2ND LINE, THE   Dir: John Cole & Laney D'Aquino, United States, 25 min, 2008, Short At funerals in New Orleans, there are two lines; the first are the mourners, the second are the revelers. Micah Revere is a broke music... more

4 MINUTES OF FAME   Dir: Emily Owens, Australia, 5 min, 2008, Short It's official, after numerous failed attempts to make it as an actress, this is Karla Tutt's lucky break! Now that she's been promoted... more winner: Best Foreign Shor

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS   Dir: Theta Catalon, United States, 30 min, 2009, Short Lisa Palmer a student of Dr. Lance Williams has an obvious admiration for her instructor. He is faced with risking his career for her o... more

ACT LIKE MEN   Dir: Jon D. Wagner, United States, 7 min, 2009, Short Sometimes muscling in on another's space can lead to unusual complications.... more

AFFORDABLE APARTMENT: 'THE APARTMENT FROM HELL', THE   Dir: Steve Jambeck, United States, 33 min, 2009, Short Allison and Girdie are two innocent farm girls from Kansas who aspire to become actors. They arrive in NYC to pursue their dream. On th... more

AFFORDABLE APARTMENT: 'THE TOILET OF TOMORROW', THE   Dir: Steve Jambeck, United States, 26 min, 2009, Short Zak, a screwball musician who's always on one drug or another, has decided to leave his roommates in Manhattan and find an 'affordable... more

AGAINST THE GRAIN: AN ARTIST'S SURVIVAL GUIDE TO PERU   Dir: Ann Kaneko, United States, 64 min, 2008, Documentary In 1989, Alfredo Marquez used an image of Mao in an artwork. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. For every artist, the need to crea... more

ALICIA   Dir: Hakki Subentekin, United States, 19 min, 2009, Short Alicia is a go-go dancer who takes care of her paralyzed mother. "Alicia" is a story whose narrative depicts a handicapped immigrant an... more winner: Best Domestic Short

AMANCIO - TWO FACES ON A TOMBSTONE   Dir: Tom Murray, United States, 64 min, 2009, Documentary As a young boy, Amancio Corrales immigrated from Mexico to Yuma Arizona with his parents in search of a better life. Gay and Hispanic,... more

AMI UNDERGROUND   Dir: D.W. Young, United States, 13 min, 2008, Short NYC artist Ami Plasse's subway drawings capture the distinct flavor of New York. Sketched fast and loose in the rush hour crush, togeth... more

AND THE WORLD GOES ROUND   Dir: Marie-Juliette Steinsvold, United States, 10 min, 2008, Short Mr. Smith needs a promotion, and he has good reason to believe that the man who will get this promotion is the bearer of ten mysterious... more

ANGEL - DUST   Dir: Ko Kuriki, Japan, 77 min, 2009, Feature 'Yes. We really believed it, until that detestable incident happened...' The story involves devil's hallucinogen 'Angel Dust' Yuri Kus... more

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER LIFE   Dir: Rohit Gupta, United States, 5 min, 2008, Short Another day Another life is a man's tryst with his destiny in these tumultuous economic times. For a young man, his job, his investment... more

ARC OF A BIRD   Dir: Hugh Schulze, United States, 11 min, 2009, Short An artist disappears under mysterious circumstances after one of his paintings is connected to a series of miracles. A documentary film... more

ATOM AGE VAMPIRE   Dir: Scott Bateman, United States, 70 min, 2009, Animation Scott Bateman has taken the sound from the awful 1960 horror film Atom Age Vampire and given it new animated visuals, revealing that th... more

BACK STREETS   Dir: Adonis Williams, United States, 29 min, 2008, Short Cheating death and after 5 years of unconsciousness, Xavier wakes up in a temple suffering from amnesia. He steps out into a world full... more

BARAM & HAMZA   Dir: Zaid Abu Hamdan, Jordan, 18 min, 2009, Short After a morning mixed with laughs and cries, 2 seven year old boys, Hamza the Palestinian and Baram the Israeli leave their houses unde... more

BARE KNUCKLES   Dir: Eric Etebari, United States, 94 min, 2008, Feature Women will go to extreme lengths for those they love and single mother Samantha Rogers is no exception. With her seven year old dau... more

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, THE   Dir: John Commare & Doug McDade, United States, 16 min, 2009, Short If expensive lunches, tanning, shopping, and bottle service at local night clubs was considered work; these two 'Beautiful People' woul... more

BEAUTY OF THE FIGHT   Dir: John Urbano, United States, 68 min, 2008, Documentary Beauty of the Fight explores, with both intimate and exhilarating imagery, the effects of historic realities on two Panama barrios. Bar... more

BEHIND THE EYES OF A HITMAN   Dir: Tony Napolitano & Michael Dibernardo, United States, 87 min, 2009, Feature Behind The Eyes Of A Hitman is a story about a young man who gets involved with the mafia and becomes a hitman, eventually he finds him... more

BENEATH THE RIVER   Dir: Brian Strine, United States, 80 min, 2009, Feature In this vision of human fallibility, Evan and Sarah, a young couple isolated at Sarah's family-owned cottage on a small private island... more

BERNDSEN - SUPERTIME   Dir: Helgi Johannsson, Iceland, 4 min, 2009, Music Video A satirical music video about the aftermath of a car crash. When help arrives to the scene, the survivors of the car crash think they a... more

BETTY'S ROOM   Dir: Magda DeJose, United States, 27 min, 2009, Short The film Betty’s Rom is the first of a series of films that focus on the lives of the artist women. Betty is an outsider artist based... more

BEYOND THE CALL   Dir: Adrian Belic, United States, 82 min, 2008, Documentary From the brothers who brought you the Academy Award nominated film GENGHIS BLUES, comes the next great adventure... BEYOND THE CALL…, I... more

BICYCLE LOVE   Dir: Alex Frey, United States, 5 min, 2008, Short Bicycle Love tells the trials and tribulations of acquiring the world's greatest bicycle to win the heart of the most alluring girl in... more

BLUE CITY RHAPSODY   Dir: Ed Settle, United States, 15 min, 2008, Short Blue City Rhapsody is both a short film and a bedtime story told from one generation of hero to the next. It is a classic battle of goo... more

BONSAI   Dir: LaKeya Mason, United States, 10 min, 2009, Short Bonsai is a story about redemption in the life of a professional man named Calvin. As a young boy he receives a bonsai from his instru... more

BOOTY SEX   Dir: Arthur Diennet, United States, 3 min, 2009, Music Video The music video to King Arthur's first ever single 'Booty Sex' ... more winner: Best Domestic Music Video

BOTTICELLI'S LONELY MAN   Dir: Sehaj Sethi, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short David offers Will, a stranger, a small sum of money to read a section of the floundering playwright's new piece with him. However, the... more

BOX WITH A VIEW, A   Dir: Magee Clegg, India, 22 min, 2009, Documentary An examination of the influence of cable television on villages in the Kerala Backwaters located near the southern tip of India. 25 tel... more

BRAIN BUG   Dir: Kenji Hayasaki, United States, 11 min, 2009, Short An outcast Japanese man finds himself looking over Manhattan with a backpack and his guitar. He is just about to move in to an apartmen... more

BRIDGE, THE   Dir: Sharon Louden, United States, 4 min, 2009, Animation Many of Sharon Louden’s animations remind us of calligraphy, script, Japanese painting and the like, but within a playful imaginative p... more

BUENA GENTE   Dir: Fabian Baez, United States, 94 min, 2009, Feature A young man lies about infecting his girlfriend with a sexually transmitted infection causing her to leave him. When he attempts t... more

BUFFALO BUSHIDO   Dir: Peter McGennis, United States, 108 min, 2009, Feature Buffalo Bushido is a story about one man (Davis) trying to come home unknowingly seeking the truth even at life's expense. His percepti... more

BULLET   Dir: Lance J. Reha, United States, 20 min, 2008, Short Compulsive gambler, Ronnie Falco is on a losing streak. He owes forty thousand dollars to a Roger Willis, a ruthless loan shark. Una... more

CALLING, THE   Dir: David Ranghelli, Peru, 77 min, 2009, Documentary Life is a calling. And every call is both thrilling and daunting. Transporting viewers to distant lands and into deep regions of the hu... more winner: Best international Documentary

