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  A Chapter of Love (Et kjærlighetskapittel)

  1. A film by Torfinn Iversen
  4. run time 9 minutes 40 seconds

  16 year old Per brings his girlfriend home for the first time, where his grandfather is busy cutting his friend’s hair. He tells his grandfather that they are going upstairs to read, but they have other things in mind. The grandfather becomes embarassed when suddenly moaning sounds are heard from upstairs. He wants Per to come downstairs, and then forces him to do a haircut on his friend. To...  (more)

  
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  the cream (la crème)

  1. A film by Reynald BERTRAND
  4. run time 83 minutes

  A man discovers a facial cream wich makes him famous and irresistible to others around him, but soon learns that it also has consequences...  (more)

  
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  The Lives of Angels

  1. A film by Stephen "Jules" Rubin
  4. run time 47 minutes

  The lives of three lovable losers: Ralph aka Jade, an erudite, beautiful and slightly disheveled woman who reads books in bars, with her friendly bartender, Slappy, life becomes intertwined with two seemingly aimless bickering friends Jules McGillicudy and Frankie Finkel, who sit on rooftops, wander around arroyos of Santa Fe, in the back of trucks, and hang out in Slappy's bar, as they fall into...  (more)

  
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  Tony Zear (Tony Zoreil)

  1. A film by Valentin Potier
  4. run time 19 minutes 30 seconds

  Tony is a 28 year-old single who inherited from an remarkable physical particularity. He has like the rest of his family very big ears and suffers from an extreme sensitivity to the slightest noise.  (more)

  
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  The Job

  1. A film by Jonathan Browning
  4. run time 3 minutes 10 seconds

  The immigration debate just got a little funnier."  This satirical short film takes a twisted look at the plight of day laborers in the United States.  (more)

  
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  Five minutes (Piat minut)

  1. A film by Konstantin Ivanov
  2. Festival of Festivals International Film Festival
  3. June 23 - 28, 2008
  4. run time 3 minutes 47 seconds

  Famous Russian singer Lidmia Gurchenko and her famous song ‘5 minutes’ inspire people to do a lot of various things.  (more)

  
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  The Job (Il lavoro)

  1. A film by Lorenzo De Nicola
  4. run time 15 minutes

  Silvano is thirty years old. He just went through an arduous job interview. As he waits to hear the outcome, his anxiety clashes against his family’s celebratory mood. When the crucial phone call eventually comes it delivers a very odd verdict.  (more)

  
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  Capital (everyone goes to Buenos Aires) (Capital (todo el mundo va a Buenos Aires))

  1. A film by Augusto González Polo
  4. run time 119 minutes 10 seconds

  A broken heart makes Sergio reject the city......A city full of late adolescents, girls that make you cry, drunks worried about matters they couldn't handle even if sober...and songs that say all that they would have wanted to say (if they knew that they needed to say something)  (more)

  
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  Crossing Numbers (Crossing Numbers)

  1. A film by Abel Gonzalez
  4. run time 12 minutes 26 seconds

  What if the US Border Patrol and the Mexican Police find the corpse of an illegal alien lying right on the border line? Who would take the case? A dark comedy about the indifference of the institutions towards the humanitarian crisis in the US/Mexican Border.  (more)

  
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  One Night With You

  1. A film by Joe D'Augustine
  4. run time 90 minutes 43 seconds

  In this hip, offbeat flick, shot mainly in and around Echo Park, Jake Tarlow (Mark Boone Junior) is a down on his luck hustler who is trying to make enough dough to pay off his bookie. All he has to do is locate the reclusive and eccentric author Hunter Burnell, played with equal parts style, insanity and humor by Michael Parks, and bring him in to sign a deal for one of his books. Jake enlists...  (more)

  
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  Movie Monster Insurance

  1. A film by Paula Haifley
  4. run time 3 minutes 50 seconds

  Have you ever wondered what would happen to your family if your were attacked by a movie monster? What if you were so incapacitated that you couldn't work? Couldn't drive? Couldn't care for your children and loved ones? Isn't it time you protected your family? Call 666-MONSTER to learn more about Movie Monster Insurance. Do it today. Do it for your family.  (more)

