A Zona
Portugal / 2009, 99 mins
He’s even able to foresee the fall, and feel in his skin the deep grooves dug out on the ground, exactly as he can sense, even with his eyes closed, when a nurse is looking at him...
Adopt A Sailor
USA / 2008, 86 mins
Adopt a Sailor, tells the story of a dysfunctional, sophisticated New York couple, who inadvertently adopt a sailor during Fleet Week...
Alba
Italy / 2008, 9 mins
Alba is a wonderful “real” fairytale. Even in the darkest corners a better future is possible if we believe and will fight for it...
Ana's Playground
USA / 2009, 18 mins
Ana's Playground depicts just another day for children surrounded by armed conflict...
Annie's Religion
USA / 2008, 19 mins
Annie is an 8-year-old Christian girl growing up in the 1950s. Against her mother's wishes, she forms a friendship with her new Jewish neighbors and struggles to discern right from wrong in this era of prejudice...
Apple
Sweden / 2007, 6 mins
A young boy spots a beautiful apple in a tree on the other side of the hedge. He must have it...
Arranged: The Musical
USA / 2009, 26 mins
Ashok's parents are pressuring him into an arranged marriage...
At World's End
Denmark / 2009, 100 mins
Criminal psychologist Adrian is sent to Indonesia to examine the mental state of Severin Gertsen, a Dane who claims to be 129 years old, thanks to a carnivorous plant with, so he says, immortalizing qualities...
Baghdad Texas
USA / 2009, 90 mins
While a Middle Eastern dictator is fleeing his besieged country his plane crashes on the Mexican Border. He is inadvertentlycarried into Texas by illegal immigrants...
Big Breaks
USA / 2009, 33 mins
Big Breaks follows two young female assistants in theirdesperate attempt to make it in Hollywood, and somehow retain their dignity,sanity, and friendship...
Black Out Date
Austria / 2008, 20 mins
Although the meaning of his name is 'luck', Felix has no luck finding a way to conquer Margarete's heart: Their first date turns out to be a black out date - in the truest sense of the word...
Bottleworld
USA / 2008, 91 mins
Bottleworld' is a comedy that revolves around a liquor store of the same name and is the story of Wilson, a new employee at Bottleworld, who enters a seemingly utopian environment and is welcomed by his co-workers and the store manager, Murray...
Children Of God
Bahamas / 2009, 103 mins
Set against the backdrop of a nation grappling with violent homophobia, this film tells the story of Jon, a white Bahamian artist who faces losing his scholarship at a local University and Lena a conservative religious woman who is struggling with a crumbling marriage...
Clubbed
UK / 2008, 95 mins
Danny, a lonely factory worker, intimidated by life, is battered and humiliated in front of his kids in a random act of violence. His already bleak existence sinks further into the abyss...
Cumbia Callera
Mexico / 2008, 95 mins
LA CORI, 17, window shops with a concentration bordering on obsession. Her tempestuous dark beauty draws stares of passers-by. Sharing her taut sexuality is her lover, EL GUIRIPI...
Desert Wedding
USA / 2008, 14 mins
Marissa, an excited bride-to-be, turns into a raging 'bridezilla', when she learns her maid of honor has lost her bouquet. Furious about her missing flowers, she throws a hysterical fit, until a tragic event unravels her momentous day...
Easier With Practice
USA / 2009, 104 mins
In an attempt to promote his unpublished novel, Davy Mitchell sets out on a road trip with his younger, looser brother Sean...
Founding Fathers: Sir Stafford Sands
Bahamas / 2009, 90 mins
In the year 1967, Sir Stafford Sands, hailed as the achitect of the modern Bahamian economy, left the Bahamas and never returned...
Free Swim
US, Bahamas / 2009, 50 mins
Free Swim is a documentary film about the paradox of coastal people not knowing how to swim...
Gaining Ground
Germany / 2008, 20 mins
A young illegal immigrant couple spends their time furtively avoiding the German authorities, until the wellbeing of their young son dictates that they resolve their untenable situation.
Gargoyle
South Africa / 2009, 25 mins
A security guard by day, Themba supplements his meager income with crime in order to support his younger brother, only to discover that his most recent victim is his brother's favorite teacher...
Guerilla Midwife
Indonesia, USA / 2008, 67 mins
Guerrilla Midwife Follows Ibu Robin Lim into the trenches of her work. From Bali, where hemorrhage after childbirth is a leading cause of death, into the Tsunami disaster zone in Aceh, where her battle is fought with only one weapon, love...
