(August 11, 2006) - The 2006 Montreal World Film Festival has announced its lineup of features and shorts and once again this year's event surely lives up to its name. And don't think that the films are all in French, or from strictly French-speaking countries. There are entries from the United States, Australia, England, as well as Canadian films in English and French. There are films from Argentina, Spain, Germany anmd Italy. In fact, there are more than 100 features from around the world. There are also 97 short films including 35 Canadian entries ranging betwenn 4 minutes and 34 minutes long. We have placed a maple leaf next to those films that have some Canadian content. Here is a detailed list of what visitors to the 30th annual festival in Montréal and expect:
FEATURE FILMS
1st BITE (PM)
Canada - Thailand / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 117 min / Dir.: Hunt Hoe, Cast: David La Haye, Leah Pinsent, Napakpapha Nakprasitte, Mohan Agashe, Michael Ironside
From a tropical island in Thailand to the island of Montreal, then to an island in the Caribbean, a chef discovers the Zen of cooking, but has a bit less luck with loving.
2 GENC KIZ (2 GIRLS) (PC)
Turkey / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 107 min / Dir.: Kutlug Ataman, Cast: Hulya Avsar, Feride Cetin, Vildan Atasever
Two teenage girls in contemporary Istanbul are introduced by a mutual friend and immediately hit it off. Despite the differences in their backgrounds they embark on an intense relationship, and with it a secret plan to escape their dysfunctional families.
48 SHADES (PI)
Australia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 96 min / Dir.: Daniel Lapaine
After visiting his parents in Switzerland over Christmas, Dan, 16, returns to Australia to finish high school. It will be a more tumultuous year than he imagined.
À COLOMBIA (PI)
United States - Colombia / 2006 / Video / Colour / 100 min / Dir.: Ryan Byrne
Two friends attempt to escape their troubled lives in Los Angeles by heading to exotic Colombia, but their problems seem to have tagged along.
A TRAVÉS DE TUS OJOS (THROUGH YOUR EYES) (PNA)
Argentina / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 104 min / Dir.: Rodrigo Fürth, Cast: Pepe Soriano, Adriana Aizenberg, Marcos Dubuch, Miguél Angel Porro, Toto López, Jannette Clemanceau, Sandra Rodríguez
Two Argentinians visit New York at the height of Argentina's economic crisis but sightseeing and tourism soon take a back seat to more urgent matters.
AGUA CON SAL (SALTED WATER) (PC)
Spain - Puerto Rico / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 99 min / Dir.: Pedro Pérez Rosado, Cast: Yoima Valdés, Leyre Berrocal, Juan Carlos Morales, Candela Fernández, Lola Moltó, Ofelia Medina
A young Cuban woman and a young Spanish woman survive on low wages in illegal jobs as they stuggle to find their place in modern Spanish society.
AISLADOS (ISOLATED) (PNA)
Spain / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 84 min / Dir.: David Marqués, Cast: Adrià Collado, Eric Francés, Jean-Luc Ducasse
Two buddies on vacation in Ibiza pass the time drinking beer and engaging in idle, very droll, conversation about women, politics, films, receding hairlines and why eating snails is gastronomically acceptable, but eating slugs isn't.
ANASTASIA (PM)
Lithuania / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 84 min / Dir.: Maris Martinsons, Cast: Martins Vilsons, Andris Makovskis, Valda Bickute, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Kostas Smoriginas, Arunas Sakalauskas, Donatas Banionis
Two Russians caught in Lithuania when it regains its independence, feel that their rights have been violated. They take a minivan full of passengers hostage...
APPROACHING UNION SQUARE (PI)
United States / 2006 / Video / Colour / 80 min / Dir.: Marc Meyers, Cast: Katie Kreisler, Darren Pettie, Jennifer Miranda Holmes, Bobby Pataki, Victoria Haas, Brent Crawford, Peter McCain, Christine McCarthy, Beth Manzpeizer, Michael Goldstrom, Patricia Randell
Based on his monologues for stage, Marc Meyers' APPROACHING UNION SQUARE is a collage of eleven tales capturing 30-something New Yorkers struggling to find love and connection in the big city.
BANG BANG ORANGUTANG (PC)
Denmark / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir.: Simon Staho, Cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin, Tuva Novotny, Michael Nyqvist, Jonas Karlsson, fares Fares, Mimmi Benckert Claesson, Shanti Roney, Reine Brynolfsson, Börje Ahlstedt, Mona Malm, Leif Andrée
In the space of 20 minutes, Åke goes from being a successful businessman on top of his world, to a man without his wife and children, without a house or a job. He had never loved anyone but himself; is it too late to learn?
BE AHESTEGI... (GRADUALLY...) (PC)
Iran / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 77 min / Dir.: Maziar Miri, Cast: Mohammad-Reza Foroutan, Niloofar Khoshkholgh, Hasan Poorshirazi, Maryam Boobani
When Mahmoud's mentally unstable wife runs away to Tehran, he is faced not only with the problems of caring for her properly but of fending off the attendant social humiliation.
BLACK EYED DOG (PNA)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 91 min / Dir.: Pierre Gang
As a teenager, in 1974, Betty was going to be a winner like her idol, Joni Mitchell, singing her way out of a small, poor and violent town in northern New Brunswick...
CADAVRE EXQUIS - Première édition (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Virginie Brault, Jean-François Maynard, Brian Desgagné, Martin Bourgault, Francis Lussier, Philippe Mélançon, Florian Cossen, Jean-François Gros d'Aillons, Diane Gagnon, Francis Macerola, Stéphan Doe, Michel Lauzon, Antonin Monmart, Cast: Alexis Bélec, Annie Dufresne, Sabine Karsenti, Pierre-Antoine Lasnier, Bénédicte Décary, Jacinthe Denis, Jean-Guy Bouchard, Pierre Verville, Lus Provost, Patricia Tulasne, Marc-François Blondin, Pierre Rivard
A dozen different writers and directors control the fate of a glam-rock star past his prime.
CERBÈRES À L'HORIZON (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 86 min / Dir.: Jean Gagné, Serge Gagné, Cast: Alain Proulx, Russel Bouchard, Gaston Martel, Pierre Dumond
CERBÈRES À L'HORIZON examines the history of the industrialization of the Saguenay-Lac St-Jean region and how its natural and human resources were transformed into mountains of profits.
CHAHAR SHANBEH SOURI (FIREWORKS WEDNESDAY) (PNA)
Iran / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 104 min / Dir.: Asghar Farhadi, Cast: Hadieh Tehrani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Hamid Farrokhnezhad, Pantea Bahram
A maid hired to do the spring cleaning at a young couple's Tehran apartment, gets caught up in their marital dispute.
