INDEX OF FILMS - Raindance Film Festival

AUTUMN ADAGIO [FUWAKU NO ADAGIO] 

FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER AT 9:30PM 

A nun going through her menopause might sound like the 

punch-line of a joke you wouldn’t tell your mum, but Tsuki Inoue’s 

disarmingly beautiful film Autumn Adagio takes what could have 

so easily been a premise ripe for exploitation and makes from it a 

profoundly moving and utterly restrained masterpiece. 

Mariko, who is first seen absent-mindedly plucking the stamen 

from a bouquet of lilies, lives a cloistered, routine life. One day, 

confused by the way she is feeling, she takes a leap of faith and 

volunteers to play the piano for the local ballet school. Whilst 

working she becomes entranced by the instructor’s graceful 

movements in a scene that is both gently surreal and quietly 

erotic. Although she plays well, the instructor tries to encourage 

her to put more of herself into the music. Moriko, who has spent 

her life repressing her sexuality and emotions, decides to let them 

out for a short time before they are lost forever and we can’t help 

but be swept along with her new enthusiasm. 

From then on the film is by turns disturbing, tragic and uplifting 

as she learns to reengage with the world. More and more we 

start to see her without her habit, and the change is striking. The 

tension between religion and sexuality has been explored in many 

films, but rarely has it been handled with such sensitivity. DB 

Country Japan Running Time 70 mins Format HDCam Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Tsuki Inoue DoP Yosuke Omori Cast Rei Shibakusa, Peyton Chiba, Takuo 

Shibuya Print Source Dongyu Email dongyu.international@dongyu.co.jp 

104 18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

BOYS ON THE RUN [BOIZU ON ZA RAN] 


Boys on the Run stars Kazunobu Mineta (frontman for punk-rock 

band Ging Nang Boyz) as Tanishi, a 29-year-old virgin stuck in 

a menial position at a failing company. Tanishi’s idle existence 

of porn and fantasizing is thrown into disarray after a night of 

drunken flirtation with his co-worker Chiharu. 

Despite Tanishi’s repeated acts of self-sabotage it seems that 

nothing can drive Chiharu away. But when Aoyama, star salesman 

of a rival capsule company becomes a rival Tanishi vows to fight 

him for Chiharu’s honour. Playing a bit like the Japanese take 

on 40 Year Old Virgin, Boys on the Run is based on a manga by 

Kengo Hanazawa and is the debut feature film from successful 

theatre director Daisuke Miura. Chock full of deliciously awkward 

moments, the film also has a lot more depth than the average 

sex comedy, asking us to consider how and when exactly a boy 

becomes a man. On the run from the ever-looming threat of 

responsibility and maturity, Tanishi tries to explore his masculinity 

through sex and after that fails, through violence. Boys on the 

Run is both a hilariously demented sex comedy and a surprisingly 

touching almost-love story that repeatedly and ingeniously turns 

underdog clichés on their head. CP 

Country Japan Running Time 114 mins Format 35mm Director/Screenplay 

Daisuke Miura Producer Yasuhiro Masaoka, Takeshi Sawa, Hitoshi Endo DoP Shinya 

Kimura Cast Kazunobu Mineta, Mei Kurokawa, Ryuhei Matsuda Print Source Amuse 

Soft Entertainment Email festival-entry@picturesdept.com 

18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 

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GEIDAI SHORTS 

THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 9:45PM 

YOTSUYA ALPHA BETA [YOTSUYA IROHA] 

Japan RT 7 mins Format HDCam Director Nana Anzai 

Producer Mitsuko Okamoto Print Source Nana Anzai 

Email nananna7@me.com 

A girl becomes caught in a surreal world of Japanese characters 

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI [KENJA NO OKURIMO] 

Japan RT 13 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay 

Toshikazu Ishii Producer Yuichi Ito Print Source Toshikazu 

Ishii Email tshkz141@ybb.ne.jp 

An apprentice magician and his wife struggle to find the funds 

to buy christmas presents for each other. 

GATHERING [SHUSHUKA NO SAMPO] 

Japan RT 6 mins Format HDCam Director/S’play/DoP 

Akiko Omi Prod Takehito Deguchi E akiko_omi@hotmail.com 

A stroll through the park creates a scrapbook of memories in 

this inventive blend of live action and animation. 

GETTING DRESSED [FUKU WO KIRUMADE] 

Japan RT 9 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay 

Aico Kitamura Producer Koji Yamamura Print Source Aico 

Kitamura Email kiron726@auone.jp 

A woman who lives alone, looking after her bird is forced to face 

the world when her cereal runs out. 

WOMAN WHO STOLE FINGERS [YUBI WO 

NUSUNDA ONNA] 

Japan RT 4 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Saori 

Shiroki Producer Koji Yamamura Print Source Saori Shiroki 

Email saori-shiroki@hotmail.co.jp 

A boy who becomes separated from his mother is found by 

a strange woman who takes his fingers. 

106 18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 

BRING ME UP [TSUMAMARERU KOMA] 

Japan RT 6 mins Format HDCam Director/S’play Miki 

Tanaka Prod Koji Yamamura E strawberry0612chips@gmail.com 

A boy feels like a piece on his parents’ board-game until one 

day he decides to cut off his relationship with them. 

ANTI-CHAOS [KYOHAKUTEKI NA CHITSO 

NI TSUITE NO KAERU] 

Japan RT 4 mins Format HDCam Director/S’play Shino 

Nagasako Producer Yuichi Ito E nekonohito_com@yahoo.co.jp 

A frog wants to make his companions stand in a perfect line. 

CLIMBER 

Japan RT 6 mins Format HDCam Director/S’play Akifumi 

Nonaka Producer Mitsuko Okamoto E akkey_n@yahoo.co.jp 

Climbers struggle to surmount an impossible stone pillar until 

they learn to work as a swarm 

PAPA 

Japan RT 4 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Kumi 

Matsui Producer Takehito Deguchi E kumu93@hotmail.com 

A girl explores a formless world, leaving footprints on the sand. 

GOOGURI GOOGURI 

Japan RT 8 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay/ 

DoP Yoshiko Misumi Producer Koji Yamamura Print Source 

Yoshiko Misumi Email misu-mi@hotmail.co.jp 

Googuri is secret word shared between a girl and her grandpa.

HI! OTSUKA DRUGSTORE 

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER AT 1:45PM 

The cranky Otsuka presides over the shambolic drug store of 

the title like a griffon in her den, scaring off customers with her 

grating manner and flatulence. Either that or she can be found 

sleeping behind the counter. No wonder she’s being robbed left 

right and centre and it certainly doesn’t help that she seems 

unable to tell a customer from a burglar. But when a girl drops by 

the store every morning to buy a different coloured nail varnish 

the older woman recognises this as an attempt to attract a crush, 

and against her worse nature decides to help. 

Through Nakasaku’s attempts to land the object of her desires, 

Otsuka seeks to relive her own past and in particular the failed 

high-school romance that saw her betrayed by her match-maker 

twenty five years ago. As her past comes flooding back her stern 

demeanour begins to melt and her advice to Nakasaku softens. 

Told in vivid over-saturated flash backs, with over-the-top 

manga sensibility and wonky framing that fits the film’s sultry 

central character perfectly, debutant director Yuu Katsumata 

none-the-less brings the film to a surprisingly moving finale. This 

is a promising early work that suggests Katsumata may soon be 

making endearingly quirky comedies along with the best of the 

new wave of Japanese indie directors. AW 

Country Japan Running Time 48 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay Yu 

Katsumata Producer Tokyo Net Movie Festival DoP Takashi Sakuma Cast Aya Anoji, 

Kana Kobayashi, Mayuko Arisue 

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LOST AND FOUND 

WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER AT 5:15PM 

In a non-descript Japanese train station several random 

characters pass one another by, each struggling with life in some 

way: a European man retraces the steps of his grandfather in 

postwar Japan, a girl struggles with the urge to abandon her 

child, a blind woman photographs the world that she will never 

see, and a disgraced business man teeters on the platform’s 

edge. These characters all share the fact that they have lost 

something and their stories revolve around Mr Togashi who runs 

the station’s lost property office. 

Unlike many Japanese indie films its eccentric characters 

remain very believable and empathetic as they are brought 

together and broken apart by a series of lost objects, each of 

which is given tremendous emotional weight thanks to Nobuyuki 

Miyaki’s subtle plotting and gentle camera work. This seems 

to evoke Mr Togashi’s own philosophy as he chides his young 

associate for dismissing some of the items he cares for as trash, 

saying: ‘that’s not for you to decide. If it comes in here then it 

belongs to someone. It’s important.’ Miyaki’s self-assured debut 

feature is a charming drama of fleeting encounters, which fans 

of Shunji Iwai or Edward Yang will love. Despite its subtlety its 

themes will resonate long after you leave the cinema. DB 

Country Japan Running Time 75 mins Format HDCam Director Nobuyuki Miyake 

Producer Hirotaka Asano Screenplay Maki Arai, Nobuyuki Miyake DoP Toshiharu 

Yaegashi Cast Shun Sugata, Tomoyuki Hatanaka, Kaori Fujii Print Source Nobuyuki 

Miyake Email bob@gazebofilm.jp 


LOST GIRL 


A carefully observed depiction of mental illness with brilliantly 

nuanced central performances; Lost Girl’s restrained, nonjudgemental 

tone makes it a powerful experience. 

Ryoko Tanabe was once a successful chef who ran a 

restaurant with her partner Daichi, but we first meet her in the 

film wrapped in blankets in her tiny bedroom, surrounded by junk 

food packets and vomiting into a bucket. She has bulimia. 

The film hints at various causes: perhaps it was triggered 

by the incident in which she accidentally poisons a customer, 

perhaps she’s motivated by a perverse sense of rebellion, or 

maybe it’s because she can’t have children? These things are 

never easily explained and the film is all the better for not trying 

to prescribe a solution or give a reason. For his part Daichi can’t 

accept the person she has become, and tries everything to get 

her back; begging her to eat, using psychological tactics and 

eventually brute force born out of desperation. 

Lost Girl is an acutely aware and sensitive portrayal of 

depression from first time director Daisuke Yamaoka, and the 

fantastically subtle performances from the two leads push 

the film even further. DB 

Country Japan Running Time 63 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay 

Daisuke Yamaoka Producer Mountain Cross DoP Masayoshi Kunimatsu Print 

Source Mountain Cross 

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LUNAR CHILD [RUNA NO KODOMO] 

THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER AT 5:45PM 

Stark, brutally honest and beautifully shot, Lunar Child offers a 

observation upon the fleeting and transient experiences of three 

women who seek love, but cannot grasp it tightly enough. Their 

barren relationships contain only a little hope; each is seeking 

meaning in relationships that are ultimately doomed. ‘Her Story’ 

concerns a young woman and an older man who spend the night 

together by chance, sharing their pain and misery with each 

other: he is terminally ill with cancer, she is traumatized by a 

recent abortion and the crumbling relationship with her boyfriend. 

Mizuki is distancing herself from her girlfriend, Maho; she 

already has doubts about their two-week-old relationship. Having 

grown up with liberal attitudes towards sex, she is beginning to 

see love-making as a meaningless and empty pastime. 

Hikari is a writer and the breadwinner of the household, 

supporting her unemployed and emotionally dependent husband. 

When her dreams are dashed she is forced to face the reality 

of her life and relationships. Her attempts to rekindle her 

marriage, however, cast a gentle glow of hope on all the female 

protagonists. LC 

Country Japan Running Time 108 mins Format HDV Director/Screenplay Akihiro 

Suzuki Producer Keiko Tanaka DoP Tsuyoshi Kawarazuka Cast Kanaha Saeki, 

Makiko Oku, Eri Iwamoto Print Source SIG Email ass@sig-inc.co.jp 


PURE ASIA 

SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 5:45PM 

Pure Asia follows a nameless Japanese teenager at a time 

of extreme tension between Japan and North Korea. When a 

beautiful girl saves him from a mugging she drags him away and 

onto a train. Hoping to meet her again, the next day he waits 

outside the station to see if she comes past. When she does, he 

is shocked to see that she is in Korean dress. As the boy stands 

helplessly by she is surrounded by a group of Japanese students 

who bully and eventually kill her. 

