No man is an island, it is said. In this beautifully observed film, we follow Mark, a lonely young man in search of happiness. Through his daily encounters he struggles with his desires and his fears, until at last he is forced to come face to face with himself.
»Read MoreRyan Oduber and Juan Francisco Pardo
Aruba / 2011, 16 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 4:00pm
It’s a fine and warm sunny day at a beach in the Trondheim’s fjord. LAILA and AKSEL, a couple in their late twenties, enjoy the opportunity to relax and unwind near the sea...
»Read MorePedro Collantes
Norway / 2011, 5 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 1:45pm
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
»Read MoreDavid Cronenberg
Germany/Canada / 2011, 99 mins
Friday, December 2 / 2:30pm
Saturday, December 3 / 10:00pm
When Matias goes to deliver his dowry to his fiance’s father, an unexpected accident makes him realize how much he is willing to fight for her love.
»Read MoreMario Bastos
Angola/Egypt/USA / 2010, 15 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 6:15pm
AMOS FERGUSON, MATCH ME IF YOU CAN, pays tribute to this highly spiritual Bahamian intuitive
artist known for his brilliantly colored paintings of island ritual, fauna, flora & scenes from the Bible. The documentary explores the life & work of the “Picasso of Bahamian Art,”...
Karen Arthur & Thomas Neuwirth
The Bahamas / 2011, 58 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 1:00pm
Saturday, December 3 / 5:15pm
Over a lunch that begins like many they've had before, a discussion between two women unexpectedly turns away from the menu.
»Read MoreLaura Belsey
USA / 2010, 11 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 7:30pm
In the middle of the night a fight between Schenker’s neighbors won’t let him rest. Half asleep his mind is playing tricks on him: constantly he awakes in different places. Now he has to face questioning by an inspector about a dead woman, and his real nightmare begins.
»Read MoreMartin Bargiel
Germany / 2011, 19 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 6:15pm
Better Mus’ Come is a coming of age drama set in Jamaica’s turbulent 1970s, against the backdrop of the Cold War, a national water crisis, an energy crisis, corruption, and numerous murder scandals that gave birth to the polarized violence gripping the streets of Kingston both then and now.
»Read MoreStorm Saulter
Jamaica / 2011, 104 mins
Friday, December 2 / 1:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 12:30pm
A struggling actor in LA, 27-year old American-born Omi Vaidya, lands a dream role in a huge Bollywood film. Four of Omi’s college buddies fly to Mumbai to see his big premiere. The film quickly skyrockets to the most successful Bollywood film in history, and Omi becomes a national sensation. But the glitz and glamor of being a national sensation is not the easy ride it seems...
»Read MoreBill Bowles, Kenny Meehan
India / USA / 2011, 74 mins
Friday, December 2 / 8:00pm
Sunday, December 4 / 11:00am
Curly and Anita Boffin operate the most prestigious IVF facility known to humanity. Faced with the failure of their own efforts to get pregnant, Anita decides to engage in a little hormonal experimentation. But love is the missing integer in their reproductive equation - and re-discovering it will lead to the biggest surprise of their careers.
»Read MoreEd Blythe
USA / 2010, 15 mins
Friday, December 2 / 6:30pm
Bombay Beach, a small town of 150 people sits on the shore of the Salton Sea. The poorest county in California. Using a unique combination of Cinema Verite, home videos and choreographed DANCE the film tells the story of 3 characters...
»Read MoreAlma Har'el
USA / 2010-2011, 80 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 6:45pm
Friday, December 2 / 12:30pm
*Closing Night Film*
BREAKAWAY, is a cross-cultural hockey drama set in the Indo-Canadian community in suburban Toronto, Canada. The movie is a full action, colourful, humourous, heart-felt musical. The setting is an obstacle-strewn love story with a dramatic quest for the hero...
»Read MoreRobert Lieberman
Canada / 2011, 95 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 7:00pm
Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future....
»Read MoreFamke Janssen
USA / 2011, 93 mins
Friday, December 2 / 12:30pm
Saturday, December 3 / 5:30pm
Capsules, a contemporary story of a boy who seems to have a normal life, but as we travel with him and as we get to know more, we experience how his life crumbles in a matter of hours, due to unexpected and surprising events.