COMO MARIPOSAS EN LA LUZ (LIKE BUTTERFLIES IN THE LIGHT) (PC)
Argentina - Spain / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir.: Diego Yaker, Cast: Lucas Ferraro, Cristína Brondo, Pepe Novoa, Josefina Viton, Lidia Catalano, Edda Bustamante, Attilio Pozzobón, Daniel Coelho
An young Argentine boy migrates to Spain, believing that there he'll find the happiness and prosperity he lacks back home. As an illegal immigrant, he'll soon discover that he must struggle to make his dream come true.
COUSINES (COUSINS) (PC)
Haiti / 2006 / Video / Colour / 106 min / Dir.: Richard Sénécal, Cast: Jessica Généus, Catherine Hubert, Raynald Dimanche, Soledad Elizabeth Jean, Jerry Lentz Rocher, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Rudolf Moise, Roland Dorfeuille
When her father dies of a heart attack, young Haitian Jessica, still in school, is faced with no means of support but no lack of suitors. Her choice is between love and money.
CSAK SZEX ÉS MÁS SEMMI (JUST SEX AND NOTHING ELSE) (PNA)
Hungary / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Krisztina Goda, Cast: Judith Schell, Sándor Csányi, Kata Dobó, Zoltán Seress, Károly Gesztesi, Adél Jordán, Antal Zcapkó, Zoltán Rátóti
When an attractive 33-year-old playwright discovers to her dismay that her current boyfriend already has a wife and child, she resolves that she has really had enough of men and will become a single mother.
DENNIS VAN RITA (LOVE BELONGS TO EVERYONE) (PNA)
Belgium / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 80 min / Dir.: Hilde Van Mieghem, Cast: Els Dottermans, Matthias Schoenaerts, Veerle Baetens, Damiaan De Schrijver, Tom Van Dyck, June Voeten
Rita is filled with joy when the news breaks of the early release from prison of her retarded 26-year-old son Dennis, who has been serving a sentence for the alleged rape of a minor girl. But the community doesn't share her happiness.
DER LEBENSVERSICHERER (RUNNING ON EMPTY) (PNA)
Germany / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir.: Bülent Akinci, Cast: Jens Harzer, Marina Galic, Anna Maria Mühe, Christian Blümel,Tom Jahn, Mehdi Nebbou, Eva Mannschott, Oliver Marlo, Birgit Funke
Travelling insurance salesman Burkhard has promised his family he'd return when he fills his quota, but the goal is taking a lot longer than he'd expected. When he meets another lonely soul at a highway hotel, she turns out to be his guardian angel.
DHEEVARI (FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER) (PI)
Sri Lanka / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir.: Salinda Perera, Cast: Sangeetha Weeraratne, Joe Abeywickrama, Cyril Wickramage, Trilicia Gunawardena, Jackson Anthony, Veena Jayakody, Roger Seniviratne, Vajira Liyanage
When a young Sri Lankan woman returns home to her fishing village after growing up in an orphanage, she is appalled by its feudal prejudices and iniquities. She is determined to change things.
DHILAL AL SAMMT (SHADOW OF SILENCE) (PNA)
Saudi Arabia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 110 min / Dir.: Abdullah Al-Muheisen, Cast: AbdelMohsen Annimer, Nayef Khalaf, Mohamed Al Mansour, Ghassan Massoud, Farah Bsisou, Mouna Wassef, Raja Farhat, Ahmad Agomi
An autocratic regime submits intellectuals to the latest in brainwashing techniques at a remote desert "research centre", eventually prompting a mission to rescue them.
DOODH AUR APHEEN (MILK AND OPIUM) (PC)
India / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 85 min / Dir.: Joel Palombo, Cast: Swaroop Khan, Nizam Khan, Mohamad Khan, Manjoor Khan, Deepak Castelino, Santosh Poudel
A young Sufi musician who leaves his remote desert village in search of work, discovers an India he never knew existed, and he must adapt to the new culture of malls and multinationals.
DRØMMEN (WE SHALL OVERCOME) (PNA)
Denmark - United Kingdom / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 105 min / Dir.: Niels Arden Oplev, Cast: Bent Mejding, Anders W. Berthelsen, Jens Jørn Spottag, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Peter Hesse Overgaard
Inspired by what he sees on television, a Danish teenager in 1969 decides to resist his headmaster's tyranny with non-violent tactics learned from Martin Luther King.
EINE FRAGE DES GEWISSENS (DECISIONS) (PNA)
Germany / 2006 / Video / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Thomas Bohn, Cast: Christian Berkel, Nadeshda Brennicke, Florentine Burkhardt, Nina Petri, Andreas Guenther, Nils Düwell, Hans Kremer
Police detective Martin Belz, faced with a kidnapper who refuses to talk, resorts to unauthorized methods to find the sick little girl, but he suffers the consequences.
EL HABITANTE INCIERTO (THE UNINVITED GUEST) (PC)
Spain / 2005 / Video / Colour / 114 min / Dir.: Guillem Morales, Cast: Andoni Gracia, Mónica López, Francesc Garrido, Agustí Villaronga, Minnie Marx, Pablo Derqui
After a neighbour shows up at his door to use the phone for an urgent call and strange noises begin emanating from various parts of his large mansion, Felix begins imagining that the man has taken up residence in the house.
ÉLIANE (PI)
France / 2006 / Video / Colour / 97 min / Dir.: Caroline Huppert, Cast: Florence Pernel, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Olivier Marchal
Portrait of a time -- Paris 1960 -- and of a woman who personified it: Eliane Lazare, journalist and first woman to run a newspaper. A chronicle of her public battles and private struggles.
EM 4 JAY (PNA)
Australia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 87min / Dir.: Alkinos Tsilimidos, Cast: Laura Gordon, Nick Barkla, Chloe Armstrong, Jeremy Taylor, Kate Stewart, David Campbell
Jay and Emma are young, madly in love and desperate for money to feed their heroin habit. They'll do anything, a private sex show, an armed robbery... Jay promises Emma he'll "work something out"...
ENTRE O PARAISO E BRASILIA (BETWEEN PARADISE AND BRASILIA) (PM)
Brazil / 2006 / Video / Colour / 70 min / Dir.: Alvarina Souza Silva, Cast: Marcela Moura, Lucas Souza Lopes, Ana Paula Souza Lopes
Little Vanilda lived the first nine years of her life in Paradise Farm, in the remote hinterland of Brazil, before growing up in Brasilia and becoming a sociologist. Now she is asked to recount her own story.
EXPIRATION DATE (PI)
United States / 2006 / Video / Colour / 94 min / Dir.: Rick Stevenson
A stoic young man whose father and grandfather were both killed in bizarre accidents on their 25th birthdays, prepares to meet his maker as his own ill-fated birthday approaches.