After watching the funeral from afar, the boy meets the 

girl’s sister, almost identical to her in appearance but the polar 

opposite in attitude. Hell-bent on revenge against just about 

everyone, she drags the boy on a journey of vicious destruction 

and blind vengeance. 

The director has enticed fresh, invigorating performances from 

the actors and puts equal skill into the camera-work. Shot in stark 

black and white, Pure Asia is a road movie of grief in all its guises. 

Shocking, affecting and lent extra strength by it its political 

resonance, it’s a morality tale that shows us that the greatest evil 

of all comes from those who stand by and do nothing. CP 

Country Japan Running Time 108 mins Format HDCam Director Ikki Katashima 

Producer Ikki Katashima, Naoto Monma, Kazuyuki Kitaki Screenplay Junichi Inoue 

DoP Atsuhiro Nabeshima Cast Hanae Kan, Shige Kasai Print Source Pictures Dept 

Email festival-entry@picturesdept.com 


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USB 


Yuichiro, played with just the right amount of ennui by Watanabe 

Kazushi, is twenty six and lives with his mother, who wants him 

to follow in the footsteps of his recently deceased father and go 

to medical school. The lazy, feckless Yuichiro, however, dreams 

of becoming a director – not that he does much to move either 

career forward besides befriending the terminally ill filmmaker 

Fujimori. Instead, desperate to pay off the massive debt he’s 

incurred with loan shark Nanbaru, Yuichiro is eventually forced 

into becoming a test subject in a dangerous experiment. 

Fans of maverick Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa will 

find much to appreciate here; there’s the same atmosphere 

of impending doom, the plot driven by hidden motivations and 

surreal events, the theme of mortality, and even the presence 

of a mysterious centuries old tree. The film also shares with 

Kurosawa’s masterpiece Pulse the sense of a doomed generation 

with its focus on young protagonists. 

The film’s events, unremarkable and surreal alike, unfold 

against the backdrop of a major radiation leak from a nearby 

power plant – a suitable atmosphere for a cursed generation 

attempting to live in the nuclear age. DB 

Country Japan Running Time 95 mins Format Beta SP Director/Screenplay 

Shutaro Oku Producer M6 Trance Picture Works DoP Yonaha Masayuki Cast 

Kazushi Watanabe, Kaori Momoi, Kazanobu Mineta, Nao Omor, Ren Osugi Print 

Source M6 Trance Picture Works 


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YELLOW KID 


Tamura, inspired by the heroic figure of Yellow Kid in Iga Taro’s 

manga, decides to become a boxer and thus a hero himself. But 

the characters at the local gym are far from heroes; most are 

nothing more than petty thugs headed by aggressive punk kid 

Enomoto. When Taro decides to write a sequel to Yellow Kid 

he bases his character on Tamura, thus completing the cycle of 

influence and inspiration. 

Tamura does his best to fit Taro’s new character whilst 

squaring up to the violent thugs at the gym and trying to fit into 

a repressive culture. Pushed too far by Enomoto and society 

as a whole, Tamura begins taking his comic book persona too 

seriously as he struggles to make sense of the world around him. 

A world of run down boxing clubs, violent loan sharks, grizzled 

coaches and one young boxer with a dream. You could be 

forgiven for thinking that you’ve seen this one before. Add a 

manga artist searching for a boxer on which to base his latest 

comic and outbursts of exaggerated violence and you have 

a recipe that is uniquely Japanese. Yellow Kid is an intense 

viewing, trading thick and fast comic book imagery with stark, 

kinetic cinematography that marks the very best of Japanese 

independent film. CB 

Country Japan Running Time 107 mins Format HDV Director/Screenplay 

Tetsuya Mariko Producer Takashi Hara DoP Yutaka Aoki Cast Kaname Endo, Ryo 

Iwase, Kazuki Namioka Print Source Chihiro Takano E takano.chihiro@off.geidai.ac.jp 


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YURIKO’S AROMA 


Yuriko is a mid-thirties aromatherapy masseuse who heals her 

customers with a sensitive touch and perfectly chosen aromas. 

She becomes troubled however, when she catches the scent of 

her boss’ nephew, the hormonal teenager Tetsuya. An odd love 

triangle develops as Yuriko becomes fixated on Tetsuya and a 

female client begins to reveal her crush on Yuriko. Wonderfully 

restrained direction follows Yuriko’s actions and decisions as she 

gives into her fetish and develops and awkward relationship with 

the much younger Tetsuya. 

Smell is a difficult sense to capture on camera but 

director Kota Yoshida succeeds with the help of a committed 

performance from lead actress Noriko Eguchi. Focused close-ups 

and delicate camera movement capture the surreally intimate 

scenes between Tetsuya and Yuriko. 

The Japanese film industry has a long history of sex cinema 

– ‘pink film.’ The success of Yuriko’s Aroma can be found in the 

way it tackles those issues without the pornographic content. 

Here then is a meditation on fetish, and the consequences of 

finally giving into it. Erotic but never explicit, it’ subjects lie outside 

the mainstream; rather it celebrates human sexual diversity and 

the satisfaction of desire. JB 

Country Japan Running Time 73 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay 

Kota Yoshida Producer Tsuyoshi Goto, Koichi Kusakabe, Keiko Kusakabe DoP 

Akitoshi Minami Cast Noriko Eguchi, Shota Sometani, Saori Hara, Jun Miho Print 

Source Makotoya Co Ltd Email movie@makotoyacoltd.jp 


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ARMLESS 

MONDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 6:30PM & TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 3PM 

John is a mild-mannered insurance executive who harbors a 

dark secret. His wife, Anna, on the other hand, believes she’s 

married to Mr. Normal with whom she fully expects to live out 

her version of the American Dream. John’s Mom believes she’s 

got an upstanding citizen of a son that she can fully depend on. 

It comes as a shock to both when he abruptly vanishes. Panicstricken, 

Anna eventually tracks him down to an anonymous hotel 

room in New York where she’s faced with a disturbing reality: 

her husband – in a closet – with a chainsaw. John’s secret has 

unraveled to reveal a man who is preparing to act on a burning 

desire – to rid himself of his arms and replace them with nubbins. 

A quirky dark comedy, the film boasts great performances 

all round. Daniel London, in particular is never less than fully 

believable as John, the low-key eccentric who suffers from the 

real life condition – Body Integrity Identity Disorder – in which 

the sufferer believes that in order to feel whole he must have 

one or more limbs removed. This is a debut feature from director 

Habib Azar who directed his first TV soap at the age of 22 

and has gone on to direct more than 100 hours of episodic 

television. The film is based on a stage play of the same name 

by screenwriter Kyle Jarrow. SB 

Country USA Running Time 82 mins Director Habib Azar Producers Carla Stuart, 

Hsiano Bian Screenplay Kyle Jarrow DoP Orson Robbins-Pianka Cast Daniel 

London, Janel Moloney, Matt Walton Print Source Habib Azar E razini@hotmail.com 


FLOODING WITH LOVE FOR THE KID 

TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 6:45PM 

Flooding with Love for the Kid is debut director Zachary 

Oberzan’s bold retelling of the story of Rambo, made famous by 

Sylvester Stallone and based on the novel, First Blood by David 

Morrell. But that’s just about where any similarity ends. 

Oberzan’s one-man epic was shot on a sub-shoestring budget 

of 96 dollars. All of the action takes place in the directors’ 200 

square foot Manhattan apartment with Oberzan acting out all 

the roles himself. Inspired by Rambo’s zeal, he also acted as 

his own one-man crew. The director embraces his self-imposed 

limitations to go on to tell a story that despite some dodgy props 

and locations – a paper cup becomes a megaphone, his bathtub 

serves as a river, his fireplace and a couple of twigs denote a 

forest – is still riveting. 

An extreme low budget film like you’ve never seen before, 

Flooding with Love for the Kid has received glowing reviews 

following its premiere showcase at the Anthology Film Archive in 

NY, described as an ‘outsider-cinema mastepiece’ (Time Out) with 

The Guardian claiming it was an ‘assault on the notion that high 

production values are necessary for compelling storytelling’. SB 

Country USA Running Time 106 mins Director/Producer/Screenplay/DoP/ 

Cast/Print Source Zachary Oberzan Email strawandgold@gmail.com 


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HELENA FROM THE WEDDING 


Out in the snowy countryside a pair of newlyweds, Alice and Alex, 

play host to six old friends to see in the New Year. All together 

again, the couples drink, play games and catch up, gradually 

revealing more about their fractured relationships and the 

unspoken connections between them. When the young English 

model, Helena, turns up unexpectedly, a secret history between 

her and Alex begins to be revealed. 

As the film develops the fault lines in every relationship are 

explored; Nick has left his wife for another woman but now finds 

himself without either; Dom’s marriage to Lynn is descending into 

backbiting and disrespect; Alice and Alex are both troubled by 

the presence of Helena. 

Debut director Joseph Infantolino spins an enthralling web 

of social transactions around the viewer, leaving it up to the 

audience to judge where their allegiances lie. The cast fully 

convince as a group of young professionals inwardly 

questioning the decisions they have made – gripping and 

realistic Helena from the Wedding unflinchingly dissects 

marriage in modern-day America. PT 

Country USA Running Time 89 mins Director/Screenplay Joseph Infantolino 

Producer Alexa Fogel DoP Stephen Kazmierski Cast Dagmara Dominczyk, Paul 

Fitzgerald, Dominic Fumusa P/S Joseph Infantolino E joe@beechhillfilms.com 


INCREDIBLY SMALL 

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER AT 6:45PM & SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER AT 10:30AM 

Dean Peterson’s Minneapolis set feature debut describes itself as 

a 300 square foot love story; the setting may be incredibly small 

but it packs an incredibly big punch. When Emir and Anne move 

into their new apartment their fledging relationship immediately 

comes under strain. Anne is far from impressed with the studio 

flat’s ‘rustic charm’ (which seems to be another word for rising 

damp) and things only get worse when her parents arrive and 

conclude that their daughter has moved in with an imbecile. 

But if Emir is an eternal man-child then Anne is overbearing 

and idealistic, and the audience’s sympathy is skilfully bounced 

back and forth thanks to Peterson’s incredibly sharp script, which 

draws the utmost amount of pathos and humour. 

The cracks in the young couple’s relationship are fully prised 

open when their neighbour Tom, a Seinfield-esque college 

professor with wonderful hair, takes a shine to Anne and throws 

all of Emir’s faults into stark relief, even more so when his old 

friend Brian turns up on his doorstep with stories of how much 

dope ‘Eagle’ used to smoke in high school. DB 

Country USA Running Time 83 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Dean 

Peterson Producers Dean Peterson, James Francis Flynn, Britni West DoP Adam 

Ginsberg Cast Stephen Gurewitz, Susan Burke, Alex Karpovsky Print Source Dean 

Peterson Email petersoncinema@gmail.com 


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THE LAKE EFFECT 

TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 9.10PM & WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER AT 1:45PM 

Rob is trying to get his latest business venture off the ground 

when his wife drags him away to his father’s old lakeside house 

for a month-long holiday. A few days in and his estranged 

eighteen-year-old daughter from a previous relationship turns 

up nine months pregnant. As they all struggle to work out what 

will become of the child, tensions in their relationship become 

apparent. With the baby just days away Rob desperately tries to 

hold onto his holiday, manage his broody wife, plan a future for 

his daughter and close a crucial business deal. 

This is a classic American indie film, made with a small crew 

and fantastic locations. The interior of the modern lakeside house 

is beautifully shot, interspersed with some stunning photography 

of the lake and its surrounds. The script is wonderfully 

constructed; every character brings a different perspective on life 

and love to the film and they clash in wonderfully delicate, subtle 

ways. Smart, funny and tender, the dialogue is brought to life by 

nuanced performances from all the actors. The Lake Effect is a 

film about growing up and taking responsibility for your actions. 

As mistakes and decisions are echoed through the generations, 

this family has a chance to come together or fracture forever. JB 

Country USA Running Time 93 mins Director/Screenplay Tara Miele Producer 

Jennifer Westin DoP Brett Juskalian Cast Ross Partridge, Tara Summers, Kay 

Panabaker Print Source Jennifer Westin Email jennifer_westin@yahoo.com 


SOMEWHERE NEVER TRAVELED 

USA 6 mins Format DVCPro Director/ 

S’play Ben Garchar Producer Douglas 

Schwartz DoP Matthew Beck Cast 

Alexander Michael, Taylor Cloyes, 

Jonathan Barajas P/Source B Garchar 

One one love. Only one take. And then 

what?

