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A Doctor's Job
Peru, 2010, 10 min.
A financially strapped doctor is moonlighting as a cab driver when he picks up a fare who requires more than just a lift…... more
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After the years
Germany, 2010, 22 min.
Two daughters join their divorced parents at the family cabin for one last weekend. But packing up memories from the lakeside retreat will be the easiest task the girls have to face as they start to see the very real weakness we all have to face in our parents. ... more
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All In
Romania, 2010, 12 min.
A despondent schmo plays poker with the devil to win the choice of getting his wife or his daughter back. But there’s a wild card in the deck…... more
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Animal Beatbox
Australia, 2011, 3 min.
What is the true call of the wild? This multiple award-winning animation (Aspen FF, Tropfest) travels down a very special river with a wide variety of the animal kingdom who all contribute their name for the sake of music.... more
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Bullet Time
France, 2010, 31 min.
In early 90s Kurdistan, two humanitarian workers spend a harrowing night racing across the dangerous landscape in hopes of saving a wounded young boy.... more
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The Candidate
USA, 2010, 21 min.
An underhanded businessman is intrigued by a proposition from a mysterious stranger representing an unusual secret society.... more
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Caron
France, 2010, 23 min.
A well-meaning cop develops an unlikely method of helping the homeless in his district. When he attempts to turn the scheme to his benefit, though, he risks his own destruction.... more
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Casus Belli
Greece, 2010, 11 min.
This amusing Venice Film Fest competition entry traces the ways in which our consumer society – typified by our supermarket mania – can never get too much of a good thing.... more
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Catharsis
France, 2010, 18 min.
Cedric Prevost (Hymen, Alter Ego) returns to PSISF with this trippy tale of an aspiring filmmaker struggling to escape from life stuck inside his unfinished film.... more
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Chasm
USA, 2010, 15 min.
From the acclaimed writer David Hayter (X2, X-Men, Watchmen) comes a story of two men on a long-haul space freight mission—one who needs to find the meaning of his life and the other who doesn’t like to talk much. ... more
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Come to Me
Poland, 2010, 31 min.
Asia, a young woman from Belarus, arrives in Poland with little else than an address to surprise her estranged boyfriend in desperate bid to escape her own problems back home. But her boyfriend’s new girlfriend gives Asia little choice but to strike out in the unfamiliar town by herself--... more
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Diary
USA, 2010, 20 min.
Tim Hetherington, acclaimed photojournalist and co-director of the Restrepo, was killed covering the Libyan civil war. His memory lives on in this moving personal essay that strives “to express the subjective experience of my work.”... more
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Dog Sitting
France, 2011, 8 min.
A young English dog sitter in Paris finds that man’s best friend can sometimes be an unexpected burden.... more
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Empty Stomachs
France, 2010, 19 min.
RIchard brings his young son to celebrate Yom Kippur with his father and brother. But as the family reconnects, ulterior motives for the visit are slowly revealed.... more
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File Under Miscellaneous
Canada, 2010, 7 min.
In a cold, dystopian future world, a native checks himself into a strange clinic where he hopes to rid himself of his red skin. A Genie nominee for Best Canadian Narrative Short.... more
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First Aid
Israel, 2010, 16 min.
A soon-to-be groom visits his ex-girlfriend on the eve of his wedding, and immediately the two succumb to the explosive fire between them. But when she won’t stop trying to ‘mark’ him, things get unintentionally violent. ... more
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Freyja
Iceland, 2010, 13 min.
This freaky Icelandic horror story traces the tale of a pregnant woman who’s just moved into a new house and said house’s long-time occupant who doesn’t seem eager to leave… File under ‘things that go bump in the night’.
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Going Nowhere
Denmark, 2011, 20 min.
Former marathon runner Jannik struggles to accept his paralysis. His self-destructive plans are interrupted by a visit from his misfit older brother.... more
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Inner City
Canada, 2011, 8 min.
Spotting a love interest in an alienating downtown landscape, our hero offers up every kind of inducement to entice her out of her sanctuary.... more
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Leave Not a Cloud Behind
France, 2010, 7 min.
A young man in a coma finds his predicament rather boring until he realizes he’s in the midst of an entire community of coma-victims. But when he falls in love there, where does his love belong?... more
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Memoirs of a Disturbed Young Lady
France, 2010, 17 min.
A twenty-five-year old virgin frantically searches for the right man to deflower her, leading to an increasingly absurd series of romantic mishaps. ... more
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Merry-Go-Round Jody
Italy, 2011, 13 min.
When Jody’s circus family rolls into a new town, Jody befriends a local boy and introduces him to the wonders of the family business. Sumptuously shot and winner of Italy’s prestigious David Di Donatello Award.... more
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Method Actor
United Kingdom, 2011, 3 min.
What makes a great actor great…or merely mad?... more
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Miss Communication
South Korea, 2010, 10 min.
All conversation between two people is based on interpretation and comprehension, which leaves lots of room for miscommunication when it comes to conversations about affairs of the heart…... more
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Mokhtar
Canada, 2010, 15 min.
