Director : André Schreuders
Netherlands
2010 | Digital | 0:15:00

An elderly single woman learns she is terminally ill and takes some things in a suitcase, puts her fish in a plastic bag and leaves on foot. During her lonely journey she has several brief but special encounters. She ends her way of sorrows in a monastery where she lies down and refuses all food and drinks.

Links:
http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/licht-f14243.html (Interview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVOyQV7rSt0 (Extrait)

Director: Iram Parveen Bilan
Pakistan
2010 | Digital | 0:12:00

Uninspired writer Dua Tariq is troubled. She tries to seek clarity and inspiration through a hesitant meeting with her spiritual dance teacher and a day around town realizing that the noise, chaos and her judgmental surroundings are forcing her true self to retreat deeper within.

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isonvPOxI78 (Extrait)

Director: Kote Camacho
Spain
2010 | Digital | 0:07:00

The year of 1914. The Lasarte racetrack announces a race with a never-before-seen prize for the winning horse. Eight of the best horses and mares in the world have registered. Fans and heavy betters from all the continents gather to participate in the great event: the Half Million Grand Prie.z

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97wXT5Z9--4 (Extrait)

Director: Isamu Hirabayachi
Japan
2010 | Digital | 0:10:30

A mother and son are lying tied up in a dark hole, while outside, detectives scour the fields for them. They are buried alive. A dramatic situation is played out on two planes that do not seem to coincide: a breathless search outside, claustrophobic survival inside. The director emphasises this opposition and knows how to unsettle. This latest short by Isamu Hirabayashi, a cult director in this genre, is deliberately enigmatic.

Links:
http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/shikasha-f14226.html (Interview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taciHntMznM (Film)

Director: Petter Napstad
Norway
2010 | Digital | 0:10:45

An ode about imagination: Big birds helps a young man to wait for his love in an illusionary world.

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHrYvueP_K4 (Film)

Director: Almagul Menlibayeva
USA, Kazakhstan
2010 | Digital | 0:11:30

Life on the steppes of Kazakhstan is closely tied to the old gods of heaven and earth. The tent is round, the tables are round and so is the world. Today's Kazakhstan is home to remnants of Tengrism: the worship between the god of the sky Deity Tengri and his favourite wife Umai, the earth goddess. In this colourful report on steppe life, documentary and contemporary myth are intertwined.

Links:
http://vimeo.com/23334718 (Extrait)

Director: Jacques Toulemonde Vidal
Colombia, France
2010 | Digital | 0:18:00

Pablo is a middle class kid who gets mugged by a boy almost his own age but hailing from a poorer neighbourhood. In a short time, they develop an ambivalent and complex relationsship.

Links:
http://vimeo.com/24506583 (Extrait)

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.