LOVERS OF HATE 

MONDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 8:30PM & TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 1:45PM 

Kicked out by his wife Diana and without a steady job, Rudy is 

living in his car, showering in carwashes and stolen faucet water. 

When his successful writer brother Paul comes to town Rudy is 

desperate to prove he isn’t a total failure and tries to persuade 

Diane to pretend that they are still together. Their sibling rivalry is 

still strong and Rudy can’t bear to give Paul any more ammunition 

to bully him with. When the ruse collapses Rudy leaves, heading 

for a ski-lodge retreat. He hopes to work on his own novel, Lovers 

of Hate, but his plans are disrupted when Paul and Diane arrive. 

Rudy decides to remain hidden and becomes something of 

a ghostly presence in the house, leaving only occasional clues 

– the unflushed toilet – to his presence. As the film turns into a 

game of cat-and-mouse the two brothers rivalry turns vicious and 

the tone is expertly balanced between comedy and thriller. 

Lovers of Hate is a modern American tragi-comedy; designed 

to make you laugh, squirm and pity its characters. Brilliant 

direction keeps the cat-and-mouse game under tight control 

and the cinematographer does an excellent job of creating a 

claustrophobic locale. LC 

Country USA Running Time 93 mins Format HDV Director/Screenplay Bryan 

Poyser Producer Megan Gilbride DoP David Lowery Cast Chris Doubek, Heather 

Kaska, Alex Karpovsky Print Source IFC Films Email saorazio@ifcfilms.com 


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ON HOLIDAY 

THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 6:30PM & FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER AT 3:15PM 

Peyton and his girlfriend decide to take their shot at the big 

dream. She’s an aspiring actor and he’s an electronic musician, 

and if there’s anywhere they’re going to make it big, it’s Los 

Angeles. However innocent their intentions are when they arrive 

in LA, they become firmly ensconced in a circle of friends that 

love nothing more than losing themselves in a serious drug party. 

They are immersed in a world of indulgence and intimacy that 

puts themselves, and their relationship, through the ringer. 

On Holiday is a whirlwind of personalities and interactions 

filmed from party to party as the couple interacts and evolves 

with their new big city friends. On Holiday is instead all about the 

private lives of the couple and how they unwittingly adapt to their 

ever-complicated new social scene. 

Focusing on Peyton the film maps his efforts and failures as 

he navigates this complex new world of experiences that he is 

completely unequipped to deal with. Amidst the lunatic antics of 

their Los Angeles parties, however is a close examination of two 

young people realising that they may finally need to grow up. SS 

Country USA Running Time 85 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Brian 

McGuire Producer Bret Roberts, Logan Sparks DoP Jared Bariva Cast Whitmer 

Thomas, Jenn June Ross, Tipper Newton Print Source Brian McGuire 


TREASURE OF THE BLACK JAGUAR 

SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 8PM & SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER AT 7PM 

Two best friends have a great idea – a get-rich-quick scheme 

which promises great returns. They quickly escape the grasp 

of their mother and girlfriend but land themselves behind bars, 

almost as quickly as they left. In the Mexican jail a man offers 

them two options, to stay there ‘and get arse-raped’, or escape 

with him on condition they help him find a secret treasure, the 

Black Jaguar. It quickly emerges that they might end up paying 

the ultimate price for their multi-million dollar cut. 

The cast at this film’s core seem destined for big things, with 

brooding Cameron van Hoy co-starring as one of the boys after 

a fast-buck, but also co-producing the film and co-writing the 

screenplay with director Mike Bruce. Michael Drayer – who 

plays the other half of the calamitous pair – is an adept comic 

companion to Van Hoy’s straight man role. Panoramic portrayals 

of desert endurance are interspersed with visual and verbal 

humour that flows thick and fast – as do lashings of blood, 

ensuring the boys’ classic plaid shirts are thoroughly smattered 

and sullied by their desert adventure. Sped-up sequences, 

innovative camera angles and bold saturated colours combine 

to immerse the viewer in this dizzying escapade, culminating 

in a film that is funny, trendy and laced with gore. AM 

Country USA Running Time 93 mins Format HDCam Director Mike Bruce 

Producers Cameron Van Hoy Screenplay Mike Bruce, Cameron Van Hoy 

DoP Salvador Lleo de la Fe Cast Cameron Van Hoy, Michael Drayer, Timothy Murphy 

P/S Cameron Van Hoy E cameronaction@yahoo.com 


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VACATION! 

SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER AT 8PM 

Returning to Raindance a year on from Modern Love Is 

Automatic, maverick director/writer Zach Clark takes us on a wild 

ride to the seaside accompanied by four hormonal young women. 

Inviting her three old college friends on a week long vacation, 

Sugar arranges to take over a friend’s beach house in North 

Carolina. Lorelei is still hung up on her ex-boyfriend Dave, whilst 

glamazon Dee-Dee is caught up in a lesbian affair. Meanwhile 

Donna dodges all advances in order to remain single. 

Spending their days dressing up in blonde wigs to go shopping, 

getting high and hanging out with the local drug dealer, the 

breezy tone is abrubtly darkened when a girl is found dead after 

a night of partying. 

Clark reprises the talents of his last film, Maggie Ross in the 

role of Sugar and the statuesque Melodie Sisk as Dee-Dee. 

Trieste Kelly Dunn, recently voted one of 25 new faces to watch 

by Filmmaker magazine, plays Donna and Lydia Hyslop appears 

as Lorelei. Clark has developed his own retro style which, during 

the acid sequence, is doused with saturated colour for an almost 

hyper-realist aesthetic. He also collides digital images with those 

of the girls’ camcorders to create a breezy post punk feel that 

singles him out as a director to keep an eye on. SB 

Country USA Running Time 95 mins Format HDCam Director/Screenplay Zach 

Clark Producer Zach Clark, Daryl Pittman, Melodie Sisk DoP Daryl Pittman Cast 

Trieste Kelly Dunn, Lydia Hyslop, Maggie Ross, Melodie Sisk Print Source Candy 

Castle Motion Pictures LLC Email vacation.movie@gmail.com 


CAMP VICTORY, AFGHANISTAN 


Shot over a three year period and extracted from 300 hours of 

footage, this documentary is about the Afghan officers tasked 

with creating a national army and the American soldiers there to 

mentor them. This process is the heart of the US exit strategy: 

a functioning army must be set up in order for US troops to 

withdraw. The enormity of this task is made clear; most who sign 

up are impoverished and illiterate, having grown up in refugee 

camps and their motives are sometimes dubious. Problems arise 

as the Americans lose patience when some soldiers co-operate 

with the Taliban and the Afghans are frustrated by high turnover 

and lack of stability from their advisors. 

The film centres on the battle-weathered General Sayar, who 

has been a soldier in the Afghan army since age 13. Wary of the 

Americans his trust is eventually won by the sincere Colonel 

Shute. It is inspiring to see these men from such different 

backgrounds learning to work together and, despite cultural and 

language barriers, forming a strong emotional bond. 

This is an insightful and important documentary which 

refreshingly avoids sensationalism. Instead it gives an intimate, 

unbiased portrayal of the everyday realities of the American effort 

in Afghanistan, from the tragic to the mundane. SE 

Country USA Running Time 88 mins Director Carol Dysinger Producer Jeff Levy- 

Hintie, Dallas Brennan Rexer Print Source Carol Dysinger 


THE CUTTING TRADITION: INSIGHTS INTO FEMALE GENITAL… 

WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER AT 6PM 

The cutting tradition focuses on the issue of female genital 

mutilation (FGM), a custom, which appears barbaric to the 

westernised eye but it is still practiced in many African and some 

Middle-Eastern countries. Despite being illegal in many of the 

places where it is practiced, FGM continues to be administered to 

very young women, often even little girls. In the majority of cases 

it exposes them to medical and psychological problems from 

which they sometimes never recover. This film is a balance and 

non-judgmental exploration into the reason for FGM which find 

their roots in religious cultural and historical grounds. 

Natives of Burkina Faso, Egypt and Ethiopia express their 

opinions and points of view both in support and against FGM. 

Their authentic, undiluted statements highlight the difficulty of 

resolving an issue that is deeply rooted in their cultures. 

Commissioned by the International Federation of Gynecology 

and Obstetrics, The Cutting Tradition is narrated by Meryl Streep, 

with footage of traditional wedding celebrations and a shocking 

scene which follows a young girl experiencing FGM. Streep’s 

narration takes us through this journey in a delicate and nonjudgmental 

way which, coupled with the astounding direction 

by Nancy Durell McKenna and John Howarth. MP 

Country Burkina Faso/Djibouti,/Egypt/Ethiopia/UK Running Time 47 mins 

Director Nancy Durrell McKenna, John Howarth Producer Nancy Durrell McKenna 

Screenplay/DoP John Howarth Narrator Meryl Streep Print Source Nancy Durrell 

McKenna Email ndm@safehands.org 


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ROUGE CIEL 

SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER AT 3.45PM 

French artist Dubuffet coined the term ‘art brut’ to describe 

works created outside of the conventional parameters of the art 

world. Established in the 1940s art brut was created by those who 

rejected preconceptions of art and a number of its contributors 

were clinically insane asylum inhabitants. The term primarily 

referred to the manner in which the pieces were created, through 

impulses, rather than from visual or stylistic guidelines. 

Among those whose contributions are explored, we learn 

about Fernand Desmoulin, the early 20th century French artist 

who drew in darkness, believing his hands were guided by spirits 

while producing his works. Elsewhere and in the present day, 

American-born George Widener has memorized events from the 

last 2,000 years, and uses these memories to predict the future, 

committing his visions to ‘magic squares’ on a paper tablecloth. 

Director Bruno Decharme has an absolute passion for his 

subject, and he has approached this exploration of art brut in a 

highly imaginative fashion. Rouge Ciel provides an informative 

and educational analysis throughout. This film will be certain to 

appeal to art brut fans but it is also a celebration of humanity and 

the artistic impulse and that makes it accessible to all. CP 

Country France Running Time 93 mins Director/Screenplay/DoP Bruno 

Decharme Producer Barbara Safarova Featuring Zdenek Kosek, Kunizo Matsumoto, 

George Widener Print Source Bruno Decharme Email bsafarova@gmail.com 


CATO IN WONDERLAND 

UK 5 mins Format HD Director/ 

Producer/Screenplay/DoP/Print 

Source Cato Heath l 

A light-hearted and funny documentary 

short. A typical day in the life of Cato 

Heath, a 21-year-old college student 

living with cerebral palsy.

THE SOUND OF MUMBAI: A MUSICAL 

THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 5:30PM 

The opening shot of the sprawling, cramped Mumbai slums 

accompanied by the cheerful voice of Julie Andrews is the kind 

of contradiction that Sarah McCarthy’s insightful documentary 

is built around. Following a group of slum children rehearsing for 

a performance of the world’s favourite musical at the prestigious 

and affluent National Centre of the Performing Arts she skilfully 

juxtaposes the worlds of Mumbai’s wealthier class with that 

of its famous slums. 

McCarthy focuses her film on one boy, Ashish, upon whom 

Slumdog Millionaire’s protagonist could so easily have been 

based. Ashish dreams of a wealthy patron and perhaps even 

a beautiful upper-class girlfriend after he wins the glory of a few 

solo lines. His family make no secret of their hope that Ashish, 

with his command of English and new exposure, can be the 

one to take them out of the slums. Ultimately India’s rigid social 

structure isn’t going to be overthrown overnight by a musical but 

for those few involved it represents a precious opportunity to just 

maybe better their lives. McCarthy is careful not to let the film 

become swept away in their optimism however, she is always 

aware of the distance between dreams and reality. DB 

Country UK Running Time 65 mins Format DigiBeta Director Sarah McCarthy 

Producer Joe Walters DoP Liam Iandoli Print Source Sarah McCarthy 

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STOLEN 


Every week the UN organises family reunions in refugee camps 

across Western Sahara. Fetim is a young mother of three, who 

filmmakers Daniel Fallshaw and Violeta Ashawa document as 

she attempts to organise the week long reunion with her mother. 

