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This year's international shorts include 41 films from 18 countries. They are split into dramatic, documentary and animation.

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Ma Bar and Lessons From The Night

China's Wild West (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Urszula Pontikos)

This part observational, part impressionistic study of a day in the life of a Muslim community, illustrates their hopeful efforts to discover jade in the harsh conditions of a dried-up riverbed in a remote town on the Silk Road in Western China.

Lessons From The Night (Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Adrian Francis; Writer: Adrian Francis)

A cleaner reflects on life.

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Magnetic Movie (Country: UK, US; Year: 2007; Director: Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt)

Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries, as scientists from NASA's space sciences laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries.

Ma Bar (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Adrian McDowall, Finlay Pretsell; Stars: Bill McFadyen)

What drives a 73-year-old powerlifting champion?

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My Surfing Lucifer (Country: Switzerland ; Year: 2008; Director: Kenneth Anger)

Using found footage, we're introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable’s stepson and surfing legend.

Steel Homes and The Real Place

The Real Place (Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Cam Christiansen; Writer: Blake Brooker)

An animated, poetic film celebrating the life and spirit of playwright and librettist John Murrell.

Steel Homes (Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Eva Weber)

Self-storage units are windows into human histories: the silent cells with their discarded objects and dust-covered furniture are inscribed with past dreams, secret hopes and of lives we cannot let go.