Water in Boat, David Gutierez (Catalonia) 17 ´

Ginette Schenk lives on the margins of New York City's East Village. Her beloved dog Schatzy seems to be all that she has in life. “Water in the Boat” presents a collection of moments from their daily walk to the park. Days move slowly, autumn turns winter, as Ginette struggles to smile and keep herself together.

L´instinct de conservation (Conservation Instinct), Pauline Horovitz (France) 3´

"This film is about my relationship to objects, particularly those which, despite knowing they belong in the rubbish, I cannot bring myself to throw away : metro tickets once given to me by my father , a letter from my brother , a ticket from the day I went to the cinema with my younger brother, the entrance to an exhibition I went to with my boyfriend… etc. Objects and things become substitutes for people now absent, whether due to dramatic situations or just because of the simple evolution of life (one must grow up and part from family)."

Flightless Birds, Michas Dawidowicz (Poland) 19´

Heniek and his fam¬ily live a simple and mod¬est life in the coun¬try. One day everything changes when he goes into his garage.

Limites: 1ª Persona (Limits: First person), León Siminiani (Spain) 7´

In the desert, distance is not what it seems at first glance. Concerning one who once loved a woman in a desert - with a camera.

He. Helium, Giussepe Schenttino (Serbia) 8´

Youth and war, youth and love ... The young who cannot escape and wouldn't know where to go if they could. The incertitude of youth as a desperate way forward. Two key words: youth and anxiety. Two words to raise the awareness of the people of Serbia, whose sense of isolation and injury runs deeper than the overt after-effects a decade of insanity would make apparent.

A film from my parish-6farms,Tony Donoghue (Ireland) 7´

In this film we meet six Irish farmers who work in harmony with their land, with local resources and with their community. We can learn a lot from traditional farming if we are serious about a sustainable earth. In keeping with the sustainable nature of these farms green filmmaking was a priority. This film was shot with 2 digital stills cameras, a tripod and a mini disc recorder .A bicycle was the main form of transport and 95% of filming was done in daylight.

Balthasar de Joanot Cortés (Catalonia) 3´

Balthasar wants to recite a poem that he has learned by heart. He wants to do it well. It is important.

Le dernier voyage de Maryse Lucas (The Last Trip of Maryse Lucas) de David Ledoux and Artus de Lavilleón (France) 25

Artus and David travelled by bicycle through France to scatter the ashes of Maryse Lucas in her hometown.

Sarah Ann de Pim Zwier (Holland) 9´

A woman survives after jumping from a suspension bridge. The true story of Sarah Ann. Miraculously, Sarah Ann Henley survived an 80 meter fall after jumping from Clifton suspension bridge in England, 1885. Her Victorian skirt, inflated by the wind, served as a parachute. Retold through the use of austere imagery, this story is based on the comparison of three detailed newspaper articles of the time.

Unearthing the pen Carol Salter (Scotland) 13´

A young goatherd in northern Uganda yearns to be able to read and write. But the odds are stacked against him. Forty years ago, tribal elders buried a pen, placing a curse on the written word. Unearthing the Pen is an intimate portrait of a boy's struggle to reconcile tradition with his desire to learn.

Wagah, Supriyo Sen (Germany, India, Pakistan) 13´

Each night the only border crossing between India and Pakistan on a 3000km stretch becomes the sight of an extraordinary event. Thousands of people gather to witness the ritual closing of the border, after which the masses get as close as possible to the gate to greet their former neighbors. This "festival" is therefore on the one hand a celebration of the partition, but on the other hand also the only connecting element. What do the terms separation, home and proximity mean to the people on both sides?

Con Sandra (With Sandra), Raül Cuevas (Catalonia) 18´

With Sandra is an intimate documentary by Raul Cuevas in which, through conversation with his mother, he explores the life experiences of his sister Sandra, who suffers Down's syndrome. The film is a valuable, first hand account which reflects, in an honest and direct way, the world of those affected by this syndrome : both of the people who suffer it and those around them. Direct, demystifying and emotive in equal measure, the documentary is an emotive cinemagraphic treatise, full of strength and love for life.