»Read MoreVerónica Riedel
Guatemala / 2010-2011, 103 mins
Friday, December 2 / 7:45pm
Sunday, December 4 / 11:00am
On a cold December night a little pig arrives to a flat, where it is locked up and fattened up. As Christmas approached the piglet gets fatter and fatter and more and more lonely...
»Read MoreR.S. Soderstrom
Denmark / 2010, 8 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 6:15pm
This short film is centered on an individual that appears to be willfully enclosed within a colorful crochet cocoon. The façade that the character in this story has built is abruptly ripped away and the individual is suddenly thrown out of their comfort zone and into a new, exciting but frightening world. The character is then faced with the uncomfortable choice of either reverting to or abandoning the image that they have so carefully constructed and become accustomed to...
»Read MoreGiovanna Swaby
The Bahamas / 2011, 6 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 2:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 4:15pm
Young Ali, have given into his fixation of facebook. It has become a part of his daily life, as a result he carries it wherever he goes...
»Read MoreJune Collie
The Bahamas / 2011, 3 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 2:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 4:15pm
Best selling author and nationally syndicated radio personality Michael Baisden has made a career of provoking conversation about everything from Why Men Cheat to sexless marriages! Now, the outspoken relationship guru takes his raw style from the studio to the streets with his new relationship film “Do Women Know What They Want?"...
»Read MoreMichael Baisden
USA / 2011, 60 mins
Friday, December 2 / 5:15pm
Sunday, December 4 / 4:45pm
Jerry Rothwell
UK / 2010, 76 mins
Friday, December 2 / 2:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 2:30pm
Face to Face is adapted from a play by Australian playwright, David Williamson, which is in turn based on the transcripts from actual conflict resolution sessions. Wayne, a young scaffold construction worker, rams into the back of his boss’ car in a fit of anger at being sacked...
»Read MoreMichael Rymer
Australia / 2010, 85 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 6:15pm
Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal war come together for the first time in an unprecedented reconciliation program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies.
»Read MoreSara Terry
USA / 2011, 81 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 11:00am
Saturday, December 3 / 12:45pm
With little money and few resources available, a group of children from an under privileged community, create their own entertainment by building kites out of the most basic materials.
»Read MoreTyler Johnston
The Bahamas / 2011, 3 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 2:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 4:15pm
Give Up Tomorrow exposes a Kafkaesque world of corruption and injustice. In a murder case that ends a country's use of capital punishment, but fails to free an innocent man, two grieving mothers personify the chasms that divide the Philippines.
»Read MoreMichael Collins
USA/UK / 2011, 95 mins
Friday, December 2 / 6:00pm
Sunday, December 4 / 4:30pm
After the death of his newborn daughter, Dave drifts through the world unable to see any- thing but ugliness. He struggles to keep his grip on reality as his very existence becomes a nightmarish world filled with surreal characters. He doesn’t know what to believe is real and what is in his mind.
»Read MoreTodd Cobery
USA / 2010, 20 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 12:30pm
When trying to convince her traditional parents to let her attend Homecoming, Nina Patel discovers her father cheating with his secretary. To buy her silence, he lets her attend, but no beautiful crown can make a fairytale of her shattered reality.
»Read MoreGursimran Sandhu
USA / 2011, 27 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 12:30pm
Alex Harris has it all: he's popular, he's class president, and the ladies can't get enough of him (in particular, fellow student council member Jenny Clark). There's just one problem... he's in love with his twin sister, Katie. Meanwhile, Katie has been feeling that something's missing from her relationship with her long-term boyfriend, Mark.
»Read MoreGrant Reed
USA / 2011, 24 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 2:45pm
More than 50 years ago the islands of the Bahamas were being sold to wealthy individuals, coral reefs were dying, and the islands' flamingos were nearly extinct. Pressure from citizens helped create an organization...
»Read MoreBo Boudart
USA, The Bahamas / 2011, 63 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 5:30pm
Saturday, December 3 / 8:45pm
Jake dreams about being a great painter by joining a world renowned art school but struggles with the demands and wishes of his alcoholic father, Ryan. In the way he meets Ally, a young struggling singer who he fells in love and pushes her to follow her dreams. Will he stand against his father and fulfill his dream of becoming the greatest artist he can be?
