14  (United Kingdom. 2008)
Direction: Asitha Ameresekere
Script: Asitha Ameresekere
Cinematographer: Line Nikita Blom
Cast: Sarah Ridgeway, Tony Wadham, Susan Cummins
Duration: 9 min.

Synopsis:

On a girl’s birthday, a story unfolds through the eyes of three people at home, as they try to communicate with one another.

Between Dreams  (France, Russia, Finland. 2008)
Direction: Iris Olsson
Script: Iris Olsson
Cinematographer: Natasha Pavlovskaya
Duration: 11 min.

Synopsis:

In the film people are depicted sleeping in the open third class sleeping wagon side by side and in voice-over we hear their dreams. In the dreams the fears and hopes of the passenger’s everyday life are reflected as well as the Russian belief in prophecies.

Good Night  (Belgium, France. 2009)
Direction: Valéry Rosier
Script: Valéry Rosier
Cinematographer: Hichame Alaouie
Cast: Alain Eloy, Clementine Lefeuvre, Martin Combes
Duration: 18 min.

Synopsis:

40-year-old Philippe, who works in a demolition company, visits his two children. He picks them up from his ex-wife’s house. But Philippe is hiding something from his children, he is not reacting as usual - tonight, his children will not go to sleep at home.

Peter in Radioland  (United Kingdom. 2009)
Direction: Johanna Wagner
Duration: 10 min.

Synopsis:

Peter is on sick leave and spends most of his time alone in his house, contemplating his past. Little makes sense to him anymore. Comforted by his analogue radios, his memories and his loving wife, Peter is left yearning for the old days. This film shares with us a common fear of change portrayed through Peter’s struggle to find his place in the modern world.

Poste Restante  (Poland. 2008)
Direction: Marcel Łoziński
Script: Marcel Łoziński
Cinematographer: Jacek Petrycki P.S.C.
Duration: 14 min.

Synopsis:

Letters whose addresses are impossible to find end up at the Undeliverable Letters Department of the Post Office in Koluszki. There are around a million of them in Poland each year, among them those addressed to God. The film tells a story of one of those letters.

Renovation  (Germany, Rumania. 2009)
Direction: Paul Negoescu
Script: Paul Negoescu, Simona Ghita
Cinematographer: Andrei Butica
Cast: Simona Bondoc, Clara Voda, Andrei Runcanu, Mircea Rusu, Diana Cavaliotti
Duration: 24 min.

Synopsis:

The events of Renovare revolve around three personal stories. Besides her daily work, mother Doina tries to manage the renovation of the family’s apartment. Her son Alex can hardly find any time for both the renovation and his girlfriend as the deadline for his Master’s thesis comes close.

Sinner  (Israel. 2009)
Direction: Meni Philip
Script: Meni Philip
Cinematographer: Addie Reiss
Cast: Lior Shabtai, Yuval Berger, Omri Aisha, Ami Weinberg
Duration: 28 min.

Synopsis:

Yotam, a thirteen year-old boy studying at an ultra-orthodox Jewish boarding school tries to battle the awakening of his sexual desires. Confused and guilt-ridden, he consults with his rabbi who abuses his position and Yotam's innocence. With no one to trust and nowhere to go, Yotam finds himself trapped by the enforced silence in his community.

The Glass Trap  (Poland. 2008)
Direction: Paweł Ferdek
Script: Paweł Ferdek
Cinematographer: Wojciech Staroń
Duration: 15 min.

Synopsis:

"Acquiring food, reproduction, defence and attack are the main reasons of fish behaviour. Fish in the shoal struggle for domination. Menacing appearance may be enough for victory", reads the narrator. It sounds like a nature documentary on Sunday morning. But don’t be fooled. The dense atmosphere of the aquarium fish fights can trigger the primordial instincts in people.

The Herd  (Ireland. 2008)
Direction: Ken Wardrop
Script: Ken Wardrop
Cinematographer: Ken Wardrop
Duration: 4 min.

Synopsis:

A farmer and his mother discuss the arival of a strange animal amongst their herd of Limousin cattle.

The Suffering of Mr. Karpf. The Birthday  (Germany. 2009)
Direction: Lola Randl
Script: Lola Randl, Rainer Egger
Duration: 10 min.

Synopsis:

It’s Mr Karpf’s birthday, but nobody calls. Probably there’s something wrong with his phone ...

The Swimming Lesson  (Belgium. 2008)
Direction: Danny de Vent
Script: Danny de Vent
Duration: 9 min.

Synopsis:

A four-year-old boy is having his first swimming lesson. He undertakes an adventurous trip to the other side of the very deep swimming pool and conquers his feer.

Tile M for Muder  (Sweden. 2008)
Direction: Magnus Holmgren
Script: Magnus Holmgren, Anette Brantin, basado en la novella “Death by Scrabble” de Charlie Fish
Cinematographer: Ragna Jorming
Cast: Gustaf Hammarsten, Rachel Mohlin
Duration: 8 min.

Synopsis:

It's a hot summer day. A married couple are playing Scrabble. Deep down they loathe each other and when the game seems to have magic powers, the man figures out a way to get rid of his wife.

Was bleibt  (Germany. 2008)
Direction: David Nawrath
Script: David Nawrath
Cinematographer: Markus Koob
Cast: Maximilian Köster, Andrej Kaminsky, Nora von Waldstätten, Wiebke Frost, Alexander Flache, Markus von Lingen, Siggi Pawellek, Helmut Michel
Duration: 17 min.

Synopsis:

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde) Mathis is 19 years old. At the day of his Grandmother's burial, Mathis and his father have to spend a day together after a long time. During that day they get to know each other again. It seems like father and son would come together for a short moment.