Jim guides the audience through the series of events that led up to his old-fashioned beat down. The story is told in reverse, and was shot in one continuous take.

An experimental comedy about tennis, dancing cars, and God.

The aesthetic journey of a drop of water - animation sound and image are combined to create a zen-like exploration of fluidity and nature.

Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the new film from Fatih Akin (Head-On) presents a complex interweaving tale that crosses between Germany and Turkey. When widower, Ali, invites a prostitute, Yeter, to move in with him, his son Nejat initially disapproves until he discovers that the money is going to pay for her daughter, Ayten’s university education in Turkey. Ayten, meanwhile is on the run from the Turkish police and has been taken in by the smitten Lotte in Germany. With an interweaving story and fractured time structure, Akin delivers on the promise he has shown to establish himself as one of the most important young international filmmakers working today.

Night. A crowded city. An old and crumbling apartment house. An elevator in which two people are stuck. When help is stalled, what appears to be a normal incident, turns into a whole new reality for both strangers.

In St-Marcel-de-Richelieu (Quebec, Canada), only 32 children are studying at the elementary school, which is divided in 2 classes with 3 different teaching levels in each one. What could be the consequences of this situation whose main goal is to prevent this shool from closing down? Is every child receiving an equal share of education?

GAINING GROUND (LAND GEWINNEN) Director: Marc Brummund - Germany - 21 minutes In German and Russian with English subtitles Andrej and his family have been living in Germany illegally for years. When his son reaches school age, he can’t hide any longer as his son’s education and future is at stake. LIGHTBORNE (ALUMBRAMIENTO) Director: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson - Spain - 15 minutes In Spanish with English subtitles A family faces the last night of its eldest member, showing their different ways of dealing with a life’s ending. In a surprising manner, overcoming fear and taboo, one of them will guide the passing. LULLABY Director: Kevin Markwick - United Kingdom - 15 minutes Lullaby is the story of a mothers love for an unborn child and how the time has come to leave the memories safely behind and move on. THE SOUND OF PEOPLE Director: Simon Fitzmaurice - Ireland - 8 minutes The Sound of People is the story of a moment in the life of an eighteen boy, standing on the brink of his life and death. TANGHI ARGENTINI Director: - Belgium - 14, In Dutch with English subtitles When an office worker tells a woman he met on the internet that he can dance the tango, he needs to get a crash course from a reluctant co-worker. TONY ZEAR (TONY ZOREIL) Director: Valentin Potier - France - 20 minutes In French with English subtitles Tony is a single 28-year-old who inherited from an remarkable physical particularity. He has very big ears and suffers from an extreme sensitivity to the slightest noise. Looking for love, he collects failures with women who reject his difference. His life has thus become a true nightmare. WAVES (VALURI) Director: Adrian Sitaru - Romania - 17 minutes In French and Romanian with English subtitles At the seaside, on the beach, two people experience extreme situations. A beautiful Western mother asks a gypsy boy to look after her 4 year old baby; a husband and father fights ennui by flirting with the same beautiful foreigner while teaching her how to swim.

The 'Execution of Solomon Harris' follows an electric chair execution in which equipment breaks down, delivering a non-lethal jolt of electricity that leaves the prisoner screaming in pain. Protocol and routine fail to provide a resolution, and the warden has to cope with the human dilemma that falls into his hands.

24 FRAMES PER DAY Director: Sonali Gulati - USA - 7 minutes Conceived by combining 24 photographs taken each day over a period of 9 months combined with a conversation with a taxicab driver while returning from the airport , the film raises important questions around immigration, cultural stereotypes, and the meaning of home from a transnational perspective. A CONVOLUTION OF IMAGINED HISTORIES Director: Micah Stansell - USA – 9 minutes This film is comprised of four chapters, telling four separate stories that make up a meta-narrative. The works are the result of imagining the visual track to the story of someone else's memories. They focus on the small, mundanemoments that surround the dramatic (or traumatic) moments. DEAR BILL GATES Director: Sarah J. Christman - USA - 17 minutes A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival film, video, and images from the internet, the film draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft. DOXOLOGY Director: Michael Langan - USA – 7 minutes An experimental comedy about tennis, dancing cars, and God. drop Director: Bryan Leister - USA – 4 minutes The aesthetic journey of a drop of water - animation sound and image are combined to create a zen-like exploration of fluidity and nature. OFFICE MOBIUS Director: Seung Hyung Lee - USA - 6 minutes An abstract story demonstrating the relationships of people working in generic whose behavior is confined to an infinite reiteration in time in a circular and seamless mobius strip series of actions. passage Director: Peter Byrne - USA – 7 minutes A reflection on the peripheral - An inquiry into memory, landscape, and departure, this work visually catches sight of experience, as it moves past. In this work, the artists create a layered encounter with streams of imagery and sound. rewind Director: Atul Taishete - India – 9 minutes Three thieves have managed to crack a safe full of diamonds worth millions, but then greed takes over as they decide to play Russian roulette with the last one alive getting the diamonds. The film moves in reverse towards the beginning as the opening of the film evolves as the climax. SHAKE OFF Director: Hans Beenhakker - Netherlands – 10 minutes A perspiring boy dances magically across borders. True street scenes combined with animation and studio recordings flow smoothly into each other. His dance is a climax of fast and spectacular moves consisting of a mix of classical ballet technique with street dance. SUCH AS IT IS Director: Walter Ungerer - USA - 12 minutes The film is divided into four parts and four themes: the underground in the city; above ground in the city; a field in the country; and fog and the ocean. Each theme has its separate identity, yet they are not separate. Through manipulation and abstraction of imagery the four parts are joined, as the land, and the air, and the oceans are joined by the earth.