International Competition
10 min.

Jorge Leon 19' - Belgique - Prod: Centre pour l'égalité des chances et lutte contre le racisme 2008 The reading of a legal statement reveals the vagaries of a young girl who was propelled, against her will, into a (...)
A People in the Shadows

Bani Khoshnoudi 90' - Iran - Prod: Pensée Sauvage Films 2008 A voyage into the heart of Tehran, a megalopolis of 14 million people. The city is still recovering from its past, as talk of sanctions and a possible (...)
Alle Kinder bis auf eines (All the Children But One)

Andreas Bolm, Noëlle Pujol 40' - Allemagne - Prod: Pickpocket Production 2008 Karcsi, a young Roma-boy from a small Hungarian village died of pulmonary embolism in 2006, just before his 10th birthday. Now it’s up to (...)
Americana

Topaz Adizes 86' - États-Unis - Prod: Corinne Weber 2009 An exploration of American identity at home and abroad by juxtaposing the personal stories of Americans overseas and those of two teenagers in their last three (...)
L’ Argent du charbon

Wang Bing 52' - Chine - Prod: Les Films d'Ici 2009 On the coal road linking the Shanxi mines with the large port of Tianjin, in northern China, the drivers of 100-ton trucks shuttle endlessly to and fro, day and (...)
Bagatela (Bagatelle)

Jorge Caballero 74' - Colombie - Prod: Gusanofilms 2008 Selling pirated CDs, stealing a cell phone, or simply sleeping rough are most of the cases brought to court in Bogotá. Government officials systematically hand (...)
Le Battement d’ailes d’un papillon (Wings of Butterfly)

Alexandre Balagura 64' - France - Prod: Gie Meichler/LGM 2008 Twenty-five years ago, in Kiev, the author was given a 16mm camera. He and his friends each began to shoot separate films as part of a longer project. (...)
Below Sea Level

Gianfranco Rosi 115' - États-Unis, Italie - Prod: 21 one productions 2008 About 190 miles southeast of Los Angeles and 120 feet below sea level, a commune of outcasts lives in the middle of the desert. They’re not (...)
Bombhaye porteghali (Orange Bombs)

Majed Neisi 19' - Iran - Prod: Documentary & Experimental Film Center 2008 War is over. The garden is full of cluster bombs. It is harvesting time. Husband and wife are defusing bombs and picking (...)
California Company Town

Lee Anne Schmitt 76' - États-Unis - Prod: Lee Anne Schmitt 2008 A gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the industries that created them - onetime boom-towns now haunted by the twilight of the (...)
Chaiqian (Demolition)

J.P. Sniadecki 62' - États-Unis - Prod: Harvard Film Study Center 2008 In Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in western China, the workers of a demolition site have set up their barracks. Interactions between (...)
La Chine est encore loin (China Is Still far Away)

Malek Bensmail 120' - Algérie - Prod: Unlimited, Cirta Films, INA, 3B 2008 As the seasons unfold, school life rhythms this chronicle of Ghassira, an Algerian village perched high the Aures mountains and which, fifty (...)
The City of Production

Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix 52' - Hong Kong - Prod: Map Office 2008 In 2002, Map Office began surveying a factory in the Pearl River Delta region. Under its aegis, this factory evolved into a fabulous (...)
Creative Chaos: Round One

Hassan Zbib 66' - Liban, Irlande, France - Prod: Odelion, Planet Korda Pictures 2008 A Lebanese filmmaker living in France returns to his home village in south Lebanon in the aftermath of the 2006 war. He finds a (...)
Defamation

Yoav Shamir 93' - Israël, Danemark, États-Unis - Prod: Knut. Ogris. Films., SF Filmproduction, CinePhil, Reveal Prod. 2009 What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust? Yoav Shamir travels the (...)
Le Dictionnaire selon Marcus

Mary Jimenez 78' - Belgique - Prod: Dérives 2009 Marcus helps inmates to escape from prison, hides the fugitives in his home, rents hideouts, steals cars, sets off with men on the run to help them reach the borders. (...)
Gyumri

Jana Ševciková 68' - République Tchèque - Prod: Jana Ševciková 2008 About 25,000 inhabitants of the Armenian town of Gyumri perished in a powerfully destructive earthquake on December 7, 1988. More than one-third of the (...)
Los Herederos (The Inheritors)

Eugenio Polgovsky 90' - Mexique - Prod: Telecote Films 2008 Children begin work in the Mexican countryside at an early age. These children’s realities echo those of their ancestors. One generation after another has (...)
Job en de hollandse vrijstaat (Job and the Dutch Freestate)

Rosemarie Blank 48' - Pays Bas - Prod: CASA-FILM 2009 "In 1988, I met a quietly eccentric man who lived in Condradstreet in Amsterdam. More than 100 squatters lived there, mostly artists. Job was in my eyes the most (...)
Le Marcheur

Jean-Noël Cristiani 29'' - France - Prod: P.o.m. Films, Jean-Noël Cristiani, Yumi Productions, TVM 2009 The walker does not choose his pathways in the hope of encounters. Off the beaten track such meetings are rare. (...)
Mei You Ni Zai...

