Direction: Cecile Ravel
France
2011 | Digital | 0:21:00

Plume is the story of a thirteen year old anorexique girl. In the way of a diary, filmed on Super 8, the movie covers the doubts and distress of the mother cineaste. The camera goes across the face and the body of the young girl looking for answers to the mystery of her illness.

Links:
http://vimeo.com/29374594

Direction: Jan Peter Hammer
Germany
2010 | Digital | 0:29:00

After the credit crunch: an intense meeting between a talk show host and a banker. Individual freedom proves to be a terribly slippery concept. Insightfully updated version of a short story by poet Fernando Pessoa from 1922. The setting is a talk show immediately after the credit crunch. The guest is a banker without remorse. Eloquently he entraps us and takes us through the incontrovertible logic of high finance.

Links:
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/the-anarchist-banker/

Direction: Ashish Avikunthak
India
2010 | Digital | 0:22:00

In 1997, I filmed a sequence - a friend immersing an idol of Ganesha at Chowpati beach, Bombay on the last day of the Ganapati festival. A year later, he committed suicide. After twelve years, I completed the film. Using his footage as the leitmotif, this film is a requiem to a dead friend.

Direction: Halima Ouardiri
Canada
2010 | Digital | 0:16:00

Based on a true story, Mokhtar recounts the tale of a young boy who lives with his family of goatherds in a remote, Moroccan village. When the boy finds a fallen owl and decides to keep it, despite the fact that the owl is considered a bad omen, his new pet becomes a symbol of rebellion against his family and an icon of his fledgling independence. Kinship, religion and spirituality are all confronted in this astounding story that celebrates inner and outer strength.

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBzM2BePyk

Direction: Geraldine Zosso
Switzerland
2010 | Digital | 0:18:00

Ilinka is 14 years old. She has been living in Switzerland for a year with her Moldavian mother and aunt. Ilinka just gave birth to a boy. Ilinka‘s mother has heard about a box where unwanted babies can be deposited.

Links:
http://sr-mediathek.sr-online.de/beitrag_Video.php?id=4424

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.