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2 Birds (Smáfuglar, Two Birds) (Country: Iceland; Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson; Writer: Rúnar Rúnarsson; Cast: Atli Óskar Fjalarsson , Hera Hilmarsdóttir , Sigurður Jakob Helgason , Þórunn Jakobsdóttir)
A group of teenagers experiment with ketamine and find themselves out of their depth.
Between Us. Full Review Official Site
The Amateurist (Country: USA; Director: Miranda July; Writer: Miranda July; Cast: Miranda July)
A film about surveillance, identity, watching, and being watched. True Things: The Short Films of Miranda July.
Atlanta (Country: USA; Director: Miranda July; Cast: Miranda July)
A 12-year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother (both played by July) speak to the public about going for the gold. True Things: The Short Films of Miranda July.
Between C, D And F (Country: Germany; Director: Julia Oschatz)
A creature replaces Caspar David Friedrich’s solitary figures who contemplate landscapes. It hangs from a tree’s branch and jumps into an abyss trying to escape from the stage, that is from Friedrich’s paintings as well as from the film image. Oberhausen on Tour.
Bill’s Visitors (Country: UK; Director: Simon Deshorn)
Showing as part of McLaren Animation 2 at EIFF 2008. Best of Little British.
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California Dreams (Country: Germany; Director: David Wnendt)
On Jonas' 14th birthday, his only friend Tüte gives him a coupon for a hairdresser. The two boys decide to skip school and go to the town. Between Us.
Communion (Armulaud) (Country: Estonia; Director: Jaan Toomik)
A story about a middle-aged man and woman, about their relationship and the woman's desperate attempt to become pregnant while the man is afraid of any form of commitment…? Oberhausen on Tour.
The Control Master (Country: UK; Director: Run Wrake)
What happens when a powerful device falls into the hands of scientist-turned-villain Doctor Moire? Who will rescue Halftone City from this oversized creep?
Unstuck. Full Review Official Site
Ctrl Z (Country: USA; Director: Robert Kirbyson; Writer: Robert Kirbyson; Cast: Emy Coligado, Tony Hale, Zachary Levi, Javier Ronceros)
The story of an office loner who has a lifetime of regrets - until one day a malfunctioning keyboard offers him the opportunity to undo his mistakes. What can he do with this new found power?
New Media Scotland: Sunday Sundae. Official Site
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Dead Dog (Country: UK; Director: Edward Jeffries; Writer: Edward Jeffreys; Cast: Chloe Bale, Iain Louden)
When a man's dog goes missing he calls on his girlfriend to help confront his worst fears. Demons in the Dark.
Dennis (Country: Denmark; Director: Mads Matthiesen; Writer: Mads Matthiesen, Martin Zandvliet; Cast: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lykke Sand Michelsen)
When Dennis, an introverted bodybuilder, invites a local girl out on a date his mother is hurt and disappointed. Despite the pressure she puts on him to cancel the date, Dennis ventures into a night that he will never forget. Demons in the Dark.
Der Spiegel (Country: Germany; Director: Keren Cytter; Cast: Susanne Sachße)
In one shot the film describes the story of a woman waiting for a young man to save her from loneliness. Oberhausen on Tour.
Fawn (Country: Austria; Director: Christoph Rainer; Writer: Christoph Rainer)
From contours and shadows, the indistinct impression of a girl emerges from faint, inchoate images that bode ill.
Unstuck. Full Review
Fire (Udens) (Country: Latvia; Director: Laila Pakalnina)
As Marija discovers the world, she is often alongside firemen. Is it because things around her catch fire?
Unstuck. Full Review
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First Place (Country: UK; Director: Joji Koyama)
From the loose paradigm of 'the stranded man having to fend for himself in the wilderness' comes a short film about a champion relentlessly insisting on 'being a champion' whilst the universe couldn't care less.
