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Behind the Scenes A musical urban landscape, a deconstructed misty park, a mythical mountain view or an indoctrinating river: landscape that defines our thinking and demands a...

Bitter Sweet and Golden To conform to or escape reality? Three films in which time slows down, in between, as attention shifts from the everyday to the sublime.

Chromotherapeutic Strips Colour and light therapy in one. Film as the stuff that dreams are made of.

Cinematic Tributes to Musicians Lively portrait of a Belgian jazz quartet which ‘prostitutes’ itself yet still remains true to itself, and the journey through England to support the latest...

Closer Reading Not close to the skin, but close to the soul. Three intimate contacts with film.

Dig! Dig! Dig! Two resolutely original visions of cinema, uncovering landscapes and exploring histories in a seriously playful and generously subversive manner.

Echoes from the Past No ordinary history lesson, but film as a means to (re)animate the past, to make the course of time visible, to look again or differently.

Excitement of Stealing Stealing can be big-time or small. Shoplifting can be just as exciting as a robbery. You also have films about stealing in different sizes.

Follow the Path In the footsteps of the master, the pupil should follow his own way.

For a Better World Sometimes it is necessary: someone who lifts the lid on reality, tilts something and puts it back. Something is going on, but you can’t put your finger on it....

Homelandsssss Two extraordinary films from Portugal - one a debut, one from a seasoned master and both very different; dichotomies almost, but at the same time and both in...

In Dreams Deep underwater, deep in the forest, high in the sky or far away in the land of dreams. Films with a powerful cinematographic consciousness.

It's Immaterial Seven pure productions from the analogue film culture, using Super-8, 16mm or a pinhole camera; if necessary also hand-developed. By makers who consciously...

Life's Full of Wonders Hypnotic soundtracks in a very diverse programme. A platform for imagination and amazement.

NL International Exeptional Dutch film and video works from the last year, which we don’t want you to miss.

Nothing Without a Woman or a Girl It’s quite common for a woman or a girl, real or imagined, to be the motor of a cinematic story. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Here more. Much more.

On the Move Memories are formed by everything that surrounds us. Sometimes showing it is enough. Sometimes words are needed.

Ordinary Madness And now for something different, a rather unsettling observation: the ordinary is, in fact, laced with the contradictory, uncanny, and surreal. On the other...

Out and About Africa Films from or about Africa can also be funny or hopeful or just plain beautiful. Or is that not allowed?

Puzzled These monumental works were produced by a brilliant and simple intervention or by skillfully juggling an endless number of jigsaw pieces.

Secret Codes If our world disintegrates into particles, is there any way to understand it? Each particle has its own story, and if that story doesn’t exist, then we create...

Short Circuit Two magical films with a leading role for the camera, which breathes new life into the world.

Short Stories: Family Ties Stifling yet loving family ties in these four excellent fiction films from Portugal, Cuba, Slovenia and Austria.

Short Stories: Friend or Foe Three powerfully acted dramas with an idiosyncratic view of relationships and their sometimes far-reaching consequences.

Short Stories: Power and Politics Unconventional, powerful dramas with a political and social undertone. Preceded by short teasers, made by second-year AV students at the Willem de Kooning...

Short Stories: Surprising Mysteries Strange twists in mysterious and atmospheric fiction films, in which nothing is what it seems.

Short Stories: Women's Destiny Sensitive yet funny fiction films in which women try to come to terms with their fate.

Signal Lost and Found What goes around, comes around. Something disappears, nothing escapes the attention.

Sound Bites Fifteen DINAMO distributors of experimental film and video art will show unexpected examples of sound bites or else of sound that bites.

Structural Principles Film is made from material, just like the rest of the world for that matter. The filmmaker is Lord and Master over this material. For as long as it lasts.

Tales and Two Cities Bring two people together, anywhere in the world, and a story emerges. That can be different: a dialogue between a filmmaker and his city also provides a story.