GEFANGENE (PRISONERS) (PNA)
Germany - Austria / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 89 min / Dir.: Iain Dilthey, Cast: Jule Böwe, Andreas Schmidt, Eva Löbau, Robert Lohr, Nicholas Monu, Theo Marteau, Erwin Leder, Nadja Vogel
When an escaped prisoner finds refuge in a woman's apartment, an ambivalent relationship develops between them.
HEZKÉ CHVILKY BEZ ZÁRUKY (PLEASANT MOMENTS) (PM)
Czech Republic / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 108 min / Dir.: Vera Chytilová
An "emancipated" woman psychologist receives a broad variety of clients at her clinic, but can she heal herself?
IL SILENZIO INTORNO (PI)
Italy / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 78 min / Dir.: Dodo Fiori
Twenty-five-year-old Tommaso returns home after spending several months in a detox centre. He finds that nothing has changed.
J'IRAI DANSER SUR VOS BARRAGES (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 83 min / Dir.: Jean Gagné, Serge Gagné, Cast: Alain Proulx, Pierre Dumont, Russel Bouchard, Lucien Boucher, Albert Bouchard, Elmer Proulx, Mauril Villeneuve, Claude Lauzier
In 1941, as they were running at full capacity to supply the Canadian war effort, the Alcan plants at Arvida, Quebec, were struck by their workers. The Gagné brothers consider how and why it happened.
JAK SE KROTÍ KROKOD?LI (TAMING CROCODILES) (PI)
Czech Republic / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 112 min / Dir.: Marie Polednáková, Cast: Miroslav Etzler, Jirí Mádl, Václav Postráneck?, Ingrid Timková, Eva Holubová
Arriving home a month early from job on a mountain rescue team, Lubos becomes separated from soon-to-retire ballet dancer wife Anna by chaperoning 8-year-old daughter Amalka on a class trip. Complications ensue in the verdant Czech countryside, but all's well that end's well.
JAYEE DAR DOUR-DAST (SOMEWHERE TOO FAR) (PI)
Iran / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 98 min / Dir.: Khosro Masoumi, Cast: Hadi Dibaji, Marzyieh Khoshtarash, Masoud Rayegan, Abbas Amiri, Mehran Rajabi, Behzad Shahandeh, Nour-el-din Alami
In a remote Iranian forest, a guard is brutally murdered by timber poachers and a young man confesses to the murder. But did he really do it? He had fallen in love with the boss' beautiful, mute daughter...
JUST LIKE THE SON (PI)
United States / 2006 / Video / Colour / 86 min / Dir.: Morgan J. Freeman, Cast: Mark Webber, Antonio Ortiz, Brandan Sexton III, Rosie Perez, Dylan Blue, Eva Kaminsky, Bruce Macvittie, Adrian Martinez, Frankie Shaw
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
KAMOME SHOKUDO (KAMOME DINER) (PNA)
Japan / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 102 min / Dir.: Naoko Ogigami, Cast: Satomi Kobayashi, Hairi Katagiri, Masako Motai
The operator of a diner in Helsinki who tries to entice local customers with her Japanese "soul food", finds that cultural barriers are not easily breached and that adaptation is a two-way street.
KARGARAN MASHGHOOL-E KARAND (MEN AT WORK) (PC)
Iran / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 75 min / Dir.: Mani Haghighi, Cast: Attila Pesyani, Mahmoud Kalari, Ahmad Hamed, Omid Rohani, Fatemeh Motamed Arya
This comic political allegory focuses on four middle-class Iranian men returning from a skiing weekend who stop at a prominent rock formation that seems so easy to tip over. So easy...
KEILLERS PARK (PC)
Sweden / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 87 min / Dir.: Susana Edwards, Cast: Marten Klingbergt, Piotr Giro, Karin Bergquist, Gösta Bredefeldt, Ia Langhammer
When armed men in black burst in on Peter, he calls for the police. But they are the police. They are arresting him for the murder of Nassim, a man for whom Peter gave up his well-adjusted, heterosexual life...
KOMM NÄHER (HAPPY AS ONE) (PC)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 97 min / Dir.: Vanessa Jopp, Cast: Meret Becker, Hinnerk Schönemann, Stefanie Stappenbeck, Marek Harloff, Fritz Roth, Heidrun Bartholomäus, Marie-Louise Schramm, Jana Pallaske
Wry portrait of a diverse group of Berliners looking for love or, at least, relief from their loneliness.
KOMMA (PNA)
Belgium - France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 97 min / Dir.: Martine Doyen, Cast: Arno Hintjens, Valérie Lemaître, Edith Scob, François Négret, Fabrice Rodriguez
Waking up in a hospital mortuary, Peter, a fiftyish Belgian, decides to adopt the identity of a corpse and get a fresh start in life. He becomes a Swedish businessman and meets Lucie, a neurotic, amnesiac young artist...
KOMORNIK (THE COLLECTOR) (PC)
Poland / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 93 min / Dir.: Feliks Falk, Cast: Andrzej Chyra, Kinga Preis, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Grzegorz Wojdan, Marian Opania, Jan Frycz
A young Polish bailiff-cum-repo-man takes an unwholesome pleasure in executing his duties, casually ruining lives, but his arrogance blinds him to the dangers lurking above.
KING OF SORROW (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 108 min / Dir.: Damian Lee
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug-addicted homicidal cop.
KONTAKT (PC)
Germany - Republic of Macedonia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 95 min / Dir.: Sergej Stanojkovski, Cast: Nikola Kojo, Labina Mitevska, Peter Mircevski, Vesna Petrushevska, Gjuner Ismael, Zeljko Bozic, Ferus Mustafus, Elena Petrushevska, Sergey Stanojkovski
A troublesome, 40-year-old paroled convict and a 25-year-old patient at a psychiatric institution develop a mutually beneficial relationship that is welcomed by his family but frowned upon by hers.
LA BICICLETA (THE BICYCLE) (PI)
Spain / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 98 min / Dir.: Sigfrid Monleón, Cast: Pilar Bardem, Sancho Gracia, Bárbara Lennie, Javier Pereira, Alberto Ferreiro, Carlos Bardem
A bicycle built with love from old parts finds a succession of appreciative owners in a big city.
LA BUENA VOZ (THE GOOD VOICE) (PC)
Spain / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour . 95 min / Dir.: Antonio Cuadri, Cast: José Luis Gómez, Pilar Velázquez, Biel Durán, Klara Bladiola, Ricard Sales, María Luisa Goirigolzarri
Pepe, an insensitive taxi driver, lives a peaceful if not complacent existence with Rosa, his subservient wife. A heart attack and a surprise visit from a past love force him to re-evaluate his relationship and his outlook on life.