»Read MoreJavier Vivas
USA / 2010, 28 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 1:45pm
Je T'aime, I Love You Terminal
Ben, an ambivalent young musician, decides to finally take control of his life, move out of his parents' house and marry his American girlfriend. On his way to reunite with her in New York, he meets the flirtatious, outrageous, and somewhat dysfunctional Emma...
»Read MoreDani Menkin
Israel / 2010, 85 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 5:30pm
Saturday, December 3 / 11:00am
Dawn. Winter. Crosshairs. In an isolated house two men face their destiny. Koestler is a rising star in the shadowy world of sniper assassinations. Spinoza is his newest target, a retired master and the kill distance record holder...
»Read MoreMichael Kandinsky
Canada / 2010, 18 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 2:45pm
An aging assassin, with his mind set on vengeance, is commissioned to wipe out an aristocratic young girl's entire family and is given three boxes for their heads. Disguised as a military adviser, he successfully works his way into her family. Complications arise when the girl's mistreated mother runs away from the mansion, and the girl follows after her mother...
»Read MoreTaylour Chang
USA/China / 2011, 30 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 1:45pm
LOVE.NET follows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun on-line...
»Read MoreIlian Djevelekov
Bulgaria / 2011, 109 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 11:00am
Sunday, December 4 / 11:00am
MARATHON BOY is the story of a four-year-old boy who is plucked from the slums of India by his coach and trained to become India's greatest runner, but what starts as a real Slumdog Millionaire turns into the stuff of film noir: a tale of greed, envy and broken dreams.
»Read MoreGemma Atwal
USA/UK/India / 2010, 98 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 2:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 11:00am
Set in one of the impoverished Albanian towns, we witness the arrival of an outsider and the imbalance he creates, pitting age-old tradition and new-found power against each other in a whirlwind of romance, corruption and suspicion.
»Read MorePluton Vasi
Albania / 2010, 98 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 11:00am
Sunday, December 4 / 12:45pm
Two door-to-door missionaries inadvertently put their faith to the test when they go a-knockin' on the door of the local drug dealer.
»Read MoreJonathan Thompson
USA / 2010, 17 mins
Friday, December 2 / 6:30pm
Everyday Hatice waits for her husband at the train station. He comes, and there is never any communication between them, other than a disgruntled glance from him. She follows him. The routine is always the same. On one distinct summer day, Hatice breaks the silence...
»Read MoreDenis Metin
Turkey / 2010, 20 mins
Friday, December 2 / 3:45pm
Upon being drafted for military service, Ahmad, a determined young Syrian poet, decides to flee the country. Consequently, he is forced up against a complex bureaucracy, conservative family, and reluctant lover. En route to Lebanon, he discovers himself in an unexpected place, an apricot orchard.
»Read MoreAmar Chebib
Syria/Canada / 2010, 19 mins
Friday, December 2 / 3:45pm
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. They condemn an innocent man. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have stopped talking to each other many years ago....
»Read MoreMicho Manchevski
Macedonia / 2010, 123 mins
Friday, December 2 / 11:00am
Sunday, December 4 / 2:30pm
A businessman from Mumbai learns to embrace his inner moustache in a small rural town in India.
»Read MoreDeepak Verma
UK / India / 2011, 31 mins
Friday, December 2 / 3:45pm
In “My Big Red Purse”, director Giancarlo Iannotta sits down with his mother Pam to reminisce about a particular childhood memory from the 1960’s. Pam recalls her, her best friend, and a big red purse going up against the neighborhood bully, refusing to back down.
»Read MoreGiancarlo Iannotta
USA / 2010, 4 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 7:30pm
An isolated air-traffic controller in an island of the Azores archipelago receives a transatlantic emergency signal from a lost plane. As the engagement with the lone pilot unfolds, it emerges that their new found friendship will not last through the night.
»Read MoreBernardo Nascimento
Portugal/UK / 2010, 15 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 4:00pm
This film will look at the life & time of the first ever Prime Minister of the Bahamas; Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, and his fight against US foreign policies in the 1980's [then Presidents Reagan & Bush Administration]...
»Read MoreCalvin Dwight Harris
USA, The Bahamas / 2011, 104 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 3:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 6:30pm
Post-Nup is a Comedic animated series about a young couple that loves each other deeply, yet still struggles through the normal conflicts that pepper every marriage. In this episode, Gaby notices Omar's restlessness and suggests meditation...