Six Weeks, Marcis Janos (Poland) 18´

Due to dif¬fer¬ent life situ¬ations there are moth¬ers who do not want or those who can¬not bring up their chil¬dren. They have the right to give the child away just after deliv¬ery. Dur¬ing the first six weeks of the newborn's life the mother has to make the decision about the definite resig¬na¬tion of her par¬ental rights. She is free in mak¬ing her decision how¬ever the decision she makes can¬not be changed after¬wards. A bio¬lo¬gical mother loses any con¬tact with her child. She can only write a final let¬ter to the child. The film shows in a poet¬ical way the first six weeks of the small human being who was given up

Quiero Ver, Adele Horne (United States) 6´

On the 13th of each month, hundreds of people gather at a site in the Mojave Desert to see visions of the Virgin Mary appear in the sun. They point Polaroid, cell phone, and video cameras at the sun, and compare interpretations of the resulting images.

Take a look, Adam Palenta (Poland) 4´

Two blind children take us to their world of imagination and sensitivity. Touching the pic¬ture, they are trying to guess what it is about. Bitter-sweet conversation between them reveals a magnitude of space in which the blind children live.

Slaves: An animation documentary, David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn (Sweden) 15 ´

The conversations with two freed children from southern Sudan, who were kidnapped by a government-supported militia and forced into slavery, were recorded on audio in a documentary fashion. The filmmakers stress this fact by keeping the sound of them adjusting the recording equipment before the conversation begins, by not editing out the children´s interpreter, and by not adding any music. The conversations took place in 2003, when the 20-year-long civil war in southern Sudan was drawing to a close. The last names of the two children, aged 9 and 15, have been bleeped out to protect their privacy.

NYC SYNC, Albert Alcoz (Catalonia) 3´

A frantic trip to New York City. A week condensed into three minutes. A collection of stobing photographic cuts shot in super 8 and synchronised sound-bytes.

Betwen Dream, Iris Olson (Finland) 10 ´

A train heads out of a rundown station as night falls; passengers in the third-class sleeping car fall in and out of wakefulness. As the train makes its way across the barren Trans-Siberian landscape, incorporeal voices describe dreams, both hopeful and haunting. Which of these dreams will come true? In this poignant vignette, director Iris Olsson offers a window into the dreams and realities of these weary, traveling souls. A simple score of resonant piano chords adds both levity and depth as the cinematography envelops viewers in the dreary yet dreamlike space. ‘I don't want to remember,' remarks one woman. ‘Usually the unpleasant ones come true.'

Steel homes, Eva Weber (Scotland) 10´

A poetic portrait of life at a self storage warehouse, « Steel Homes » explores the fragmented nature of memories, set in the starkly beautiful aesthetic of our modern industrial world

Glass Trapp de Pawel Ferdek (Poland) 15´

Cash, a car and a mobile phone… as well as fish. A group of tough men from near Warsaw organ¬ize a new form of enter¬tain¬ment. Their cus¬tom¬ary meet¬ings over alco¬hol and drugs start to include fights between aggress¬ive aquar¬ium fish, which are, of course, accom¬pan¬ied by bets for large sums of money. Such is the extent of this hobby that one of the char¬ac¬ters hopes that his cham¬pion will con¬trib¬ute sig¬ni¬fic¬antly to the pur¬chase of a new Subaru.

Dirty Martini, Iban del Campo (Basque Country) 22´

Burlesque is the new punk-rock. At least it is according to Dirty Martini, who will reveal to us some of the secrets of their art in the nightclubs and cabarets from New York's off-off Broadway, where the revival of burlesque as a form of popular entertainment, is being exported worldwide. Ladies and gentlemen, the burlesque is back!