House Of Numbers
Canada, UK, USA / 2009, 89 mins
In 'House of Numbers,' an AIDS film like no other, the HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten...
I Passi Dell'anima
Italy / 2008, 10 mins
The ordinary walk of a man becomes a physical and mentalwalk through his memories. Memories of his youth and of a tragic event thatchanged his whole life.
In/Significant Others
USA / 2009, 99 mins
A follow-up to the festival hit Among Brothers, In/Significant Others is a multi-narrative drama that navigates through the different lives of one city’s residents, each of whom is connected to the same local homicide investigation.
Kalandia
Israel / 2009, 60 mins
Over a span of six years, Filmmaker Neta Efrony documented a Israeli military Checkpoint - on the road between East Jerusalem and Ramallah - which grew and expanded into becoming a Terminal...
Kwame
USA / 2008, 24 mins
A reclusive and emotionally tortured man learns to come to terms with his traumatic past and the feelings of guilt he has over his father’s death as he finds compassion for a troubled young woman struggling with her own demons...
La Murette
France / 2007, 17 mins
To avoid daily squatters along a low wall, a municipality decides to redevelop the area. The neighborhood youth organize to defend this position, the method, obstinacy and permanent occupation...
La Soga
Dominican Republic / 2009, 100 mins
In a poor neighbourhood in Santiago, Dominican Republic, where the streets are run by “boomerang” drug dealers, a modest butcher struggles to raise his ten-year-old boy.
Lakay
Bahamas / 2009, 15 mins
A powerful and engaging social issue documentary investigating the living situations and treatment of Haitian immigrants andtheir children in the Bahamas...
Le Grant Départ
Canada / 2008, 100 mins
Jean-Paul enjoys a comfortable, orderly existence...but he is also about to leave his wife and children..
Liebermans In The Sky
Australia / 2008, 18 mins
An offbeat comedic journey through fatherhood, waterbeds and Cabalistic folklore. It is the story of Alan Lieberman, a beleaguered waterbed salesman, on the worst day of his life...
Magellan
USA / 2009, 18 mins
Set against the backdrop of industrial Atlanta, our scrawny hero Magellan, walks to and from middle school everyday with his popular, latch-key classmate, Tiana...
Man Of The Soil
Dominica / 2009, 7 mins
Juxtaposed to the hustle and bustle of city life on thediminutive Caribbean island of Dominica, Jerry Maka West works his garden inthe island's lush interior, his Zion, growing and preparing his food just ashis grandparents once taught him...
Manscaping
USA / 2009, 18 mins
William: a Los Angeles stud, Jimmy: a fun-loving Miami boy and Farrell: a hard-working Kansas man have all reached an important moment in their lives...Manscaping...
Mas Man
Trinidad & Tobago / 2009, 87 mins
It is about a designer’s hubris to author a new word in art, “Mas ” (which overrides masquerade), to counteract the conformity and conservatism of Carnival in the 1970s...
Miracle Fish
Australia / 2009, 18 mins
8 year old Joe has a Birthday he will never forget. After friends tease him, he sneaks off to the sick bay, wishing everyone in the world would go away...
Morenita
Mexico / 2009, 92 mins
Desperate to save his family from death threats by a notorious drug dealer, Mateo Cruz steals the venerated image of the Virgin of Guadalupe causing pandemonium throughout Mexico.
Nice Shooting Cowboy
Australia / 2008, 15 mins
A contemporary Western about desperate buyers, desperate sellers, and an unthinkable deal...
Of Best Intentions
Ireland / 2008, 14 mins
The story of inventor Thomas Midgley’s life reads like a cautionary tale for future generations. However, at the time of his death he was blissfully unaware of the future ramifications of his inventions...
Passenger Side
Canada / 2009, 85 mins
Michael Brown's birthday begins with a telephone call from his estranged, drug addicted bother Tobey...
Peter & Vandy
USA / 2009, 95 mins
A love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, Peter and Vandy go from strangers, to pie-eyed lovers, to a twisted and manipulative couple…
Precious
USA / 2009, 115 mins
Winner of three awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, Lee Daniels’s PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL “PUSH” BY SAPPHIRE is a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome.
Rise Up
Argentina, Jamaica / 2008, 88 mins
For over five years, filmmaker Luciano Blotta submerged himself into Jamaica's underground music scene. What he encountered was a turbulent world of undiscovered talent; a world of unknown artists struggling to rise up out of anonymity.