»Read MoreKatharine Woodman-Maynard
USA / 2010, 4 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 12:30pm
Working for one of New York's most prestigious PR firms, Madeline Stewart and Abby Beyer handle crisis on a daily basis. But when Abby commits the ultimate first date faux pas their damage control
skills will be put to the test. Will they be able to correct Abby's mistake before it's too late?...
Tim Rouhana
USA / 2010, 25 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 2:45pm
In January 2010, a few days after Haiti suffered a massive earthquake, American evangelical leader Pat Robertson took to the airwaves to blame the devastation on Haitians’ pact with the devil He was talking about Voodoo. And he isn’t the first American to disparage Voodoo...
»Read MoreSandra Whiteley
Canada / 2011, 52 mins
Friday, December 2 / 11:00am
Restless City tells the story of an Africa immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle, and falling in love is his greatest risk.
»Read MoreAndrew Dosunmu
USA / 2011, 79 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 12:45pm
Sunday, December 4 / 3:00pm
There was a double homicide on the forgotten Swedish countryside several years ago. Two angry young men beat two young women to death, seemingly without any particular reason...
»Read MoreMartin Jern & Emil Larsson
Sweden / 2011, 84 mins
Friday, December 2 / 6:15pm
Senna’s remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend’s years as an F1 driver. Far more than a film for F1 fans, SENNA unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques...
»Read MoreAsif Kapadia
UK / 2011, 104 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 2:30pm
Saturday, December 3 / 2:30pm
A misdirected text message prompts a young woman to meet the wife of her boyfriend at a cafe. The young woman explains that the wife’s husband has been telling her he is going to leave the wife to be with her...
»Read MoreTim Harms
USA / 2010, 8 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 7:30pm
Bess, a feisty trailer park teen, steals a car and drives from Kansas to Las Vegas in search of her estranged father...
»Read MoreWilliam Saunders
USA / 2010, 80 mins
Friday, December 2 / 11:00am
Saturday, December 3 / 4:00pm
Tall Tale of An Accidental Tourist
Igbo Hepburn, of the Hepburn Clan of Guanahani, is the center of this animated tall tale. The adventure began on the sandy Guanahani shores where two island boys were clowning around. Meanwhile, in the town of Cadiz in Southern Spain, Kris Kombusus was bragging that he could get to Japan via another “undiscovered” route...
»Read MoreJason Evans
The Bahamas / 2010, 25 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 2:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 4:15pm
An ice-cold femme fatale and her apparently naive husband deny the crime they're accused of; the murder of a police informant.
»Read MoreGreg Williams
UK / 2010, 9 mins
Sunday, December 4 / 1:45pm
In 1950's rural Australia, Matthew and his wife live on a remote sheep station. Their quiet lives begin to unravel when it is discovered that Matthew has fathered a child to an Aboriginal woman who lives on the station. When a policeman arrives, Matthew is faced with a critical decision.
»Read MoreAlexandra Edmondson
Australia / 2010, 10 mins
Friday, December 2 / 6:30pm
"A profoundly human and humane portrait of an inhumane reality," The Creators introduces the chaotic sociocultural reality of modern day South Africa through the eyes of its diverse artists.
»Read MoreLaura Gamse, Jacques de Villiers
South Africa / 2011, 81 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 8:45pm
An uninspired youth joins a gym to prove his mother wrong but doubts himself after he realizes who the trainer is.
»Read MoreDaniel D'Alimonte
Canada/USA / 2011, 25 mins
Friday, December 2 / 4:45pm
*Opening Night Film*
Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction.
Bruce Robinson
USA / 2011, 120 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 8:30pm
An extraordinary story of love in the face of death. THE SEA IS ALL I KNOW is an honest portrait of a family coming to terms with their relationship to death. When estranged couple, Sara [Melissa Leo] and Sonny [Peter Gerety], come to the aid of their dying daughter, the experience sends them spiraling into spiritual crisis and brutal heartbreak...
»Read MoreJordan Bayne
USA / 2011, 30 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 7:30pm
The Shore is the inspiring story of two boyhood best friends, Joe and Paddy. Their world and their friendship shattered by escalating conflict in Belfast, the two boys’ lives take very different paths. 25 years later, Joe returns to Belfast for the first time with his 24-year-old daughter...
