4 Conversations about Love

Country: UK
Year: 2006
Length: 14 min
Director: Jessica Townsend

4 People, 4 Conversations, 4 Lives Changed. A man and a woman make love for the last time in the house in which they meant to raise a family. A father and daughter meet in a cafe for the first time in many years- and at first it feels like a date. A woman tells her girlfriend - the love of her life - that she is unexpectedly pregnant. A tormented stranger finds a woman and her baby and the encounter gives him the chance to confront his past. Four 'Short Cuts' style stories dealing with love, loss, and finally, grace.

Armando

Country: ITALY
Year: 2006
Length: 15 min
Director: Massimiliano Camaiti

Although his physical appearance remains unchanged, Armando is victim of an increasing fear: to sink, vanishing completely. This morning he woke up weighing 120 kg...

Avatar

Country: SPAIN
Year: 2005
Length: 15 min
Director: Lluis Quilez Sala

Avatar: 1) Chance event that usually involves a sudden change in the course of something. Change of fortune. 2) Tests someone goes through. 3) Lack of application or alternation of prosperous and adverse events.

Back to the fuchsia /
A Fullero Viejo, Flores Nuevas

Country: UK
Year: 2007
Length: 3 min
Director: Toby Roberts

In their garden of love he's sowing seeds of doubt, laced with jealousy. But she has ripe manure to feed his trust and, hopefully, help their relationship flower.

Banal

Country: SPAIN
Year: 2006
Length: 11 min
Director: David Planell

As all teenagers, Ainoa has had an exhausting school day. So this summer, for the first time, she has decided to go on holidays wherever she pleases, and not were her father decides. This is how father and daughter get into a long, tense and definitive discussion where the girls holidays in fact uncover certain issues that were not intended.

Conscious Life

Country: UK
Year: 2007
Length: 4 min
Director: Tobias Feltus

Synopsis: Conscious Life is a silent film which portrays the pain and delirium of love and tragedy. The short is presented as black and white, set in the late 1920s. The film shows a young photographer in his studio, haunted by the obsession of an unrequited love, and ensuing indifference towards his current lover. Waking from sleep in a dream-like sequence, his photograph on the wall and reality confuse their roles. Commissioned as a music video, the film is intertwined with the homonymous track by Aereogramme.

Drei Reisende /
Three travellers

Country: GERMANY
Year: 2007
Length: 12 min
Director: Jan Thüring

Three passengers meet each other in a train. Everyone has a secret!

El Canto Del Grillo /
Song of the Cricket

Country: SPAIN
Year: 2006
Length: 17 min
Director: Dany Campos

Joseba Perurena, a young terrorist, wants to start a new life together with his girlfriend. However, cutting ties with the past is never an easy thing to do especially when the consequences have not been fully considered.

El Relevo / The Relief

Country: SPAIN
Year: 2006
Length: * min
Director:David González

He works at night. She works at day. They have been trying for more than three months and still nothing has happened.

Fish Can't Fly

Country: ENGLAND
Year: 2006
Length: 3 min
Director: Richard Murphy

In a high-rise flat, a pet fish with a suicidal death-wish edges towards a fatal drop, as an audience below endeavours to save its life.

Hunter

Country: UK
Year: 2006
Length: 11 min
Director: Nigel Douglas

Two unnamed men begin on a journey on a night that is predestined for them. A beautiful woman is their target but what drives them is an obsession that only they understand

I became...

Country: INDIA
Year: 2006
Length: 5 min
Director: Ms. Arwa Mamaji

The film revolves around a little street child who is looking for some food. We see him walking around the city with his only companion the balloon. Through his journey he observes everything that life has to throw at him. Yet he is a child without any worry except one basic need. Food. The film is about materialism and how it has started governing our lives. Our primary needs are taken for granted and we are caught up in a fictitious world glazed with glamour and pride. We cannot look through the tainted glass and even if we can, we pretend to ignore it and push it into the furthermost part of our subconscious.

Interconnected

Country: USA
Year: 2007
Length: 13 min
Director: Mark Mocahbee

The line between a gift and a curse is never clear. Richard is tortured by horrible visions of other people's fate. Marcus sleeps with as many women as he can. Maggie waits with a gun. When these three people's paths cross, nothing will ever be the same.

Kolaborator

Country: USA
Year: 2007
Length: 14 min
Director:Chris Bessounian

During the conflict in the former Yugoslavia many soldiers were convinced to kill fellow citizens including friends and relatives in the name of patriotism. The Kolaborator follows the story of Goran, 24, a promising young soccer player who is forced to become a soldier. Goran goes from being a talented athlete to an executioner virtually overnight. Following orders, Goran lines up civilians, shoots them and drags them into mass graves. Justifying his role as a protector of his people, Goran becomes increasingly detached from the task until his soccer coach and life-long friend, Asim, is led in front of him. As a familiar face stands defeated before him, Goran must reconsider his actions and choose between his own life and that of his friend.

LA PARABOLICA /
the Parabolic Dish

Country: SPAIN
Year: 2007
Length: 12 min
Director: Xavi Sala

During the broadcast of the Pope's visit, Vicente's television is broken. Desperate, he decides to make a homemade parabolic dish.

MOST / the Bridge

Country: AUSTRIA
Year: 2007
Length: 12 min
Director: Haris Bilajbegovic

...based on true events...Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992. Most of the people who took part in the film experienced this terrible happening in 1992. A main character in the movie is played by my grandfather. He was forced to leave his son, my uncle (Elvir Kadirik) behind on this bridge. On this day 13 young men disappeared. To this day there is no trace of them. The bridge never revealed her secret. -Haris

The Morning After

Country: CANADA
Year: 2006
Length: 9 min
Director: Casey Walker

The Morning After is an un-romantic comedy in which a couple awaken after a one night stand and try to recall the events that led them to wind up in bed together.

Nijuman no borei

Country: FRANCE
Year: 2007
Length: 10 min
Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot

Hiroshima 1914-2006

Pepita Chan

Country: SPAIN
Year: 2007
Length: 13 min
Director:Miguel Campion

Pepita Chan does not want to make a short film just like the others. That is why she starts doing a 'making of her movie' from the very first moment of its conception. Pepita is looking for the film she has inside, experimenting with different genres and subjects to find out what she wants to talk about. The guidance from a charismatic guru will be crucial for the development of her quest and its ending.

Sarean / In The Net

Country: SPAIN
Year: 2006
Length: 4 min
Director:Asier Altuna

A short documentary about fishing in the Northern Seas. But is it a documentary? And is that really fishing?

Umbilical

Country: USA
Year: 2007
Length: 10 min
Director: Jason Joven

A white girl comes between a dying African-American mother and her adopted Asian-American son.

UOVA / Scrambled

Country: ITALY
Year: 2007
Length: 4 min
Director: Alessandro Celli

A bicycle, groceries from a supermarket around the corner, a rush home to cook breakfast. A morning like all the others.