LA VRAIE VIE EST AILLEURS (REAL LIFE IS ELSEWHERE) (PI)
Switzerland / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 84 min / Dir.: Frédéric Choffat
If leaving was finding onself? And taking a train was an internal trip Naples, Berlin, Marseilles: three encounters. And if real life were elsewhere?
LE DOUX PAYS DE MON ENFANCE (PI)
France / 2006 / Video / Colour / 101 min / Dir.: Jacques Renard, Cast: Daniel Russo, Isabelle Renauld, Hervé Briaux, Rabah Loucif, Saïda Bekhouche, Yohana Rocher, Bruno Raffaelli
In prison for forgery, swindling and false identification, Aziz Bensala who passed as Roger Joly for seventeen years, attempts suicide with the bed sheets of his prison cell.
LE PASSAGER DE L'ÉTÉ (ONE SUMMER) (PI)
France / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 97 min / Dir.: Florence Moncorgé-Gabin, Cast: François Berléand, Catherine Frot, Laura Smet, Grégori Derangère, Mathilde Seigner, Jean-Paul Moncorgé, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Sadoyan, Jacques Spiesser
Latent passions simmer to a slow boil when a handsome itinerant farmhand arrives in an agricultural community in Normandy after the Second World War.
LEGATURI BOLNAVICIOASE (LOVE SICK) (non)
Romania / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 85 min / Dir.: Tudor Giurgiu, Cast: Maria Popistasu, Ioana Barbu, Tudor Chirila, Catalina Murgea, Mircea Diaconu, Virginia Mirea, Tora Vasilescu, Valentin Popescu, Mihai Dinvale
Two young Romanian women, Alex and Kiki, develop a strong relationship. Their love affair blooms... until Kiki's brother shows up.
LES ANGES EXTERMINATEURS (THE EXTERMINATING ANGELS) (PI)
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 104 min / Dir.: Jean-Claude Brisseau, Cast: Frédéric Van Der Driessche, Maroussia Dubreuil, Lise Bellynck, Maria Allan
During screen tests for a brief nude scene with an actress, a director discovers the pleasure some women can experience in the transgression of minor erotic taboos.
LES IRRÉDUCTIBLES (LATE GRADUATES) (PI)
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 106 min / Dir.: Renaud Bertrand
It's not easy when, at age 40, you don't have a high school diploma and you are newly unemployed. Two men in this predicament gamely start over again.
LITTLE FUGITIVE (PI)
United States / 2006 / Video / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Joanna Lipper, Cast: Peter Dinklage, Justina Machado, Nicolas Marti-Salgado, David Castro, Brendan Sexton III, Lois Smith, Sophie Dahl
A nearly absent father and an overworked mother leave two young brothers to their own devices for 24 hours. When a vicious practical joke goes awry, seven-year-old Joey flees to Coney Island in this skillfully updated version of the landmark 1953 film.
LO MAS BONITO DE MIS MEJORES AÑOS (THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MY VERY BEST YEARS) (PC)
Bolivia - United States / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 93 min / Dir.: Martín Boulocq
Three young Bolivian friends and their 1965 Volkswagen -- a ménage à quatre.
LOACH IS A FISH TOO (PI)
China / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 98 min / Dir.: Yang Yazhou, Cast: Ni Ping, Ni Da Hong
A headstrong young rural woman, recently divorced, who has come to Beijing with her twin girls in search of a better life, teams up with an older man to survive the trials of the big city.
MAÎTRE D'OEUVRE (PM)
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 92 min / Dir.: René Féret, Cast: Jean-François Stévenin, Marie Féret, Charlotte Duval, Vanessa Danne, Salomé Stévenin, Sonja Saurin, Elina Preveraud, Lisa Féret, Isabelle Fontaine, Monique Touraine
Angered by his wife's sudden departure, Olivier requests custody of his 10-year-old daughter... and gets it. Now he has to assume the role of being a father, a role he hadn't had time to play until now.
MANGA LATINA KILLER ON THE LOOSE (PC)
Canada - United Kingdom / 2006 / Video / Colour / 75 min / Dir.: Henrique Vera-Villanueva, Cast: Kerry Shale, Luis Soto, Julian Littman, Laurel Lefkow, Carlos Riera
When the barrio is menaced by a "killer on the loose", Victor and his friends decide that relying on the authorities will never solve the case; they've got to do it manga latina style.
MARIA AN CALLAS (MARIA TO CALLAS) (PNA)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 95 min / Dir.: Petra Katharina Wagner, Cast: Götz George, Claudia Michelsen, Monica Bleibtreu, Anna Thalbach.
When his beloved wife dies, Jost discovers that she had been corresponding via email with a woman to whom she pretended that Jost's designing career was her own.
MNE NE BOLNO (IT DOESN'T HURT) (PNA)
Russia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir.: Alexey Balabanov, Cast: Renata Litvinova, Alexander Yatsenko, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Nikita Mikhalkov
When Mischa and his dynamic young friends show up at Tata's door, she finds her interest in life renewed. And she, in turn, finds them lots of lucrative work.
MON FRÈRE SE MARIE (MY BROTHER IS GETTING MARRIED) (PI)
Switzerland - France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 94 min / Dir.: Jean-Stéphane Bron, Cast: Aurore Clément, Jean-Luc Bideau, Cyril Troley, Delphine Chuillot, Quoc Dung Nguyen, Michèle Rohrbach
When Vinh, a Vietnamese boat refugee adopted twenty years earlier by a Swiss family, sets his wedding, his biological mother decides she'll come to meet the wonderful family that loved and raised her son. She's in for some surprises.
NACHBEBEN (GOING PRIVATE) (PNA)
Switzerland / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 96 min / Dir.: Stina Werenfels, Cast: Michael Neuenschwander, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Bettina Stucky, Georg Scharegg, Olivia Frølich, Leonardo Nigro, Mikki Levy, Selma Jamal Aldin, Lica Lüdi
Beneath the veneer of a cheerful barbecue at a banker's lakeside villa lie a host of personal and professional intrigues, with careers and reputations threatened by financial ruin and personal scandal.
NEBO IZNAD KRAJOLIKA (SKIES ABOVE THE LANDSCAPE) (PNA)
Bosnia-Herzegovina / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 85 min / Dir.: Nenad Djuric, Cast: Haris Burina, Nada Durevska, Rastko Jankovic, Anita Kajasa, Bozo Bunjevac, Jasna Diklic
Deborah, a novice French paraglider, goes way off course in the mountains of Bosnia, and she accepts the hospitality of of a shepherd and his mother: a bed and a meal of "mountain-style" tripe. The clash of cultures is inevitable.
