Director: Nicolas Provost
Belgium
2007 | HD | 0:15:15 | without dialogue


New York City, a melting point of stories and events, horror and success, dreams and despair: Provost intrudes this space of potentials with a hidden camera. He detects faces and gestures, signs and signals, fragments of communication and monadic introversions. He signs a cosmos of endless interaction without communication. He shows a town as a jungle of  permanent threat and danger. Civilisation appears as wildness and the human body as a too fragile system in the endless complexity of traffic and pulsations.

Director: Christopher Rainer
Austria
2006 | 35mm | 0:15:00 | without dialog

A dystrophy of smashed images. A physical force emerges from the unarticulated movements of contours and shadows and besides a slack-jawed, fable girl trying to reconstruct her relationship to the world as a silhouette. Fawn is a nightmare and an inside look in hell, where an aggressive noise seems to evoke a machine of permanent destruction, which is maybe the unconscious itself. And in the centre of this hell a female voice is speaking, telling her of own death, but to whom the voice is still speaking, and from where?

Director : James Lees
Great Britain
2007 | Beta SP | 0:10:00

James Lees announced in a journal a telephone number, where people can exclaim their excuses and confesses anonymously. He sound track from Apology Line consists on these voices, telling an often long hidden pain in this way. The films puts this voices in a visual frame dominated by the night, space of intimacy and challenge, echo room of the separated voices, which only can communicate their message in this particular way hoping to find a listener. The reasons, intentions and moods for saying “Sorry” can be quite different, so the opportunity for a complex human concert is given.

Director: Amit Dutta
India
2007 | 0:22:00

An ascetic walks through the narrow streets of a village every morning while his family is still asleep. In this semi-somnolent state he dreams about the history if his village mixing up Myths, folklore and facts. The simple walk in the space transforms itself in a voyage through time, memories, suggestions and irritations.

Director: Naveen Singh
Etats - Unis
2007 | DV| | 0:10:00

Writing a letter to his long-lost son and under the influence of a brain tumour, a dying man is confronted with suppressed emotions and the consequences of his behaviour in the past. A fragmented, intriguing story about dysfunctional relations.

Director: Ines Cardoroso
Brasil
2008 | 35mm | 0:15:00

Cocais is a poetic documentary, made with the patients and the staff of a psychiatric hospital which are reinventing their city. The spectator gets a witness of the force of the camera, which provokes and creates new realities just by remembering old promises, hopes and projects. Coming back to a space of historically high expectations can be a disillusion or a stimulation, not to accept the facts but to create them.

Director: Guli Silberstein
Israel
2008 | DV | 0:04:35

A selection of the news stream and digital images on the web: a family hide itself behind a wall in their neighboorhood, which is touched by the war. Guli Silberstein compresse and slowed down the images and pointed out supplementary dimensions of the scene. The reality is transformed in a psychedelic landscape, with the aim to create a deranging contrast between images and the documented fact. Fear seems deconstructed into pixels.

Director: Patrick Jolley
Ireland
2008 | 16mm | 0:07:00

In a post apocalyptic scenario the human beings have disappeared. The human space has been occupied by monkeys, which act in a strange and nervous way. The question is posed, what happened? And will there still be a future?

Director: Olivier Hems
France
2007 | Super 8 | 0:11:49

On the base of some photographies and writings found in the apartment of a death man, the reconstruction of his life started. His death gets readable as the last act of a life without high intentions or aspiration, a lonely life, in which the separation from the beloved appears as the decisive moment of self abandon and auto destruction.

Director: Andrea Pallaoro
USA
2008 | 35mm | 0:13:00

In a strange apartment filled with objects of museum objects of and symbols of beauty and taste. An old woman takes care of a handicapped young man. Completely isolated from the rest of the world they have created their own cosmology and a unique style of live.