Awards: Grand Prize for Best Short Film - Rhode Island International Film Festival 2005, Best British Short Film - Edinburgh International Film Festival 2005; Best Film - 8th Manhattan Short Film Festival 2005, Best Short Film - 3rd Zagreb Film Festival 2005, Best Children's Film - Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2005, Best European Film - Brest European Short Film Festival 2005

Synopsis:
1985. A secret tree house. Two children disguised in animal costumes experiment to revive a bee. But they are searching for a way to bring back something much bigger. A magical and moving story about children on a journey of discovery and revelation.

Credits
Writer/Directer: John Williams, Producers: Andy Gordon & Christos Michaels, Director of Photography: Kate McCullough, Production Designer: Fiona Clarke, Editor: Jamie Pearson, Costume Designer: Robert Allsopp, Composer: Antony Telfer Brown, Cast: Adam Arnold, Sonny Rooney, Peter Reynolds

Awards: Best Short Film - European Film Awards 2005, Best Documentary - Tampere Film Festival Sweden 2005, Grand Jury Prize - Best Short Film Indie Lisboa 2005, Best Documentary - Tampere International Short Film Festival 2005, Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short - Los Angeles Film Festival 2005, Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Sundance Film Festival 2006, Special Jury Award - International and Audience Award, Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival 2005

Synopsis:
The filmmaker's mother, Ethel Wardrop talks about her own body and the role it played in her loving relationship with her dear husband.

Credits:
Director: Ken Wardrop, Subject: Ethel Wardrop Producers: Kristin Brook Larsen & Andrew Freedman, DoP: Michael Lavelle & Kate McCullough, Sound: Ruth Treacy & Mike Greaney, Editor: Andrew Freedman, Composer: Denis Clohessy

Awards: Teddy Award - Berlin International Film Festival 2006, Special Jury Mention - Berlin International Film Festival 2006

Synopsis:
A girl, her brother and their best friend on a long, hot summer's day in Chascomús in Argentina. A love-triangle takes its course.

Credits:
Writer/Director: Maryam Keshavarz, Producers: Maryam Keshavarz, Carla Roley , DoP: Paula Grandio, Editor: Andrea Chignoli, Sound: Tim Cramer Associate Producers: Adriana Brandel, Cast: Lucia Mizrahi, Mara Barreto, Augustin Garvie

Awards: Palme d'Or (short film) - Cannes Film Festival 2006, Prix Norman McLaren - Cannes Film Festival 2006, Prix UIP Grimstad - Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad 2006

Synopsis:
In a society where everyone has the ability to fly, the citizens anchor themselves to the ground via "gravitation boots". Devoid of sunlight and the open sky, the members of society go about their routine without any hope of personal gratification. One day, however, a man decides he has had enough attempt to challenge the status quo. He quits his job, loosens his bindings, and literally takes off.

Credits:
Writer/Director: Bobbie Peers, Producer: Maria Ekerhovd, Glenn Gardner, DoP: Jakob Ingimundarson, Editor: Pål Gengenbach, Composer: Evan Gardner, Sound: Thomas Angell Endresen, Cast: Danny Schlesinger, Kristin Krogh Sissner

Awards: Oscar® Nomination in the "Best Live Action Short Film" category 2006, The Golden Horse Man Youth Oscar - ARTE Short Film Prize Dresden Film Festival 2006, International Awards - Minimalen Short Film Festival in Trondheim 2006, 1st Prize - Munich International Festival 2006, Best Short - Edda Awards 2004 (The annual Icelandic film Academy awards), Best Short - Kiev International Film Festival Molodist 2004

Synopsis:
In a remote valley in Iceland, all the farms except one have been abandoned. The landscape is beautiful but deserted and somewhat desolate. When his daughter decides that he should be moved to a seniors' care home home in town, an old farmer decides that his destiny and diginity should be in his own hands.