CAN'T STAY AWAY   Dir: Huifen Yu, United States, 5 min, 2009, Music Video A heartbroken girl launches different strategy to get her man back to her.... more

CAPTAIN   Dir: Max Cady, United States, 13 min, 2009, Short Steve is an unpublished author who had taken a writing class with Carl, an award winning crime novelist. Right away Carl saw the potent... more

CARMEN'S PLACE   Dir: Anna Wilking, United States, 18 min, 2009, Documentary Carmen's Place is an intimate portrayal of life at a transgender friendly shelter for teenagers in Queens, New York, run by Episcopal p... more

CARPET RACERS   Dir: Jay Thames, United States, 83 min, 2008, Documentary Carpet Racers explores a yearlong journey into the subculture of grown men and women that make a living, or try to, racing radio contro... more

CARS OF THE REVOLUTION   Dir: Tolga Örnek, Turkey, 115 min, 2008, Feature In the years of pulse, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so... more winner: Best Director

CAT SHACK, THE   Dir: Paul Bernardo, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short Danielle and Maxine are two lovers who have endured both family and societal pressures that have threatened to tear their love apart.... more

CAUGHT IN PAINT   Dir: Rita Blitt, United States, 6 min, 2003, Documentary 'Caught in Paint' captures painter/sculptor Rita Blitt painting on four by eight foot transparent surfaces while choreographer David Pa... more

CHAROGNE   Dir: Michael Marco, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video A desperate man ripped apart by loss goes out to find the people who crushed the one the thing he cared about. Along his pursuit, he di... more

CHEAPEST MAN IN THE ROOM, THE   Dir: V.K. Shah, United States, 17 min, 2009, Short Ross Carter lives a normal life... for a guy on a budget. Some people call him thrifty, or economical, or even a money saver - Ross is... more

CHECKMATE   Dir: Joe Bohn, United States, 13 min, 2009, Short Soloman, a disfigured but brilliant inventor, needs to transfer the artificial intelligence he is in love with into a larger hard drive... more

CHICASBLUE   Dir: Daniela Merino, United States, 5 min, 2008, Short A woman journeys into her childhood as she seeks lost memories and sensations. As she time travels, she warns the girl of what awaits... more

CHIMERA TRIBE: THE RAKAI   Dir: Jim Morgan, United States, 25 min, 2009, Short Combining traditional elements of fantasy and martial arts, Chimera Tribe: The Rakai centers around two main characters: Mari and Arash... more

CHINESE ROOM, THE   Dir: Nate Rulf, United States, 100 min, 2009, Feature John is a "real live John Doe," on the run when he finds the perfect job: cash under the table, no questions asked. But in this office... more

CHLOE ON THE VERGE   Dir: Choongmin Lee, United States, 13 min, 2009, Short Chloe wants to go on vacation. Jack wants to go to a party. On an afternoon when the couple find themselves at odds with each other, th... more

CITY OF NOISE   Dir: Mitch Barany, Canada, 4 min, 2009, Music Video Follow a man as he competes against different realities of himself for a magic treasure chest. The Summerlads 'City of Noise' music vid... more

COURSE   Dir: Michael Shannon, United States, 7 min, 2009, Short Kelvin has risen above the projects in which he lives, his abusive crack-head Mother, and the challenges which come with a crippled sis... more

CRAZY LOVE   Dir: Daniel Johnson, United States, 9 min, 2009, Short Adam has dated a lot of New York women. One problem, they're all crazy. Things all change when he meets his dream girl, the beautiful A... more

CRIMSON MASK, THE   Dir: Elias Plagianos, United States, 85 min, 2009, Feature Two desperate men, from different worlds, find themselves unwitting pawns in an ancient ritual. Greed, Lust, Pride, Anger, and Envy hav... more

CROSSED   Dir: Stolis Hadjicharalambous, United States, 90 min, 2009, Feature CROSSED is an independent action thriller that introduces us to young assassin named Frank Archer who obsesses over the horrifying expe... more

CRYPTOPTICON   Dir: Phillip Marzella, Australia, 83 min, 2009, Feature Trapped inside a black-op site an interrogation turns into a living nightmare when three spies have to second guess each other to survi... more

CYST, THE   Dir: Patrick Bilodeau, Canada, 4 min, 2009, Short Charles and Veronique are consuming their passion in Charles' bedroom. Everything seems to be perfect, until Veronique found a cyst beh... more

D.W.I.   Dir: Holly Moore, United States, 17 min, 2009, Short An outspoken young woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind, especially when it comes to matters of the heart finds trouble one night w... more

DANCING TO THE END OF POVERTY   Dir: Margaux Williamson, Canada, 7 min, 2008, Music Video I made this video exclusively from other people's videos which I found on YouTube. It is mainly clips of teenagers dancing in their bas... more

DANDY AND THE SOBER   Dir: Roberto Salas, United States, 5 min, 2009, Short Dandy and the Sober is a tale about a man, The Writer, who hides deep feelings. It is a representation of what all of us as humans expe... more

DAY THE BREAD TURNED GREEN, THE   Dir: J. P. Light, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short After a fight at the annual bakers convention it is noted that all bread is the same. The bakers try to send that message to the masses... more

DEAD IN THE WATER   Dir: Marco Aguilar, United States, 13 min, 2009, Short A young couple attempting to survive a zombie outbreak, decide to travel by river to safety. But they soon learn that traveling by rive... more

DEAR PHILADELPHIA   Dir: Kevin Kindle, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video A young man attempts to unravel the mystery behind the problems that plaque the City of Brotherly Love. The video is driven by the musi... more

DEATH OF ALICE BLUE, THE   Dir: Park Bench, Canada, 86 min, 2009, Feature Alice Blue is the new creative intern at Raven Advertising. Unfortunately for her it's run by vampires. Her co-workers seem zombified... more

DEATH RANCH   Dir: Aaron Naar & Seth Cuddeback, United States, 17 min, 2009, Short A dissolute older cowboy and his adolescent protege, Brian, roam a hyper-realistic western landscape in 'Death Ranch,' a film where not... more

DETERMINATION   Dir: Naotomo Umewaka, United States, 2 min, 2009, Short The film shows a young man who is less interested in impressing his friends or his girl friend of what he is capable of and more intere... more

DID YOU...   Dir: Chris & Corbin Record, United States, 10 min, 2009, Short Kane is just your normal ever day teen - an underachiever who is angry at his teachers, parents and life. His girlfriend, Lynn, is the... more

DIFFERENT CONVERSATION, A   Dir: Lindsay Emery & Jonathan Cross, United States, 49 min, 2009, Documentary A Different Conversation explores the experiences of college students on a trip to Jerusalem. Drawing from multiple religious and cult... more

DIFFERENT WORLDS   Dir: Drew Oberholtzer, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video There are three characters that appear in the music video in unique environments and scenarios. The first character is an angel, protec... more

DIRECTORS ON DIRECTING   Dir: Jamel Wade, United States, 80 min, 2009, Documentary A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black filmmaker... more

DIRTY HANDS   Dir: Michael Borowiec, United States, 23 min, 2009, Short An old wooden box and cask are unearthed in an isolated farming community, disrupting its denizens’ daily work. The box mysteriously co... more

DIVERS   Dir: Paris Mavroidis, United States, 3 min, 2008, Animation Divers explores the abstraction of the human body into shape and the absorption of the individual into the mass.... more

DOMINO EFFECT   Dir: Alex Freitas & Nicole Sykes, Canada, 78 min, 2008, Feature Unable to cope with an undercover operation gone ragically wrong, Jake Dylan, a once confident police officer, loving husband and devot... more

DON'T UNPLUG THE ARTS   Dir: Diana Lampiasi, United States, 5 min, 2009, Documentary A short documentary featuring entertainment industry professionals such as recording artist Deborah Gibson, director Andy Fickman ('Rac... more

DOVETAILING   Dir: Perry Blackshear, United States, 2 min, 2009, Short A modern cautionary tale about a business man who stumbles upon a bird's nest full of eggs. ... more

DUMB LUCK   Dir: Bret Kerven, United States, 4 min, 2009, Short Threatened with expulsion from school by his loathsome teacher, Jesse must pass today's big test. Unprepared and desperate, he gets a ‘... more