Wei Hu 23' - Chine, France - Prod: Wei Hu, La Fémis 2008 A divorced Chinese immigrant earns her living by selling on Belleville market in Paris what she has gleaned from dustbins in the city’s wealthy districts. She (...)
Nora

Alla Kovgan, David Hinton 35' - États-Unis, Mozambique, Grande Bretagne - Prod: Joan Frosch 2008 The dancer Nora Chipaumire, born in Zimbabwe in 1965, returns to the landscapes of her childhood and takes a journey (...)
Over Jorden, under Himlen (Above the Ground, Beneath the Sky)

Simon Lereng Wilmont 29' - Danemark, Egypte - Prod: The National Film School of Denmark 2009 Little Mahmoud loves the circus and dreams of performing in the National Egyptian Circus as an acrobat. He practices hard (...)
Parador retiro (Retiro Shelter)

Jorge Leandro Colás 84' - Argentine - Prod: Cine Ojo Films & Video 2008 Parador Retiro, an old warehouse with a concrete floor and tin roof, is used to give overnight shelter to some two hundred homeless people: (...)
Preparativi di fuga (Preparative to escape)

Tommaso Cotronei 40' - Italie - Prod: Stig Dagerman Film 2008 Filming the beautiful yet terribly harsh Calabrian countryside in grainy black and white, Tommaso Cotronei describes the daily lives of the inhabitants (...)
Rachel

Simone Bitton 100' - France - Prod: Ciné Sud Promotion 2009 The life and death of Rachel Corrie, a young American pacifist who was fatally crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in March 2003 while she was (...)
Redemption

Sabrina Wulff 90' - Allemagne - Prod: fieber.film 2009 Three young US deserters in Canada journey through their memories, which lead them back to their time in the war; to the uncertainty of their own existence, (...)
Revolutsioon, mida polnud (The Revolution That Wasn’t)

Aljona Polunina 96' - Estonie - Prod: Matila Röhr Productions 2008 The story of Anatoly, a Russian revolutionary memeber of the National Bolshevik Party who grabbed the party leadership and had his moment of glory. (...)
Robinsons of Mantsinsaari

Victor Asliuk 57' - Allemagne, Finlande, Pologne - Prod: Ma.Ja.De. Filmproduktion 2008 Two elderly men are the last residents of a now-Russian-controlled island on Lake Ladoga. Although they are the sole (...)
Roz (and Joshua)

Charlene Music 3' - États-Unis - Prod: Charlene Music 2008 A mother’s longing for her child can create optimism even in the face of extreme destitution. That all-consuming love pushes Roz to liberate her heart and (...)
Seishin (Mental)

Kazuhiro Soda 135' - Japon, États-Unis - Prod: Laboratory x, inc. 2008 The complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, with its criss-crossing of patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and (...)
Thakira Mathkouba (Perforated Memory)

Sandra Madi 62' - Jordanie - Prod: Red Carbon Productions 2008 The story of a group of ex-guerrillas (Fedayeen) who were active members in the Palestinian Liberation Movement during the different stages of the (...)
The Time of Their Lives

Jocelyn Cammack 69' - Grande Bretagne - Prod: Redbird Productions 2008 With a combined age of almost 300, Rose, Hetty and Alison are powerfully engaged in their individual brands of activism-from journalism to (...)
Tjúba Tén (The Wet Season )

Ben Russell, Brigid McCaffrey 47' - États-Unis - Prod: Ben Russell 2008 "An experimental ethnography film shot in Suriname. An examination of a rapidly changing culture in the present and an historical document for (...)
Trypps #6

Ben Russell 12' - États-Unis - Prod: Ben Russell 2009 "This single-take film offers a contemporary view of a procession in Malobi village in Suriname. It’s Halloween at the Equator..." (...)
Was übrig bleibt (Left Behind)

Fabian Daub, Andreas Gräfenstein 13' - Allemagne - Prod: Polski Fiat Production 2008 In Waldenburg, Silesia, all the mines have closed down. Lukasz and his friend Jacek have been digging coal at their own risk for (...)

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