In what starts as a feel-good family reunion, she discusses life in 

the camps and reluctantly delves into a forbidden subject, one of 

modern day slavery, and the enslavement of the black community. 

The camera quickly turns on the two Australian filmmakers as 

they try to discuss the issue with the UN refugee agency and 

soon afterwards are pursued by the Polisario Front police who 

scour the camp in the search of their hidden tapes. 

Fascinatingly shot, what started as a simple reunion turns into 

a story which sees the filmmakers escaping the country and 

being followed into France. What makes Stolen an even more 

important document, are the issues which ensued following 

the film’s premiere in Sydney, with the Polisario flying out the 

protagonists to protest against the filmmakers and state they had 

been forced to lie. Since then Polisario Front have tried to block 

screenings of the film, with several festivals dropping it as a result 

and most recently a festival in Norway was taken to court over 

the right to screen the film. XR 

Country Australia Running Time 77 mins Format HDCam Directors/Screenplay/ 

DoPs Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw Producer Tom Zubrycki, Violeta Ayala, Dan 

Fallshaw, Deborah Dickson P/S United Notions Film E v@unitednotionsfilm.com 


THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND 


There Once Was an Island follows the small community that 

inhabits the tiny Polynesian island of Takuu, and their personal 

engagement with the effects of rising sea levels. Only half a 

kilometre long and one metre above sea level, Takuu’s salty, 

poisoned gardens and rapid coastal erosion are the first signs of 

sea-level rise, which threatens to destroy this community and its 

culture. After a bad tidal flood, the community are torn between 

resettling to the mainland of Bougainville, or to stay, and face an 

uncertain future, possibly watching their paradise disintegrate. 

Life on the mainland is very different from the Takuu and 

adapting to a cash economy will irreversibly change their culture. 

Briar March’s stunningly poignant eco-documentary follows the 

decisions of Taaku’s inhabitants. Some, like Teloo, are intent on 

staying; hoping to salvage their culture. Others, like Satty, believe 

the best decision is to move to the mainland, aware of the island’s 

dwindling ability to sustain life. Whether you are an avid believer 

or a sceptic about the effects of global warming becomes a moot 

point – this is a film about a society struggling to decide its future 

when it meets the implacable force of nature. LC 

Country New Zealand/Papua New Guinea Running Time 85 mins Format 

HDV Director/DoP Briar March Producer Lyn Collie Print Source Lyn Collie 

E lcollie@southnet.co.nz 

HOW GREEN WAS OUR VALLEY 

Iran 32 mins Format BetaCam Director 

Fereshth Joghataei Producer/DoP 

Touraj Aslani E feridoll.1977@yahoo.com 

Somewhere in dusty rural Iran a dam 

has been built and the water is rising. 63 

villagers are being forced to relocate, but 

don’t even understand what is happening, 

so turn to the shrine to pray for salvation. 


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THIS WAY OF LIFE 


A unique and intimate portrait of family solidarity, This Way of 

Life follows the Maori Karena family as they rise to meet the 

challenges threatening to destabilize their rural lifestyle. Shot 

over four years, the documentary charts one couple’s refusal to 

concede their values to seemingly insurmountable troubles. With 

six children and fifty horses, Peter and Colleen somehow remain 

philosophical through arson, miscarriage and theft, dedicating 

themselves to the idyllic and isolated life they have chosen for 

themselves and their children. 

Shot against the jaw-achingly beautiful backdrop of New 

Zealand’s Ruahine ranges, lush greens and mist-laced horizons 

become a peaceful anchor to familial drama. With knowing skill, 

Tom Burnstyn’s camerawork is subtle and understated, allowing 

the philosophies of Peter and Colleen to resonate with honesty 

against the mountainous backdrop. As her fearless offspring 

ride bareback along empty beaches, Colleen’s worry that she is 

raising her children ‘to be disappointed’ by what lies outside their 

childhood seems at once understandable and ridiculous. 

Insightful yet unobtrusive, This Way of Life is a masterful 

exploration of the Karena’s unbreakable spirits, and their 

admirable refusal to compromise. JK 

Country New Zealand Running Time 85 mins Director/DoP Thomas Burstyn 

Producer Barbara Sumner Burstyn Print Source Julie Rouyer Email jrouyer@zed.fr 


SKYLIGHT 

UK 5 mins Format HDCam Director/ 

Screenplay/DoP David Bass 

Producers David Bass, Sean Craig Cast 

Jason Groh Print Source David Bass 

An animated mock documentary about 

the ecological plight of penguins in the 

Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic 

results for the rest of the world.

THE VICE GUIDE TO LIBERIA 


Liberia is the fourth poorest country in the world. Its massively 

turbulent recent history, various coups and horrifically brutal 

civil wars have left a devastating legacy of poverty and violence. 

With ex-president Charles Talyor currently on trial for war crimes 

at The Hague, Shane Smith sets out to investigate the state 

of the country and find out what has become of the civil war’s 

remaining warlords. 

Smith and his intrepid crew venture into Liberia’s capital, 

and there is an overarching feeling that they are genuinely in 

danger as they are often forced to flee from seemingly perilous 

situations. Things get particularly hairy when the team visit a 

brothel at night in ‘West Point’. 

The film focuses on Joshua Blahyi, formerly a ferociously 

violent warlord known as General Butt Naked (he was known for 

fighting naked), now an evangelist preacher and supposedly a 

reformed man. An interesting dynamic develops between Smith 

and the charismatic, but clearly sociopathic Blahyi. This is intense 

viewing, in keeping with Vice’s proclivity for extreme subject 

matter. It is an insightful and disturbing film which ultimately 

raises the question of what the future holds for Liberia. SE 

Country UK Running Time 60 mins Format DV Director/Producer/DoP Shane 

Smith, Andy Capper Print Source VBS 


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WHEN THE WORLD BREAKS 

TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 3:45PM 

When the World Breaks, follows the Great Depression that hit 

America in 1929., and explores the belief that men who survive 

tragedy and crisis can become stronger thanks to them. 

When the World Breaks features a collage of rare footage 

from the time, together with interviews and testimonies of those 

who lived through it. Robert F. Boyle, Jerry Stiller, Mickey Rooney, 

Richard Anderson and Paul Dooley, tell us how they found 

ways to overcome the hardship when everything seemed to be 

doomed and what they learnt from the experience. The director, 

musician and filmmaker Hans Fjellestad says he jumped at the 

chance to dig into such a formative period in American society, 

art and identity and explore what turned out to be a period of 

extraordinary creativity and innovation. 

What this documentary proves is that those scars are a crucial 

part of the human experience. In light of today’s circumstances, 

in a world deeply affected by the recession, the message sent 

here becomes even more relevant. Despite its subject matter, 

When the World Breaks interesting, touching and even humorous 

testimonies make for an uplifting and inspiring film. MP 

Country USA Running Time 84 mins Director/DoP Hans Fjellestad Producer Joe 

Mundo Featuring Jerry Stiller, Phyllis Diller, Buzz Aldrin Print Source Joe Mundo 

Email joe@speakeasyfilmsaz.com 


SIEGE OF THE END HILL FARM 

UK 3 mins Format Red Director/ 

Producer/Screenplay Charlie Graley 

DoP David Groundwater Cast Pat 

Hodges, Spencer Edwards, Neil Chester 

Print Source Charlie Graley 

This is the true story of the late John 

Collingborn who stood up to the 

authorities over the Agricultural Training 

Levy in 1970.

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PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART 

THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER AT 4PM 

LIFE+ 

Running Time 11 mins Format H264 Director/Screenplay 

Daniel Broadley DoP Anthony Thornton Cast Robert Paget 

One persons kindness has the power to save another’s life. 

OF BLOOD AND WATER (EXCERPT) 

Running Time 32 mins Format DV/Super-8mm Director/ 

Screenplay Amanda Buckley Producer Patricia Bruen 

Peter and his mother escape their abusive stepfather. 

A VERY BRITISH SCANDAL 

Country UK/Chagos Islands Running Time 16 mins Format 

DVCam Director/Producer/Screenplay Phil Birchall 

The government’s expulsion of the poor into small islands. 

INSOMNIA (CATCH A RAT) 

Running Time 4 mins Format DVCam Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Sean Page 

An experimental and mathematical examination of insomnia. 

KAREN 

Running Time 9 mins Format HDV Dir/Pro/Screenplay 

Patricia Bruen, Steve Barrett, Katy McLean, Robbie Doran 

An intimate look at individuals with learning difficulties. 

EMILY 

Running Time 9 mins Format DVCam Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Sean Page Cast Heidi Dorschler, Karen Turton 

A girl struggles with her boyfriend’s death. 

PLYMTOPIA 

Running Time 1 min Format Super 8mm 

Something stirs in a barren landscape. 

COYOTE DREAM 

Running Time 8 mins Director/Screenplay Alex Blackwood 

Animation on the origins of mythical creatures. 

MODERNITY 

Running Time 8 mins Format H264 Director Alex Thornton 

The contrast between natural and urban landscapes explored. 

STAFF 

Running Time 13 mins Format HDV Director Sergei Kuzin 

A species reliant on technology is questioned. 

SWITCH 

Running Time 4 mins Format Super-16mm Director/DoP 

Alex Thonton Producer/Screenplay Alex Blackwood Cast 

Graham Sessions 

A man dreams in colour in a world of black and white. 

A TIME FOR EVERYTHING 

Running Time 4 mins Format Super-16mm Directors Tim 

Marks, Steven Barrett Producer Patricia Bruen 

Experimental approach to exploring life and the organic space 

in which we live. 

TOM & JENNA 

Running Time 10 mins Format DV Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Kelsey Fox Cast Tom Priest, Jenna Margetts 

A look at today’s British youth culture. 

IN SEARCH OF BEARS 

Country UK/Canada Running Time 15 mins Format DV 

Director/Producer/Screenplay Peter Cayless 

Documentary following orphaned bears in Canada. 


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NOVA EXPRESS 


DREAMLAND 

Country Canada Ft 35mm Writer/Director David Marriott 

Producer Nathan Oliver E davidmarriott41@gmail.com 

Cross betwen Hollywood mythology & crime scene photography. 

MR BRADLEY MR MARTIN HEAR US THROUGH THE 

HOLE IN THIN AIR 

Director/Prod Greig Johnson Screenplay/Cast William 

Burroughs Email eclecticschlock@hotmail.com 

An alien agent is called home in this visually layered, 

expressionistic adaptation of William S Burroughs’ 1965 poem. 

ZYMOTIC AMAUROSIS: CONTAGIOUS 

ARBITRARY BLIND 

Ft 16mm Director/Prod Ozan Adam E ozanadam@gmail.com 

Recordings taken through the eyes of an astronaut. 

THE GOLDFISH [ZLATÁ RYBKA] 

Dir/DoP Jacob Mendel E jacobamendel@gmail.com 

Set in Prague the lives of a man, a cat, and a goldfish intersect. 

DEAR FRIEND 

Director/S’play Don Brosnan Email dpbrosnan@yahoo.co.uk 

A man seeks resolution by tapping into the foreign and feminine 

aspects of his emotional life. 

FATUM 

Director Pablo Millan E arteautor@yahoo.com 

Fatum is the boundless force of opposition against free will. 

MIKE 360 

Dir/DoP Peter Bunzl Cast Mike Hayes E peterbunzl@me.com 

A 360 degree pixilation and time slice extravaganza 


EXTRAORDINARY TOYS 

Director/Prod/S’play Toby Dale Email toby@tobydale.com 

When you’re young, your toys can do extraordinary things. 

THE QUICKEST WAY TO GET OVER YOUR 

DEPRESSION 

Director/Producer Domitien Chen E domitienchen@aol.com 

THE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS OF THE 

EXTRAORDINARY GIRL 

Director/Producer Lucie Lamy E singsongsally1@yahoo.com 

Even extraordinary dreams can come true. 

MANHATTAN 4.33 PM 

Writer/Director /DoP/Producer Lizzie Oxby Cast John 

Taylor Print Source Lizzie Oxby Email info@lizzieoxby.co.uk 

A daydream to remind you of NYC’s skyline. 