DUO   Dir: Dan Pardue, United States, 24 min, 2009, Short Brian and Christie are best friends. When they are not laughing with each other and playing video games, Brian and Christie are practic... more

E-8: THINK TANK   Dir: Joe Valenti, United States, 118 min, 2009, Feature In the late 1990's the CIA formed a team called Echelon 3 to gather and filter intel to prevent terrorist acts. Echelon 3 was operating... more

EGG ROBOT MOMO   Dir: Shinhee Kim, United States, 8 min, 2009, Animation Egg robot Momo knows he is different from all the other chicken robots. One day he goes to school wearing a fake beak and a tail that h... more

ENCRUCIJADA   Dir: Julio Ponce Palmieri, Guatemala, 17 min, 2009, Short After suffering a lifetime of social injustices, a man heads into a church for confession, but not for the sins he has committed but f... more

END OF EVOLUTION, THE   Dir: Adam Besheer, United States, 6 min, 2009, Short After attempting suicide, a man awakens in a hospital to find himself the subject of an experimental cloning procedure.... more

EVENING: INT   Dir: Reginald Oldham, United States, 12 min, 2009, Short The high class secretary of 'Charles', the big boss of a large accounting firm, is sharing a table with one of his undistinguished and... more

EVERGREEN   Dir: Rolando Sanchez, United States, 19 min, 2009, Short For Vivian her marriage and her beliefs are everything. The physical abuse she has been receiving from her husband Nicholas has been th... more

EXARCHIA - CULTURE SHOCK   Dir: Stamos Dimitropoulos, Greece, 12 min, 2009, Documentary 'The country's worst riots in recent years began hours after a 15-year-old boy was shot Saturday night during a confrontation between p... more

FIGHTING NIRVANA   Dir: Gabe Rodriguez, United States, 70 min, 2009, Feature Two sisters, Stephanie and Alex, come to spend the night at the house of their recently deceased mother. Also tagging along is Stephan... more

FILMMAKER DEAD OR ALIVE, THE   Dir: Michael Savage, United States, 29 min, 2009, Short The Filmmaker Dead or Alive is about a Filmmaker that makes a short film updating the world...about whether he is dead or alive...and w... more

FINLEY   Dir: Charalambos Mavromichalis, United States, 12 min, 2009, Short This is the story of Finley, a 17-year-old high school girl who is struggling with her sexual identity while trying to be accepted by h... more

FIROFYFE   Dir: John Stanford, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short Firofyfe is a short experimental film shot on Super 8 by John Stanford. It uses a supernatural background to tell a story about belongi... more

FOUR SINGLE FATHERS   Dir: Paolo Monico, Italy, 100 min, 2009, Feature A comedy/drama about four Italian single fathers trying to cope with American ex-wives, children, family, and new relationships, set in... more winner: Best Picture

FREE LUNCH   Dir: Rick Curnutt, United States, 35 min, 2009, Short Walter Tanner Jr. is done with handouts, he’s done with his privileged past, and he’s done with having to answer to people. Realizing t... more

FREEDOM'S GATE   Dir: Harry Courniotes, United States, 19 min, 2008, Short Freedom's Gate is based on a true story about a family's perilous quest and heroic struggle to survive. John, a veteran soldier, had be... more

FROM RIVER TO SEA   Dir: Susan Fink, United States, 80 min, 2009, Documentary Visually stunning and deeply moving, "From River To Sea" is an emotional, heartfelt story about journeys, decisions and modern life --... more

FUTURE PLANET   Dir: Barbara Zemljic, Slovenia, 52 min, 2009, Documentary The nature's warning is clear: time is running out and we need to reconsider our way of behaving toward the environment. An engaging lo... more

FUZZY INSIDES   Dir: Michaela Olsen, United States, 5 min, 2009, Animation Take a peek into the secret nightlife of the suburbs. Four stop motion vignettes portray relationships that develop romantically and se... more

GENGHIS BLUES   Dir: Roko Belic, United States, 88 min, 2000, Documentary Paul Pena played blues with the greats T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, and Bonnie Raitt. In 1995, the blind bluesman became the first America... more

GIFT OF DHAMMA, THE   Dir: Theodore Martland, United States, 30 min, 2009, Documentary In Myanmar (Burma), "The Golden Land of Buddhism," monasteries and meditation centers sprinkle the tropical countryside. Isolated from... more winner: Best Domestic Documentary

GIFTS OF SEEING   Dir: Andrea Olivier, United States, 15 min, 2007, Documentary A woman looks back at her life through the eyes of her sister's doll. Another woman marks historical events with her two pet ducks. A t... more

GIRL PROBLEMS   Dir: Eric Weber & Sean Devaney, United States, 10 min, 2009, Music Video We've all got girl problems, some larger than others.... more

GIRL WITH GUN   Dir: Russ Emanuel, United States, 15 min, 2006, Short Gwen Hunter's best friend and on-and-off love thinks she is a normal 20-something working woman, but in reality she is the Nightingale,... more

GIVEN   Dir: Owen Martel, New Zealand, 58 min, 2009, Short Following a cataclysmic civil war, the victors force the vanquished to sort through the rubble of their civilization in a vast, nightma... more

GRACE   Dir: Manuela Rossi, United States, 11 min, 2009, Short Grace, a flight attendant, is rushing to her son's birthday party with a special present from Europe. Her ex-husband, impatiently waiti... more

GREY SCALE, THE   Dir: Francesco Segrè, United States, 13 min, 2009, Short You and your best friend are NYC detectives. Both with a shady past. How far are you ready to go to protect him, once he crosses the li... more

GUITAR LESSONS   Dir: Deborah Geffner, United States, 34 min, 2009, Short Claire, a married woman, falls in love with her daughter's guitar teacher, and comes to realize that what you desire is not always what... more

HAMSTERS CAN FLY   Dir: Naotomo Umewaka, United States, 9 min, 2009, Documentary Having the mind-set of wanting to try his hand at many things, Naotomo Umewaka wanted to give a gift (a hamster) to his grandmother, in... more

HAZOREA   Dir: Ulrike Pfaff, Germany, 72 min, 2009, Documentary Oriel, 30, has reached the age at which he has to decide whether to leave the kibbutz for good or become a member. He is currently livi... more

HECTOR CORP.   Dir: Gary Lee, United States, 10 min, 2009, Short A thriller about a company, Hector Corporation, that must take extreme measures to manage their employees with unexpected executioners.... more

HEIRS OF EMPIRES   Dir: Joshua Lynn, United States, 35 min, 2009, Short In the near future, the world's nations are locked in global war. Fearing for their safety, a small group decides to retreat from the c... more

HELP   Dir: Val Lauren, United States, 38 min, 2008, Short Follow Roman on the night that he embarks on a desperate mission to save his dying mother's life. ... more

HERE'S HERBIE   Dir: Mary Wickliffe, United States, 11 min, 2008, Short Here's Herbie is based on an autobiographical story in Harper's Magazine by author and broadcaster Mike Feder about teenage Mike, trapp... more

HINENI'S TRIUMPH OF THE SPIRIT   Dir: Layne Batt, United States, 21 min, 2009, Documentary The shocking and courageous auto-biographical account of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis' survival as a child terrorized by the Holocaust. 'T... more

HOLY LAND, THE   Dir: Eitan Gorlin, United States, 101 min, 2003, Feature An unlikely love story between a young rabbinical student and a Russian prostitute, during a period of rising turmoil in the Middle Eas... more

HOMECOMING, THE   Dir: Rachel Earnest, United States, 19 min, 2007, Short Katherine returns to Orange County after spending a year living and studying in Cannes, France. Coming home proves more difficult then... more

HOMELESS IN HUNTERDON   Dir: Brandon Rowe, United States, 23 min, 2009, Documentary The film listens to the words of eight people who have been formerly homeless. Of all different races, genders, and family types, thei... more

HOMESICK   Dir: Christopher Werner, United States, 15 min, 2008, Short Amanda and her parents are in the process of transitioning into a new life, in a new house, in a new town. It's never easy to move into... more

HOPE DEFERRED   Dir: James Siegel, United States, 46 min, 2008, Documentary The history, science, and ethics behind stem cell research. Encompassing interviews with leaders in the field, Hope Deferred presents... more