»Read MoreTerry George
Northern Ireland / 2011, 30 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 2:45pm
The Wedding Party is a sexy romantic comedy about the Thompson Family, whose individual love lives range from deviant to delicious to downright desperate...
»Read MoreAmanda Jane
Australia / 2011, 97 mins
Friday, December 2 / 7:45pm
Saturday, December 3 / 11:00am
THIEF tells the haunting story of Mehdi, an Iraqi boy who unwittingly befriends the young Saddam Hussein in 1959...
»Read MoreJulian Higgins
USA / 2010, 25 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 6:15pm
Jörgen’s world is crumbling. Forced into early retirement and harrassed by his ex-wife, the only part of his life which made sense – raising his beloved daughter, Tirza – is disrupted when she disappears on holiday in Namibia. After weeks of terrified uncertainty, Jörgen goes searching for her, but the heat, his drinking and bad memories combine to unhinge him...
»Read MoreRudolf van den Berg
Belgium, The Netherlands, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya / 2010, 103 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 4:15pm
Sunday, December 4 / 2:45pm
TOAST is the ultimate nostalgia trip through the foodstuffs of the 60's and the stuff food is about. Based on the bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater’s childhood, TOAST is a delicious recollection of the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood.
»Read MoreSJ Clarkson
USA / 2010, 96 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 6:15pm
Saturday, December 3 / 8:30pm
Starring famed environmentalist, David Suzuki in his debut acting role, TORA follows Jenna (Kate Bateman) who inherits an idyllic lakeside property only to be haunted by a little Japanese ghost girl. Jenna discovers (through dreams and flashbacks of her new neighbor (Suzuki)) that her land was a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII and the little girl suffered a mysterious fate while interned there..
»Read MoreGlen Samuel & Wendy Ord
Canada / 2011, 30 mins
Friday, December 2 / 4:45pm
Magnus' grief consumes him whilst Ava - his girlfriend come nuse - is tiring of the drudgery. Along with Aubrey, an old friend, Ava seeks to bring Magnus back to life.
»Read MoreJeremy Bliss
Australia/France/Israel / , 15 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 4:00pm
Marcelo (Wagner Moura, Elite Squad), an average teenager, always wanted to be someone…else. Always impersonating those around him and dreaming of traveling the world and living the high life as a pilot like his father, he runs away from home. But what begins as just another flight of fancy will send Marcelo from seamy criminal underworld to the glamorous world of high society...
»Read MoreToniko Melo
Brazil / 2010, 97 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 4:15pm
Where the Road Meets the Sun tells the story of four men whose paths intersect for a brief time in the city of Los Angeles. They are from different walks of life, but it is their friendship that forces them to confront their past, and shape their future.
»Read MoreMun Chee Yong
USA/Singapore/Indonesia / 2011, 93 mins
Thursday, December 1 / 12:45pm
Sunday, December 4 / 4:45pm
On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an elderly man in a vegetative state. She has no cell signal, no Internet. Forced to meet the needs of a man who cannot respond, Joslyn vacillates between finding solace in his company and feeling fear and suspicion towards him...
»Read MoreMark Jackson
USA / 2011, 88 mins
Saturday, December 3 / 7:15pm
This academic music video explores “wining” as a dance language with a history and identity born out of the Caribbean experience...
»Read MoreEmilie Upczak
Trinidad & Tobago / 2010, 13 mins
Friday, December 2 / 6:30pm
17-year-old Sweetness O'Hara (Zoe Kravitz) has arrived at the first of several life changing forks in the road. Being the daughter of mixed race parents in a less than tolerant community, she lives with an alcoholic and intermittently abusive father, and a mother suffering from a mental illness...
»Read MoreVictoria Mahoney
USA / 2010, 96 mins
Friday, December 2 / 3:15pm
Sunday, December 4 / 12:45pm
Director Tim Skousen offers a rare glimpse inside the notorious Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where men are finding hope and transformation through the Hudson Link program, one of the only college-degree-granting programs in New York’s Department of Corrections...
»Read MoreTim Skousen
USA / 2010-2011, 92 mins
Friday, December 2 / 4:15pm
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