GIVE YOUR ORDINARY SOMETHING EXTRA 

Director Eben Bolter Producers/Cast Eben Bolter, Bobby 

Taylor Contact Eben Bolter Email ebenbolter@gmail.com 

CLOWN SHOWDOWN 

Director Kevin Curtis E kevincurtis11@yahoo.co.uk 

A girl squares up to a clown in a cul-de-sac. It’s payback time. 

CLOSE TO HOME 

Director/DoPJason Robbins E cheekorobbins@gmail.com 

A scout robot explores its world. 

THE PRICE WE PAY 

Dir J Steam S’play J Alice E manwiththeballs@rocketmail.com 

How do you stamp your identity and personal style?

OFF THE RAILS – AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY 

Country UK Director/Screenplay Jack H Hancox 

A journey into freedom to an abandoned railway line. 

SOMETIMES THE UNDERDOG WINS 

Director/Producer/DoP Edward Bryson Cast Andrew Pert- 

jogger, Sebastian Slick the Snail E ebryson@longhornfilms.co.uk 

THE PICK UP 

Dir Caz Kennedy Cast Tom Ardley E cazjkennedy@gmail.com 

Tom gets a text that sends him on a mission every man dreads. 

THE UNQUIET MIND – EUPHORIAL 

Director Robbie Chihwen Lo Email lolalaland@gmail.com 

One dancers euphoric mood swings. 

NO PLACE LIKE HOME 

Director/Producer Peilin Kuo Email peilinkuo@yahoo.com 

A baby tries to find his way home. 

SHAKE IT 

Director/DoP Christopher Swank Producer John Raftery 

Screenplay Rodney Raftery E swankfilms@gmail.com 

A substitute aerobic instructor has some fresh ideas. 

SIEGE OF THE END HILL FARM 

Director Charlie Graley E charlie@graleybothers.com 

The true story of the late John Collingborn who stood up to the 

authorities over the Agricultural Training Levy in 1970. 

CATO IN WONDERLAND 

Country UK Dir Cato Heath E catoheath@googlemail.com 

A day in the life of Cato, a student living with cerebral palsy. 

SOMEWHERE NEVER TRAVELLED 

Director Ben Garchar E Ben.Garchar@att.net 

Only one love. Only one take. And then what? 

RADIO GIRL (UNDERGROUND MELODY) 

DirectorRonni Thomas DoP Eric Giovan Cast Vickers ‘Bastard’ 

Gringo, Legs Malone, Noble Robinette E raygun76@gmail.com 

HALKKE 9 

Director Richard Yung Cast Laura Wadell, Tom Bonington, Ian 

Swann E richard@richardjungphotography.com 

A parody of a 1950s kitchen appliance commercial. 

PRODUCT 

Director/Producer/DoP Johan Mard Cast Ben Andrews,Pia 

Olmeadhra E me@nothingproduct.com 

Two outer-city youths talk about love and skin care. 

THE ACTRESS WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH HERSELF 

Director Martin Gooch DoP Martin Gooch, Anna Carrington 

Cast Elena Byers, Jo Byers E martin@martingooch.com 

–C– 

Director Steffan Boje E steffan@littlefischfilms.com 

A cucumber talks about its ordeal in life. 

RIBBON 

Director Joe Marcantonio E joe@marcantonio.tv 

A young couple ask for permission to marry. 

SKYLIGHT 

Director David Baas E dave_baas@hotmail.com 

The ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic 


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RISKY LIAISONS 

SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 2PM 

IN THE MEADOW 

Country UK RT 12 mins Ft HDCam Director/Screenplay 

Dave Alexander Smith Producer Nicola Clayton DoP Jonathan 

Harvey Cast Chris Larkin, Tuppence Middleton Print Source 

Nicola Clayton Email nicola@sodalitefilms.co.uk 

A married man and his younger mistress head into the English 

countryside for an illicit birthday picnic. As the afternoon 

progresses, events take a disturbing turn. 

TRANSPARENT [TRANSPARENTE] 

Country Belgium RT 12 mins Ft Digibeta Director/ 

Screenplay Sammy Fransquet Producer Charlotte Joulia 

DoP Jeremy Tondeur Cast Anne-Pascale Clairembourg, Olivier 

Massart Contact Sammy Fransquet E wakatfilms@gmail.com 

Eve has an unusual problem; people in the streets bump into 

her, cameras are unable to photograph her. Can her doctor help? 

ANNIE GOES BOATING 

Country USA RT 10 mins Ft DCP Director Noel Paul 

Producer Apryl Richards, Joy Saez Screenplay Katie Freeze, 

Noel Paul DoP Michael Ragen Cast Alessandra Torresani, 

Alycia Delmore, Davie Blue E nico@rokkit.tv 

A laconic portrait of a girl on a picnic in the park with her friends. 

Shot in stereo 3-d, the film provides a restrained yet immersive 

glimpse into the group dynamics of this boating party. 

THE BEEKEEPER 

Country USA RT 27 mins Ft HDCam Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Sean Jourdan DoP Kuba Zelazek Cast Michael 

Ward, Michelle Mueller, Oksana Fedunsyzn Print Source Sean 

Jourdan Email sjsjourdan@hotmail.com 

When his son’s girlfriend becomes pregnant as a result of their 

affair, a beekeeper must sacrifice his integrity for his iniquity. 


KARMA – A VERY TWISTED LOVE STORY 

Country USA RT 12 mins Ft Digibeta Director Kevin Foong 

Producer Andreas Hager Screenplay Timothy Covell, 

Kevin Foong DoP Aksel Stasny Cast Micah Kaneko,Rila Ai 

Fukushima, Shuya Chang Print Source Kevin Foong Email 

email@bayardstudios.com 

When the dashing Kazu meets the quirky Rei, he finds the 

love he thought he could never have. But can their romance 

overcome the fragility of their own natures? 

SILENT THINGS 

Country UK RT 12mins Ft HDCam Director Rob Brown 

Producer Adam Merryfield Screenplay Rob Brown, Edward 

Jackson DoP Justin Brown Cast Georgia Groome, Antonia 

Campbell-Hughes, Andrew Scott Print Source Rob Brown 

Email rob.brown@whitelantern.co.uk 

The friendship between an autistic man and woman is tested 

when an impulsive teenage girl comes between them 

RETREAT 

Country UK RT 11 mins Ft Digibeta Director Simon Richards 

Producer Augusto Da Rocha, Simon Richards Screenplay 

Paul Richards DoP Phil Becque Cast Singad Beary, Sinead 

Beary, Mark Killeen Print Source Simon Rickards Email 

simon.rickards@yahoo.co.uk 

When a couple take a trip to the country to save their failing 

marriage, they get far more than they bargained for.

BEST UK 


THE GOLDEN BOY 

Country UK RT 15 mins Ft Red Director Craig Pickles 

Screenplay Robert Jones DoP Sol Saihati Producer Daniel 

Bishop Cast Philip Jackson, Michael Jibson, Bhasker Patel 

Print Source Craig Pickles Email cpickles13@gmail.com 

Two men follow the trail blazed by The Great Fire of London. 

All around them history. Between them, a secret. Ahead of 

them, death. 

WATCHING 

Country UK RT 14 mins Ft Red Director Max Myers S’play 

Nico Mensinga DoP Dan Stafford-Clark Producer Ben Hilton 

Cast Ian Hart, Charlie Cattrall, Susannah Fielding Print Source 

Dakus Films Email info@dakusfilms.com 

Opportunities present themselves for the briefest of moments. If 

you miss them, they don’t come back. 

NATURAL SELECTION 

Country UK RT 20 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay Brett 

Foraker DoP Mark Patten Producer Gwilym Gwillim, Annabel 

Ridley Cast Simon Callow, James D’Arcy Print Source Zung 

Packer Email aridley@rsafilms.co.uk 

‘Professor Gwyndon, my name is John Henry Wilson and I 

have come to kill you.’ In a tense philosophical thriller, renowned 

atheist Ted Gwyndon returns from a book tour to find that 

an intruder awaits. 

STORAGE 

Country UK RT 15 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay David 

Lea DoP Piers Leigh Producer Kasia Skibinska Cast Tom 

Hughes, Steve Lello P/S David Lea E davidlea1@hotmail.com 

If you lived in a world only you understood, would you know if 

someone was trying to help? 

DUST 

Country UK RT 10 mins Ft Super 16mm Director/DoP Ben 

Lavington Martin Screenplay Jon Spira Producer Hank Starrs 

Cast William Hope Print Source Ben Lavington Martin Email 

b.lavingtonmartin@gmail.com 

An astronaut begins to reflect upon his life and his place in the 

universe after he is left stranded on the surface of the moon. 

STANLEY PICKLE 

Country UK RT 11 mins Director Vicky Mather Producer 

Justine Watson DoP John Lee Cast Drew Caiden, Haruka Abe, 

Nadia Morgan P/S Vicky Mather Email info@vickymather.co.uk 

Stanley never goes outside. He likes to play with his clockwork 

toys and every night his mother kisses him goodnight. Stanley is 

twenty. Stanley thinks this is all quite normal, until an encounter 

with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down. 


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RELATIVE STATES 


ARITHMETIC, ANNIE’S LIFE IN LONDON 

Country Canada RT 13 mins Ft DVCPro Director/Screenplay 

Michal Lavi Producer Michal Lavi, Kathleen Yee, Jennifer 

Bysterveld DoP Ian Lister Cast Sarah Lind, Tye Evans, Kamryn 

Roy P/S Michal Lavi E michal@lazysusanproductions.com 

One may be the loneliest number, but it’s compromise-free 

GUIDED TOUR [SIYUR MUDRACH] 

Country Israel RT 25 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay 

Benjamin Freidenberg DoP Ehud Hermony Producers Ariel 

Benbaji, Einat Pinsky Cast Shir Shenar, Isaac Shwartz, Assia 

Vilenkin Print Source The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, 

Jerusalem Email festivals@jsfs.co.il 

Eitan lives alone in Jerusalem and works at night at painting 

lines on the streets of the city. Seeking another person’s 

company makes him wonder; between imagination and reality, 

clarity and blurriness, on the border between identities, between 

the broken lines. 

OFFSPRING 

Country Sweden RT 14 mins Ft MiniDV Director/ 

Screenplay/DoP/Producer Kristian A Söderström Cast 

Michaela Berner, Anette Sevreus, Per Johansson Print Source 

Kristian A Söderström Email symptoms@telia.com 

It’s Marie’s birthday and her newly separated parents are 

coming to visit. Marie’s wish for a cozy gathering, without traces 

of the shattered family situation, dies word by word when the 

mother loses control over her bitterness. The birthday party is 

transformed in to a verbal war between the parents with Marie 

in the line of fire. 


ANY LITTLE THING 

Country Israel RT 11 mins Ft HDV Director Ma’ayan Rypp 

Screenplay Anat Gafni DoP Omri Shenhar Producer Noa 

Freiman Cast Efrat Gosh, Howard Rypp, Eden Luttenberg Print 

Source Ma’ayan rypp Email may_rypp@yahoo.com 

A father visiting his daughter is sent by her to buy a six pack of 

water. On the way from the kiosk to her house he discovers in 

peculiar ways her secret, that she is having an affair with her 

neighbour from downstairs, who is married with a child. 

THE MUSKRAT BOY OF GRIFFITH PARK 

Country USA RT 10 mins Ft 16mm Super Director/ 

Screenplay Emmy Grinwis DoP Scott Kassenoff Producer 

Moira Michiels Cast Corena Chase, Matthew Marcy, Will Lyman 

Print Source Emmy Grinwis Email grinwise@mac.com 

The Muskrat Boy of Griffith Park explores the unconventional 

friendship between a lonely young woman with a flair for the 

fantastical and a scruffy, peculiar boy. 

BRO 

Country UK RT 18 mins Ft HDCam Director/Screenplay 

Chris Dundon DoP Justin Brown Producer Jonathan Blagrove 

Cast Sean Verey, Michael Davies, Ellie Paskell Print Source 

Chris Dundon Email cwdundon@gmail.com 

Simon’s brother Mark suffers from Fragile x syndrome. Simon 

believes his failure to lead a normal adolescent life is solely 

down to his brothers disability.