Traces In these two films, the makers go looking for traces from the past, as silent witnesses of battle and human suffering.

Waiting for Snow in My Kampong It never snows in a tropical village. So how could it get radioactively contaminated? In Japan it can snow. And become contaminated.

WORMyWOOD

#29 Quest through sublime landscapes interpreted both by human perception and software. José Miguel Biscaya, 2012, Netherlands, 7 min.

(k)now (t)here If dreaming is dangerous, the solution would be not less- dreaming but dreaming-all-the-time... Jang Hey-Yeun, 2011, USA, 9 min.

[S] The character [S] is freely interpreted. In this film, objects are transformed into each other: body - snake - waterfall - stone,... Kim Sunjha, 2011, Germany, 12 min.

15th Thai Short Film and Video Festival: Opener Nowadays, many independent filmmakers shoot their films using an ordinary Canon camera, the lauded 5D. The filmmaker’s grandmother even has a 7D. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, 2011, Thailand, 2 min.

1862 Our future is exhausted. We are liberated from time. Like animals. Philippe Rouy, 2011, France, 7 min.

20 Hz 20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. The data is interpreted as audio and generates complex sculptural forms. Semiconductor, 2012, United Kingdom, 5 min.

544/544 (up/down) Exploring a church by watching dozens of frames at the same time. An abstract piece of art made with digital photography. Thomas Mohr, 2011, Netherlands, 10 min.

5f-2 Exercise in comedic genre filming. A script writer has erotic fantasies. With a lead role for a rubber ducky. Chung Lee, 2011, Taiwan, 24 min.

7 Peaks 7 Peaks is a film about mankind’s primal drive to climb to the top of every mountain. Anna Abrahams, 2012, Netherlands, 23 min.

99 Clerkenwell Road Emptiness is wistfully transformed in 99 Clerkenwell Road as the remnants of an empty shop provide the makings of an abstract light-film cum... Sophie Michael, 2010, United Kingdom, 8 min.

Africa Young Finnish filmmaker Harju’s disturbing, raw film gets up close to a psychotic man. We don’t all live in the same reality. Matti Harju, 2012, Finland, United Kingdom, 9 min.

After Dark The filmmaker’s muse, Hannah Lin, as an almost blind masseuse. Why doesn’t she want to be cured? What is so comforting about the dark? John Hsu, 2011, Taiwan, 21 min.

Aisha's Song A filmmaker with a good ear as well as a good eye. A fabulous sounding portrait of a girl who wasn’t lost. Orlando von Einsiedel, 2011, Nigeria, United Kingdom, 10 min.

All That She Surveys When I say that I’m not at all sure what All That She Surveys means, I’m not being disingenuous: the film remains fundamentally mysterious to me.... Gary Mairs, 2012, USA, 15 min.

All the Lines Flow Out Beautifully photographed work starts at the moment when eight mysterious men, dressed in raincoats, come together from a mountain. Charles Lim Yi Yong, 2011, Singapore, 21 min.

Alone with the Moon This is a wonderfully illusive slowmo animation film: a night vision from the depths of a well, the darkness pregnant with bugs and stars. Peter Burr, 2012, USA, 14 min.

Apnoe Wonderful third part of the Living Space series by Hund and Horn about a very normal family that suffers from a lack of gravity. Harald Hund, Paul Horn, 2011, Austria, 10 min.

Applied Theories of Expanding Minds Experimental science fiction film set in an Africa that has just freed itself from Chinese domination. Screened before The Clay Diaries. Rut Karin Zettergren, Jennifer Rainsford, Lena Bergendahl, 2011, Kenya, Sweden, 29 min.

Arcana Editing master Hills displays his skills as a creative director in a breathtaking work after a script and to music by John Zorn. Henry Hills, 2011, Austria, USA, 31 min.

Arrastre A beautifully choreographed animation film with a title denoting both a drag in dance terminology and a crude apparatus used for pulverizing ore. Nicholas Brooks, 2010, United Kingdom, 8 min.

