The films:
Antoine by Laura Bari | Canada 2008 | 82:00 min.
Detective 'Private Eye' Antoine, also a sound hunter, journalist and co-director, six years old, blind. Mysterious messages are decoded and a magic universe is revealed.
Between Dreams by Iris Olsson | France, Russia, Finland 2009 | 10:34 min.
Dreams and nightmares in a rumbling Trans-Siberian Railway sleeping car.
Body Parts (Tschasti Tela) by Marija Krawtschenko | Russia 2009 | 39:00 min.
A football team of Chechnian war invalids. Daily life and memories in poetics of fragments – radical, tough, bold.
Book of Miri by Katrine Philp | Denmark 2009 | 28:00 min.
A whacky blogger’s search for identity, loneliness, self-exposure and dreams.
Flightless Birds (Ptaki nieloty) by Michał Dawidowicz | Poland 2008 | 19:30 min.
What are a grumpy wife, a life on the dole and a broken propeller against the dream of flying?
Flood of Memory (Baad ki Raat) by Anitha Balachandran | Great Britain, India 2008 | 11:00 min.
An animated documentary reporting a tragedy – mud-coloured like the Rajasthan flood that killed thousands.
Found by Paramita Nath | Canada 2009 | 6:19 min.
A filmic poem about the fragility of existence and the question of origin which can decide about life or death.
Isolation by Luke Seomore, Joseph Bull | Great Britain 2009 | 64:00 min.
A photographer who seeks out British Iraq war veterans at work. The injuries, traumas, faces and bodies behind the official army statistics.
Lands (Terras) by Maya Da-Rin | Brazil 2009 | 74:00 min.
A city in the triangle between Colombia, Peru and Brazil. A symbolic and associative essay about borders between nations and cities, civilisation and nature, Indians and gringos, myth and reality.
Luanda, Factory of Music (Luanda, a Fábrica da Música) by Kiluanje Liberdade and Inês Gonçalves | Angola, Portugal 2009 | 54:00 min.
Kuduru, a sound fusion of African and Caribbean rhythms, techno and house music, and Angola’s kids of today: DJ Buda, Sirugu or Zigo. Pure energy born of nothing.
On a Trip down Memory Lane (Ich packe meinen Koffer) by Marie Elisa Scheidt | Germany 2009 | 17:16 min.
A wall of pictures, a puppet, a light-flooded room, a latex mask and jasmine blossoms in Beirut – associations about life as a suitcase full of memories.
On the Other Side of Life by Stefanie Brockhaus and Andy Wolff | South Africa, Germany 2009 | 84:00 min.
Two brothers in a Cape Town township, caught between a murder charge, the law of the streets and the old initiation rites of their mountain clan. An excellent and universal coming-of-age drama.
Peter in Radioland by Johanna Wagner | Great Britain 2009 | 9:55 min.
A cranky Scottish hermit in a house full of old radios. A reminiscence of the steam radio.
Portrait of a Silence (La madre que los parió) by Inmaculada Jiménez Neira | Spain 2008 | 28:00 min.
The disclosure of a family secret as a polyphonous puzzle of memories.
Sanya and Sparrow (Sanja i Worobei) by Andrei Grjasew | Russia 2009 | 61:00 min.
Two lost souls in a Russian quarry. Endless dialogues in no man’s land, friendship at the bottom end of existence – and an unexpected happy end.
Side by Side (Side om side) by Christian Sønderby Jepsen | Denmark 2008 | 37:00 min.
A garden in West Jutland as the setting of a Shakespearean drama, impressively staged. The showdown of a 15-year-old neighbourhood dispute …
The Hectic Life of a Dismissed Worker (La tumultueuse vie d'un déflaté) by Camille Plagnet | France 2009 | 59:00 min.
The 'Great Z' who used to be a machinist for the Burkina Faso national railway lost his job, friends, wife, everything. A tragicomedy as restless, melancholic and brilliant as this poet of the redundant ones.
The Marina Experiment by Marina Lutz | USA 2009 | 17:47 min.
The filmmaker finds boxes of sound recordings, Super 8 films and thousands of pictures of herself in her father’s estate. A disturbing search for the truth behind an obsession.
Where the Sun Doesn't Rush (Tam, gdzie slonce sie nie spieszy) by Matej Bobrík | Poland 2009 | 18:00 min.
A small village in the Slovakian mountains and its foremost social authority: the funeral association.