NEONEUN NAE UNMYEONG (YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE) (PC)
South Korea / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 123 min / Dir.: Park Jin-pyo, Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Hwang Jeong-min, Na Mun-hee, Ryu Seung-su, Go Su-hee
A farm worker's ardour for a prostitute pays off when she falls in love with him, but their bliss may be short-lived when she is diagnosed with HIV in this touching, mildly erotic blend of melodrama and romantic comedy.
O GRANDE BAZAR (THE GREAT BAZAAR) (PNA)
Mozambique / 2005 / Video / Colour / 56 min / Dir.: Licínio Azevedo, Cast: Edmundo Mondlane, Chano Orlando, Chico António, Paito Tcheco, Manuel Adamo, Manuel Mawelele
Twelve-year-old Paito travels to the big city to recoup the money that thieves stole from him. He settles down in a large market square and goes to work. But the same thieves who robbed him are now extorting money from all the kids in the market.
PER NON DIMENTICARTI (NOT TO FORGET) (PM)
Italy / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 94 min / Dir.: Mariantonia Avati
Rome, 1947. The war is over but its effects still linger in the obstetrics ward of a city hospital where ten women from different strata of society are waiting to give birth.
PEREGON (TRANSIT) (PNA)
Russia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 146 min / Dir.: Alexander Rogozhkin, Cast: Alexey Serebraykov, Daniil Srakhov, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Svetlana Stroganova, Yuri Itskov, Yuri Orlov, Kirill Ulyanov
At a remote Soviet air base in Siberia during World War II, a convoy of American "lend lease" planes arrive piloted by comely young women. For a few days humanity reigns and war takes a recess.
PINGPONG (PNA)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 89 min / Dir.: Matthias Luthardt, Cast: Sebastain Urzendowsky, Marion Mitterhammer, Clemens Berg, Falk Rockstroh
His father having recently committed suicide, Paul decides to integrate himself into the seemingly idyllic family of his Aunt Anna. But appearances of domestic bliss are deceiving.
PRENEZ VOS PLACES (PLACES EVERYONE) (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Vidéo / Colour / 84 min / Dir.: Marc Thomas-Dupuis, Cast: Raphaël Roussel, Elias Varoustos
When two 20-something Montrealers put their ambitions on hold to make a film together, their world turns upside down.
PRINZESSIN (PRINCESS) (PNA)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 81 min / Dir.: Birgit Grosskopf, Cast: Irina Podapenko, Henriette Müller, Desirée Jaeger, Amina Schichterich
The "princesses" are a gang of four young women, living in the public housing slums of a German suburb. It is the night before one of them must report to jail for attempted murder and they just want to have fun.
PUT LUBENICA (THE MELON ROUTE) (PI)
Croatia - Bosnia & Herzegovina / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Branko Schmidt, Cast: Kresimir Mikic, Sun Mei, Armin Omerovic, Leon Lucev, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Ivo Gregurevic, Slobodan Maksimovic, Zijah Sokolovic
When a Chinese girl loses her father in a people-smuggling accident on the Bosnian-Croatian border, she finds herself striking up a friendship with a psychologically traumatized Croatian soldier.
QIXIA TEMPLE IN 1937 (PNA)
China / 2005 / Video / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Fangnan Zheng, Cast: Xinhua, Jun Xong, Mengyu Ding, Ismael Amideo, Youwang Chen, Kai Wang, Takayaki, Xiaowen Xu
In December 1937, after the Japanese overran Nanjing and began massacring its inhabitants, the Buddhist monks of Qi Xia under the leadership of Jia Ran, transformed their temple into a shelter, providing a safe haven for 2400 refugees.
REMAKE (PNA)
Spain - Argentina / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 95 min / Dir.: Roger Gual, Cast: Jaun Diego, Silvia Munt, Eusebio Poncela, Mercedes Morán, Mario Paolucci, Gustavo Salmerón
Two couples return for a weekend to the country house where they lived as a commune three decades earlier. The place is full of bittersweet memories. But their children, now adults, see things a little differently.
SALVADOR (PUIG ANTICH) (SALVADOR) (PNA)
Spain - United Kingdom / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 138 min / Dir.: Manuel Huerga
In 1974, Salvador Puig Antich, a violent revolutionary, became the last political prisoner to be executed in Spain. This is his story.
SAMOAN WEDDING (SIONE'S WEDDING) (PNA)
New Zealand / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 97 min / Dir.: Chris Graham, Cast: Oscar Kightley, Robbie Magasiva, Shimpal Lelisi, Iaheto Ah Hi, Teuila Blakely, Madeline Same, David Fane, Pua Magasiva, David van Horn, Nathaniel Lees
Four 30-something hell-raisers in New Zealand must each find a girlfriend before the wedding of their best friend's younger brother or they'll be barred from attending.
SAUF LE RESPECT QUE JE VOUS DOIS (BURNT OUT) (PC)
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Fabienne Godet, Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Dominique Blanc, Julie Depardieu, Marion Cotillard, Jeffrey Barbeau, Jean-Michel Portal, Jean-Marie Winling, Pascal Elso
Workplace blues meets film noir thriller in this portrait of a middle-aged, middle class man thrown into a nocturnal world of flight and fear after learning of his colleague's suicide.
DEGUCHI NO NAI UMI (SEA WITHOUT EXIT) (PM)
Japan / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 121 min / Dir.: Kiyoshi Sasabe, Cast: Ebizo Ichikawa, Yusuke Iseya, Juri Ueno, Shun Shioya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yûko Kotegawa, Tomokazu Miura
Koji Namiki was a star baseball pitcher before the war, and he keeps a souvenir baseball with him as his submarine heads on a top secret mission. Will it bring him good luck?
SEGUNDO ASALTO (ROUND TWO) (PC)
Spain / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 107 min / Dir.: Daniel Cebrían, Cast: Darío Grandinetti, Álex González, Eva Marciel, Laura Aparicio, Alberto Ferreiro, Mary Valdivielso, Pepo Oliva, Francesc Orella
A young boxer is looking for his shot at the big time despite trouble in his personal and professional life. On the verge of eviction and encouraged by his girlfriend, he falls in with a bank-robbing swindler. After one successful job, they go for a major heist.
SLIPPERY SLOPE (PM)
United States / 2006 / Video / Colour / 79 min / Dir.: Sarah Schenck, Cast: Kelly Hutchison, Jim True-Frost, Laila Robins, Wes Ramsey, Brian Letscher, Leslie Lyles, Theodore Bouloukos, Justin Costa, Danielle Ferland, Patrick Hall
Needing money to send her documentary, Feminism for Dummies, to the Cannes Festival, a struggling feminist filmmaker gets a technical job on an indie film that turns out to be a porn flick, an X-rated adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
SOBHI DIGAR (ANOTHER MORNING) (PNA)
Iran / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 91 min / Dir.: Nasser Refaie, Cast: Majid Jalilian, Raya Nasiri, Nezam Manouchehri, Manouchehr Mobasser
A newly-widowed white collar worker ignores Tehran's rowdy street life and his relatives' loud mourning at his wife's grave in order to grieve silently and to regain his will to live.