Ausreichend Classic drama about enthusiastic young teacher who threatens to succumb to his pupils’ power games. Reminiscent of Entre les murs. Isabel Prahl, 2011, Germany, 30 min.

Back + Forth Shot in a single take, this film documents the happenings on one of the strangest streets in Winnipeg. Clint Enns, 2009, Canada, 3 min.

Bahari Social friction in Bahari, a poor district in Alexandria. Young student dares to head down the wrong streets. Ahmed Ghoneimy, 2011, Egypt, 13 min.

Ballad of Roy and Silo, The Two gay penguins receive an all-expenses-paid, same-sex wedding in Toronto. However, even penguin love has a price. John Greyson, 2011, Canada, 6 min.

Beautiful Language, The Images selected from François Truffaut’s 1970 film The Wild Child that show a child being measured, taught and tested. 2010, France, 16 min.

Bete & Deise The meeting of two remarkable women in Rio de Janeiro who have - each in their own way - given meaning to the idea of a public voice. World premiere at 22:00... Wendelien van Oldenborgh, 2012, Netherlands, Brazil, 40 min.

Beyond the Mountains The international premiere of an enchanting and immersively intimate, prize-winning documentary, revealing a family's journey from Tokyo to Coimbra. Aya Koretzky, 2011, Portugal, 59 min.

Blank You don’t run the same risks in all countries. An the Philippines, you risk disappearing because of political activities. Screened before... Jet Leyco, 2010, Philippines, 15 min.

Bodily Function Naturally shot, slow fiction sticks close to a young man selling his vegetables at the market in the city and contacting a friend from his youth. Dane Komljen, 2011, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 38 min.

Bonz CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) makes it possible to show the most impossible things anywhere. Here the simplest apparition. Screened before About the... Shohei Tada, 2011, Japan, 6 min.

Boxing in the Philippine Islands Actually a type of shadowboxing. The film looks old, but the maker shot it using a simple pinhole camera. Screened before Buenas noches, España. Raya Martin, 2011, Philippines, 7 min.

Bradley Manning Had Secrets Intimate and provocative animation of the US soldier accused of leaking thousands of government secrets, exploring his loneliness and uncertainty about gender... Adam Butcher, 2011, United Kingdom, 6 min.

Brûler la mer Photographs found on the internet of Harragas, literally 'burners' (of borders, papers and life), candidates for illegal immigration from Algeria, who... Sabine Massenet, 2011, France, 9 min.

Café Regular, Cairo Taboos are broken during a candid conversation in a bar. A refreshing look at male-female relations in contemporary Egypt. Screened before Night #1. Ritesh Batra, 2011, Egypt, 11 min.

Caridea and Ichthyes Caridea: shrimp. Ichtyes: fish. Underwater, even though their habitat looks like an intangible atmosphere of energy. Filmed and projected in Super-8. Paul Clipson, 2011, USA, 6 min.

Ceibas: Epilogue - The Well of Representation Following the convergent narratives of several voices, we come to understand the journey ahead: knowing that whatever home we find will be a collaborative... Evan Meaney, 2011, USA, 7 min.

Cerro negro Subdued, moving fiction about a young immigrant couple from Brazil in Lisbon. She visits him in prison. João Salaviza, 2012, Portugal, 22 min.

Commission Frank and often funny conversations about roots, consumerism and the rise of the Dutch Right Wing in Van Lieshout's ‘shop’ in a Rotterdam mall. Erik van Lieshout, 2011, Netherlands, 49 min.

Compound Eyes A spider, a snail, a fly. Writhing forest inhabitants crawl through the undergrowth. Filmed and projected in Super-8. Paul Clipson, 2011, USA, 6 min.

Corridor, The For five days, a donkey was followed during its weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in South England. From home to home, from room to room. 2010, Belgium, 7 min.

Cross On a summer’s day, everything ends at a beach where nothing reveals what the main character has just been through. But we know, because we saw. Maryna Vroda, 2011, France, 15 min.