THRILLER ZONE 

MONDAY 4 OCTOBER AT 4:45PM 

DISAPPEARANCE 

Country USA RT 9 mins Ft Red Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Zachary Volker DoP Richard Anthony Blake 

Cast Jordan McFadden, Travis Jahnnsen, Jacob Serban Print 

Source Zachary Volker Email zacharyvolker@gmail.com 

A haunting, atmospheric story of a young woman’s abduction 

and desertion in the woods – and the eight items left behind. 

BIG DAY OF FISHING 

Country USA RT 10 mins Ft HDV Director/Screenplay 

Timothy Cawley DoP Geoff McAuliffe Producer Zeke Bowman, 

Timothy Cawley, Mark Hankey Cast Steven Barkhimer, Zillah 

Glory, Scott Winters Print Source Timothy Cawley Email 

tcawley@hhcc.com 

Two friends head out into the ocean for a day of fishing. One 

returns. 

SUNDAY PUNCH 

Country USA RT 18 mins Ft 35mm Director/Screenplay 

Dennis Hauck DoP Bill Fernandez Producer Dennis Hauck 

Cast Aimée Barth Dichen Lachman, Samm Levine, David Yow 

Print Source Foe Killer Films Email foekillerfilms@mac.com 

A ring girl decides it’s high time to get out from under the thumb 

of a local gangster, and burn every bridge she can on the way. 

MAN IN THE ROAD 

Country UK RT 10 mins, Ft Red Dir George Milton S’play 

Mark Tilton DoP Peter Thwaits Producer Martino Sclavi Cast 

Ruben-Henry Biggs, Orla Fitzgerald, George Lenz, Marveille 

Lukeba P/S Martino Sclavi E sclavi@2manyexecutives.com 

A short story about hope and hopelessness, faithlessness and 

faith. Two joggers find a man wounded in the road. He seems 

certain to die – if they let him. 

REIGN OF DEATH 

Country UK RT 6 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay 

Matthew Savage DoP Ray Orton Producer John Giwa-Amu 

Cast Noel Clarke Print Source Matthew Savage Email 

m_t_savage@hotmail.com 

In a 1930s vision of the future a gumshoe chases down a robotic 

murder suspect 

ARTICLE #38 

Country UK RT 6 mins Ft HD Director/Screenplay Kuvera 

Sivalingam, Nelson Sivalingam DoP Krshna Naganpillai 

Producer Jayshree Viswanathan Cast Radha Kumar, Ragavan 

P/S Barking Mad Productions E nels_me@hotmail.com 

An exiled former militant must save his kidnapped daughter from 

an unstable persecutor. The ransom – the stolen childhood in 

the name of war. 

WHEN THE HURLYBURLY’S DONE 

Country Germany RT 16 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay 

Alex Eslam, Hanna Maria Heidrich DoP Yoshi Heimrath 

Producer Axel Brügmann Cast Damien Molony, Fiona 

Hampton, George Taylor Print Source Hanna Maria Heidrich 

Email info@filmblau.de 

She will bleed to death. Jacob is holding Gwynn in his arms. If 

he chooses to escape, she will die. 

ST. CHRISTOPHORUS: ROADKILL 

Country Germany RT 26 mins Ft 35mm Director Gregor 

Erler Screenplay Benjamin Karalic, Gregor Erler DoP Philipp 

Haberlandt Producer Martin Wippler Cast Matthias Ziesing, 

Timo Dierkes, Patrick Von Blume 

A young lawyer drives on a road towards Hamburg. But his ride 

takes an unexpected turn as he witness a tragic accident. 


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ABSTRACT NOTIONS 

THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 5PM 

ART OF BONDAGE [KINBAKU] 

Country Finland RT 29 mins Ft HD Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Jouni Hokkanen DoP Jussi Käkkis Arhinmäki 

Cast Asagi Ageha, Osada Steve, Haruki Yukimura Print 

Source John Hakalax E john.hakalax@hakalaxproductions.com 

Rope meets flesh in Tokyo, the S&M capital of the world. Haruki 

Yukimura is a rope master who has tied over 3000 people during 

his life. 

HORTUM 

Country Netherlands/USA RT 7 mins Ft Red Director/ 

Screenplay Ayse Altinok Producer Neil Henry DoP 

Christopher Blauvelt Cast Rick Chant Print Source Ayse 

Altinok Email ayse.altinok@mac.com 

An artistic celebration of being at the edge, Hortum shows a 

slow descent into a place where delight and despair cohabit. 

MAN IN A SHELL 

Country Netherlands RT 15 mins Ft HDCam Director/ 

Screenplay Genja Ferschtman Producer Edgar Kapp DoP 

Peterjan van der Burgh Cast Hugo Lammerink Print Source 

Edgar Kapp Email edgar@kapp-producties.nl 

An artist builds form-work to be filled with concrete. But this is 

no ordinary form-work. Will anybody notice? 


FROG IN THE WELL 

Country Japan RT 15 mins Ft HD Director/Producer Ken 

Ochiai Screenplay Ken Ochiai/Justin Miller DoP Justin Miller 

Cast Ken Ochiai, Chisato Sakurai, Kazuko Tajima Print Source 

Ken Ochiai Email kenochiai@gmail.com 

Following his mother’s wishes, Jo, a reclusive young tailor from 

Tokyo embarks on a solitary journey across Japan. 

THE CHRONOSCOPE 

Country Ireland RT 20 mins Ft 16mm Director/Screenplay 

Andrew Legge Producer Andrew Legge DoP Eleanor Bowman 

Cast Serena Brabazon, Pat McCabe, Kevin Brownlow Print 

Source Andrew Legge Email andrewlegge@ireland.com 

A mocumentary about a beautiful scientist in the 1930s who 

invents a machine that can see into the past. 

THE OPERA SINGER 

Country UK RT 2 mins Ft HDCam Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Nadaav Soudry Email hell@nadaav.com 

An opera singing diva gives the performance of her life, but will 

it sell? A sweet satire about selling out.

RAGING LIBERTIES 


K CITIZEN 

Country USA/France RT 29 mins Ft Red Directors The Tullio 

Brothers Screenplay Stephane Tullio Producer Philippe Tullio 

DoP Elie Smolkin Cast Kate French, David A. Kimball, James 

Horan Print Source Philippe Tullio E philippe.tullio@gmail.com 

If you had the opportunity to go back in time, what would you 

say to yourself? 

THE AWAKENING 

Country UK RT 13 mins Ft DVCPro/HD/Super- 8mm 

Director/Producer/Screenplay Gabriela Dworecki DoP 

Jason Brooks Cast Philip Munnoch Print Source Gabriela 

Dworecki Email duodroume@gmail.com 

Captain Zip plays a business man with a particular world hiding 

under his bed, revealed only when the night falls. Also featuring 

Scary Goth Girl. 

WITH ANCHOVIES WITHOUT MAMA 

Country USA RT 25 mins Ft HDV Director/Screenplay 

Thomas Justino DoP Trent Ermes Producer Ken Regan Cast 

Adam Scarimbolo, Johnny Tammaro, Joli Tribuzio Print Source 

Thomas Justino Email bullfella@gmail.com 

An anchovy makes its way onto a pizza. 

THE LADY WITH THE DOG [LA DAME AU CHIEN] 

Country France RT 16 mins Ft HD Director Damien Manivel 

Producer Le G.R.E.C. Screenplay Damien Manivel, Rémi 

Esterle DoP Julien Guillery Cast Elsa Wolliaston, Rémi Taffanel, 

Stiki P/S Damien Manivel E damienmanivel@hotmail.com 

On a hot summer afternoon, a teenager finds a stray dog in a 

local park. He decides to take the dog back to its owner. A fat 

black woman, half drunk, opens the door and asks him in by way 

of thanks. 

MUDVAYNE: NEXUS, LIFE, DEATH 

Country USA RT 13 mins Ft HDCAM Director/Screenplay 

Frankie Nasso Producer Raymond Foley, Lucille Hansen DoP 

Chris Cannucciari Cast Anthony Marks, Diana Cherkas, Harvey 

Kaufmann P/S Frankie Nasso E frankienasso@novaent.net 

Satan’s creation of man and woman trying to procreate his 

spawn on earth and his failed attempts at doing so. He now 

needs a human seed to foster his child. 


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ABSENT SENSE 


RED SHOES 

Country UK RT 11 mins. Ft Super-16mm Director Marta Loza 

Alonso Producer/Screenplay Philippa Juul DoP Luca Ciuti 

Cast Beth Winslet, Chloe Tannenbaum E pj.juul@btinternet.com 

A feisty urban girl loses her way in an eerie forest and discovers 

just how far she will go to protect her sexy red shoes. 

MEET PURSUIT DELANGE 

Country UK RT 25 mins Ft HDCam Dir/S’play Howard 

Webster DoP Callum McInnes E howard.webster@gmail.com 

It’s not a wonderful. It’s Christmas, Pursuit is broke, unemployed, 

in love with the wrong girl and his saviour is a sociopath. 

STALKER 

Country UK RT 10 mins Ft Super 16 mm Director Phil Haine 

Producer Camilla Wren S’play Mark Brown DoP Toby Gorman 

Cast David Whitney E info@brainehowndfilms.com 

A city boy finds an intruder in his shower, but instead of calling 

help, finds out a bit more about himself than he’d bargained for. 

ORIGIN 

Country UK RT 14 mins Ft Super 16 mm Director/S’play 

Danny Stack Prods Danny Stack, Jo-Ann Challis DoP David 

Raedeker P/S Danny Stack Email dstack30@gmail.com 

A woman tries to keep her family together after her son falls ill 

having been bitten by a mysterious creature. 

INTERLUDE 

Country UK RT 7 mins Ft HDV Dir/S’play Ruaridh Webster 

Producer Steffan Boje DoP Oliver Schofield Cast Lisa 

Pobereskin, Kenny Solomons E steffan@littlefischfilms.com 

When two people with a common passion bump into each other, 

anything can happen. 


POPPING ROUND 

Country UK RT 6 mins Ft HD Director Martin Gooch 

Producer Eleanor Smithard, Leisha Anna, Martin Gooch S’play 

Eleanor Smithard DoP Pete Rowe Cast Eleanor Smithard 

Leisha Anna P/S Martin Gooch E martin@martingooch.com 

It’s amazing how just popping round someone’s house can 

change their whole world forever. 

BAD CALL 

Country UK RT 6 mins Ft HD Director/DoP Geoff Searle 

Producer Mark Straker Screenplay Geoff Searle, Mark 

Straker Cast Sam Underwood, Ben Bishop, Amy Connery Print 

Source Geoff Searle Email info@geoffsearle.com 

After stealing his girlfriend’s phone, furious Dave arranges a 

date with a man he believes she is having an affair with. 

MISSED CONNECTIONS 

Country UK Dir/S’play Christopher Presswell Prod Oleg 

Ozoling DoP Phillip Crosby E chris@papersunfilms.co.uk 

Misanthrope Jamie becomes so amused by a newspaper’s 

missed connections column that he starts replying to them all. 

LATITUDE CHASE [LATITUDE WINNER 2010] 

Country UK RT 35 secs Director Mark Wilkins Screenplay 

Ellie Wilkins Cast Gillian Smith E mail@markwilkins.co.uk 

A young girls runs away from something at Latitude. 

SIGN LANGUAGE 

Country UK RT 5 mins Director Oscar Sharp Prod Tiernan 

Hanby S’play Stephen Follows DoP Anthony Gurner Cast 

Jethro Skinner, Laura Mugridge E oscar@thereforefilms.com 

Meet Ben. He holds a sign in the street for a living – and loves 

his job more than almost anything. But today is his last day.

CHANGING LANES 


LA PLAYA 

Country UK RT 23 mins Ft 16mm Director Elisa Cepedal 

Screenplay Elisa Cepedal, Andrés Borda DoP Clara Kraft 

Producer Mariana Murillo Cast Laura Diaz, Fernando Barona, 

Guillermo Serrano Print Source Elisa Cepedal Email 

elisacepedal@googlemail.com 

Ana is awakened from monotony by an unexpected encounter 

with two youths from a neighbouring village. 

