April 5th -  10th

Ten selections of short films will be submitted to the international jury of the festival. Contemporary movies, from all the countries, chosen for their esthetical audacity, their intuition and their complex attitude towards the modern world

Spinath Ravlilapalli

India
2009 * HD * 0:16:00

In the suburbs two marginal persons, a silent man and a woman who suffers from an enormous inner pain, meet and try to communicate. They spend some time together, but it seems impossible to escape from the rotten past. For the man it gets impossible to stand helpless the permanent anguish.

Elise DuRant
Mexico
2009 * HD * 0 :21 :00

When 18-year-old Sofia puts her studies on hold and takes up waiting tables in order to care for her ailing father, she encounters a few odd characters who initiate her down a path from which there is no way home.

Dave Griffiths
UK
2009 * DV * 0:07:40

An investigator decodes the Universe through fiery entrails of film, recounting a myth of primal origins, worldly corruption and ultimate fate. His shuffling archive of movie cue-dots hovers between stillness and motion, the result of observing and recording barely visible matter on the screen's margins. Energy escapes these orbital fetishes, displaced from their usual microscopic scale to mix with scenery and bodies; while their collector recounts a life of fruitless research. Seer's Catalogue marks International Year of Astronomy 2009 by colliding pseudo-cosmology with materialist flicker.

Bruno Ramos
Portugal
2009 * 16 mm * 0:13:00

Mother and daughter in a farewell process. In several nocturnal exists they burn every object that the mother,who is very hill, as accumulated along the years. At the beginning of the process the daughter faces it with resistance and suffering. But in time she realizes that it's the best way to reconnect with her mother, to say goodbye to her and help her get free of all the memories that hold her back. After her mother dies, she decides to carry on with the process. Burning everything that she owns, so that herself can start a new life.

Vesselin Cholakov
Bulgaria
2009 * DV * 0:21:40

Face global issues like Urbanization, Growing World Population and Migration raised by local conflicts. A film based on a true story about a man in unknown city, with no friend to talk to, with nothing to do for a living but to play the accordion...

Joe King, Rosie Pedlow
UK
2009 * Digi Beta * 0:08:00

On a winter's night in 1980, American servicemen stationed at an RAF base, witnessed some 'unexplained lights'in Rendlesham Forest. The incident has since become Britain's most famous UFO mystery with abounding rumours of conspiracies and cover-ups. Some argue that the incident was a hoax whilst others believe that the forest is a doorway to another dimension. Maintaining a balance between celebration and criticality, this film revisits the forest, thirty years later, in search of similarly 'inexplicable' events.