Curious Light A manuscript illuminated: illustrations retreat into the fibre of the page; a fleeting light dissolves into the emulsion of the film. Charlotte Pryce, 2011, USA, 4 min.

Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (Opening Sequence) Ken Jacobs, 2012, USA, 5 min.

Dance of Ganesha Convincing drama about the hard struggle for survival of a man who has to dance due to family tradition and also has to maintain his wife and kids. Screened... Bikas Ranjan Mishra, 2011, India, 15 min.

Dans le cadre Acting in a nutshell. Karine has to audition and her own experience could help her with that or perhaps not? Screened before Louise Wimmer. Philippe Lasry, 2010, France, 14 min.

De Bunker - Het Wennen - Het Wachten - Het Licht Film about Closed Architecture, a concept for a new type of prison by right-wing PVV politician Fleur Agema, clearly illustrates her take on humanity. Jonas Staal, 2011, Netherlands, 15 min.

Deep Red The unreal colours and patterns in Deep Red are reminiscent of trees seen flashing past in the night from the back seat of a car. Esther Urlus, 2012, Netherlands, 7 min.

Dell'ammazzare il maiale An astonishingly beautiful handmade drawing animation with fascinating transformations. About the relation between humans and animals. Simone Massi, 2011, Italy, 6 min.

Deux inconnus Claustrophobic fiction about the relationship between a man and a boy. At a motel the boy confides in a woman, but is he telling the truth? Screened before... Lauren Wolkstein, Christopher Radcliff, 2011, France, 14 min.

did i? did I? transports the viewer into a dreamlike state, an immersion into a surrealist world of sound and image. Other rules apply here. Sawa Hiraki, 2011, United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, 9 min.

Dimanches Mild fiction about boring Sundays. With recognisable, tragicomic scenes. Why is it such a tough day for so many people? Screened before The Giants. Valery Rosier, 2011, Belgium, 15 min.

Do I Belong? Upbeat music video for The Hidden Cameras. Lead vocalist Joel Gibb is surrounded by people partying whilst performing his morning ablutions. Joel Gibb, 2011, Canada, 5 min.

Dochters This personal documentary shows that the physical distance between mother and daughter makes it difficult to express their expectations about the future. Marta Jurkiewicz, 2011, Netherlands, 23 min.

Dois Naturally shot fiction about growing up. A boy and girl have a fun day in the park, revising their maths with friends. Then she gets a phone call. Screened... Thiago Ricarte, 2012, Brazil, 16 min.

Domicile A thing, a shape, a sound, a woman. Black and slimy, it crawls beneath his skin. His home is no longer safe. Maeva Ranaivojaona, 2012, France, 15 min.

Doña Sonia Borrowed a Gun from Her Neighbor Alcides Watching Doña Sonia do the washing-up, little do we suspect what she is capable of. She effortlessly executes her mission. Gabriel Martins, 2011, Brazil, 18 min.

Dreams Écriture automatique and computers don’t go together. That’s why this surrealistic dream was hand-drawn. Screened before Tatsumi. Keiichi Tanaami, Aihara Nobuhiro, 2011, Japan, 6 min.

Duck Hunting A nostalgic day out hunting for a father and two sons. The violence is not only aimed at the ducks. Impressive student production. Rok Bicek, 2010, Slovenia, 23 min.

Duelo antes da noite Refined drama about a journey by a boy and a girl that has a great influence on the rest of their lives. Student competition at Cannes in 2011. Alice Furtado, 2011, Brazil, 20 min.

Elektrotechnique Household sex machines dance to the music of De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - right through to the climax! Funny, original music video. Lernert & Sander, 2011, Netherlands, 3 min.

Emblem Fully realised ideas constitute the basis for Emblem. Are we really looking at the ecology of endangered species of birds or are we looking inwards? Hayama Rei, 2012, Japan, 16 min.

Etienne's Hand Repeating a small hand movement creates a grand gesture. Richard Tuohy, 2012, Australia, 13 min.