A young boy in a remote Moroccan village adopts a fallen owl, bringing it home and hoping to nurse it back to health in this exotic tale exploring the uneasy link between religion and superstition.... more
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My Other Half
Spain, 2010, 18 min.
Adrián is born with a slight eye defect – he can only see clearly out of the bottom of his eyes. Then he meets a girl who has the opposite problem…... more
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Narkis
Israel, 2011, 10 min.
A young girls’ sexual awakening swelters in the heat on a long summer day as she casts her attention to the couple next door. ... more
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North Atlantic
Portugal, 2010, 15 min.
An isolated air traffic controller in the Azores connects with a lone pilot helplessly adrift over the North Atlantic.... more
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Nowhere Elsewhere
Canada, 2010, 15 min.
Travelling with her husband and young son to bring some things to her mother in a nursing home, a young woman confronts the feelings that her mother has aroused in her because of the forced move. Winner, Best Film, Creteil Women’s Film Festival... more
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Oops
France, 2011, 5 min.
Attempting to kill himself after a breakup with his girlfriend, our hapless hero manages to get everything hopelessly wrong.... more
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The Order of Things
Spain, 2010, 19 min.
Julia´s life takes place in the bath tub, where drop by drop she must gather the courage to change the order of things.... more
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The Piano Tuner
France, 2010, 14 min.
A brilliant pianist shuns his career after a bad audition and becomes a piano tuner, pretending to be blind to get better business. However, when he finds himself welcomed into a crime scene, the charade becomes a deadly game. ... more
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The Piss-Ant
France, 2010, 14 min.
Quite possibly the most dysfunctional family in the world gets fresh fuel for the fire when the daughter’s current squeeze makes a move on the family matriarch, with amusing results.... more
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Plus
Sweden, 2010, 14 min.
A young woman returns to her father’s house upon his death, reuniting with the brother she left behind when the family was ripped apart. ... more
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The Prayer
Denmark, 2011, 34 min.
16 year-old Claudia lives with her strict mother above their relgious curio shop. She dreams of sleeping with Jens, who lives upstairs and has unknowingly seduced her, but her mother has demanded Claudia promise the Virgin Mary she’ll not have sex until she’s married...and Sunday is only a few days ... more
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Problem Is
France, 2010, 9 min.
Stutterer Eric might have just met the girl of his dreams. The only problem is…... more
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Ray Morley
United Kingdom, 2010, 3 min.
Ray’s morning constitutional in his garden sets the stage for an epic confrontation between Heaven and Hell…... more
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Restructuring Michael Swift
USA, 2011, 6 min.
After repeated rounds of ‘cutbacks’, ‘layoffs’ and ‘restructuring’ at the office, Michael Swift is ready to snap…An amusing and timely new comedy from the makers of Marry, F**k, Kill.... more
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Sabeel
United Arab Emirates, 2010, 20 min.
In the mountains of the UAE, a pair of young brothers sell fruit by the roadside in hopes of earning enough money to take care of their ailing grandmother.... more
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Scheherazade and the Kosher Delight
France, 2010, 20 min.
A young woman wearing a tee shirt “I’m Muslim, Don’t Panic” heads straight to the Jewish section of Paris to apply for the job of cook at a Kosher café. ... more
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The Screamers
Spain, 2010, 2 min.
For anyone who has ever screamed at the top of his lungs exactly how he feels... and awaits the response.... more
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Shortcomings
USA, 2010, 19 min.
Does size really matter? Ryan, a teenage boy insecure about the size of his manhood, thinks it just might. When he and the girl he likes go to a skinny dipping party, his doubts rise to the surface.... more
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Small Change
Ireland, 2010, 18 min.
Karen, a struggling, young single mother in Northern Ireland, escapes her troubles by sitting for hours playing the slot machines, until her escape becomes an addiction that puts herself and her daughter in jeopardy.... more
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Touch
Israel, 2011, 11 min.
A woman struggles to bond with her premature baby in this portrait of mother and child and the role that touch plays in human connection.... more
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The Unliving
Sweden, 2010, 28 min.
Thirty years after a zombie outbreak, people have got used to living alongside them: Zombies are a cheap source of labour. However, the ‘normal’ people, like Katrin and Mark, first have catch and lobotomize them...not bring them home.... more
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The Westerner
USA, 2010, 13 min.
Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life) produced and appears in this story of a young boy who has headed west in search of his mother. ... more
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When You Run
Spain, 2010, 5 min.
The Port of Tangiers: a young Morrocan boy braves border guards and their dogs to hitch a ride on the undercarriage of a truck to a better life. Little does he know that another obstacle stands between him and the attainment of his dream… ... more
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The Wind is Blowing on My Street
Iran, 2010, 16 min.
After a simple mishap, a college-age Iranian woman finds herself in a dicey situation that could lead to potential danger. This deftly directed winner of Best Student Short at Aspen shows the dark shadow that hovers over modern Tehran.... more
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With Bad Blood
Australia, 2010, 11 min.
A husband cares for his seriously ill wife but is haunted by the one medicine she craves that he can’t give in this unexpectedly healing commentary on love and letting go. ... more
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