.
A. Salgot |
Next Exit, Main Street
|
75 |
U S A |
Four young filmmakers journey from coast to coast across the
U.S. to explore American Identity. |
Jeff
Baldo, Jeremy von Stilb |
| Now You See Me, Now You Don't 
|
29 |
Hungary |
It seemed like an ordinary day. Dad is
experimenting in the lab, Mom is at home boiling water, while their six-year-old son,
Alex, is playing around her. But this day is different. This day Dad brings something home
from the lab. And the next morning... Alex becomes invisible. Attila Szasz |
Attila Szasz |
OCCUPIED
|
9 |
Austria |
Traveling gives you plenty to talk about. - But you better
don?t!She?s at the airport, waiting. But not only for her plane to leave. Something
essential is missing in order for the action, planned long ago, to take place. The
hand-over is successful. The pressure is on. The plane takes off.She has smuggled
everything she needs aboard. Nobody saw or noticed anything. So go! ? All moves have been
carefully studied. The goal clearly within reach. Let the mission begin? |
Christian Filek |
O n Death's
Door
|
2 |
Austr alia |
A group of trick or treaters get more than they bargain for when they knock
on Death's door. |
Q uimby
Masters |
| Operation
Mural 
|
55 |
Israel |
Forty-five years after their clandestine mission, three Mossad
agents return to Casablanca to retrace their steps in a humanitarian mission whereby 530
Jewish children reached Israel in 1961, under the guise of holidays in Switzerland. A
special collective passport system was initiated, and then used with royal consent for the
aliyah of 100,000 Jews in “Operation Yakhin” (1962-64). This film vividly
documents how “Operation Mural” (16 March - 24 July 1961) succeeded beyond all
expectations. The key actors relive their undercover activities: “Mural”,
code-name of David Gerald Littman - himself unaware that the operation was directed by the
Mossad - and his contacts, “Georges” and “Jacques”, assisted by a
dedicated local group of Jewish youth (the Misgeret). There are many precious testimonies
of children and key Mossad figures in Israel, and the Littmans in Switzerland - including
a visit to the Home de la Foręt. This film documents a forgotten story, adding a new page
to Israel’s heroic birth and history. |
Yehuda Kaveh |
| Over my
dad's body 
|
70 |
Israel |
A documentary thriller. Filmmaker Taliya Finkel goes on a
fascinating journey in order to unfold the mystery around her departed father's claims
that her uncle is an undercover agent sent to Israel by the old soviet regime. Guided by a
private investigator she travels from Israel to the Ukraine and back in a desperate quest
to find proofs for her father's story. During the voyage, Taliya investigates the thin
line that separates imagination and reality, sanity and madness. |
Taliya Finkel |
Partially True Tales of High Adventure!
|
12 |
U S A |
Charlie is just a guy from Indiana trying to make it in
Hollywood. To keep his dream alive, he'll have to rely the gifts of every mid-western kid:
a love of booze and the ability to tell outrageously wild tall-tales. |
Murphy Gilson |
Passenger
|
4 |
India |
Identity. Destiny. Sympathy. Question everything. |
Dipankar Mukherjee |
Pilgrimage
|
22 |
U S A |
With a hip music track and never-before-seen footage,
PILGRIMAGE tells the inspiring story of how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for
Japanese Americans has been transformed into a symbol of retrospection and solidarity for
people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post- 9/11 world. |
Tadashi Nakamura |
PK-Granny
|
2 |
U S A |
A little old lady is mugged by a man on a bicycle. Is there no one around
who can help her? |
Jo Meuris |
Rewind
|
8 |
India |
A bunch of three gambler thieves , one
of whom is blind, have managed to crack a safe. The Safe has diamonds worth a million, but
then greed takes over as they decide to play the barrel roulette. The guy who survives
would keep the diamonds. The film moves in reverse towards the beginning as the opening of
the film evolves as the climax. Atul Taishete |
Atul Taishete |
Rosh
Geranium
|
85 |
Israel |
Raffi
Lavie, the Israeli painter, the art and classical music critic, is arguably the most
influential cultural figure of his generation, an embodiment of the image of the
"Sabra". The film follows Raffi Lavie, who had to give up the lease on his
mythological apartment in Tel-Aviv, where he lived for 33 years with his wife Ilana and
their children - when he is forced to reorganize his life, in order to relocate and begin
yet another new phase in his life. Amit Goren's film makes Lavie's personality and art
accessible, while remaining both entertaining and thought provoking. |
Amit Goren |
Run for Life
|
26 |
Switzerland |
40 year-old Clara Klaar tells the story of her fight against leukemia. A
year of unspeakable pain illustrated by the images of the Marathon des Sables, one of the
most difficult foot races in the world. |
Eric Grant |
(S)election
|
59 |
Israel |
Filmmaker
Ronen Amar (''My Family's Pizza'') documents two protagonists whose only common
denominator is the sleepy southern town they come from. Amar follows his cousin Eyal, a
successful architect-contractor who decides to run for mayor and kick up dust. He also
follows his friend Koko, a stoner on an eternal soul search. With municipal elections
raging in the background, Amar's protagonists stand at critical junctures in their lives.
