A.L.F.

What happened, that 24th of December? This is what officer Chartier wants ton find out. To understand, he will have to go back 48 hours earlier : Franck's Christmas eve. Franck : insignificant drama-teacher, Franck belongs to a nameless and leaderless commando : the Animal Liberation Front.

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Jerome Lescure

France / 2011, 96 mins


Apartment In Athens, Appartamento ad Atene

Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well-off. He is an intellectual, moderate and patient. She is an anxious, sickly housewife. They have a ten-year-old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a twelve-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. The methodical, ascetic, cruel Karter is a military god who inflicts terror.

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Ruggero Dipaola

Italy / 2011, 95 mins


APOCRYPHAL (Apocrifo)

A story where the restive city of Mexico is offered as background characters to draw psychological and human postures typical of a big city. A story where morality, religion and reason are manipulated for selfish personal gain by individuals who change their destiny with crafty opportunism.

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Ernesto Fundora

Mexico / 2011, 17 mins


Atlantis

When NASA announced the closing of its shuttle program on July 8th, 2011, with the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, it triggered an outpouring of public interest not seen since the days of the Apollo moon missions. Millions of people from all over the world converged on Florida’s Space Coast in the rainy days leading up to the final launch, including Ben Goddard (Jason Ritter) and Allison Talbot (Kate french). Two spectators who meet and cross paths on the day before the launch in the town that lives in the shadow of the space shuttle. Starring Jason Ritter, Kate French, the residents of Titusville and the crew of STS-135, Atlantis was filmed in co-operation with NASA.

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Matthew Ornstein

USA / 2012, 19 mins


Beached

Nyoike ('Nyo'), in an attempt to get back into the rhythm of his life, returns to his bar after spreading the ashes of his wife, Hope, on the Georgetown seawall. Still reeling from the loss he is not in a hospitable mood when his longtime friend and photographer, Fargus, shows up uninvited.
Fargus fails to engage Nyo and leaves a picture he had taken of Nyo and Hope on the counter. Nyo's wedding ring, and now this picture, are all that he has left of his wife.

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Kojo McPherson - Attending

Guyana / 2012, 16 mins


Between Friends

Giselle a recent college graduate and her younger sister Mia, are at the nexus of events that will affect their lives and the lives of their friends forever.  Malik has been in love with Giselle for years, she knows this and leads him to the brink at times, but holds back using the excuse of her boyfriend abroad.   Malik's best friend, Kimani is the resident 'playa' constantly on the prowl, has one woman who is the apple of his eye but he can't contain her. Giselle's closest friends are Mariah, serious and Law School bound and Stacy the only one in a stable relationship with David. Mia loves life, she has what she considers a dream relationship with a much older man Dennis, whom she believes is not married. She often places herself at the centre of attention with her friends, Marissa and Josanne with tales of her sexual encounters with Dennis. This often disgusts Josanne, but Marissa is always prods her on for the explicit details.

 

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M. Omari Jackson - Attending

Trinidad & Tobago / 2012, 96 mins


Bittersweet Monday

When longtime best friends, Jeremy and Monica say their goodbyes before Jeremy's big move, they find themselves holding onto more than just their friendship. Separately in committed marriages, the two experience an overwhelming emotional shift, exacerbated by the circumstances that bring them together and alone again.

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Jamie Lee - Attending

USA / 2012, 88 mins


Black Irish

Black Irish is the story of a young man who can't afford to take care of his family. In order to get a much needed promotion he must hide his true identity.

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Anika Poiter - Attending

USA / 2012, 15 mins


Busted On Brigham Lane

The film centers around young, African American female Momo. While taking the subway home from picking up her niece, she encounters a group of men singing for spare change. When one of the members of the group passes her, hat in hand, she spots her name tattooed across his arm. Looking into his eyes, she instantly recognizes him as her estranged biological father.

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Talibah Newman

USA / 2012, 20 mins


Callum

When his ex girlfriend Joanna is killed at a local train station, average school boy Callum struggles to cope with feelings of guilt, grief and fear. Finding himself increasingly isolated and with the police starting to ask questions, Callum must look for the courage to do the right thing.

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Michael Vander Put

USA / 2012, 10 mins


Cresendo

In 18th century Holy Roman Empire, a series of events will turn an ordinary day in to an extraordinary experience for a woman whose life will never be the same.

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Alonso Alvarez Barreda

Germany / 2011, 15 mins


Habibi

"Habibi," a story of forbidden love, is a fiction feature set in Gaza. Two students in the West Bank are forced to return home to Gaza, where their love defies tradition. To reach his lover, Qays grafittis poetry across town.

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Susan Youssef - Attending

Gaza / 2011, 92 mins


Hourglass

In small residential town by the Trondheim's fjord Anna and Anton are starting to enter into adolescence. They live in a place where nature is as spectacular as it is isolating. A microcosmos that forced them to build a strong bond during their childhood and that, now, are trying to find out what will it evolve into. They deal with boredom in different ways. Anton is eager to explore the world beyond the buble-like universe he lives in. Anna spends most of her time with Bamse, her big fluffy dog. One day, Bamse finds a mysterious wooden box on the beach.

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Pedro Collantes

Spain, Norway / 2012, 16 mins


Meherjaan

In 1971, during Bangladesh’s war of independence, Meher falls in love with a soldier from the enemy side. When her love is In 1971, during Bangladesh’s war of independence, Meher falls in love with a soldier from the enemy side. When her love is discovered, she is shamed and silenced by her family and society.

