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Monumental, abstract and layered sequence of images that reflect a personal perception.

The beautiful M has been training all her life to be a boxer. Animation film about the strength and courage of women.

Investigation into the tribulations that are risked by artistic inspiration and creation.

A motorcyclist enjoys his freedom... several moments later he fights for his life.

A young Moslem woman prays every afternoon in front of a busy office in the heart of Toronto...

The East German country lad Nico wants to flee to a job in West Germany. Prize-winning student film.

Visually complicated reflection on a universal theme: banishment and rootlessness, pain and sorrow.

Stunning film in which Dieutre makes a cinephile declaration of love to the Japanese film maker Naomi Kawase.

Fragments from the battle between coalition troops and fighters for Al-Qaida and the Taliban.

An attractive woman is the focus of attention. Yet loneliness dominates.

The geometry of the city map and traffic flows structured metrically.

The desiccation of the Aral Sea means fishermen have to travel increasing distances to be able to fish. Intimate documentary portrait.

Film poem of restlessness and desire, targeted at a spinning wheel and Ariadne's thread.

Beautiful, sympathetic story about war and the need to have a home.

Flashy visual animation constructs and deconstructs a dancer and a choreography.

Film with theatrical elements about a young couple who communicate in cliches witting at the table with wine.

If there ever was such a thing as a typical Swedish movie about a serial killer in an idyllic setting, this is it. A simple and absurd commentary on human passivity.

A crossing of paths behind the visible, a work of love in the tracks of someone who was still here just now.

Surrealist ultra-short film, with fairy-tales and myths about Beauty and the Beast.

A passionate film about women, eating disorders and other modern discomfort.

A moment from the life of a Portuguese man who lives by the river. A song of melancholy and desire.

In a fragmented apartment, spaces seem to lead a life of their own.

A flashy moving rainbow of stripes wiggling the hips rhythmically to a swinging Duke Ellington composition.

A tall tree leads to nostalgic reflections by an old woman.

Afghani and Iraqi refugees try to create a future in a French Red Cross camp.

Bouquets 26 and 27 are part of a series of one minute films, structured visually in the camera during filming covering a variety of subjects. Bouquet 26 was filmed in the middle of the animals in a small farm, La Terra de Mezo, perched on hillside terraces of Liguara, Italy. Bouquet 27 was shot in Haute- Garonne, France, around a macrobiotic centre in St. Gaudens and along the countryside leading to the village of St. Béat.

Rafael Bregman spends hours studying the Torah in an attempt to grow up.

How much freedom do Balkan inhabitants have to make their own choices?

A lawyer is looking for an elderly lady because of a contract. When he arrives on the spot, he does not find her, but her daughters.

Mysterious narrative about a man, whose visions lead him to deliverance in Anatolia.

Rapid time-lapse images on the Thames, with a political message.

Confusing, layered film about a young woman who wants to break up with another woman.

Poetic, slightly melancholy video newsreel about Paris and a gracious lady.

Many old people and a few young ones make friends in a famous Polish health resort.

A young woman handicapped by polio obsessively observes her neighbour.

Confrontation between Creation and Intolerance yields an undesirable yet fruitful result. Animation film.

Picturesque, classic Russian love story in animation form.

A feminine film about different kinds of masculine behaviour.

A blind teenager grows up amidst a semi-rough gang of blind friends.

A day at the beach in Rotterdam on Sea: relax in an industrial setting.

A friendly, poetic episode from the life of a man, his donkey and their dialogue.

An African father defuses bombs to earn a living selling the scrap iron.

Modern fiction around a young couple leading an imperfect life. And dust. Lots of dust.

Searching drama about the battle of a kid to save another (illegal) kid.

Can everything be nice and easy, just as it is for cool kids in films and magazines?

Associative new context for earlier fragments from films by the well-known Austrian film maker.

A woman makes a personal confession in a dark-coloured and shifting film layer.

A man plays with a ball and defies the laws of nature.

Poetic and nostalgic film about a girl from Cyprus who finds solace by an olive tree.

Child-friendly version of geo-political cosmologies, brats and the destruction and creation of worlds.

A young man is stunned to discover that he is capable of killing.

A range of voices and opinions, based on a text by the 9th-century Iraqi al-Jahiz.

A man drives across the desert in an old timer and has to wait for a train in the middle of nowhere.

Aged soccer heroes from Mexico discuss their victory over Brazil.

Light creates movement. Black and White functions in this film as some sort of developer. There is something going on here that lies between death, love and pleasure. Appearance, disappearance, the rhythm of someone breathing allows us to hear the passing of time which ties and unties our impressions.

An (anti-) Bible, apocalyptic, political and musical film around 'The Gospel of the Black Pig'.