HOTEL CHELSEA   Dir: Jorge Valdés-Iga, Japan, 74 min, 2009, Feature A Japanese couple honeymoon at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. That night the wife finds her husband's dead body and a video tape of the... more

HOW GREEN WAS OUR VALLEY   Dir: Fereshteh Joghataei, Iran, 32 min, 2009, Documentary A Dam has been built and the water is rising and 63 villages will beflooded and their residents must leave. There is a holy shrine in... more

HUNTING OF THE SNARK, THE   Dir: Peter Pavlakis, United States, 30 min, 2009, Short An enigmatic young man joins The Bellman, The Banker, The Barrister, The Billiard Marker, and The Beaver to become The Baker on their s... more

I AM SO PROUD OF YOU   Dir: Don Hertzfeldt, United States, 22 min, 2009, Animation Dark family secrets cast a shadow over Bill's recovery, in this second chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's 'Everything will be OK'. Like al... more

I KILLED AVA RED   Dir: Travis Maiuro, United States, 17 min, 2009, Short In a twisted take on the classic film-noir genre, 'I Killed Ava Red' takes you on a wild trip to the heart of an equally wild mystery.... more

ICE BREAKERS   Dir: John Guarnere, United States, 27 min, 2008, Short Susan is a closed book. She wishes her blind date, Leonard, wasn’t quite so open. At the very least he could have the decency to turn... more

IF GOD WANTS   Dir: Arthur Diennet, United States, 91 min, 2009, Feature An unorthodox and unusual look into the jaws of fate, the maw of destiny and the existence and motivation of a supernatural being, this... more winner: Best Producer

IN FIDELITY   Dir: Alex Nesic, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short Nicole's marriage has gotten stale and predictable. Out of curiosity she decides to check out Matchstick.com, a 'dating website for ma... more

IN THE BLOOD   Dir: Gregory Hotaling, United States, 46 min, 2008, Documentary The documentary In the Blood portrays the struggles and triumphs of a lower division soccer team and its dedicated community of support... more

IN THE EYES OF A KILLER   Dir: Louis Mandylor, United States, 90 min, 2008, Feature The chilling story of Jack Newman, a lecturer at the local University, living a happy life in a small coastal town in the South. Jack i... more

IN THE SWEET BYE & BYE   Dir: Alex Freitas & Carlos Freitas, Canada, 29 min, 2008, Short Best friends Ethan and Jayson are preparing for the biggest meeting of their careers, if everything goes well they will have the break... more

INSIDE OF ME   Dir: Robert X. Golphin, United States, 12 min, 2009, Short A loving husband, his faithful wife:The perfect couple. But behind closed doors lies a missing link. When the lovebirds learn of devast... more

INSURGENCY OF AMBITION   Dir: Anya Belkina, United States, 8 min, 2009, Animation The illusion of success lures a man to the very threshold of glory only to unsheathe its true, frightening nature as he gets within rea... more

INTERPRETATION   Dir: Lin Oeding, United States, 8 min, 2009, Short A romantic couple's brief encounter with a few philosophical thugs unfolds in an unusual way. After this night, no one will be the same... more

INVERT THE VESSEL   Dir: Joel Neville Anderson, United States, 33 min, 2009, Short June and Augie grew up together. Both playing on June’s father’s youth soccer team, they were like siblings. Now, in college, June is w... more

ITCHY, SNEEZY, WHIZZY   Dir: Suhel Polanco, United States, 8 min, 2009, Short Itchy, Sneezy, and Whizzy, find three glowing rocks in the park, which they discover, have powers. Whizzy wants nothing to do with the... more

JENNY GOT A BOOB JOB   Dir: Lon Diamond, United States, 18 min, 2008, Short Jenny is a girl who barely registers a blip on the high school radar... and so flat her bras have Winnie The Pooh on them. She also su... more

JEWS OF CUBA, THE   Dir: Milos Silber, Cuba, 45 min, 2009, Documentary Cuba is known for its revolutionary leaders, communism, cigars, and 50s cars. However, religion, a founding characteristic among many n... more

JIMMY   Dir: Benjamin Potter, England, 10 min, 2009, Short Jimmy and Bill are two criminals who arrive at a house to pick up £20,000 that is owed to them. The plan is real simple. They go in, g... more

JOHNSTONES - BANK, THE   Dir: Joseph Zentil, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video A classic robbery shot cinematically in the heart of New York City. The Johnstones take over a landmark bank during mid-day, innocent p... more

JUDGEMENT   Dir: Julio Ponce Palmieri, Canada, 10 min, 2009, Short A man finds himself in the middle of an intense questioning that makes him face the actions of his traumatic past and also his uncert... more

JUNG LAND   Dir: Jung-Min Yoon, United States, 28 min, 2008, Short Jung, a novelist, is embarking on her newest piece of writing, the story of Daisy. Abandoned by her father and raised by a harsh mother... more

KEEPER   Dir: Michael Shove, United States, 20 min, 2009, Short A young man, followed by a mysterious figure, must protect his grandfather's secret that he doesn't even understand.... more

KERALA, THE CRADLE OF CHRISTIANITY IN SOUTH ASIA   Dir: Jain Joseph, India, 34 min, 2008, Documentary The spice trade between Kerala and the Middle East, established before the Christian era, paved the way for the import of the Eastern f... more

KWAME   Dir: Edward Osei-Gyimah , United States, 25 min, 2009, Short Kwame Opoku has been driving a cab on the streets of Los Angeles for 20 Years. A former captain in the Ghanaian Army, forced to flee to... more

LANDLESS   Dir: David Yim & Marymichael D'Onofrio, South Africa, 16 min, 2007, Documentary Though it's been over a decade since South Africa has become a free and democratic country, human rights violations still occur. Forced... more

LAST DAYS OF SHISHMAREF, THE   Dir: Jan Louter, United States, 93 min, 2008, Documentary Shishmaref is a community of about 600 people, located on an island just off the west coast of Alaska. The effects of global warming th... more

LAST PAGE, THE   Dir: Kevin Acevedo, United States, 21 min, 2008, Short Jason Adams is a tortured author struggling to find the perfect ending to his latest story. While taking a break from writing, Jason is... more

LEV   Dir: Laura Emel Yilmaz, United States, 3 min, 2009, Animation In a noisy city far from home, where music is the sole means of communication, a lonely janitor sleepwalks through his menial duties. U... more

LIFE ON A BIKE   Dir: Francesco Quinn, United States, 27 min, 2006, Documentary In this documentary, part of a television series on the bicycle, director Francesco Quinn focuses on the multi-faceted role this vehicl... more

LILY   Dir: Hiroshi Nakajima, United States, 89 min, 2009, Feature Up-and-coming screenplay writer, Vincent Knight, is in a rut. After a successful debut five years ago, his much anticipated sophomore p... more

LISTENER, THE   Dir: Chad Gravallese, United States, 110 min, 2009, Feature A young passionate musician named Ana escapes to her music when her life begins to fall apart. But she goes too far and begins to ignor... more

LITTLE RIDE UP ON CLOUDS   Dir: Rafael Moraes, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video Two woman are in a small hot room, underground, for a day. One of them is relaxing with her boy toy, the other concentrated blowing som... more

LITTLE VILLAGE   Dir: David Priego, United States, 13 min, 2009, Short When fourteen-year-old Alonso is taken under the wing of Diego, one of the most confident personalities on the streets of 'Little Villa... more

LIVING ON YOUR FEET. THE STRUGGLES OF CIPRIANO MERA   Dir: Valenti Figueres, Spain, 124 min, 2009, Documentary LIVING ON YOUR FEET explores the personality of Cipriano Mera, and the ideals and feats of an era that turned his life into one great a... more

LIVING ORGANICS   Dir: Kiera L Faber, United States, 11 min, 2009, Animation Living Organics explores issues of trust, destruction and loss through characters that exist within constructed environments. In this n... more

LONELY RABBIT, THE   Dir: Christina Felderhof, Canada, 15 min, 2009, Animation The Lonely Rabbit lives among furry animals in Cloverville, a village nestled in the forest. He stumbles through life with sweetness an... more

LONG DISTANCE   Dir: Moritz Siebert, England, 27 min, 2009, Documentary Abiyot is one of several African long distance runners, trying to make a living and career in the US. Once he was a promising member of... more