  
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  Happiness

  1. A film by Sophie Barthes
  4. run time 11 minutes

  One evening, after work, Iwona buys a box of happiness in a strange discount store and has to decide what to do with it. A straight-faced comedy with Polish-american screen legend Elzbieta Czyzewska shot in Boston and New York City. The New York Anthology Film Archives dedicated a retrospective to her career in May 2005. Elzbieta has acted in more than 40 feature films directed by Polish...  (more)

  
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  One Too Many (Éramos Pocos)

  1. A film by Borja Cobeaga
  4. run time 16 minutes

  When his wife leaves him, Joaquín turns to his son to help him bring his mother-in-law out of a home to do the housework.  (more)

  
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  Zerophilia

  1. A film by Martin Curland
  4. run time 90 minutes

  In this provocative romantic comedy, Luke, a young man, must solve the mystery of his rare genetic condition, Zerophilia, before it permanently transforms him into a female. As his condition takes hold, another symptom of Zerophilia emerges: As a guy, Luke was attracted to Michelle: now as “Luca,” a girl, she finds herself intensely attracted to Michelle’s brother, Max. Join Luke as he...  (more)

  
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  What’s Bugging Seth

  1. A film by Eli Steele
  4. run time 95 minutes

  When Seth Singer, a young deaf man, is asked his name one hears “Death Dinger.” A minor flaw in a man who is determined to let nothing, not even his handicap, stop him from forming a successful bug extermination business. As the rejections pile up, he finds comfort and romance with Alma, a double amputee, who knows how unfair the world can be. However, as Seth finds himself on the verge of...  (more)

  
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  Shaolin Delivery Boy

  1. A film by Mark Cutforth
  4. run time 10 minutes 53 seconds

  WINSTON LO only gets auditions for stereotypical parts he finds demeaning. He is about to give up acting, when his Caucasian friend FOSTER offers to help him discover his "inner Chinaman."  (more)

  
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  Me, My Bag and My Ball

  1. A film by Diego Ongaro, Thomas Pousson
  4. run time 7 minutes 20 seconds

  The dull life of Frederic, a football-crazy teenager, and that of his broken-up and unusual family, are disturbed by an odd event. Will they be able to overcome it?  (more)

  
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  Morbid Curiosity

  1. A film by Cindy Baer
  4. run time 5 minutes 30 seconds

  Award winning director Cindy Baer brings to life Matthew Irving's supernatural tale, which presents the question: What would happen if your deepest, darkest thoughts came true, just by thinking them?  (more)

  
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  Lago Mio

  1. A film by Jann Preuss
  4. run time 87 minutes

  When a scatterbrained young copywriter is abandoned by his girlfriend for working too much, he tries to win her back by pretending to quit his job while secretly accepting new assignments from his boss. A romantic comed filled with surprise twists and endearing characters.  (more)

  
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  Last Stop for Paul

  1. A film by Neil Mandt
  4. run time 80 minutes

  Cliff and Charlie live boring lives in LA. In an effort to spice up their existence, Charlie suggests they go to the famous Full Moon Party in Thailand. Cliff agrees with the condition that in order to go they purchase around the world tickets and see the globe first. Short on cash, the only way they can afford to pull of the trip is by posing as travel writers for Frommers books so they can get...  (more)

  
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  Kitchen

  1. A film by Alice Winocour
  4. run time 14 minutes 30 seconds

  A woman, her husband, and two lobsters. A recipe that turns sour  (more)

  
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  Dead End Job

  1. A film by Samantha Davidson Green
  4. run time 21 minutes

  Obituary writer Abigail Slay always gets the final word on the lives of famous and infamous. Gifted with a knack for predicting the next newsworthy death, Slay always makes deadline. But when she foresees her own end, Slay faces the ultimate writer's block as the narrative of her own life unravels. Is it too late to change the story?  (more)

  
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  Boxed

  1. A film by Jennifer Sharp
  4. run time 13 minutes

  Boxed is a short film about the baggage from our past that interferes with the future. Olivia Baker possesses a box that she˙s carried everywhere since childhood. The box interferes with intimacy in her marriage, gets in the way of her work, and hinders her in other daily activities.  (more)

  
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  A Very Serious Person

  1. A film by Charles Busch
  4. run time 90 minutes

  Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteenyear-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother’s death. A deep friendship grows...  (more)

  

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