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Rubaiyat Hossain

Bangladesh / 2011, 120 mins


Pearl

PEARL, based on the poem of the same name by former US Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, tells the story of a mid-western poet (Dan Butler) bringing news of his mother's passing to her cousin and childhood playmate, Pearl (Frances Sternhagen). When Pearl confides some unsettling news of her own, the visit turns in unexpected direction. PEARL is a tender story of people struggling to navigate life's transitions.

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Dan Butler

USA / 2012, 17 mins


Private Sun

Mariam is instructed by her doctor to sunbathe in order to reverse the vitamin D deficiency that is causing her a bone illness. But with nosy neighbors, an overbearing sister-in-law and Israeli surveillance planes, private moments under the sun are precious and rare.

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Rami Alayan

Palestine / 2012, 25 mins


Red Amber Green

"Red, Amber, Green" depicts the lives of three Jamaican teenage boys struggling to make ends meet on the difficult streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Making a living primarily as vehicle window washers and street vending when cars stop for traffic lights, they hustle to take advantage of every opportunity, including entertainment. These friends, by virtue of the 'yielding forces' of traffic lights to provide their 'bread and butter', have incorporated these colors into their lives as a quick reminder of how to deal with their daily struggles, including learning and growing from each other, and even finding a way to help those less fortunate.

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Chritopher Byfield

Jamaica / 2012, 18 mins


RedLegs

Spread over a single weekend in present-day Cincinnati, this debut feature from Brandon Harris, unabashedly influenced by John Cassavetes’s “Husbands,” dives into shared grief with candor and a refreshing curiosity. Reuniting three childhood friends for the funeral of a fourth, the film is a riveting portrait of young men in shock and in mourning as the tragedy stirs feelings that have long lain dormant. As the men distract themselves with batting cages and pool tables, women and cocaine, the actors never flinch from dialogue so raw and close-ups so clinging that they have nowhere to hide." - Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times.

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Brandon Harris - Attending

USA / 2012, 67 mins


Scenen (Act 1 Scene 1)

A director and playwright spends a summer out in the country with his girlfriend and his brother. He tries to write a play for them to star in, but he becomes more and more jealous, and all he can think about is his girlfriend and his brother together. When they try to rehearse what he has written his demons finally take over.

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Hans Montelius - Attending

Sweden / 2012, 12 mins


Solace

Sole is a compulsive binge eater who looks through her window at Jasmine her perfect and pretty neighbor. Sole is compelled to try to make friends but Jasmine is completely resistant.

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Tchaiko Omawale

USA / 2012, 9 mins


Strings

Sarah and Riley have been best friends ever since he was four and she was six years old. For just over a decade they lived in a globe of bliss. Unfortunately, for a year their world of ecstasy has been rotating like a counter-clockwise timepiece. Nonetheless, the duo endeavors to flee from sadistic forces that reside outside of a once deserted room of a previously eminent building. In the contrary, Riley is unable to escape, for in the time of darkness shrieking sound of ill-fated sous continuously penetrate the walls of the room as well as the dreams of his precious slumber. When awaken by the howling of his parents, Riley seeks consolation from Sarah who is capable of enduring the eerie weeping of her late grandmother.

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Will Robinson, Jake Hale - cinematographer

Bahamas / 2012, 1 mins


The Phantom Father (Tatal Fantoma)

The stranger than paradise” Robert Traum meets in front of „Cinema Paradiso” with Sami-the projectionist after an adventurous, mysterious and funny journey, to finally find love. Unique, yet symbolic, this is the story of an American professor who is compelled to turn his back on a successful career and get on the road that takes him through danger, the unknown and the surreal, back to the roots to reclaim his identity. The quest takes the hero, masterfully portrayed by Peter Greenaway and Francis Ford Coppola actor Marcel Iures, back to the Old World that rewards our traveler with a double love story. On the one hand he finds romantic love, on the other the passion for old cinema, nomad, popular, naïve and generous.

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Lucian Georgescu

Romania / 2011, 90 mins


To Music

A middle-aged man named Antwan struggles with depression. He used to be a famous lute player, and his wife a world-renowned ballerina. Now he lives in a small French village in Provence. Him and his wife have a past that is full of music, dance and art, but it is hidden deep under the surface of their current lives. Villagers, including the town Priest, try and get him involved with life again, but have failed time and time over. It is only when an old friend and musician appears in the village, that something changes in Antwan.

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Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen- Attending

Netherlands / USA / 2012, 17 mins


TU & EU

Does love conquer all? Through one brief phone conversation, Tu & Eu follows several star-crossed lovers around the world whose differences have put their long time love affair at a critical impasse.

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Edward Shieh

Portugal / 2011, 15 mins


VIctor

A feature docu film of a person who for 10 years nail himself in the cross every holy week, but for faith or just for show?

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Jarell M. Serencio

Philippines / 2012, 15 mins


一夜情 One Night Stand

Expectations and reality clash in this compelling and eerie drama that follows the ups and downs of a casual one night stand. Liu and Yan go out one evening in search of a physical release. Like most college students, Liu is eager and open to meeting girls and hitting on them at the local bar. But he gets much more than he bargained for when he uses a popular pickup method to attract the attention of the older, mysterious Yan. What first starts as a flirtatious game of cat and mouse quickly escalates into a real one night stand.

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Michael Thai

China / 2012, 16 mins



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