PASSENGERS 

Country Belgium/France RT 13 mins Ft HDCam Director/ 

Screenplay Samuel Feller DoP Michel Baudour Producer 

Isabelle Mathy Cast Julien Baumgartner, Erika Sainte Print 

Source Samuel Feller Email samuel.feller@hotmail.com 

Motorcycling down a deserted road, a young couple encounter 

three lonely individuals at a gas station, this encounter leads 

them to seek a new harmony. 

CONFORMISTS 

Country UK RT 19 mins Ft HDCam Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Juriaan Booij DoP Justin Brown Cast Kay 

Headley, Robert Emmanuel, Rob Talbot Print Source Juriaan 

Booij Email juriaanbooy@hotmail.com 

We witness the fraught encounter between a group of strangers, 

all of whom are dissatisfied with life. They choose to take their 

frustration out on someone who is different. . 

THE POOL 

Country Ireland RT 12 mins Ft Red Director Thomas Hefferon 

Screenplay TJ Hundtofte DoP Ruairi O’ Brien Producer 

Dave Leahy, Fiona Kinsella Cast Ryan Andrews, Thomas 

Kelly, Andy Gallagher Print Source Thomas Hefferon 

Email thomashefferon@gmail.com 

Three teenage boys break into their school swimming pool late 

one night, with tragic consequences. 

DEEPER THAN YESTERDAY 

Country Australia RT 20 mins Ft 35mm Director/Screenplay 

Ariel Kleiman DoP Peter Eastgate Producer Anna Kojevnikov, 

Benjamin Gilovitz, Sarah Cyngler Cast Albert Goikhman, Dmitiri 

Pronin, Nikolai Nikolaeff Print Source Benjamin Gilovitz 

Email contact@deeperthanyesterday.com 

After three months submerged underwater, the men have 

become savages. Oleg fears that losing perspective may mean 

losing himself. 

SHADOWS OF SILENCE 

Country France RT 12 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay 

Pradeepan Raveendran DoP Krshna Naganpillai Cast Krishna 

Subramania, Krishanthi Ananthakumar, Unitha Ananthakumar 

Print Source Predeepan Raveendran E ravideep12@gmail.com 

The nightmares and realities of a depressed person in exile. 


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LEARNING CURVES 


THE INVIGILATOR 

Country Malaysia RT 12 mins Ft HDCam Director/ 

Screenplay Manesh Nesaratnam Producer Amy Lim, Roshan 

Ravichandran DoP John Goh Cast Cheryl Samad, Tony Eusoff, 

Zahiril Adzim Print Source Amy Lim E amy.rosh@gmail.com 

An idealistic trainee teacher decides to quit teaching after 

an embarrassing argument in class. Her experienced and 

unconventional counterpart attempts to convince her otherwise. 

I LUV MATT JOHNSON 

Country UK RT 17 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay Jon 

Garbett Producer Aradhna Tayal DoP Dan Stafford-clark Cast 

Tamaryn Payne E jon@savethedogproductions.com 

17 year old Zoe succeeds in juggling her GCSE retakes, 

supermarket job and commitments to her friends until her 

boyfriend and best mate betray her. 

THE PROFESSIONALS 

Country Bangladesh RT 13 mins Ft HDV Director Oniket Alam 

Screenplay Cal Jahan Producer Aref Syed DoP Aref Syed 

Cast Aref Syed, Abdul Hannan, Arpon Mandol Print Source 

Aref Syed Email aref.syed@gmail.com 

What happens when Joshim, a simple mill worker, comes face to 

face with the doctor whose negligence crippled him for life? 

ROYALTY FREE 

Country USA RT 11 mins Ft Super-16mm Director/ 

Screenplay Michael Bernstein Producer Chris Bryant DoP 

Allen Liu Cast Raymond Cham Jr., Catesby Bernstein, Solomon 

Bonne P/S Michael Bernstein E mikebernstein@me.com 

Charlie, an entertainer, can bring a smile to anybody – except 

one miserable audience member. Every entertainer has an ego, 

even if he’s only 12 years old. 


DIPLOMA 

Country Israel RT 22 mins Ft HD Director/Screenplay 

Yaelle Kayam Producer Tal Siano DoP Ziv Berkovich Cast 

Osama Arbiaa, Youssra Barakat Print Source The Sam Spiegel 

Film & TV School, Jerusalem Email festivals@jsfs.co.il 

Hebron, the night of the Jewish settlement Masquerade. 15 year 

old Samer insists on taking his older sister Ayat to collect her 

diploma from the Palestinian university. Walking through the city 

rooftops and narrow side allies they must avoid the settlers, the 

army and the curious new foreign reporters. 

THE TERMS 

Country UK RT 12 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay Jason 

LaMotte Producer Allon Wechsler DoP Lee Pulbrook Cast 

Gary Lewis, Ciaran Flynn Print Source Jason LaMotte Email 

lamottejason@mac.com 

In this darkly amusing tale, a father and son forge a twisted pact: 

one shot will decide between freedom and death. 

THE ROAD HOME 

Country UK/India RT 21 mins Ft 35mm Director Rahul 

Gandotra Screenplay Milja Fenger, Rahul Gandotra Producer 

Ameenah Ayub, Rahul Gandotra DoP Christoph Brunner Cast 

Arrun Harker, Ashish Dharmadhikari, Emily Lucienne Print 

Source Rahul Gandotra Email gangui@mac.com 

Sent by his parents to an international boarding school in the 

Himalayas, Pico grapples with his identity as he escapes from 

his boarding school in search of the road back home to England.

GONE ASTRAY 


THE GRAND FALLS [LE GRAND SAULT] 

Country Canada RT 15 mins Ft DVCPro Director/ 

Screenplay/Producer Hervé Demers DoP Hervé Demers 

Cast Janice Béliveau-Sicotte, Renaud Fortin Print Source 

Herve Demers Email hd@hervedemers.com 

A young woman has no idea that their peaceful meeting place 

will be the scene of immense turmoil. 

CHARLIE AND THE RABBIT 

Country USA RT 10 mins Ft HDV Director/Screenplay/ 

DoP/Producer Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian 

Cast Elias Graham Print Source Robert Graham Email 

robertmachoian@gmail.com 

After watching Bugs Bunny, Charlie, a four-year-old boy, decides 

to hunt a rabbit of his own. 

HAPPY PILLS 

Country Canada RT 8 mins Ft Digibeta Director/Screenplay 

Tanya Lemke Producer Aeschylus Poulos DoP Rudolf 

Blahacek Cast Christine Horne, Stephen McHattie Print 

Source Tanya Lemke Email tanya@tanyalemke.com 

A power struggle between an embittered father and his dutiful 

daughter ends with a potent lesson in honesty and trust. 

NOREEN 

Country Ireland RT 18 mins Ft DigiBeta Director/Screenplay 

Domhnall Gleeson Producer Juliette Bonass, David Clarke, 

Ciaran Deeney DoP Ruairi O’Brien Cast Brendan Gleeson, 

Brian Gleeson, Gerard Byrne, Sean McCarthy Print Source 

David Clarke Email dave@elzorrezofilms.ie 

Two Irish policemen learn life lessons on a housecall. Frank 

is young and heartbroken, Con is weary. They’re both alone. 

They’re both idiots. 

GUERRILLA GARDEN 

Country USA RT 19 mins Ft 35mm Director/Screenplay 

Rafael Palacio Illingworth DoP Autumn Cheyenne Durald 

Producer Eleonore Meier Cast Alex Patino, Eddie Ruiz, 

Esteban Pena P/S Eleonore Meier E elemeier@gmail.com 

On the golf course of a fancy hotel, three Mexican gardeners 

compete against fifteen Chinese gardeners. 

BOXER 

Country UK RT 17 mins Director/Producer/Screenplay 

Andrew Cumming DoP Garry Torrance Cast Lewis Howden, 

Helen McAlpine Print Source Andrew Cumming Email 

andrew@kineticgroup.org 

In a decaying Scottish community, a lonely man witnesses a 

violent attack that gives him a reason to exist. 

SYD 

Country France RT 21 mins Ft Red Director/Screenplay 

Fabien Gazanhes DoP William Hulin Producer Fabien 

Gazanhes Cast Manuel Montero, Antoine Stip, Dominik Bernard 

Print Source Fabien Gazanhes E fabiengazanhes@gmail.com 

Syd is a famous tap dance performer, exuberant and narcissistic. 

The crowd’s cheers are his only reason to live.. 

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS 

Country Canada RT 8 mins Ft Super 16mm Director Lee 

Chambers S’play Lee Chambers, Christina Sharpe DoP Luke 

Grandmont Producers Lee Chambers, Jeremy Landon Cast 

Basil Hoffman P/S Lee Chambers E lee@leechambers.com 

Calvin attempts to outwit some neighbourhood kids in a battle to 

sell the most lemonade. 


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BEST INTERNATIONAL 


HAPPINESS IS HATE THERAPY 

Country UK RT 8 mins Format HDV Director/DoP Brett 

Blackwell Producers/Screenplay Ryan McDonald, Matthew 

Kloske Cast Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Pat Kelly, Peter Oldring Print 

Source Matthew Kloske Email matt@83pictures.com 

Joe gets together twice a week with his Hate Therapy group. 

This night things start to heat up when a newcomer joins the 

group. 

I AM A FAT CAT 

Country USA RT 20 mins Format HDCam Director/ 

Producer/Screenplay Alex Brook Lynn DoP Jarred Alterman 

Cast Shana Solomon, Tatiana Gomberg, Geoff Mosher Print 

Source Alex Brook Lynn Email alexbrooklynn@gmail.com 

Living in New York City surrounded by so much wealth and 

struggling to find some scraps for yourself, the fat cats are lost 

people dreaming big about the wrong things. 

FLY 

Country Germany, Poland RT 26 mins Format HDCam 

Director Piotr J. Lewandowski Producers Carsten Strauch, 

Piotr J Lewandowski, Arto Buhmann, Ben Deiss Screenplay 

Finn-Ole Heinrich, Jan Oberlaender DoP Lars Petersen Cast 

Jacob Matschenz, Sandra Hueller, Oktay Oexdemir Print 

Source Piotr J Lewandowski E mail@piotr-j-lewandowski.de 

Dima, a petty criminal, is going to be deported from Germany. 

Meeting young student Sarah who is working on a documentary 

about young foreigners.He becomes the main subject of the 

film. Soon enough, Dima and Sarah get emotionally tied up, until 

reality hits their lives. 


MOUSTACHETTE 

Country USA RT 17 mins Format HDCam Director Patrick 

Stump Producers Paul Klinke, Tobin Nageotte Screenplay 

Patrick Stump, Paul Klinke, Tobin Nageotte DoP Kevin Joelson 

Cast Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Ryan Key Print Source Emily 

Denker Email moustachettemovie@gmail.com 

A quest for truth in a blanket of stupidity and tongue-in-cheek, 

satirical look at a group of pompous, misled young artists. 

STILL 

Country Cyprus RT 18 mins Format Mini DV Director/ 

Producer/Screenplay/DoP Alana Kakoyiannis Cast Niki 

Kafa, Gunay Hasmetoglu Print Source Alana Kakoyiannis 

Email info@alanakakoyiannis.com 

A poetic documentary reflecting on the notion of home through 

the lens of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot displacement on 

the divided island of Cyprus. 

LIN 

Country UK RT 25 mins Format DCP Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay Piers Thompson DoP Alexander Krumov Cast Lin 

Clifton Print Source Piers Thompson E info@hectorfilms.co.uk 

A woman arrives in an unknown country at day break. She 

appears to be running away from her past.

DOCUMENTARY TONES 

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER AT 11:30AM 

THE LAST CUT 

Country UK, Mali RT 20 mins Ft HDV Director/Screenplay/ 

DoP Damian Rafferty Producer Bintou Dicko Cast Lopa 

Kothari, Bintou Dicko E damian@flyglobalmusic.com 

How traditional African ways hold the key to shaking off the 

harmful practice of Female Genital Cutting in Mali. 

