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Parts | Scott Hanson
USA 2008 | 20 Min. 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 on dogfights. With a staggering mob debt and a wife insisting on a family, Herb gets news that an abandoned child will join the household.The child, found on the street by the police, carries Herb’s name and phone number in a note pinned to his coat. With another mouth to feed, Herb’s takes larger bets, and larger losses. When collectors arrive to call in the note, Herb cannot pay. The most valuable thing in his life, is the boy. A boy worth more for his organs than alive. A boy no one would miss, except his wife.

Baghdad Texas | David H. Hickey
USA 2009 | 90 Min. Feature
While a Middle Eastern dictator is fleeing his occupied country, his plane crashes on the Mexican Border. The sole survivor of the crash is inadvertently carried into Texas by illegal immigrants. Struck by a truck occupied by three cowboys, he is taken back to their exotic game ranch where their housekeeper nurses the survivor back to health as they slowly discover his true identity.

Living with the Dead | Alexa Oona Schulz
USA 2009 | 9 min Documentary
"Living with the Dead" is the story of a Mexican mother who loses her 10-year old daughter in a drive-by gang shooting in East Los Angeles. The film is also a reflection on how death becomes a vibrant part of the world of the living in Latino culture.

The Hour | Konstantin Bojanovic
USA / Bulgaria 2009 | 15 min. Short
Nineteen-year-old Hakim narrowly escapes the scene of a murder. The following day he gets an unexpected visit from his younger sister. He sends her away, only to later discover that she has followed him to a vacant lot, where he is trying to destroy the evidence.

La Vida Loca | Christian Poveda †
El Salvador 2009 | 90 min. Documentary | engl. subtitles
Christian Poveda was murdered on September 2nd 2009 in the suburbs of San Salvador. He paid with his life for an exceptional investigation in the heart of the "Mara 18", one of Latin American´s most violent gangs. Far from any form of sensationalism, LA VIDA LOCA is steeped with humanity. it probes the depths of hate and despair of people who have never had anything. this uncompromising cine-vertité is true to the author´s profoundly humanist convictions.

Sympathy for Ernest | Mathieu Breliere
England 2009 | 8 Min. Short
A couple of days spent in the company of Ernest, a cellist in his late fifties, who's just come back home after a long time away. The poor man is coping with great loneliness, but the melancholy of his days will soon be enlighten by the achievement of his goal.

I Principi di Marte | Guiseppe Borzone
Italy 2008 | 20 min. Short | engl. subtitles
In 1969, a boy and a girl kill a policeman. They will confront with an older friend about the use and efficiency of violence and, eventually, face the revenge of the police.

Hotel Chelsea | Jorge Valdés-Iga
Japan/USA 2009 | 74 min Feature | engl. subtitles
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 brutal murder. A NYPD Detective, first at the murder scene, attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery of the murder in the locked room

Meltdown in Tibet | Michael Buckley
Canada/Tibet 2009 | 12 min. Documentary
Using undercover footage and stills, Meltdown in Tibet blows the lid off China's huge and potentially catastrophic dam-building projects in Tibet. The mighty rivers sourced in Tibet are lifelines to the people of India and Southeast Asia. These rivers are at great risk from rapidly receding glaciers—a meltdown accelerated by climate change—and from large-scale damming and diversion, due to massive Chinese engineering projects. To make way for these hydropower projects and for mining ventures, Tibetan nomads are being forced off their traditional grassland habitat—and resettled in bleak villages, where they cannot make a decent living.The film raises some disturbing questions about a looming eco-disaster. If Himalayan glaciers vanish, what will happen to the rivers of Tibet? What is the fate of people in nations downstream that depend on those rivers? Why is China building so many large dams on the Tibetan plateau? What on earth are China's engineers getting up to?

The Last Days of Shishmaref | Jan Louter
Netherlands/USA 2008 | 93 min. Documentary | engl. subtitles
Shishmaref is a community of about 600 Inupiat Eskimo's, located on an island just off the west coast of Alaska. The effects of global warming threaten the very existence of these people- so much that the entire population needs to be relocated off the island within 10 years. They have become the first tangible victims of the worldwide climate changes.In the documentary director Jan Louter depicts the impending end of the traditional lifestyle on the island of Shishmaref through the lives of three Inupiat families. Despite the alarming situation, this film has not become a political minifesto. The Last Days of Shishmaref is a moving film about identity, transience, mortality, and the clash between different eras and cultures.

Yolanda | Jo Horn
South Africa 2009 | 10 min Short | engl. subtitles
Kelvin’s only wish is to be part of the neighbourhood gang, but his first sexual experience is challenged, when Yolanda’s identity is brought into question. This is a bitter sweet look at a teenager’s rite of passage and sexual identity

Lettre á ma fille | Nathalie Blaquiere
Ruanda 2009 | 19 min. Documentary | engl. subtitles
A young Congolese woman confronts domestic violence in a conflict zone in Africa, where women experience extreme abuse at home but rarely express it.

A Fortunate Soldier ... | Nickey Crowther
Namibia/RSA 2009 | 52 min. Documentary | engl. subtitles
“A Fortunate Soldier…” the personal journey of a soldier’s life during and after the apartheid era in Southern Africa... revealing the complexities of his conservative Afrikaner culture, and the precarious future of the new culture he has embraced.