LONG-DISTANCE CALL, A   Dir: Joe Chang, China, 12 min, 2009, Animation One summer day, an artist called Jiajia came to an antiquated village in a secluded mountainous area in southern China. To her shock, t... more winner: Best International Animation

LOOKING FOR THE SHOT   Dir: Patrick McCarthy, United States, 27 min, 2009, Documentary PATRICK MCCARTHY a photojournalist from Queens, New York explains the life in the profession while traveling to his first assignment.... more

LOST SPIRITS, THE   Dir: Eric Paul Maryea & Charles George Barron, United States, 77 min, 2009, Documentary The Lost Spirits is a documentary following the lives of a Native American family living in Queens, New York. In recent years, many con... more

LOVE FLOW RED   Dir: Alexandra Stergiou, United States, 10 min, 2009, Short Mrs. Karras and Pete are an elderly couple with a turbulent relationship. But Marie is used to it. She takes care of Mrs. Karras who su... more

LUCK OF STONEY BOWES, THE   Dir: Elvire Duvelle-Charles, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video Three wolf women take their revenge on men.... more

MAMA'S HEART   Dir: Siu Pan (Ben) Ng, United States, 10 min, 2009, Short Dava, a loving, yet slightly neurotic, mother who is met with the dilemma of having a grown son, Calvin, who opts to spend his life pla... more

MAN OF THE PEOPLE   Dir: Gary Waldinger, United States, 26 min, 2008, Short America, meet your Mayor! This fast-paced mockumentary follows the campaign of bumbling underdog Mayoral candidate Toby Morton in his q... more

MANGO TANGO   Dir: Marianne Hettinger, United States, 98 min, 2009, Feature All Marlene ever wanted was to meet a nice guy… Marlene, a New York City dance teacher, is driven to therapy by the increasingly neurot... more

MANUEL AND MARIANA   Dir: Joseph Varca, United States, 16 min, 2009, Short A lonely, shy subway performer who dances with a home made doll as his partner hopes for love with the woman who lives upstairs but dis... more

MATT AND BRIAN'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE   Dir: Matthew Kriegsman & Brian Fromm, United States, 8 min, 2009, Animation Two unsuspecting teenagers, Matt and Brian, are innocently tossing a Frisbee in the park when they find a door randomly standing in the... more

MEDICINE MAN   Dir: Himkar Tak, United States, 19 min, 2009, Short Jimi, a 15 year old kid from the projects of Brooklyn, New York, journeys deep into the Adirondack Mountains in search of a fabled plan... more

MEETING MR. WILLIAMS   Dir: Alex Lamburini, United States, 4 min, 2009, Short A young girl who is troubled with her changing view of the world finds a small and withered flower in an urban New York City playground... more

MELTDOWN   Dir: David Green, United States, 6 min, 2009, Short Last night's leftovers are presented with a cold reality. A massive ice block has invaded the refrigerator and is swallowing the food o... more

MICHAEL JACKSON SHINING   Dir: Trevor Parham, United States, 5 min, 2009, Music Video Unity Lewis of the Napalm Clique and Trevor Parham of Eklectyk Creative Media have collaborated once again to produce a stunning music... more

MILKED   Dir: Daniel Marks, United States, 7 min, 2009, Short In this absurdist dark comedy, Sam is on a mission to find the one thing his girlfriend desires. At four in the morning, only late-nigh... more

MORE THAN ALIVE   Dir: Drechtaber Fulmowitz, Canada, 4 min, 2009, Music Video 8 months in a northern Ontario valley. Hayden's beautiful piano piece set to the majesty of mother nature herself. Using low environmen... more

MORENITA   Dir: Alan Jonsson Gavica, Mexico, 92 min, 2009, Feature Mateo Cruz, desperate to save his family from a notorious drug dealer, causes absolute pandemonium when he kidnaps Mexico and Latin Ame... more

MORNING STAR, THE   Dir: Dominick Sivilli, United States, 23 min, 2009, Short The Morning Star takes place near the end of the world where darkness is the dominant feature and the sun has not risen for some time.... more

MOUSTACHETTE   Dir: Patrick Stump, United States, 16 min, 2009, Short A tongue-in-cheek, satirical look at a group of unabashedly pompous and misled young artists. Overwhelmed by the naivety and selfishnes... more

MRS. J'S CAFE   Dir: Joe Zito, United States, 12 min, 2009, Short Three groups of people eat in a little cafe. A glimpse of their lives are observed through conversations. Quarks and character traits a... more

MUTE   Dir: Hassan Said, United States, 19 min, 2009, Short Oliver, a retired single parent, comes home from the store to find his autistic daughter, Ana, brutally abused. Taking matters in... more

MY HAPPY END   Dir: Milen Vitanov, Germany, 5 min, 2007, Animation All dogs chase their tails, but what happens when one dog becomes best friends with it? Charming drawings animate this tale of a pooch... more

NEVERLAND: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE   Dir: Daniel Broome, United States, 6 min, 2009, Short Happy Birthday. You are now 10 years old. You have your whole life ahead of you. You can do anything and be anyone; an astronaut, an ac... more

NO COUNTRY OF OUR OWN   Dir: Jessica Knowles & Maggie Li, United States, 22 min, 2009, Documentary Crossing the border in untold numbers, desperate Zimbabweans risk their lives to seek refuge in South Africa. They leave their friends,... more

NO GOOD REASON   Dir: Michael Mierendorf, United States, 11 min, 2009, Documentary Musicians and singers from around the country, people who have never met and who are currently or recently homeless, gather in Boston t... more

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS   Dir: Naotomo Umewaka, United States, 10 min, 2009, Documentary When Naotomo Umewaka, was filming a crack addict, many people asked "Why film a crack head?" in a negative tone. So he realized early t... more

O.B.A.M. NUDE   Dir: Rod Weber, United States, 81 min, 2009, Feature At Occidental College in 1981, a loner snorts cocaine and smokes marijuana, secretly hoping to one day become someone important. His dr... more

ON THE FUTILITY OF ESCAPING FROM THE SELF   Dir: Daniella Gitlin, United States, 17 min, 2009, Short The film tells the story of the author's reencounter with a movie she made in the eighth grade. She retrieves the tape from her filmmak... more

ON THE LAM   Dir: Corey Aumiller, United States, 96 min, 2008, Feature As relations between the United States and Iran devolve into military aggression, conscriptionfor young American men becomes real. Eric... more

ON THE ROCKS   Dir: David Henderson, United States, 10 min, 2009, Short Jack Bullet is a miserable man. He drinks, swears and is generally unpleasant to be around. But with a life like his, can you blame him... more

ONE LAST FIX   Dir: Adam Lawrence & Ramfis Myrthil, United States, 28 min, 2009, Short With one big score, small time drug dealer Franco is sure he'll be able to leave the business forever and start a legitimate life. But... more

ONLY ONE, THE   Dir: Joost Lieuwma & Tommaso Minnetti, Italy, 4 min, 2009, Music Video A young man wanders through a maze of underground lines. His final destination is Love, but he doesn't know how to get there. Alone in... more

OSVALDO'S   Dir: Randy Wilkins, United States, 19 min, 2009, Short Jerry Dominguez, a 15 year old who has recently lost his mother, is at the family owned barbershop discussing the final details of a sp... more

OVER THE FENCE   Dir: Hamy Ramezan, Finland, 29 min, 2009, Short Tomi (16) and Aino (12) are brother and sister and best friends, united by their love of football. Tomi is a fanatical supporter of Ain... more

PAINTER OF SKIES, THE   Dir: Jorge Morais Valle, Spain, 20 min, 2009, Animation From the darkness of the lost cliffs, a crazy painter, marked by his past, and his faithul assistant try to find a solution against per... more

Palestine, Beer and Oktoberfest Under Occupation   Dir: Lara van Raay, Australia, 43 min, 2009, Documentary Nadim's mission is to get everyone drunk and happy! Meet the father and daughter team who created Palestine's first beer and see a diff... more

PANDEMIC   Dir: Charley Hoover, United States, 24 min, 2008, Short In the wake of a global viral outbreak, Breck Anderson and his wife Annie flee Southern California. Using the vastness of the desert to... more

PANORAMA OBSCURA   Dir: Harune Massey & Usman Shaukat, United States, 17 min, 2009, Short Tina, a middle aged South Asian woman, and Tanya, a nouveau rich housewife, aspire to make a documentary. Both want to cash in on the c... more

