All Mountains Look Alike
France / 2008 / 12min / miniDV / Colour
Directors: Christelle Lheureux, Sebastien Betbeder
A sunny day in a wintery landscape.
She tells him last night's dream. For the first time, he talks to her of his brother, of the night he disappeared on a torch-lit hike.
When the sun sets, it is sometimes said, the footsteps of the dead, and those who believe in their presence, are accompanied by music.
Escape to Nothingness
Philippines, South Korea / 2008 / 10min / DVD / Colour
Director: Richard Legaspi
A Subtle interplay of images, symbols and other visual elements amid the backdrop of a poem about living and waiting and the search for different personas.
The Last Bus
Germany, Austria / 2008 / 11min / Beta SP / Colour
Director: Maria Hengge
A stranded woman from the sea, a tired man from Asia and a last bus driver from Lisbon meet at the abyss of life and connect their journey into the night.
My Love My Love
Israel / 2008 / 13min / DVD / Colour
Director: Igal Peeri
A love story between 17 year old girl and his boy friend who is in army in war.
The Schneider Disease
Spain / 2008 / 10min / Beta SP / B&W
Director: Javier Chillon
The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.
The Danaides' Barrel
France / 2008 / 13min / Beta SP / Colour
Director: David Guiraud
In the desert, a man is buried to his neck in the sand. One does not know anything about him. A young woman, dressed in red veils, walks away without paying any attention to him. After getting out of his sand cradle, he will head for the horizon to meet his object of desire.
Whore
UK / 2009 / 11min / Beta SP / Colour
Director: Fyzal Boulifa
Azeem thinks his white girlfriend Gemma is a whore and wants to make her pay - but she has other ideas.
Pollphail
Scotland / 2009 / 10min / DVD / Colour
Director: Matthew Lloyd
Creative documentary painting a startling portrait of a village in limbo, through the eyes of two men who share an obsession with the strange place. Director Matthew Lloyd explores the imagined future for the village, combining unusual use of archive with stunning photography and a haunting soundscape.
Steel Homes
Scotland / 2008 / 10min / DVD / Colour
Director: Eva Weber
Self-storage units are windows into human histories: the silent cells with their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes and lives we cannot let go of. STEEL HOMES explores the fragmented nature of memories, set in the starkly beautiful aesthetic of our modern industrial world.
Mar Bar
Scotland / 2008 / 12min / DVD / Colour
Director: Finlay Pretsell
Bench Pressing isn’t a hobby for 73 year old Bill McFadyen – it’s a way of life. Stranraer’s very own bench press champion is on a quest to be the best in the world...
