Hossein Martin Fazeli
Slovakia
2006 / Beta SP / 0:09:00 / VOSTA

Mark is half-American, half-Slovak. And he has strong beliefs. In a trip to Slovakia he meets Tomas, a shop assistant, who is wearing a T-shirt that offends his beliefs.

Guli Silberstein
Israel
2006 / DV / 004:57 / VOSTA

A personal account in the form of an out of tune TV broadcast; an accelerating stream of images, depicting a family on the beach in Tel Aviv, is juxtaposed with a video of a girl running frantically on a bombed beach in Gaza, only about 100 kilometers away. It's a reality where tranquility turns into horror in an instant, and where possibilities of the Real are repressed, raising perceptual, existential and moral questions.

Juana Macías
Spain
2006 / 35 mm / 0:14:00 / VOSTF

Three men talking to three women out of frame, three men arguing, three men claiming no one understands them. A inside view in the everyday life of three isolated characters.

Kasimir Burgess, Edwin McGill
Australia
2006 / Digi Beta / 0:11:00 / VO

Jim’s nocturnal rhythms have kept him separate from the world almost his whole life. He longs for something important, something he has never had, family. ‘Booth Story’ is a sad but often funny tale of the lengths to which one man will go to overcome loneliness.

Dije Han Thung
Netherlands
2006 / 35 mm / 0:06:00 / VOSTA

A documentarist becomes the victim of his cinematographic subject. The camera turns around against himself.

Paula Abramovich Gullco et Andrés Riva
Argentina
2006 / 35 mm / 0:17:00 / VOSTA

In each one of the nine Stages that make up his film, different day to day elements articulate in order to Ana to begin to question herself. Who is Lucia? Perhaps a primal Remembrance, maybe the beginning of an irreversible doubt about her identity.

Aki Nakazawa
Japan
2006 / DV / 0:04:35 / VO

In today’s globalized world with big infrastructure such as Internet, world-trades, and so on to have easy-access to our homeland, how can we recognize the exchange between circumstances and our identities.

Hazim Bitar, Saleh Kasem, Ammar Quittaineh
Jordan, Syria
2006 / Beta SP / 0:17:00 / VOSTA

The employee of an ironwork craftman is confronted in a growing conflict between his moral values and the necessity of adaptation to survive.

Joan Han Yeo
Malesia
2006 / 35 mm / 0:09:00 / VOSTA

Several old Malaysians of Chinese origin perform theirdaily tasks. Children silently suffer throught their weekly piano lesson. An exploration of the weight of pragmatism in Chinese culture.

Alejandro Lugo
Mexico
2006 / 35 mm / 0:08:00 / VOSTA

Observations of the daily life in its key moments like separation, recommencement, death and birth in a quasi scientific distance.