PANTS   Dir: Tom Rizzuto & Nick LaBruna, United States, 6 min, 2009, Short A transient ambles down a lonely alleyway, content to sit and enjoy his liqueur in peace and quite. With out warning, two industrially... more

PARABOLA   Dir: Lexi Lefkowitz, United States, 16 min, 2009, Short Parabola follows Lyle, a High School freshman who is trying to survive a world of math tests, family dysfunction, and a few relentless... more

PARK   Dir: Mari Kawade, United States, 11 min, 2009, Short A Japanese banker who was just sent to New York discovers something precious for his life at Central Park.... more

PARTS   Dir: Scott Hanson, United States, 20 min, 2008, Short Herb, a butcher, brings leftovers home to make ends meet for he and his wife, who desperately wants a child. To get ahead, Herb gambles... more

PATRIOTIC DANGER   Dir: Matthew Shea, United States, 53 min, 2009, Short David Striker (Masa Gibson) is a highly trained government assassin who until now has managed to keep his private life separate from hi... more

PEONY PAVILION, THE   Dir: Xian Liu, China, 12 min, 2009, Animation Du Liniang is the sixteen year old daughter of an important official, Du Bao. On a fine Spring day her maid persuades Du Liniang to aba... more

PERFECT AGE OF ROCK 'N' ROLL, THE   Dir: Scott D. Rosenbaum, United States, 92 min, 2009, Feature The story of two childhood bandmates and best friends who chose very different paths in life. After moving to Los Angeles and releasing... more

PERIOD PORTRAIT   Dir: Nitzan Mager, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short Three women. One man. Their paths will cross. In the feminine hygiene aisle. Period. - Scarlet just got her period today. Vera just re... more

PIECE OF MY HEART, A   Dir: Stephen McKendree, United States, 14 min, 2009, Short A lonely convenience store clerk is shot through the heart during a robbery by a beautiful bandit. After his miraculous physical recove... more

PILGRIM, THE   Dir: Elizabeth Page , United States, 10 min, 2008, Short A five-year-old child tries to teach her Hispanic babysitter about Thanksgiving. As they set up a tableau and play with 'pilgrim' and '... more

PLAYING A PIANIST   Dir: Katsumi Funahashi, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short A mediocre piano player is about to perform a big concert which he doesn't remember booking. 10 minutes before the concert, he faces... more

PLEDGE, THE   Dir: Scott Wurth, Australia, 35 min, 2009, Documentary Tap 'Philippines' and 'Crucifixion' into your computer and you will have no difficulty finding gruesome and disturbing images of men na... more

POCKETS   Dir: Jessica Schoen, United States, 5 min, 2009, Short Marisa works in a hotel coat check room, when one day, Cameron comes in to check his coat. Through multiple exchanges and snooping thr... more

PRESTO   Dir: Don Cato, United States, 3 min, 2009, Animation A joyful hand painted abstract 16mm film about the thread of love. Paint, glue, tape, marker, applied or scratched onto 16mm clear or... more

RAGE   Dir: John Corcoran, Ireland, 9 min, 2008, Short Rosa is about to hear whether her pregnancy tests are negative or positive. As she waits she recalls her unhappy upbringing under the p... more

RAMONES ARE NOT DEAD   Dir: Suzy Ramone, Australia, 26 min, 2009, Documentary RAMONES Are Not Dead is a non-stop rock’n’roller-coaster ride into the world of those who love and follow the Ramones…still. The Ramone... more

RANDOM LUNACY   Dir: Victor Zimet & Stephanie Silber , United States, 60 min, 2009, Documentary Mainstream America might regard the family group of buskers who called themselves 'The Flying Neutrinos' as homeless. But they preferre... more

REACH   Dir: Luke Randall, Australia, 4 min, 2009, Animation A tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable. When a curious bird appears at the work... more

REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN, THE   Dir: Taggart Siegel, United States, 83 min, 2007, Documentary An epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer, this critically acclaimed documentary follows the colorful John Peterson, a farmer, artis... more

REAL MEN GO HUNTING   Dir: Ryan Lynch, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short When Brewster's attempts to land a job prove unsuccessful and his wife wants him to 'bring home the meat', he feels that his manliness... more

REALM OF POSSIBILITY, THE   Dir: Gerald Guthrie, United States, 7 min, 2009, Animation The opening sequence begins from the point of view of the main character looking through the eyeholes of a helmet into the interior of... more

REBECCA AND THE FISH   Dir: David Yim, United States, 14 min, 2009, Short Rebecca, a free-spirited young woman, has kept her beloved pet fish since she was a young girl. She is pressured into obtaining 'meanin... more

REILLY - SUNLIGHT   Dir: David Altrogge, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video Reilly's debut music video featuring a story of betrayal, redemption, and renewal.... more

RELEASE   Dir: C. Josephine Hagerty, United States, 4 min, 2009, Short Based on a true story and starring 'King of Queens' star Victor Williams, In the aftermath of 9-11, what began as a bad day for Reggie,... more

REMNANCE   Dir: Samuel Gray Anderson, United States, 11 min, 2009, Short An older artist has recently returned to the city after a long time away. Overwhelmed by his memories, he seeks, through his art, to t... more

RETREAT   Dir: Robert Joseph Butler, United States, 11 min, 2010, Short An ethereal character study about Alexis, an alienated teenager who's shy, isolated, and keeps to herself. Disconnected from her family... more

RETURN TO MEXICO CITY   Dir: Joie Walls, United States, 49 min, 2009, Documentary At the 1968 Summer Olympic Games, against a backdrop of a world in chaos, U.S. Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos stunned the world... more

REVENGE   Dir: Naotomo Umewaka, United States, 3 min, 2009, Short For several decades in the Middle East it was never quiet. There were always gun shots, suicide bombings, or planes dropping bombs. Sol... more

REVERIE   Dir: John Jennissen, England, 4 min, 2009, Music Video The video follows the arc of emotion felt by the lead singer as he struggles to understand his place within the band. The de-saturation... more

ROAD TO GAZA, THE   Dir: Patrick Ward & Stuart Halforty, England, 66 min, 2009, Documentary In March 2009 two activists Patrick Ward and Stuart Halforty from the London Stop the War Movement traveled to the Gaza Strip in Palest... more

ROUE   Dir: Taili Wu, United States, 6 min, 2009, Animation 'ROUE' is a self-portrait project. This piece is composed by fragments of my dreams, childhood memories and emotions. 'ROUE' is a Chine... more

RUBBUDS   Dir: Jan Chen, United States, 4 min, 2009, Animation Life is getting a little too boring for those active RUBBUDS, who live just inside everyone's night stand drawer. In fact, they are eve... more

RUBICON   Dir: Steve Rousseau, United States, 20 min, 2009, Short A well-to-do WASPy Los Angeles man drives through the downtown night, seemingly on the run from someone or something, while refusing to... more

RUSHIN'   Dir: Jason Clemons , United States, 10 min, 2009, Short Once again running late for work, hapless waiter, Frank Gilroy just misses his bus. While trying to figure out what he's going to tell... more

RUYAH ZAHIR   Dir: Nina Juliano, United States, 13 min, 2009, Short The provocative story of an American waitress' fascination with her neighbor, an Afghan housewife, and their uncanny connection.... more

SAME BLOOD, THE   Dir: Francesco Di Martino, Italy, 56 min, 2009, Documentary U Stisso Sangu (litteraly The Same Blood) is a collection of stories about immigrants landed on the south-east coasts of Sicily. The do... more

SCAVENGER   Dir: Matt Hish, United States, 22 min, 2009, Short After a year of sobriety, Jameson, a former addict, wakes up to one of the worst days of his life and tries to acquire his old favorite... more

SCHRODINGER'S CAT   Dir: Andre Lyon, United States, 18 min, 2008, Short Neil has just one day to see his son -- just one day to talk him into coming back to Boston. He'll have to work fast to befriend a boy... more

SELF HELPLESS   Dir: P. Cassidy, A. Deppmeyer, A. Jaroszewski, P. Simone, Mexico, 90 min, 2009, Feature Simon, John Candy, Felix, and The Drake are assholes. They are stupid, scheming, self-regarding dudes who are convinced of their own gr... more