Credits:
Writer/Director: Runar Runarsson, Producers: Thor S. Sigurjonsson, Skuli Fr. Malmquist, DoP: G. Magni Agustsson, Production: Design Haukur Karlsson, Composer: Kjartan Sveinsson, Sound Design: Steingrimur Eyfjord, Editor: Sigurbjorg Jonsdottir, Main Cast: Jon Sigurbjornsson

Awards: British Academy Film Award for Best Short Film (BAFTA) 2006, Best Short Film - Aspen Shortsfest 2006, Best European Short Film - Indianapolis International Film Festival 2005, Onda Curta Award - INDIELISBOA International Film Festival 2005, Jury Special Mention - Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2006, Highly Commended Fiction Award - Melbourne International Film Festival 2005, Shadowline Salerno Film Festival Jury Special Mention (It), Grand Jury Special Mention - Palmares d'Aubagne Film Festival

Synopsis:
Teenager Antonio's sick father is unable to anything for himself - eat, dress or even move. While he's desperate to escape and be with his friends, Antonio won't let himself leave the flat.

Credits:
Writer/Director: Daniel Mulloy, Producer: Amber T-Finlayson, Howard Stogdon, DoP: Robbie Ryan, Editor: Dan Robinson, Cast: Dominique Kavaan, George Irvine, Derrion Adams, Daniel Campbell, Kurt Burgess, Romell Holness, Doreen Mantle

Awards: Kodak Discovery Award for Best Short Film & TV5 Young Critics' Award - Cannes International Film Festival 2005, Best Short Film - Sitges Fantasy Film Festival 2005, Special Jury Award - Taipei International Film Festival 2006

Synopsis:
Respire is set in a fictional world transformed by a deadly, airborne virus in which people are required by law to wear masks at all times. A young girl who knows her time is short decides to enjoy one last day with the boy she likes.

Credits:
Writer/Director: Widing Ho, Producer: Widing Ho, DoP: Jake Pollock, Sound Designer: Tuu-Chih Du, Cast: Vera Lin, Ching Han,

Awards: Best Short Film - Tribeca Film Festival 2006, Best Short Film - Houston Worldfest 2006, Gold Remi - Rhode Island International Film Festival 2006, Best Short Nominee & Best Editing Honorable Mention - Woods Hole 2006, Audience Winner for Best Narrative Short & Special Jury Prize - USA Film Festival 2006

Synopsis:
When Paul Mullin (David Strathairn) discovers his neighbour digging a hole in the middle of the night, he simply writes it off as a bizarre encounter... until the neighbor and his cheating wife disappear. Worried that he's stumbled upon more than he bargained for, Paul calls on the local sheriff (Tim Guinee) to help unearth the truth, and finds out that, in a small town, some secrets are better left buried.

Credits:
Writer/Director: Nick Childs, Based on Steve Hamilton's "A Shovel with My Name on It", Producers: Nick Childs and Steve Hardwick, DoP: Rick Siegel, Editor: Barry Stilwell, Composer: Craig Synder, Cast: David Strathairn, Tim Guinee

Awards: Winner Audience Award for Best Short Film & Gael Linn Award for Best Irish Language Short - Cork Film Festival 2005, Official Competition - Tribeca Film Festival 2006

Synopsis:
The forces of dark and evil are all around. A three-fingered man with a shady past threatens to end the exciting career of Michael Hardy Super Spy. The only person that stands between him and sheer disaster is his son James, a young boy from Dublin. James and his dad use Irish as a secret language to discuss their covert spy business. They must never let James' mum know about their undercover missions. But soon everything will be thrown into turmoil and life will never be the same again...

Credits:
Writer/Director: Brian Durnin, Producer: Macdara Kelleher, DoP: Ivan Mccullough, Editor: Stephen O'Connell, Sound: Rob Flanagan, Composers: Stephen Lynch & Brian Durnin

Awards: Palme d'Or (short film) - Cannes Film Festival 2005, Best Documentary Film - International Youth Short Film Festival Sesily 2005, Best Documentary - Tirana International Film Festival 2005, Grand Prix for the Best Film in the National Competition (Molodist) - Ukrainian Documentary International Film Festival 2005

Synopsis:
WAYFARERS is a series of impressionistic documentary portraits of people in a senior citizen's home and in a psychiatric hospital in Kyiv. The film searches the faces, movements and stories of its characters for the human qualities that we all share.

Credits:
Director: Igor Strembitskyy, Screenwriter: Natalya Kononchuk, DoP: Igor Strembitskyy, Artem Vasyliev, Sound: Igor Strembitskyy, Borys Peter, Victoria Kuleshova, Editors: Igor Strembitskyy, Taisiya Boyko