Best of the Rest

Svetovni jagodni izbor / Best of the Rest

História Trágica com Final Feliz / Tragic Story with Happy Ending

Regina Pessoa (Ciclope Filmes/ Folimage/ NFB)

Portugal/France/Canada 2005, 35 mm, 7'

She is different from the rest. She and her neighbours know she doesn't fit in - for she has a bird's heart. This tale, about coming to terms with one's lot, beautifully told in exquisite black and white, took this year's Annecy Grand Prix.

Bus Ride and Flowers in Her Hair

Asaf Agranat (Edinburgh College of Art)

UK 2005, Beta SP, 8'52''

A boy rides a bus on a hot day with a bottle containing a fly. A strange-faced blind dog, an enchantress with long black hair…here a mysterious world unfolds before his eyes.

La galina ciega / Blindman's Bluff

Isabel Herguera (Isabel Herguera)

Spain 2005, 35 mm, 7'16''

A blind man accidentally looses his guide dog. Alone and in the darkness of the big city the blind man discovers that his strength lies in his recognising his own vulnerability.

Dreams & Desires - Family ties

Joanna Quinn (Beryl Productions International Ltd.)

UK 2006, 35 mm, 9'55''

On acquiring a new digital video camera, Beryl becomes obsessed with the filmmaking process, using it to articulate her dreams and desires in a video diary. As “cinéaste par excellence” she agrees to video her friend Mandy's wedding, seizing the opportunity to imitate her filmmaking idols with disastrous and hilarious results.

Shipwrecked

Frodo Kuipers (NIAf)

The Netherlands, 2005, 35 mm, 5'30''

A castaway on a small island tries to make contact with anyone who can save him. Eventually he succeeds but his cry for help is completely misinterpreted. This forces him to make a difficult decision.

Rabbit

Run Wrake (Run Wrake)

UK, 2005, 35 mm, 8'35''

When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?

Le sacoche perdue / The Lost Bag

Catherine Buffat, Jean-Luc Greco (Les Films à Carreaux)

France, 2006, 35 mm, 13'30''

A merchant forgets his bag full of gold in a church. A bourgeois goes into the church to pray. He discovers the bag and he does his best to find the rightfull owner.

Birdcalls

Malcolm Sutherland (Malcolm Sutherland)

Canada, 2006, DVD, 5'

While checking messages on an answering machine, the written languages of birds come to life.

Sparrows Are Children of Pigeons

Nina Bisyarina (SNEGA)

Russia, 2005, Beta SP, 5'

A little person's imagination turns ordinary life into a fairy tale. But the little boy is often lonely in this wonderful country. Only his mother can enter this fairy tale world following the thin path of love. The child has been waiting for this so much. If only his mother could guess!

Ostorozhno, dveri otkryvajutsia! / Caution, the Doors Are Opening!

Anastasia Zhuravleva (School-Studio SHAR)

Russia, 2005, Beta SP, 5'04''

A day in the life of a pocket metro. The film is dedicated to all the buttons lost in the metro.

Who I Am and What I Want

David Shrigley, Chris Shepherd (Slinky Pictures)

UK 2005, 35 mm, 7'

A scribbled, strangely funny but highly unsettling examination of the human condition. The story of a man who bares his emotions, history, hang ups and desires in all of their dysfunctional absurdity then leaves us to assemble not only his identity but to question our own.

Jona / Tomberry

Rosto A.D. (Rocketta Film/Studio Rosto A.D.)

The Netherlands, 2005, 35 mm, 12'

Borges meets Murnau in a spinning nightmare. And the baby sings: “No, not be scared, old bird, to awake and see I am dreaming you.”

Solo duets

Joseph Feltus (FeltusFeltus Production)

UK, 2005, Beta SP, 8'55''

An aging man is visited by his younger self. Through speechless dialogues he comes to understand that his life has been a failure that he has not pursued those elements in life that were of deeper importance to him.