How will their s[elections] shape the director's future as well? |
Ronen Amar |
Simulacra
|
5 |
U S A |
In the Vast universe, there's one robot planet which overthing in that
planet is machine and robot .One day, one robot found that there's one organic life exist
in his world. Then,He decide to get that piece. |
Tatchapon Lertwirojkul |
Soft
|
14 |
United Kingdom |
A father rediscovers his fear of confrontation, at the worst possible
time. |
Simon Ellis |
South Coast
|
85 |
United Kingdom |
It's not East Coast. It's not West Coast. This is.... SOUTH COAST! A warm
and character-driven feature documentary exploring the growth of a unique and
quintessentially British form of hip hop that has flourished in the seaside towns of
southern England 30 years after hip hop hit these shores. |
Will Jewell |
Sozdar, she who lives her promise
|
70 |
Netherlands |
'Sozdar, she who lives her promise' is a documentary about Nuriye Kesbir,
a stubborn Kurdish woman and one of the leaders of the PKK, who ended up on a road of no
return because of her personal choices. |
Annegriet Wietsma |
Sudden Movement
|
7 |
Australia |
Sudden Movement is about a hung-over University student's struggle to
complete an essay on time. A trip to a cafe and multiple cups of coffee help him complete
the task at hand, but soon, a more urgent and primal need surfaces. Our Hero must turn his
attention to a quest for relief and in the process overcome every imaginable obstacle
hampering his efforts. |
Gavin Dixon |
Tea and Physics
|
7 |
Australia |
A story of black holes and renovations.Mark has a new kitchen. Mark has a
swirling pan-dimensional vortex in his new kitchen.This was not in the brochure. |
Michael Wannenmacher |
Team Everest: A Himalayan Journey
|
111 |
Nepal,U S A |
'Team Everest: A Himalayan Journey' chronicles a remarkable group of
trekkers as they set out on an unprecedented expedition to reach the world's greatest
mountain. If they succeed, they'll be the largest group of people with disabilities ever
to reach Mount Everest Base Camp. |
Andrew Cockrum |
| The Bridge
- Most 
|
12 |
Austria |
The Bridge...based on a true events... Bosnia & Herzegovina
1992. Most of the people who took part in the film experienced this terrible happening in
1992 personally.The aim of this film is to produce a memorial for those people and other
victims. Haris Bilajbegovic |
Haris Bilajbegovic |
The Changing Man
|
3 |
Australia |
It's just your average, everyday break up between a girl and her
boyfriend, the walking signal from the pedestrian light. |
Rami Fischler |
The Golden Thread
|
20 |
Spain |
Sometimes, mystifying bonds are set up between people. Bonds which
overcome distance, oblivion and unawareness. And when those bonds are created, they can
become what we need to survive. |
Diego Sanchidrián |
The Hitchhiker
|
13 |
Canada |
A beleaguered hitchhiker discovers that getting a ride from the woman who
just pulled over may require more than he'd bargained for. |
Jason Goode |
The Job
|
4 |
U S A |
The immigration debate just got a little funnier! |
Jonathan Browning |
The Lord Is My Shotgun
|
7 |
Australia |
'The Lord Is My Shotgun' is a morally reprehensible, ethically bankrupt,
violent vigilante action/noir film about a hard-bitten, take no shit detective who's
reached the end of his chain. |
Gabriel Dowrick |
The Note
|
4 |
Czech Republic |
'I love you' the piece of paper informed him. |
Jon Greenhalgh |
The Old
Stores
|
53 |
Israel |
This is
the story of a number of old stores in modern-day Tel Aviv-Jaffa, all small businesses, 40
years old or older, who have somehow survived despite the hardships of time. The film
passes between the stores and unfolds an old and aging world of tradition and family
businesses, a whole fabric of life and places very different from the fast, dynamic life
that surrounds us. Among the participating shops: A barber shop about to close, Mikolinsy
shoes which was one of the city's most elegant shops and an Arab-owned pharmacy in Jaffa
run by a father and his son. |
Yoav
Gerfinkel |
The Urge
|
18 |
Australia |
What compels a man to kill? Where does 'the urge' come from? |
Michael Graves |
The Womb
|
10 |
Australia |
Inside The Womb parents plot, plan and purchase the baby ot their dreams. |
Ruth Bell |
Thunder and Reins
|
46 |
U S A |
From zero to 35 mph in a matter of seconds! Experience the strength,
stamina and courage it takes to become a Kentucky Derby Winning Jockey! This is the story
of some of the least celebrated of all athletes. |
Bruce Skinner |
Tripe and onions
|
6 |
Hungary |
A small piece of the vanishing time
meets two men. They understand each other without words. Marton Szirmai |
Marton Szirmai |
Tumbling
After
|
43 |
Canada |
Things unravel for
wanna-be burlesque dance stars when troupe manager falls for the new girl. |
Bryan Skinner |
Twin Rivers
|
108 |
Australia |
In 1939 Australia, two brothers are travelling 500 miles on foot to
follow a dream, but their loyalty to each other is challenged as the trip unfolds. |
Matthew Holmes |
You and me
|
13 |
U S A |
Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish reality from fiction when you
make a film to remind you of your dead wife. |
Pablo Fernández |
Zoologic
|
5 |
U S A |
A fussy zookeeper contends with an uncooperative little penguin. |
Nicole Mitchell |
Zorki
|
54 |
Israel |
Two years
ago, Zohar Wagner, then 34, decided to tear away the cloak of silence that enveloped her
bourgeois family. Her mother had a five year affair with a man ten years her junior, and
Zohar, at the age of twelve, was an accomplice to the secret. Twenty years after the
difficult episode that had torn the family apart, as the Filmmaker's Mother is selling her
childhood home, the family gathers and Pandora's Box is opened. The film is called
"Zorki," the family nickname for Zohar. |
Zohar
Wagner |
