Director: Ken Jacobs
USA
2010 | Digital | 0:15:00

Underground filmmaker Ken Jacobs (Capitalism: Slavery, MIFF 2008) explores colonialism and industrialisation via an imagined train journey through a militarised Southeast Asian country.

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HZfpOuxq5M (Extrait)

Director: Chen Jin-Ju, Honh James T.
Thaiwan
2011 | Digital | 0:15:30

Strange messages are sent to humanity. They are frightening and poetical at the same time; they report of a takeover and the end of it all. The messages alternate with ominous black-and-white images of lifeless cities under control, frozen industrial landscapes, sterile laboratory machinery and nature in an abandoned state. “We were here before you”. “Fear is natural”. A final warning: the planet is re-colonized, and human life only seems possible in the protected, artificial and enclosed environment of a large-scale indoor resort. Stephen Hawking once wrote, “If aliens ever visit us, the outcome will be much as when Christopher Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans”. In this case, who are the colonizers and who are the natives?

Links:
http://vimeo.com/15338748 (Extrait)

Director: Nicolás Serrano Zbinden
Spain
2011 | DV | 0:12:00

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Lansdowne Productions and the Scottish Documentary Institute gathered together some of the most talented filmmakers and visual artists based in Scotland. Collectively they created the feature length documentary, the New Ten Commandments. This short, The Right to not to be tortured is one of those commandments.

Director: Michael Rittmannsberger
Austria
2010 | Digital | 0:06:00

A couple takes their two daughters to the seaside. It is an ordinary day until one of the girls disappears and drowns. The parents cannot bear the loss and their other daughter goes searching for her sister. She appears to be in shock and does not even shed a tear; her eyes mirror guilt, fear and loneliness. Rittmannsberger uses music and slow motion technique to enhance the sense of vulnerability in this film.

Links:
http://vimeo.com/18224096 (Extrait)

Director: Douglas Gordon
Great Britain
2011 | Digital | 0:10:00

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Lansdowne Productions and the Scottish Documentary Institute gathered together some of the most talented filmmakers and visual artists based in Scotland. Collectively they created the feature length documentary, the New Ten Commandments. This short, The Right to not to be tortured is one of those commandments.

Links:
http://vimeo.com/32568926 (Additional informaton)

Director: Piers Thomson
Great Britain
2010 | Digital | 0:25:00

A woman arrives in an unknown country at daybreak. She appears to be running away from her past.

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EsnAIqgDKs (Extrait)

Director: Robin Lipo
Poland, Tchec Republic
2011 | Digital | 0:13:00

Today its possible to transform everybody’s life in sound and image in technical eternity and put it on the web, on facebook for example, even from the death. Is it a good idea?

Links:
http://mag.reelshowint.com/2011/09/22/reelshowint-interview-with-august-student-film-competition-winner-robin-lipo (Interview)

An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.