SHADES OF BLUE   Dir: Alex Freitas & Carlos Freitas, Canada, 81 min, 2009, Feature After looking too closely into his daughters’ murder, top homicide detective Dominic Nash is wrongfully suspended from the force with i... more

SHOW ME THE WAY   Dir: Sheila A. Laffey & Gazecki William, United States, 28 min, 2009, Documentary "We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. And half of the students who begin college never fi... more

SINGLE DROP OF YOU   Dir: Jarek Zabczynski, United States, 5 min, 2009, Music Video A modern day fairy tale where two people meet and almost magically fall in love in an altogether too perfect fashion. We follow a man s... more

SKYLIGHT   Dir: David Baas, Canada, 5 min, 2009, Animation An animated mock documentary about the ecological plight of penguins in the Antarctic, possibly foretelling cataclysmic results for the... more

SLEEPING   Dir: Doug Conant, United States, 23 min, 2008, Short Based on the flash-fiction story by acclaimed author Katharine Weber, 'Sleeping' is a coming-of-age tale about a young girl named Harri... more

SLEEPING RIVER   Dir: David Marek, United States, 21 min, 2009, Short 'Sleeping River' interweaves breathtaking landscapes, wounded characters and a psychological method of editing to create an indelible r... more

SLOW BOAT TO QUEENS   Dir: Patrick Tarrant, England, 8 min, 2009, Documentary If there is a tendency to take for granted our everyday exposure to life inside the city and its industries, "Slow Boat To Queens" s... more

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT   Dir: Thomas Simon, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video Musiciens Sans Frontieres music video of Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' takes Nirvana's brilliant anthem for Generation X and turn... more

SNAPSHOTS OF A VILLAGE   Dir: Philippa Connolly, Ireland, 15 min, 2009, Documentary From HIV to hairdos, a group of Zambian teenagers let us in on life in A Village. A Village is both an intimate and an upbeat documenta... more

SNOW BUNNY   Dir: Julie Keck & Jessica King, United States, 26 min, 2009, Short Dean and Abigail have made all the right choices. They went to college, got married, and had children. Dean has a great job, and Abig... more

SNOWYVILLE   Dir: Michael Attardi, United States, 10 min, 2009, Animation Have you ever wondered what magical things could happen under your Christmas tree?In the miniature village of Snowyville, Sir Evil, a p... more winner: Best Domestic Animation

SOBER   Dir: Frank Bologna, United States, 20 min, 2009, Short A man, bruised and confused, (Ander Del Rio) wakes up to find himself tied to a chair in a dark, dank room in the midst of a brutal war... more

SODOM BY THE SEA   Dir: Johnny Salvatore, United States, 19 min, 2008, Short Billy, 60's, is a Coney Island old timer, thinking about selling his historic carousel ride as redevelopment hits the world famous amus... more

SOLITUDE   Dir: Robert Joseph Butler, United States, 18 min, 2009, Short Experimental surreal drama about two star-crossed couples' intertwining movies. Director Robert Joseph Butler plays traditional narrati... more

SOMEWHERE BEYOND   Dir: James Babanikos, United States, 47 min, 2009, Short Late one night in 1984, an intruder broke into a home and raped a young woman. The perpetrator was subsequently apprehended, but the li... more

SONG FOR OURSELVES, A   Dir: Tadashi Nakamura, United States, 35 min, 2009, Short An intimate journey into the life and music of Asian American Movement troubadour Chris Iijima. Struggling to make sense of their fath... more

SPEAK   Dir: Nathan Kress, United States, 3 min, 2009, Short An original short film that asks everyday people, one question. This question makes people think while drawing an audience. With only h... more

SPIRIT OF A RUNNER, THE   Dir: Jessie Beers-Altman, United States, 28 min, 2009, Documentary In the world's longest race, the biggest challenge lies within. A veteran ultramarathoner tackles the Everest of distance racing in thi... more

STAGES   Dir: Meerkat Media Collective, United States, 82 min, 2009, Documentary STAGES is a moving and surprisingly funny vérite exploration of the unexpected power of the simple act of storytelling. The film unrav... more

STEVE'S PERFECT VACATION   Dir: Anandh Ramesh, United States, 3 min, 2009, Animation Steve, a perfectionist wannabe, plans very meticulously for his dream perfect vacation. He plans everything to perfection, but finds to... more

STOOP, THE   Dir: Susan E. Wilson, United States, 22 min, 2009, Short Lansky and Ali are best friends always justifying their relationship to others. Lansky, born and raised in Brooklyn to second generatio... more

STRESSFUL ADVENTURES OF BOXHEAD & ROUNDHEAD - BROTHERS IN ARMS, THE   Dir: Elliot Cowan, United States, 4 min, 2008, Animation In this seventh stressful Adventure, Boxhead and Roundhead attempt to enjoy a relaxing hot beverage. It's Dr Seuss meets Edward Gorey v... more

STRONGEST, THE   Dir: Jaemin Lee, United States, 4 min, 2009, Animation A giant gorilla lifts a huge rock and throws it. He shows his strength by pounding on his chest and roaring. An old monkey sleeping und... more

SULTANS OF THE BOSPHORUS, THE   Dir: Muge Bayraktar, Turkey, 16 min, 2008, Documentary There are certainly some effects of globalization on culture in any developing country. Does the American football represent a good exa... more

SUNDOWNERS, THE   Dir: Robin Seymour, United States, 14 min, 2009, Short Holly is having difficulty at home with her seventy year old husband, Manny. He is wandering in the middle of night, confusing the past... more

SURVIVING SURVIVING   Dir: Joe Klein, United States, 31 min, 2009, Documentary 'Surviving Surviving' is a disturbing look at the unbelievable struggles that holocaust suvivers faced in the Nazi Germany and in Polan... more winner: Best Young Filmmaker Award

SWAN SONG-BRIGHTWOOD   Dir: Dillon Novak, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video This story's setting takes place in the heart of the beautiful Great Sand Dunes National Park. We are taken along a story of lost love... more

SWEET SEDUCTION   Dir: Gabrielle Lui, United States, 9 min, 2008, Short Aaron has a problem; he is secretly in love with his best friend, Amy. They have been friends for a long time and she just thinks of h... more

SWIM TEAM, THE   Dir: Amber Crosby, United States, 17 min, 2009, Short When aimless Mona winds up in the tiny town of Belvedere she finds herself teaching three elderly locals how to swim - even though ther... more

TAINTED TOUCH, THE   Dir: Frank Battiston, United States, 18 min, 2009, Short The mistakes of the past are exposed during the last moments of a couple's relationship, pushing them to a painful present and an inevi... more

TAKE OUT   Dir: Sean Baker & Shih-Ching Tsou, United States, 87 min, 2008, Feature A day-in-the-life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in NYC. Ming is behin... more

TAKE THE GAY TRAIN   Dir: Robert Philipson, United States, 14 min, 2008, Short Subtitled a documentary dreamscape, 'Take the Gay Train' charts the progress of gay sensibility during the Harlem Renaissance through a... more

TAUGHT TO HATE   Dir: James Garcia Sotomayor, United States, 27 min, 2009, Short Taught to hate: The story of an Ecuadorian immigrant trying to find a job in America and an American family who's uncle's racial intole... more

THANKSGIVING   Dir: Anja Marquardt , United States, 11 min, 2008, Short A beer can, cheerleaders, raw turkey. Upon returning home from the war, young Nate Krebs is beginning to understand that the familiar w... more

THANO SPA   Dir: Peter Guzda, Canada, 16 min, 2009, Short This is a story of Jackson Smith a young entrepreneur who saw an opportunity in the untapped market of suicide. Mr. Smith is a “Suicide... more

THAT'S LIFE   Dir: Chuck Gale, United States, 20 min, 2009, Short A crazed guman rants about life's ills to a stuck-in-a-rut bartender.... more

THEY SEEK HIM HERE   Dir: Jess Mermelstein, United States, 15 min, 2007, Short Kevin has a fairly normal life. A job, a girlfriend, an apartment, a nagging mother, and a feeling of not quite belonging here. He's... more

THIS SIDE UP   Dir: Eric Blue, United States, 12 min, 2009, Short Jack ships himself in a crate to see his girl friend. In route he makes a stunning discovery. Comedy ensues...... more

