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6.5 minutes in Tel Aviv (6.5 dakot Betel Aviv)
Israel, 2007, 7 min.
WON: Best of Festival Award & Best Student Live Action Short Under 15 Minutes
Lovers parting, families traveling, businessmen commuting. A Tel-Aviv bus station is the setting for an unexpected confrontation brought on by fear and panic in this part of the world where it only takes a... more
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Angels Die in the Soil (Fereshtegan Dar Khak Mimiarand)
Iran, 2008, 31 min.
WON: Cinema Without Borders Best International Film Award
On the border between Iran, Kurdistan and Iraq, a headstrong young woman who survived Saddam's chemical warfare attacks during the Iran/Iraq war encounters an American soldier, who's been shot and left for dead by his terrorist... more
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Coffee & Allah
New Zealand, 2007, 12 min.
A gorgeous young Ethiopian émigré finds she has more in common than she thought with the locals she encounters after her sister leaves her home alone for a few days.... more
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It's Sunday! (C'est dimanche!)
Algeria, 2008, 30 min.
Young Ibrahim's fresh crush on a girl at school is tempered by the fact he's just been kicked out for poor grades. Unable to face the truth and frantic to get away from his responsibilities at home to meet up with the girl, Ibrahim tells a little white lie to his father that will have extraordinary ... more
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Night into Day
USA, 2008, 9 min.
Comrades of a fallen US soldier in Iraq try to piece together some sense to the loss they share with the soldier's family.... more
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On the Road to Tel Aviv
Israel, 2008, 18 min.
WON: Runner up, Audience Favorite Live Action Short
It's just another day in Israel, as a young woman and her fiancé head for the bus she'll be taking to Tel Aviv to return to the University and her studies. But this is no ordinary day, and Israel is no ordinary place.... more
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The Response
USA, 2008, 33 min.
Brought before a military tribunal in Guantanamo, a man learns firsthand the absurdity of the system of justice offered to suspected terrorist collaborators in these paranoid times. Starring Kate Mulgrew, Aasif Mandvi and Peter Riegert.... more
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Wounded
USA, 2008, 16 min.
A soldier afflicted with Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome after his return from Iraq shares an eloquently moving moment with the nurse who has befriended him at the V.A. Hospital.... more
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