SONG TRONG SO HAI (LIVING IN FEAR) (PNA)
Vietnam - Japan / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 110 min / Dir.: Bui Thac Chuyên, Cast: Tran Huu Phuc, Mai Van Thinh, Dang Thi My Uyen, Mai Ngoc Phuong, Ngo Pham Hanh Thuy
A former soldier in the Vietnam War, Tai moves to a rural area infested with landmines. Out of necessity, he learns how to clear the dangerous devices. His philosophy is simple: mines are only dangerous when stepped on.
SUSPECT (PI)
Belgium / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 96 min / Dir.: Ivan Boeckmans, Guy Lee Thys, Cast: Gene Bervoets, Karlijn Sileghem, Zoë De Roovere, Elias Mentzel, Ellen Ten Damme, Joke Devynck, Frank Focketyn
A social worker to whom a girl has confided her nightmares about her stepfather is convinced that the girl has been the victim of sexual abuse and the stpefather is immediately accused. But who is the real victim in the case?
SUSPIROS DEL CORAZÓN (SIGHS FROM THE HEART) (PNA)
Spain - Argentina / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Enrique Gabriel, Cast: Roger Coma, María Dupláa, Alejandro Awada, Osvaldo Bonet
A young businessman who is a fan of horoscopes is about to make an important business decision. He needs to get a sneak peek at the horoscope in the magazine's upcoming issue.
SUTRA UJUTRU (TOMORROW MORNING) (PNA)
Serbia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 85 min / Dir.: Oleg Novkovic, Cast: Uliks Fehmiu, Nebojsa Glogovac, Nada Sargin, Lazar Ristovski, Ljubomir Bandovic, Radmila Tomovic, Danica Ristovski, Milos Vlalukin, Ana Markovic, Nebojsa Ilic
An emigré's return to Belgrade to get married becomes the occasion for several emotionally fraught and alcohol-fuelled reunions in this drama about how you can't really go home again. Certainly not after a 12-year absence.
SVJAZ (RELATIONS) (PI)
Russia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 80 min / Dir.: Avdotya Smirnova, Cast: Anna Mikhalkova, Mikhail Porenchekov, Dmitry Shevchenko, Anastasia Ceglia, Irina Rozanova, Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksey Popogresky, Andrey Proshkin
A man and woman, married to others, have a long-distance relationship between Moscow and St.Petersburg. The story of two people struggling to be free, who discover that freedom can be more difficult to give up than to acquire.
SWINGER CLUB (PI)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 92 min / Dir.: Jan Georg Schütte
Albert is married to Birgit, who has cheated on him with Christoph, who had an affair with Dagmar... Is it possible to be a devoted loving couple in contemporary Germany?
THAT BEAUTIFUL SOMEWHERE (PM)
Canada / / Dir.: Robert Budreau, Cast: Roy Dupuis, Jane McGregor, Gordon Tootoosis, David Fox
A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to solve the mystery of a "bog body" found in a swamp on Indian territory and, in the process, find personal healing and redemption.
I TELEFTEA PORNOTENIA (THE LAST PORN MOVIE) (PM)
Greece / 2006 / Video / Colour / 100 min / Dir.: Costas Zapas
The only way a former porn star can maintain his standard of living is by becoming a porn producer himself.
TIZA OUL (HEART EDGES) (PM)
Morocco / 2006 / Video / Colour / 87 min / Dir.: Hicham Ayouch, Cast: Abdellah Aourik, Fatima Bikourke, Ali Mustapha Ait, Mahjouba Adjour, Saadia Abaakil, Hassan Alioui
Seven years earlier most of the men in a small Moroccan fishing village perished at sea, and sadness has reigned ever since. One of the few surviving males, young Daoud, dreams of taking his boat out to fish again...
Ü NERGIZ BISKIVIN (NARCISSUS BLOSSOM) (PNA)
Iraq - France / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 80 min / Dir.: Masoud Arif Salih, Hussein Hassan Ali, Cast: Hussein Hassan Ali, Masoud Arif Salih, Bakir Kovli, Mohammed A. Artishi, Ismail Zuber, Hakar Mohsin, Shahin Kivork
A portrait of the Peshmerga, the armed Kurdish resistance group that has fought for Kurdish autonomy in Iran, Turkey and, particularly, northern Iraq.
UCHÔTEN HOTEL (SUITE DREAMS) (PNA)
Japan / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 136 min / Dir.: Koki Mitani, Cast: Koji Yakusho, Takako Matsu, Koichi Sato, Shingo Katori, Ryoko Shinohara, Keiko Toda, Tatsuhisa Namase, Kumiko Aso, Joe Odagiri
There are only two hours to go before the Hotel Avanti's New Year's party kicks off and the hotel's managers are frantically trying to contain a growing list of embarrassments and looming catastrophes.
ULYSSES (non)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 85 min / Dir.: Alberto Diamante, Cast: Alberto Diamante, Jennifer Waescher, Leah Gualtieri, Kave Shoman, Robert Howard, David Bajurny, Geoff Cowper-Smith, Dave Sansom
Alex, a 34-year-old Torontonian trying to make a movie about the city, about himself and his search for his adoptive father, meets Jennifer, a 23-year-old newcomer to the city.
UNA ESTRELLA Y DOS CAFÉS (ONE STAR AND TWO COFFEES) (PNA)
Argentina / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 85 min / Dir.: Alberto Lecchi, Cast: Gaston Pauls, Ariadna Gil, Marina Vilte, Ruben Fleitas, Gabriela Bertolone, Rosa Raina, Gerardo Albarracin, Silvia Gallegos, Faustino Flores
Carlos, a big city architect comes to a remote Argentinian town and strikes up a friendship with a lonely 13-year-old girl. Here, at last, is someone ready to listen to her stories. Then Carlos' former wife arrives. She's looking to revive their marriage...
UNTER DEM EIS (UNDER THE ICE) (PNA)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 94 min / Dir.: Aelrun Goette, Cast: Bibiana Beglau, Adrian Wahlen, Dirk Borchardt, Sandra Borgmann, Susanne Lothar
When little Luzi, daughter of a neighbour, is killed in a tragic accident while playing with 7-year-old Tim, his mother Jenny instinctively covers it up. She gets Tim to lie about the event. Tim obeys, but the secret has consequences.