Moving tale about an immigrant from Burkina Faso who tries to integrate in Norway.

It looks like an ordinary day at the gnome factory, but the human eye cannot see tragedy looming.

Brother and sister make up games in order to face up to unpleasant reality.

Salutary, clever film about 'the artist in feature films'.

Stylised version of Crime and Punishment, about endless acts of revenge because of violated family honour.

Six actors punch, kick and wrestle their way through the Wild West of a London pub.

Layered 16mm film investigates elements such as film texture, light and motion.

A group of small boys plays football in a square in part of Whitechapel, East London.

A video filmer of tramps, junks and the dying takes another look through his material.

Sonja repairs trains and becomes fascinated by a new colleague with a dark past.

Beautiful observation of a playful and loving fight between two children.

Intriguing, intelligent film that creates a fictional story composed from a found family archive from 1930s Europe. Music by John Zorn.

How can this grandfather look after his grandson?

A man is seduced by the alluring fashion in a department store.

The friendship of two boys is put to the test when a new girl comes to work in the local post office.

A man ends up in a talk show; a Japanese man finds himself in a wood. What secrets do they share?

Intriguing and hypnotic images of a busy roundabout in Zagreb.

Young Japanese woman wonders all kinds of things about her own life in a soya-processing factory.

The childless Ama Tsomo is getting very old. The village is going to take care of her life, so she sets her Yaks free. Later it is reported that her Yaks have been stolen, but she doesn't want to have them back as she worries that the thieves would be caught.

The vicissitudes of figures who are deeply buried and highly exalted in history.

A boy becomes a member of a strange gym and is faced with even stranger surprises.

Prize-winning film takes an ironic look at the (film representation of) the art industry and art reception.

2D and 3D pictures, combined with 'live action': a magic cyberspace world.

Lonely, shy butcher sees a beautiful girl in the bus.

With Heaven's Gate, Ahwesh employs a strategy similar to that used in 73 Suspect Words: against a blank screen, a metronomic procession of single words unfolds, gradually building into a cool, minimal portrait of the apocalyptic paranoia that runs through the American social body. While 73 Suspect Words appropriated text from the writings of Theodore Kaczynski, aka the "Unabomber," Heaven's Gate takes up words from the Web site of the cult organization of that name, whose beliefs in extraterrestrial contact led to their 1997 mass suicide.

'The house, like a man, can become a skeleton.' (Victor Hugo, Les Travailleurs)

Revealing conversations between a Soviet psychologist and Uzbek and Kyrgyz farmers.

Rodolfo doesn't want to visit a brothel, despite the urging of his friends.

Playful collage of sea, sun and ice, with suicidal skiers, soaking tigers and diving mermaids.

The views of villagers about an evil kind of crow.

Hanna has to choose, but that has far-reaching consequences.

The deconstruction, decay and disintegration of the soulful and soulless.

The 'inner life' of a young woman who does very precise work from inside a ticket machine.

The things that happen when the Bulgarian Ivan steals a car with a child inside.

Striking documentary portrait of young Japanese woman who seeks love from a shop-window mannequin.

Dance film about two bewitched women. A cooperation with the Rotterdam dance group Lieber Gorilla.

Warm portrait of a Jewish lady from Odessa who survived the Nazis, Stalin and Perestroika.

Pistols and cars, a Scottish accent, existentialism and a green rubbish container.

Universal fairy-tale: a little boy looks for the cradle of all knowledge.

An old farmer in Iceland is confronted by the death of his beloved wife. What should he do?

Old and contemporary images from Macao with a poem by Antoine Volodine.

Series about terrorist violence investigates personal memories, archive material and images of fear.

A video letter, in which the author sends electronic flashes with his hands.

Macabre sketch of a city that has been destroyed by irrational powers and an invisible murderer.

A subject of communism is prepared for democracy.

At the international 'Limb-o-Xtreme' championship, Yamamoto goes to extreme lengths.

While angels look down from their heavenly cinema, actors in a studio give their voice.

Parable in which fishermen, fish and women come together beautifully.

A cocky bird alleges it can predict the future.

Moslim kid accidentally stens into the mine-sown border area between Pakistan and India.

Documentary about the search by Grimonprez for the perfect Hitchcock look-alike.

Wild psychedelic film, based on the LSD experiments of the CIA.

Maidan Square is the old heart of the Georgian capital of Tblisi, an age-old trading centre in precious stones, silk and stories.

Documentary portrait of the annual ritual celebration of the thirteenth-century Pakistani Sufi saint.

Journey through the home and studio of a dead friend.

Clay animation inspired by Pablo Picasso's work and the Myth of the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, a journey to the ins and outs of artistic creation.