Unstuck. Full Review Official Site
Getting Stronger Every Day (Country: USA; Director: Miranda July; Writer: Miranda July; Cast: Carrie Brownstein, Mia Cianciulli, Richard Greiling)
An experimental short that "captures the experience of becoming lost and found, from moment to moment, and over the course of a lifetime." True Things: The Short Films of Miranda July.
Le Grand Content (Country: Austria; Director: Clemens Kogler, Karo Szmit)
Showing as part of International Animation 1 at EIFF 2008. New Media Scotland: Sunday Sundae.
Haze (Country: Singapore; Director: Anthony Chen)
It's a hot humid day in Singapore and two teenagers decide to skip school and stay in, playing out an innocent love affair amongst the heat haze of the city. Between Us.
Household Gods (Country: UK; Director: Vaughan Pilikian; Cast: Susan Momoko Hingley, Thomas Hoggarn, Christiana Joseph, Denis Khoroshko, Roberto Kouyoumdjian, Humza Vohra)
Alone at home, but haunted by other voices: six people in six rooms somewhere in London.
Unstuck. Full Review
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Jeffrey And The Dinosaurs (Country: UK; Director: Christoph Steger)
A short documentary about a man whose struggle to overcome daily obstacles has produced an astonishing universe of outsider science fiction.
Unstuck. Full Review
Jerrycan (Country: Australia; Director: Julius Avery; Writer: Julius Avery)
A young boy is bullied into making a life or death decision, but can Nathan prove himself to his mates? Between Us.
K (Country: UK; Director: Piers Thompson; Writer: Piers Thompson; Cast: Charlotte Bevan, Lin Clifton, Robert Evanson, Phil Zimmerman)
Drama about a teenager living with her neglectful dad on a caravan park. Best of Little British.
Kudan (Country: Japan; Director: Taku Kimura; Writer: Taku Kimura)
A man receives a package containing a helmet, when worn it turns him into a mythical Japanese creature. Transported to another world where human spirits take the shape of giant trees, he realizes that his son’s roots are in grave danger, and only he can save him.
New Media Scotland: Sunday Sundae. View Trailer
Life Of A Pigeon (Country: UK; Director: William Campbell)
Abandoned by life Eric strives to make friends with the documentary crew that will ultimately let him down like everything that has come before. Demons in the Dark.
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L'Ondée (Country: France, Canada; Director: David Coquard-Dassault)
New Media Scotland: Sunday Sundae.
Love You More (Country: UK; Director: Sam Taylor-Wood; Writer: Patrick Marber; Cast: Harry Treadaway, Andrea Riseborough, Samuel Roukin, Paul Ritter, Pete Shelley, Harriet Ashcroft, Alex Kelly)
Set in 1978, the Buzzcocks inspire and soundtrack this timeless tale of teenage discovery, love and lust.
Best of Little British. Full Review
Ma Bar (Country: UK; Director: Adrian McDowall, Finlay Pretsell; Cast: Bill McFadyen)
What drives a 73-year-old powerlifting champion?
Best of Little British. Full Review
Megatron (Country: Romania; Director: Marian Crisan; Writer: Marian Crisan; Cast: Maxim Adrian Strinu, Gabriela Crisu, Damian Oancea, Erwin Simsensohn)
Maxim lives with his mother in a village near Bucharest. On his 8th birthday, his mother takes him into the city for a special treat.Winner of the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at Cannes 2008. Between Us.
Nest of Tens (Country: USA; Director: Miranda July; Cast: Lindsay Beamish)
Three perverse, unnerving scenarios involving children and adults. True Things: The Short Films of Miranda July.
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New Love (Country: UK; Director: Laurence Coriat; Writer: Laurence Coriat; Cast: Xavier Lafitte, Johan Libéreau, Elina Löwensohn, Alexandra Stewart)
This visually arresting work takes us to a future world built on rationality. However when Alma is compelled to frequent a nightclub with a difference, she is plunged into the irrational logics of love and desire.? New Media Scotland: Sunday Sundae.