UNTER DER SONNE (UNDER THE SUN) (PNA)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 60 min / Dir.: Baran bo Odar, Cast: Maximilian Waldmann, Janina Stopper, Astrid M. Fünderich, Uwe Rohde, Alexandra von Schwerin, Kristian Wanzi
In August 1984 the Olympics were taking place in Los Angeles, but for young Victor all that mattered was that his 15-year-old cousin Denise would be at his aunt's country house that weekend.
VALKOINEN KAUPUNKI (FROZEN CITY) (PNA)
Finland / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Aku Louhimies, Cast: Janne Virtanen, Susanna Anteroinen, Aada Hämes, Santtu Nuutinen
A clueless Helsinki taxi driver who can't understand why his marriage has fallen apart, moves out into an unfurnished apartment. Then a nosy neighbour comes by to complain about his lack of curtains...
VERLENGD WEEKEND (THE LONG WEEKEND) (PNA)
Belgium / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 90 min / Dir.: Hans Herbots, Cast: Jean Decleir, Koen De Bouw, Wouter Hendrickx, Veerle Baetens, Els Olaerts
Two former workers kidnap their ex-boss in his luxurious mansion in an effort to get him to pay damages to everyone who was duped by his company's bankruptcy. When the man's mistress shows up, things get out of hand.
VIDANGE PERDUE (THE ONLY ONE) (PI)
Belgium / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 88 min / Dir.: Geoffrey Enthoven, Cast: Nand Buyl, Viviane De Muynck, Marijke Pinoy, Leo Achten, Misée Wyns, Liesje Patteet
Lucien, a stubborn and lonely 80-year-old widower, becomes intrigued by a new neighbour who teaches him how to take care of his house and how to use a computer. But when their friendship becomes serious, Lucien is faced with a decision.
VITUS (PNA)
Switzerland / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 120 min / Dir.: Fredi M. Murer, Cast: Bruno Ganz, Fabrizio Borsani, Teo Gherghiu, Julika Jenkins, Urs Jucker, Eleni Haupt, Kristina Lykowa, Tamara Scarpellini
Six-year-old Vitus plays the piano like Mozart and reads the encyclopedia at kindergarten. His parents have a brilliant career mapped out for their wunderkind, but all Vitus wants is to have a normal childhood.
VOLANDO VOY (MY QUICK WAY OUT) (PC)
Spain / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 115 min / Dir.: Miguel Albaladejo, Cast: Borja Navas, Fernando Tejero, Mariola Fuentes, Álex Casanovas, Mar Regueras, José Luis García Pérez
Seven-year-old Juan Carlos finds his prodigious driving skills much in demand by crooks and delinquents. It is only when he is arrested and taken to "The City of Boys" that someone recognizes that Juan Carlos is still a child.
WHAT MEANS MOTLEY? (PC)
Romania - Ireland - United Kingdom / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 91 min / Dir.: John Riley, John Ketchum, Cast: Barry Mulligan, Irina Dinescu, Emil Hostina, Eamon Rohan, Adrian Ciglenean, Yann Leblay
In 1999, a party of 41 Romanians arrived at Dublin Airport, posing as a folk choir en route to participate in a Sligo music festival. No sooner had the group been admitted than some disappeared without a trace. This is the story of their scam.
WINTER OF THREE PEOPLE (PI)
China / 2005 / 35 mm / Couleur / 93 min / Dir.: Zhang Yifei, Cast: Jian Wenli, Zhao Jun, Ning Cai
When a married lumberjack is paralyzed by a falling tree, he asks his apprentice to move in with them, hoping to have the young man take care of both him and his wife. A strange ménage-à-trois develops.
SHORT FILMS
1969 (PM)
United Kingdom - Italy / 2006 / Video / Colour / 8 min / Dir.: Paolo Guglielmotti
A Cigar at the Beach (PI)
United States / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Stephen Keep Mills
A Picture of Me (PNA)
United Kingdom / 2005 / Video / Colour / 20 min / Dir.: Tom Shkolnik
A Quiet Spot (PI)
Australia / 2006 / Video / Colour / 7 min / Dir.: Ashley Fairfield
A Thin Dry Road (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 8 min / Dir.: Stephen MacLean
After 8 (PI)
United Kingdom / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 18 min / Dir.: Nick Reed
Afternoon of the Chimeras (PNA)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 16 min / Dir.: Daniel Conrad
Alice ou la vie en noir et blanc (Alice or Life in Black and White) (PNA)
Belgium / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour-B&W / 15 min / Dir.: Sophie Schoukens
Arrête-toi (Stop Yourself) (PNA)
Canada - France / 2006 / Video / Colour / 6 min / Dir.: Morgan Carrier, Greg Pradoura
Assertion Techniques (PM)
United Kingdom / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 4 min / Dir.: Nick Reed
Aurore, une autre histoire (Aurore, Another Version) (PM)
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 17 min / Dir.: Henri Kebabdjian
Bare (PI)
Ireland / 2005 / Video / Colour / 5 min / Dir.: Jane Lee
Basta Guardarmi (Look at Me) (PM)
Italy / 2006 / Video / Colour / 13 min / Dir.: Andrea Magnani
Bhai-bhai (PC)
France / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 19 min / Dir.: Olivier Klein,
Breathe (PNA)
Australia / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Juliet Porter
Cancer (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 10 min / Dir.: Emmanuelle Schick Garcia
Catch & Release (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 14 min / Dir.: Andrew Hamilton
Cazatores furtivos (Furtive Hunters) (PM)
Argentina / 2006 / Vudeo / Colour / 5 min / Dir.: Mabel Maio
Ceci n'est pas du surréalisme (This is Not Surrealism) (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 12 min / Dir.: Jimmy Larouche
Cubs (PM)
United Kingdom / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 10 min / Dir.: Tom Harper
Davy and Stu (PC)
United States / 2006 / Video / Colour / 13 min / Dir.: Soman Chainani
De la part de Jules (On Behalf of Jules) (PNA)
Switzerland / 2006 / Video / Colour / 8 min / Dir.: Thibaut Kahlbacher
Death of a Gentleman (PM)
Canada - United States / 2006 / Video / Colour-B&W / 14 min / Dir.: Matthew Lancit
Der Schaumreiniger (The Foam Cleaner) (PI)
Germany / 2006 / Video / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Christopher Lenke, Philip Nauck
Die Babysitterin (The Babysitter) (PNA)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 13 min / Dir.: Christine Lang
Dragon (PI)
Unites States / 2006 / Video / Colour / 8 min / Dir.: Troy Morgan
Empty Room (PM)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 19 min / Dir.: Sheila Pye
Esperando (Waiting/Hoping) (PM)
United States / 2006 / Video / B&W / 7 min / Dir.: Michael Flores
Euch kann es egal sein, wenn ich sterbe (Don't Panic!) (PM)
Germany / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Gudrun Falke
Ex Memoria (PI)
United Kingdom / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: John Appignanesi,
Face Machine (PM)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Justin Simms
Family Size Pizza (PI)
South Korea / 2006 / Video / Colour / 11 min / Dir.: Gim Gyungmi
Forest Chainsaw Massacre (PNA)