Modest portrait of a Chinese girl in Italy, with echoes of Tsai and Kiarostami.

Collection of frozen tableaux only moved by the light. With echos of Antonioni.

Mistral is the record of an off season journey in the south of France. Bare landscapes, burnt fields, empty villages, a still life with red wine in warm room. The grammar of Schreiner's film parallels human physiology - the camera is as fast as the human eye in its ability to capture the moment and thus constitutes consciousness through flash thoughts.

Reflections on the nature of life based on Sally de Winter, an alter ego of the maker.

Playful, fresh film about a young girl who is pretty sick of her home situation.

Personal reflections form a hotel room in Berlin.

Encyclopaedic collection of references to water evoke memroes of lines of verse from Virgil's Aenead.

A man, a woman, a bathroom. In other words: together in a bathroom.

Robert Walser describes his state of mind that veers between optimism and hopelessness.

How does Max find his way in a world where time goes backwards?

Convincing, sympathetic and crazy portrait of (the end of) a relationship.

Sometimes someone only understands what he experiences later. He doesn't realise that he has helped someone else.

Action takes place above below ground and in water as two menwait for a pigeon to return to its home loft.

Family, friends and neighbours try to get rid of the corpse of a girl who died suddenly.

Bertil threatens to lose his position as the apple of his daughter's eye.

Largely filmed in a 19th-century ruin in Ireland, where decaying walls are entwined in tree roots.

A story about a village girl who has a dream of becoming a movie star and wants to have her dream come true in the city of Beijing. However, her fiancé, her parents and other close friends don't agree, and try to stop her from going to Beijing.

Elegant work about three contacts of a corrupt businessman are reminiscent of Pialat, Godard and Rohmer.

Reactions by passers-by to a binary code, formed by black and white parked cars.

Five seamen go fishing for sharks. A brightly coloured story that investigates our relationship to the animal kingdom.

Back in time with a voyeuristic look at the British porn film Peeping Tom.

A man tries to roll a cigarette.

An inventor has been trying to make a perpetuum mobile all his life.

Love for the expanse of and lines in the polder landscape.

A man explains global currency markets without the help of his formerly trusty rockin' talkin' pony, who is missing. Without the pony, the world is as disorientating as it is depressing. The audience is invited to help make order of the chaos. This film is part of the Post Pony Trilogy.

The desperate search for the right answer to your blind date's most likely question: Who's your favourite composer of classical music?

Two kids discover sex to the sounds of rock & roll. A tender report of 'the first time'.

Sign-language love poem provides an introspection by the poet.

Funny and sensual film about two strangers who are waiting at the station for a train.

Home life in London, weighty stories and the colonisation of the moon.

Intriguing, layered portrait of an aging actor (Vernon Dobtcheff) who looks back on his life.

Two friends daydream on a bridge.

Four portraits.

A series of tableaux of homey human relationships in a circular form.

A rose in a glass vase on the windowsill. Soft Vermeer-like light falling into the dusky room, and playing through the crystal-clear water. Most of all, this yields a 'beautiful' picture, well-framed, wonderful colours, tone and shades. Throughout the video, the camera behaves like the eye of someone who wants to drink in this beauty to his heart's content. Concentration and a zen-like focus on the aesthetic experience makes the components unfold. Change of light, shifts of colour, blurred spots, red-and-black counterpoints and more of that kind, build up an intensity that culminates in the viewer's literally being sucked into the image. Or rather, into one single spot which, as a component aspect, probably contains all the beauty of the whole - analogous to the Proustian yellow spot on a wall in Vermeer's 'View on Delft'. Through this wormhole, our gaze disappears, to be chastened and thereby to adopt a totally different perspective.

A man approaches people on suicide websites to take his own life with them.

Music video in which robots stride through an Arcadian landscape.

Critical analysis by an artist and atheist about the rediscovery of Christianity in the former Eastern Block.

Seen from the sky, Rome becomes a model of Rome.

The secrets of shadow and light in a fjord valley in Northern Iceland.

A musical series of short essays about yearning, desire, loss and emotion.

Dizzying collage of predictions of disasters, calamities and political crises by famous clairvoyants.

Where is the former appreciation of male sopranos?

Pictures from a black and white documentary about the life in fresh water, recomposed on the celluloid ribbon by an image by image collage to form new figures... repeating itself with regular intervals like variations on the same motif.

Visual and audio experiment based on the principle of acceleration.

An investigation into the military involvement of South Korea in the Vietnam War is as much digging as exorcism.

Associative images of work, activities and locations of the film maker and sculptor.

A poem focusing on 'identity' is a dance of poet and camera, as it were.