Nightmares (Mary Koszmary) (Country: Israel, Netherlands, Poland ; Director: Yael Bartana)
The film is set in an abandoned stadium in Warsaw, using propaganda films style, calling for three million Jews to return to Poland. The protagonist is a young radical Polish leftist who claims for a radical change in his country. Oberhausen on Tour.
Outwardly From Earth's Centre (Country: Germany, Sweden; Director: Rosa Barba)
A narrative about a fictitious society on an unstable piece of land in danger of disappearing. This situation requires the population’s collective initiative in order to secure the individuals’ and society’s survival. Oberhausen on Tour.
Parks On Fire (Country: USA; Director: Scott Pagano)
Parks on Fire is a stunning exploration of the complex relationships of structure, form and motion that bind and conflict the natural and manmade worlds.
New Media Scotland: Sunday Sundae. Official Site,
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Partir (Country: UK; Director: Melodie Lamotte D’Incamps; Writer: Melodie Lamotte D’Incamps; Cast: Betty Krestinsky, Clementine Mazzoni, Lucette Martini)
Anna is suffering from Alzheimer's disease and is about to enter a nursing home. Lucette, the housekeeper, is packing up the home where Anna has always lived and Clementine, Anna's grandaughter, comes to help and spend the last days in the house with her grandmother. Between Us.
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The Queen And The Princess (Country: UK; Director: Gregor Johnstone; Writer: Gregor Johnstone)
A black comedy focusing on the dysfunctional relationship between a mother and daughter.
Unstuck. Full Review
Rat (Country: UK; Director: Lila de Magalhaes)
A rat in a bathtub sips on a glass of wine and by candle light attempts to tell stories directed to the viewer as well as a penguin-shaped teapot.
Unstuck. Full Review
Reflections (Country: Singapore; Director: Tzu-Nyen Ho)
This film is a parable about man being a creature that can never see beyond his own reflection. Oberhausen on Tour.
September (Country: UK; Director: Esther May Campbell)
In an in-between world of flyovers, grass verges and dead-ends, where the motorway hum serves as a constant reminder of the speed of other lives, Marvin is not going anywhere. Into this forgotten corner of English countryside and motorway services arrives an extraordinary young girl, changing his world forever.
Unstuck. Full Review See: Encounters Film Festival Diary: Episode Two
Shock Of Time (Country: China; Director: Sun Xun)
An animation about the history of China. Oberhausen on Tour.
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Stand Up (Country: UK; Director: Joseph Pierce)
Told through a single stand up comedy routine, John J Jones performs to an unforgiving audience. As he loses their interest, his body rebels against him.
Demons in the Dark. See: Encounters Film Festival Diary: Episode Three
Tandem (Country: UK; Director: John Turrell, Tom Turrell
; Writer: John Turrell, Tom Turrell)
Paul is selling up the family house. His sister Joan pays him a visit, the discovery of something from their childhood rekindles memories long forgotten. Best of Little British.
Terminus (Country: Canada; Director: Trevor Cawood; Writer: Jason Cawood; Cast: Rob Carpenter, Trent Opaloch, Cassidy Wheatcroft)
After inadvertently offending a strange entity that accosts him on his way to work, a 1970s businessman quickly finds himself in the midst of a bizarre predicament. Demons in the Dark.
This Is J03 (Country: UK; Director: Rory Lowe, Tom Shrapnel; Writer: Once Were Farmers; Cast: D.C. Barclay, Neil Charnaud)
This CG/ live action 3d animation sees our hero attempting a stint at hitchhiking and encountering a local tramp. New Media Scotland: Sunday Sundae.
Time Is Running Out (Country: UK; Director: Marc Reisbig)
A little world is in trouble. The film explores the inhabitant’s reaction to the impending doom. One man tries to stop the inevitable.
Unstuck. Full Review
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Trip (Country: UK; Director: Harry Wootliff; Writer: Harry Wootliff; Cast: Sam Hazeldine, Karis Igoe, Chloe Garner, Sara Fellows)
An emotional tale of what happens when a father tries to do the right thing by his two daughters but chooses the worst way to go about it.
Best of Little British. Official Site