THORNS   Dir: Neil Thompson, United States, 18 min, 2009, Short In ancient Italy, a young servant is offered wealth and freedom... if he will but murder his kindly master.... more

THUNDER   Dir: Hrvoje Krsticevic, Croatia, 33 min, 2009, Documentary 'Thunder' is documentary about (American) football in Europe. The story revolves around first football team in Croatia - Zagreb Thunder... more

TOGETHER!   Dir: David Sheahan, United States, 5 min, 2009, Animation A married couple have been living in the same house for so long, they only make each other miserable. But fate steps in and solves thei... more

TONTO WOMAN, THE   Dir: Daniel Barber, England, 35 min, 2008, Short A white woman is kidnapped from her home by Apache Indians. Traded to the Mojave Indians, she lives as a squaw for 11 years until she i... more

TRAFFIC STOP   Dir: Ben Fiore, United States, 11 min, 2009, Short When two young men are pulled over in their vehicle for rolling past a stop sign by an overzealous police officer, the results are trag... more

TUNGIJUQ   Dir: Paul Raphaël & Felix Lajeunesse, Canada, 7 min, 2009, Short A thought-provoking meditation on the seal-hunt and what it means to the traditional way of life for the Inuit. Starring international... more

TURF   Dir: Joe Zito, United States, 14 min, 2009, Short A guy named Dave, who dresses up like a chicken, works for a place called Flavor Crisp. He gets heckled and abused all day by passing c... more

TWO LOVES   Dir: Hannah Long & Michelle Ripplinger, United States, 25 min, 2007, Documentary "When you start a sentence with 'homosexuality' as a Mormon, you have to end that sentence with 'is a sin.'" In Two Loves, a twenty-fiv... more

UNDER GOD   Dir: Richard Farmer, United States, 10 min, 2009, Short Combining questions of Faith, Technology and Politics, UNDER GOD is a Cold War-era parable about the day President Eisenhower met with... more

UNDER HELLGATE BRIDGE   Dir: Michael Sergio, United States, 88 min, 2001, Feature On the mean streets that run beneath New York City's Hellgate Bridge, in a world where easy money and violence are a way of life, two o... more

UNDER THE DESERT SUN   Dir: Alec Whitesell , United States, 85 min, 2009, Feature Under the Desert Sun tells the story of Richard and Rachel Winston, a once vibrant, loving couple torn apart by selfishness and tragedy... more

UNDER THE TREES   Dir: Michael Zaccaria, United States, 44 min, 2009, Short Frank Dorsey, a young, lonely man in need of his family. Frank lives by himself with no one because of an argument he had with his pare... more

UNTIL THE SKY FALLS   Dir: Mattson Tomlin, United States, 19 min, 2009, Short Set in a post-apocalyptic world, a MAN hunts and gathers for his family in a barren landscape while avoiding strange passerby's who thr... more

VICE VERSA   Dir: Michael Shove, United States, 15 min, 2009, Short A neo-noir short film about a man who finds himself going backward in time... fearing reliving the recent death of his girlfriend. Can... more

VINDICATION   Dir: Bart Mastronardi, United States, 113 min, 2008, Feature Clive Barker has called Bart Mastronardi's VINDICATION as what a real horror movie looks and feels like. VINDICATION delivers creating... more

VIRGINS OF NEW YORK   Dir: Katina Sossiadis, United States, 20 min, 2007, Short A woman filmmaker, who lost her virginity at a late age, goes on a pursuit to find other woman who have abstained from sex. In the pur... more

VISIT CHINA   Dir: Anthony Samangy, United States, 12 min, 2009, Short In Visit China, George has been discovering that the American City he calls home is decaying into a pit of disrepair and desolation. He... more

WALKING ON TURTLE ISLAND   Dir: Ian Skorodin, United States, 20 min, 2009, Short A trickster (Robert Greygrass) and a young Lakota warrior are instructed by spirit elders to guide those in need. - Killed in a gun fi... more

WATERFRONT ACCESS?   Dir: Floanne Ankah, United States, 10 min, 2009, Short Waterfront Access? is an experimental film that connects a group of people from the City to the Brooklyn shore. As the dance evolves th... more

WAYS ON WHEELS   Dir: Ken Galloway, Canada, 14 min, 2009, Documentary His name is Ways and he was once a fast moving outlaw artist, a hit and run gambler on the British Columbia graffiti scene. A police ch... more

WE ARE ALL HERE   Dir: Yonghwa Choi, United States, 2 min, 2009, Animation This is a story about the earth we live. All life on the earth dies someday. The earth is also temporary. Nevertheless, we use up in ea... more

WE ARE THE PUNKY PETS   Dir: Paula Unger, United States, 3 min, 2009, Animation The Punky Pets are musicians from around the world who have been brought together in a music talent contest to compete with each other... more

WELCOME TO MY QUEER BOOKSTORE   Dir: Larry Tung, Taiwan, 19 min, 2009, Documentary Located in Taipei, Taiwan, Gin Gin's Bookstore is the one and only bookstore dedicated to the LGBT community in the Chinese-speaking wo... more

WELCOMING, THE   Dir: Louis Affortunato, United States, 17 min, 2009, Short Arthur Townsman has just moved into a new apartment in a new neighborhood. Arthur longs for a quiet life outside the city where he can... more

WHAT IS SHE TO YOU?   Dir: Alden Burgess , United States, 11 min, 2009, Short What is she to you? is a film that explores the idea that too often we let the opinions of others get in our way when making the bigges... more

WHAT'S THE WORST PART OF YOUR LIFE?   Dir: Carlos Deuringer, United States, 8 min, 2009, Short A traffic cop, an Immigrant single mom and a wealthy lawyer share a bus ride to New York City. Inside the bus, a display of a rum adver... more

WHEN BELIEFS ARE QUESTIONED   Dir: Alex Portugal, United States, 19 min, 2008, Short Jean and Maryann are friends, maybe even best friends. They belong to the same ladies' group. They confide in one another, build each... more

WILTED   Dir: Rafael De Leon Jr., United States, 5 min, 2008, Short A young man introduces his homecoming date to his mother, a gravely ill woman with sinister intentions. ... more

WILTED FLOWER   Dir: Fred Guerrier, United States, 4 min, 2009, Music Video In this oddball video, the band Neon Glitter Bliss brings 4 minutes of ecstasy into the lives of a few bored elderly people.... more

WINSTON: AN INFORMAL GUIDE TO ETIQUETTE   Dir: Reed Hall Clément, United States, 12 min, 2009, Short Winston's obsessive nature finds a curious marriage with the nature of his work. His desire for cleanliness and structure clash greatly... more

WINTER   Dir: Daniel Seeley, United States, 16 min, 2009, Short 'Winter' explores the role of fatherhood in a post-war world, where social structures have been broken down by war and famine. Homeless... more

WOMEN OF FAITH   Dir: Rebecca M. Alvin, United States, 60 min, 2009, Documentary Women of Faith is a film about what it means to be Catholic, how rebellion can and does happen within the Church as well as outside... more

WORLD CHAMPION   Dir: Roi Werner, Israel, 5 min, 2009, Music Video 'Fight Club' meets 'Gone with the wind'... A Music video for Israel's leading singer - Ivri lider... more winner: Best International Music Video

XTREME REPO   Dir: Bisvas Biswas, United States, 4 min, 2009, Short In Mockumentary fashion, we tag along with James Ray as he carries out a casket repo.... more

YEAR WITH TAKE DANCE, A   Dir: Damian Eckstein, United States, 90 min, 2009, Documentary A guerrilla documentary that follows a New York-based dance troupe's quest for success in the contemporary dance world. Featuring: Take... more

YOU WILL SEE LIFE   Dir: Sara Harrak, England, 17 min, 2009, Short The journey of Sophie, an eighteen year old girl who tragically loses her eyesight; and her best friend Natasha, who proves to be the l... more

ZEHRA AND DAK-HO   Dir: Heather Keith & Hande Vural, United States, 12 min, 2009, Short A satire of today's cultural conflicts, saying the same things but not being able to communicate despite good intentions. Without Weste... more

ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST & YOU!   Dir: Cory Parker, United States, 16 min, 2009, Short As the zombie apocalypse spreads across the globe, a news channel plays an educational government film entitled 'Zombie Holocaust & You... more