Kenya / 2006 / Video / Colour / 2 min / Dir.: Irshaad Butler, Sabelo Dludla
Girl With Dog (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / B&W / 19 min / Dir.: Colleen Murphy
Grassland (PC)
China / 2006 / Video / Colour / 22 min / Dir.: Wan Ma Cai Dan
Happy Birthday (PC)
United States / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 11 min / Dir.: Csaba Bereczky
Ici par ici (Here and There) (PM)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 9 min / Dir.: Obom
Ideas of Reference (PC)
Canada / 2005 / Video / Colour / 22 min / Dir.: Marc Forand
If I See Randy Again, Do You Want Me to Hit Him With the Axe? (PM)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Vivieno Caldinelli
In the Stars (PC)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 10 min / Dir.: Darrin Brown
Jardin des rides (Yard of Wrinkles) (PI)
Morocco / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 13 min / Dir.: Hicham Lasri
Jeu (PM)
Canada - Switzerland / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 4 min / Dir.: Georges Schwizgebel
Kako smo se igrali (The Way We Played) (non)
United Kingdom - Bosnia / 2005 / Video / Colour / 13 min / Dir.: Samir Mehanovic
L'Amour domestique (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 34 min / Dir.: François Péloquin
L'Arme à l'oeil (PM)
France / 2006 / Video / Colour / 11 min / Dir.: Antoine Levannier, Bertrand Lesné
L'Ombre et la proie (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 23 min / Dir.: Diane Gagnon
La Lettre (The Letter) (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 8 min / Dir.: Martin Doepner
Le Bain (The Bath) (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 14 min / Dir.: Manon Breton, Stéphane Breton
Left (PM)
United States / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 10 min / Dir.: Alexandre O. Philippe
Lost Sole (PC)
Singapore / 2005 / Video / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Sanif Olek
Luleborë (Snow Drop) (PNA)
France - Albania / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 25 min / Dir.: Robert Budina
Männer am Meer (Pale Pals) (PNA)
Germany - Switzerland / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 13 min / Dir.: Reto Caffi
Maries Lächeln (Distant Memory) (PNA)
Germany / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 10 min / Dir.: Michael Schäfer
Marti's Party (PNA)
Australia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Annabelle Murphy
Match-Making (PI)
Russia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 27 min / Dir.: Anna Fenchenko
Mummy's Boy (PNA)
United Kingdom / 2006 / Video / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Oskari Korenius, Nicholas Davies
Nachtshift (Nightshift) (PI)
Belgium / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 11 min / Dir.: Wendy Montellano
Night Express (PM)
Russia / 2006 / Video / B&W / 14 min / Dir.: Klim Shipenko
Noir d'encre (Darkness) (PNA)
Belgium / 2006 / 35 mm / Couleur / 13 min / Dir.: Olivier van Malderghem
Nostalgia Boy (PM)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Michael Meinhardt
Nouvelle Génération (New Generation) (PM)
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 14 min / Dir.: Artemio Benki
Odile... (PC)
France / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 10 min / Dir.: Bénédicte Delgéhier
Peephole (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Allison White, Anthony Miceli
Plastic (PC)
United Kingdom / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Mark Davis
Pretty Dead Flowers (PM)
United States / 2005 / 35 mm / B&W / 14 min / Dir.: Justin Liberman
Pretty Dresses (PM)
Canada - Uganda / 2006 / Video / Colour / 17 min / Dir.: Ivan Kyambadde
Raz de marée (Small Storms) (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 5 min / Dir.: Bernard Roberge
Rebirth (PM)
Canada / 2005 / Video / Colour / 21 min / Dir.: Ryan Ward
Regarding Sarah (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 14 min / Dir.: Michelle Porter
Rosa (PI)
United States / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 12 min / Dir.: William Sten Olsson
Sand Castle (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 8 min / Dir.: Katrin Bowen
Skinheads (PM)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 17 min / Dir.: Michael Vass
Some Sort of Love (PM)
United States - France / 2006 / Video / Colour / 11 min / Dir.: Caroline Aragon
SOS Puppos (PM)
Italy - Netherlands / 2006 / Video / Colour / 25 min / Dir.: Chiara Pirito
Spoonfed (PM)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Marie Horodyski
Succubus (PM)
Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 14 min / Dir.: Alison Reid
Temerario (PI)
United Kingdom / 2006 / Video / Colour / 10 min / Dir.: Carl Zitelmann
Ten Feet Tall (PNA)
Australia / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 13 min / Dir.: Aaron Wilson
Terra (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 5 min / Dir.: Alan Pakarnyk
The Agreement (PI)
Australia / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 12 min / Dir.: Russell Edwards
The Custodian (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Vidéo / Colour / 5 min / Dir.: Robert DeLeskie
The Handyman (PM)
United Kingdom - United States / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Simon Rumley
The Last Dance (PI)
India / 2005 / Video / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Akshay Roy
The Locrian Mode (PC)
United States - Canada / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 23 min / Dir.: Eric Lodal
The Mamtsotsi Bird (PNA)
South Africa / 2006 / Video / Colour / 12 min / Dir.: Jo Horn
The Police Box (PM)
Hong Kong (China) / 2006 / Video / Colour / 4 min / Dir.: Josh Kim
The Three Wishes (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 4 min / Dir.: Sheldon Cohen
Three Minutes for Play (PI)
Ireland / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 3 min / Dir.: Johnny O'Reilly
Toro (PC)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 14 min / Dir.: Michel Juliani, France Lebel
Toto's Journey (PNA)
Kenya / 2006 / Video / Colour / 2 min / Dir.: Alfred Muchilwa, Godfrey Semwaiko
Triangle (PM)
Canada / 2005 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Sylvain Gingras
Ultima zi în decembrie (Last Day of December) (PM)
Romania / 2006 / Video / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Bogdan Apetri
Un filo intorno al mondo (A Wire Around the World) (PI)
Italy / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 15 min / Dir.: Sophie Chiarello
Un mercredi avant Noël... (A Wednesday Before Christmas...) (PM)
Canada / 2006 / Video / Colour / 7 min / Dir.: Martine Fortin, Guy Bonneau
Wake (PNA)
Northern Ireland / 2005 / Video / Colour / 7 min / Dir.: Stephen Pettycrew
Why the Irish Dance That Way (PI)
Ireland / 2006 / 35 mm / Colour / 5 min / Dir.: Nick Kelly
Wonton (PC)
United States / 2005 / Video / Colour / 12 min / Dir.: Wenhwa Ts'ao.
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