Roar
UK / 2009, 16 mins
A socially awkward Londoner is lonely at Christmas. When acold city girl rejects his gesture of goodwill, he takes drastic action. Roaris a smart and subversive short film that will haunt you for months...
Sharks 3D
France, Bahamas, UK / 2004, 42 mins
Jean-Michel Cousteau invites you to embark on a breathtaking underwater voyage to discover the ultimate predator: the shark. Experience an astonishing up-close encounter in 3D with the Lions and Tigers of the Ocean...
Sin Nombre
Mexico, USA / 2009, 96 mins
Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra, joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States..
Skin
South Africa / 2008, 107 mins
Ten year-old Sandra is distinctly African looking. Her parents are white Afrikanrs unaware of their black ancestry and, despite Sandra’s mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her up as their ‘white’ little girl...
Sweet Crude
USA, Nigeria / 2009, 94 mins
In a small corner of Nigeria, billions of dollars of crude oil flow under the feet of a desperate people. Immense wealth and abject poverty stand in stark contrast...
Tapped
USA / 2009, 76 mins
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce?...
The Back Nine
USA / 2009, 85 mins
Upon turning 40, confronted with his own back nine, a man begins his quest to play professional golf...
The Bishop The Scientist & The Miracle Water
Bahamas / 2009, 14 mins
Two expat filmmakers investigate a controversial Bahamian bishop, his congregation and his "miracle water". Assisted by a local scientist, unexpected outcomes unfold.
The End Of The Line
UK / 2009, 83 mins
Imagine an ocean without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences...
The Girlfriend Experience
USA / 2009, 77 mins
Set in the weeks leading up to the 2008 presidential election, The Girlfriend Experience is five days in the life of Chelsea, an ultra high-end Manhattan call girl who offers more than sex to her clients, but companionship and conversation – “the girlfriend experience.”...
The Golden Pin
Canada / 2009, 15 mins
A young Vietnamese-Canadian swimmer struggles between the expectations of his family and the demands of his heart. His father wants him to marry soon, but his mother, haunted by a past romance, has other ideas..
The Good Soldier
USA / 2009, 79 mins
Follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their minds about what it means to be a good soldier.
The Hands
USA / 2008, 10 mins
A daughter explores her relationship with her dying father and becomes fixated upon his hands as a representation of who he was as a man...
The Intruder
Sweden / 2007, 10 mins
The cleptomaniac Sture leads a lonely and eventless life. His only thrill comes from playing bingo and shoplifting candy from the local supermarket.
The Macabre World Of Lavender Williams
USA / 2008, 26 mins
Eight year-old Lavender Williams, who recently lost her mother to cancer, sets off on an epic journey to find her Dad, whom she's never met...
The Nature Of Existence
USA / 2009, 94 mins
All the Mysteries of the Universe -- Explained! Sort of… Why are we here, and what are we supposed to do about it?...
The Price To Pay
France / 2009, 24 mins
Lucien, a petty crook, and his girlfriend Anna dreams of moving to Hawaii. Therefore, he has robbed a jeweller, and Anna has to deal with a reseller...
The Rapture Of Fe
Phillipines / 2009, 78 mins
Each morning, baskets of black fruits mysteriously appear by the front yard of Fe, an overseas worker from Singapore forced to come home due to the global financial crisis. Thinking that it was a reconciliatory gesture from her abusive husband, Dante, Fe tells him about it...
The Sky Was Angry
Lebanon / 2008, 22 mins
A moving documentary about the real-life story of children who took refuge in a theater in Beirut and the drama therapist and others who helped them cope through the Israeli war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006...
Traces Of The Trade: A Story From The Deep North
USA / 2008, 81 mins
Filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers her New England ancestors were the largest slave traders in US history...
We Must Kill The Bandits
US, Haiti / 2009, 78 mins
This provocative and lively film takes viewers into parts of Haiti where few western journalists dare to tread...
Who's Good Looking?
USA / 2009, 7 mins
A witty relationship comedy about aesthetic obsession. The trouble begins when Narcous questions his fiancee's notions of beauty...
Witness To A Dream
USA / 2009, 72 mins
'Witness To A Dream' is the true story of Music Executive Tom Sturges and 38 members of the Foshay Learning Center Choir in South Los Angeles he mentored from the 7th grade in 1997 to their eventual graduation from college in 2007...
Wonderful World
USA / 2009, 89 mins
In this sometimes moving dark comedy, Broderick plays Ben—a failed children’s folk singer and less-than-extraordinary weekend dad...