BUNKY ECHO HAWK – PROFILE OF 

A PROACTIVE ARTIST 

Country USA RT 7 mins Ft Mini-DV Director/Screenplay/ 

DoP Tracy Rector Producer Longhouse Media Cast Bunky 

Echo Hawk Print Source Tracy Rector E nativelens@mac.com 

Bunky Echo Hawk works to break down stereotypes of Native 

American people using his paints, brushes, canvas and culture 

ONE FOOT ON THE GROUND 

Country UK RT 24 mins Ft HDV Director Matthew 

Copson Producer Jeremy Taylor DoP Tom Bateman Cast 

Andrei Zelenechii Print Source Matthew Copson Email 

onefootonthegroundfilm@googlemail.com 

Andrei is a young and promising basketball player growing up 

in Moldova, a country still coming to terms with the break up of 

the Soviet Union. 

TREE OF FORGETTING 

Country USA RT 9 mins Ft HDV Director/Producer/ 

Screenplay/DoP Luis Boor, Valdovino Cast Familia Andersch, 

Familia Cardona, Familia Valdovino Print Source Luis Boor, 

Valdovino Email luis.valdovino@colorado.edu 

The world’s shortest short story takes a detour to a place 

where time is a forking path of possibilities leading to the same 

eventuality, the past. 

BARBER’S DOZEN 

Country UK RT 7 mins Ft HDCam Director Tara Manandhar, 

David O’Neill Producer Tara Manandhar, David O’Neill DoP 

Tara Manandhar Cast Brain, Terry, Roland Print Source Tara 

Manandhar Email info@topstoriesfilms.com 

ON STONY GROUND 

Country UK RT 7 mins Ft HDV Producer/Director/DoP 

Rehana Rose Khan Print Source Rehana Rose Khan Email 

info@ponderproductions.com 

Two homeless alcoholics meet on Brighton beach. A film about 

friendship, creativity and alcohol. 

THE BIRD OF TAMWORTH 

Country UK RT 11 mins Ft Director Alastair Uhlig DoP Daniel 

Chaytor Producer Adinia Lavinia Istrate Print Source Chrissy 

Bright Email c.bright@lfs.org.uk 

Bridie Spicer, talks about coming to terms with the loss of her 

son, Leon, a private in the Staffordshire Regiment, British Army, 

killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2005. He had been in Iraq for 

only seven weeks. 

UNEARTHING THE PEN 

Country Uganda, UK RT 13 mins Ft HDV Director/ 

Producer/Screenplay/DoP Carol Salter Cast Locheng Print 

Source Carol Salter Email carol@rocksaltfilms.com 

A Ugandan Boy faces insurmountable odds trying to get an 

education; forty years ago, tribal elders buried a pen, placing a 

curse on the written word. 


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ANIMATION CITY 


NEW DIGS 

Country S Africa RT 2 mins Dir/S’play/DoP/Prod Martin 

Sen Cast S Cutler P/S M Sen E sen.martin@gmail.com 

A little hamster, feeling neglected and unloved by his owner, 

decides to leave his rotten home in search for a better one. 

ONCE UPON A MANY TIME 

Country Canada RT 5 mins Ft DV Dir/S’play Eva Cvijanovic 

ProdEva Cvijanovic, Ivan Ramadan E eva.toons@gmail.com 

A film that explores our relationship with things, places and 

people when forced to leave what we consider home. 

PRAYERS FOR PEACE 

Country USA RT 8 mins Director/Screenplay Dustin Grella 

DoP Arthur Grella Producer Dustin Grella, Matt Israel Cast 

Devin Grella P/S Dustin Grella E email@dustystudio.org 

Pastels on a slate chalkboard underscore life’s impermanence 

as the artist confronts the memory of his brother killed in Iraq. 

THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE 

Country USA RT 5 mins Director/Producer/Screenplay 

Gerald Guthrie Email gguthrie@illinois.edu 

The human conflict between basic physical requirements and 

the need for culture. 

KITTEH KITTEH TRIPLE FEATURE: CATZILLA, THE TAIL 

RUNNER, CATZILLA & FATAL DANGER 

Country UK RT 2 mins Director Sam Lanyon Jones 

Producer Tom Atkinson DoP Andy Hague Print Source Sam 

Lanyon Jones Email tokyoplastic2@hotmail.com 

In these micro-epics from the directors at tokyoplastic we 

journey into the dreams of a little kitten and reveal the true 

nature of sleeping cats everywhere 


THE HAIRY HANDS 

Country UK RT 12 mins Ft DigiBeta Dir/Prod/S’play/DoP 

Ashley Thorpe Cast Ed Berry E info@carrionfilms.co.uk 

Dartmoor: 953 km of desolate moorland, home to a thousand 

ghosts and a fugitive racing down a haunted road to meet one! 

TAKHABOT 

Country Lebanon RT 6 mins Director/S’play/DoP Ghassan 

Halawani P/S Kinda Hassan E kinda.h@eka3productions.com 

Intense feelings reflecting political chaos. 

TALES FROM THE AFTERNOW: LITTLE ROCKS 

Canada RT 12 mins Dir David T Krupicz E info@rantradio.com 

From a bunker a hooded figure tells the story of his life. 

DANNY BOY 

Country Switzerland/Poland RT 10 mins Director/S’play 

Marek Skrobecki DoP Andrezej Jaroszewicz Producer Luc 

Toutounghi, Zbigniew Zmudzki Cast Jisele Rime, Sylviane Tille 

P/S Luc Toutounghi E luc.toutounghi@archangelfilmgroup.ch 

In a world that seems lost, a young poet falls in love. 

NIGHT MUSIC 

Country UK RT 13 mins Dir/S’play Paul Jacques Prod Jill 

Bryan DoP Charlotte Knowles E jacquespaul@fsmail.net 

Sailors, prostitutes, incest, alchemy and murder. 

FUSE 

Country UK RT 30 mins Dir/S’play Benjamin Barfoot DoP 

Sophie Penwill Producer Lee Wade Cast Robin Mayes, Jack 

Bailey, Hilary Catherine Gillespie E lee@coppercircle.co.uk 

A dark and epic tale of one man’s panicked awakening to an 

empty city he can’t remember.

INDEX OF FILMS 

-C- 98, 139 

32nd December 81 

9:06 80 

The Actress Who Fell in Love with 

Herself 55, 139 

Alive 82 

All I Ever Wanted: The Airborne Toxic 

Event Live from the Walt… 62 

American Grindhouse 63 

Annie Goes Boating 140 

Anti-Chaos 106 

Any Little Thing 142 

Arithmetic – Annie’s Life in Numbers 142 

Armless 116 

Article 38, 143 

Autumn Adagio 104 

The Awakening 145 

Bad Call 146 

Barber’s Dozen 151 

Bedways 64 

The Beekeeper 140 

Big Day of Fishing 143 

The Bird of Tamworth 151 

Bo 83 

Boxer 149 

Boys on the Run 105 

Bring Me Up 106 

Bro 142 

Bunky Echo Hawk – Profile of 

a Proactive Artist 151 

Camp Victory, Afghanistan 126 

Cannibal 84 

Cato in Wonderland 128, 139 

Charlie and the Rabbit 149 

The Chronoscope 144 

Climber 106 

Close to Home 138 

Clown Showdown 138 

Conformists 147 

The Cutting Tradition: Insights into 

Female Genital Mutilation 127 

Danny Boy 152 

Days of Harvest 85 

Dear Friend 138 

Deeper Than Yesterday 147 

Diploma 148 

Dirty Diaries 65 

Disappearance 143 

Do Elephants Pray? 52 

Donoma 76 

Dreamland 138 

The Extraordinary Dreams of the 

Extraordinary Girl 138 

Extraordinary Toys 138 

Fatum 138 

Five Daughters 53 


Flooding with Love for the Kid 117 

Fly 150 

Freight 54 

Frog in the Well 144 

Fuse 152 

Gathering 106 

Getting Dressed 106 

The Gift of the Magi 106 

Give Your Ordinary Something Extra 138 

The Golden Boy 141 

The Goldfish 138 

Googuri Googuri 106 

The Grand Falls 149 

Guerrilla Garden 149 

Guided Tour 142 

The Hairy Hands 152 

Halkke 9 52, 139 

Happiness Is Hate Therapy 150 

Happy Pills 149 

Helena from the Wedding 118 

Here I Am 92 

Hi! Otsuka Drugstore 106 

Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry: The Life and 

Times Of Norman K Collins 66 

Hortum 144 

How Green Was Our Valley 131 

Huge 55 

I Am a Fat Cat 150 

I Believe in Angels 86 

I Luv Matt Johnson 148 

In the Meadow 140 

Incredibly Small 119 

Interlude 146 

Into the West 47 

The Invigilator 148 

Iron Doors 87 

Jackboots on Whitehall 56 

K Citizen 145 

Karma – A Very Twisted Love Story 140 

Kinbaku – Art of Bondage 144 

Kino Karavan 88 

Kitteh Kitteh Triple Feature: Catzilla, 

Tail Runner, Fatal Danger 152 

L.A. Zombie 67 

La Playa 147 

The Lady with the Dog 145 

The Lake Effect 120 

The Last Cut 151 

Latitude Chase 146 

Legacy 57 

Lights Out 77 

LIN 150 

Look at What the Light Did Now 68 

Lost and Found 108 

Lost Girl 109 

Lovers of Hate 121 

Lummox 58 

Lunar Child 110 

Macho 98 

Man in a Shell 144 

Man in the Road 143 

Manhattan 4:33pm 138 

Marieke, Marieke 89 

Meet Pursuit Delange 146 

Mike 360 138 

Missed Connections 146 

Moustachette 150 

Mr Bradley Mr Martin Hear Us Through 

the Hole in Thin Air 138 

Mudvayne: Nexus, Life, Death 145 

The Muskrat Boy of Griffith Park 142 

My Flesh My Blood 90 

My Neighbour Totoro 49 

Natural Selection 141 

Nausicaä and the Valley of the Wind 43 

The Necessities of Life 152 

New Digs 152 

Night Music 152 

Nightrunner 91 

No Place Like Home 139 

Noreen 149 

Off the Rails: An Extraordinary Journey 139 

Offspring 142 

Ollie Kepler’s Expanding Purple World 59 

On Holiday 122 

On Stony Ground 151 

Once Upon a Many Times 152 

One Foot on the Ground 151 

The Opera Singer 144 

Origin 146 

Papa 106 

Passengers 147 

The Pick Up 139 

The Pool 147 

Popping Round 146 

Prayers for Peace 152 

The Price We Pay 138 

Product 71, 139 

The Professionals 148 

Pure Asia 111 

Question in Details 92 

The Quickest Way to Get Over Your 

Depression 138 

Radio Girl (Underground Melody) 74, 139 

Rebels Without a Clue 60 

Red Shoes 146 

Reign of Death 143 

Retreat 140 

Ribbon 85, 139 

The Road Home 148 

Robert Mitchum Is Dead 78 

Rouge Ciel 128

Royalty Free 148 

A Serbian Film 93 

Shadows of Silence 147 

Shake It 139 

Siege of the End Hill Farm 134, 139 

Sign Language 146 

Silent Things 140 

Skylight 132, 139 

Slackistan 99 

Sometimes the Underdog Wins 139 

Somewhere Never Traveled 120, 139 

Son Of Babylon 100 

The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical 129 

Sounds Like a Revolution 69 

St Christophorus: Roadkill 143 

Stalker 146 

Stanley Pickle 141 

Still 150 

Stolen 130 

Storage 141 

Sunday Punch 143 

Superstonic Sound: The Rebel Dread 70 

Swansea Love Story 71 

Syd 149 

Symbol 72 

Takhabot 152 

Tales from the Afternow: Little Rocks 152 

The Terms 148 

There Once Was an Island 131 

This Way of Life 132 

The Toll 102 

Too Much Pussy: Feminist Sluts in 

the Queer X Show 73 

Transparent 140 

Trash 94 

Treasure of the Black Jaguar 123 

Tree of Forgetting 151 

Unearthing the Pen 151 

The Unquiet Mind – Euphorial 139 

USB 112 

Vacation! 124 

The Vice Guide to Liberia 133 

The Story of My Space 101 

Vampires 96 

Watching 141 

We Are the Mods 74 

When Life Gives You Lemons 149 

When The Hurlyburly’s Done 143 

When The World Breaks 134 

With Anchovies Without Mama 145 

The Woman Who Stole Fingers 106 

The Woman with a Broken Nose 95 

Yellow Kid 113 

Yotsuya Alpha Beta 106 

Yuriko’s Aroma 114 

Zymotic Amaurosis: Contagious… 138 

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