The film deals with a boy's summer holidays in a remote village in 1992. Little Fatty has been assigned by his mother to some work, including feeding pigs and finishing his homework. But instead, Little Fatty spends his time with his friends swimming, fishing, fighting, stealing watermelon, and gets cursed by his parents when they find out. When the school term resumes, Little Fatty wants a watch, but is refused by his mother. In the end, Little Fatty paints a watch on his wrist.

Plan by three separatists to explode a bomb on Sicily gets a surprise sting in the tail.

Casual events such as a fraying rope or an approaching truck work towards one moment.

Live-action images mixed with 3D animation, based on the book Aladdin's Problem by Ernst Jünger.

Car drivers waiting at the traffic lights are approached and questioned in an immodest way.

An apparently harmless spectacle with great tension and sinister implications.

Indian women in Mexico talk about witchcraft in mystical spheres. Some stories are based on the truth.

A Bosnian family returns from exile and finds her home destroyed.

On his way to a business meeting, Tudor has a 20-minute break. Enough time to invite a girl for coffee, talk about his daughter and take a photo. Won the Golden Palm at Cannes.

About the problems of asylum seekers, shot with real refugees.

Orpheus seduces Eurydice in the bar with poetic language.

Life in the Mexican desert. Filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky watches how rats, snakes and birds are caught.

Improvised film investigates the different moments in a day on the London Underground.

A man, already in turmoil, finds himself further mystified by a number of women he meets one Tuesday.

De following films part of the Tiger Cub Award Competition will be presented to the jury and audience: Dust - H. Fatih Kizilgök / Dimmer - Talmage Cooley / Eleni's Olives - Yianna Americanou / Bregman, el siguiente - Federico Veiroj / Getting Even - Barnabas Toth. For more information please see the individual titles.

De following films part of the Tiger Cub Award Competition will be presented to the jury and audience: A Espera - Ernesto Sollis / Can & Slippers - Khavn De La Cruz / The Donkey - Areg Azatian / Tlahuelpuchi - Fabiola del Carmen Ramos / Subrosa - Karoe Goldt / Fifteen Years - Aslan Galazov / Dajang Soembi - Edwin / From the Window of my Room - Cao Guimaraes / La guerra de los gimnasios - Diego Lerman. For more information please see the individual titles.

De following films part of the Tiger Cub Award Competition will be presented to the jury and audience: Cellule 719 - Annik Leroy / Nuuk - Thomas Köner / To Infinity and Beyond - Sompot Chidgasornpongse / In the midst of - Pieter-Paul Mortier / Beach Boys vs Ghetto Boys - Cory Arcangel / Riau - Zai Kuning. For more information please see the individual titles.

De following films part of the Tiger Cub Award Competition will be presented to the jury and audience: Veere - David Lammers / A Tree in Tanjung Malim - Tan Chui Mui / Fara bene Mikles - Christian Angeli / Birthday - Bertrand Lee. For more information please see the individual titles.

De following films part of the Tiger Cub Award Competition will be presented to the jury and audience: Tube - Christopher Steele / Resonance of Tears - Atsuhiko Watanabe / Mio fratello Yang - Gianluca & Massimiliano De Serio / Night in a Hotel - Matus Libovic / Interlude - Joost van Veen / Night School - Simon Green / Ringo - Conall Jones, Alfred Secombe / Tuesday's Women - Oded Binnun & Mihal Brezis. For more information please see the individual titles.

Everything in this fictional metropolis is disorientated, but Saulo continues with his routine.

A lady in a Seventeenth Century dress stands on the edge of a lake and looks out over the water. When we approach her the lady lifts her dress up and we disappear underneath her skirts. In there a small theatre piece takes place. A young farm boy proclaims, and acts out how he was seduced by a fallen woman, in front of a live audience. Later he finds her defiled corpse back on a field. A short bit of black and white footage shows what has really happened, or at least what the boy claims has happened. A story about the loss of innocence, and a 'whodunnit' as well.

In Veere in Zeeland, the boundary is sought of visual darkness.

About the battle of the maker against local authority bureaucracy.

A scientist develops a serum than changes him into a dog. Homage to Markers La Jetée.

Tranquil video reveries by veteran Dwoskin surrounding visits to his house.

Fairy-tale spectacle of sign-language poem about transience.

Three thousand five hundred insects in five minutes: while Darwin sleeps...

A girl wants to cheer up her mother with the (sexual) secrets of a local ornithologist.

The perfect English Arcadia makes way for bad luck, disruption and violence in several forms.

Condensed view of a day in the life of Amsterdam.

Poetic, tranquil sketches around a man, a little girl, a woman and a cat.