Everything Will Be OK Powerful, moving fiction about two Polish friends in the Norwegian timber industry. After a night on the tiles, their lives change for good. Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen, 2011, Norway, 25 min.

fancy-fair Well-acted drama about a fragile woman and her blunt family. Her son is the only one who really wants to see her. Poignant and precise. Christophe Hermans, 2011, Belgium, 20 min.

Fire in My Belly (A Work in Progress), A Never-completed montage film on Super-8, a visceral meditation on cultural and individual identity, spirituality, and belief systems. 1986, USA, 21 min.

Free Moment, A Tell el-Full, location for King Hussein’s summer palace, which before 1967 was in Jordan but now is part of Israel, seen through an ingenious camera movement. Nir Evron, 2011, Israel, 5 min.

Friendly Witness Warren Sonbert, 1989, USA, 22 min.

Gangster Project Few white kids dare to enter a violent black township to shoot a film about gangsters. And it’s funny too. Teboho Edkins, 2011, Germany, South Africa, 55 min.

German Song It is doubtful whether entertainment has ever been quite as nostalgic and desolate as in this musical film by Sadie Benning. Sadie Benning, 1995, USA, 6 min.

Girl in the Water A film featuring real fishermen, a real young mother and a story as real as a hallucination. Woo Ming Jin, Jeppe Rønde, 2011, Denmark, Malaysia, 19 min.

Glucose On the boundary between good taste and sensationalism, Grecu & Gleize take us along on a journey through their dreamy universe. Mihai Grecu, Thibault Gleize, 2012, France, Romania, 6 min.

God Moves on the Water Hilarious mashup of the official video for Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On with an old folk song by Blind Willie Johnson (1929) about the sinking of... Erik Bünger, 2008, Germany, 3 min.

Gold A psychedelic meditation on the alchemical ideal of the hermaphrodite. Scott Treleaven, 2006, USA, Canada, 5 min.

Golden Bird, The Mysterious tale about a search for a way to escape the cycle of births. Imaginative experimental film by one of the most exciting Indian authors. Amit Dutta, 2011, India, 55 min.

Hands What hands do and the places they go become painfully apparent in this short, but convincing edit of human actions. Bob Kohn, 2011, France, 3 min.

Historia del mal A dark episode from Argentinian history, the conquest of Patagonia and its inhabitants from various perspectives. Benjamin Naishtat, 2011, Argentina, France, 17 min.

Hope A dying general's final moments on the battlefield take us on a stunningly visual journey into death. By visual effects artist Pedro Pires. Screened before... Pedro Pires, 2011, Canada, 11 min.

Hors saison Mild, amusing fiction about a woman returning to her place of origin. Her parents have died and she tries to reconcile herself with the past. Victoria Saez, 2011, France, Spain, 25 min.

Hottest Day of the Year, The A video in two chapters. The mythic battlefield that main character Anne-Marie Baptist sought in Africa was cursed: all actions lose their meaning in that spot. Keren Cytter, 2010, Germany, Israel, 13 min.

House Party Dan organised a wild party while his mum was away from home. The neighbours complain to her about the racket, but was it really that bad? Screened before... Adrian Sitaru, 2012, Romania, 18 min.

Hurdy Gurdy Great, joyous, miniature film, made using special lenses. Everything and everyone is constantly moving. But is what we see real? Screened before Oslo,... Daniel Seideneder, Daniel Pfeiffer, 2011, Germany, 3 min.

I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg A lighthearted and clever spectacle constructed around the chamber music work by Morton Feldman. Andreas Rochholl, 2012, Germany, 13 min.

I Swim Now Grainy black-and-white underwater claustrophobia. Film as a time machine. Sarah Jane Biagini, 2011, USA, 9 min.

I Want to Remember In many dance films there’s no speaking, but here there is space for a real narrative. About the division of two countries. And the divorce of two peoples. Sherman Ong, 2011, Singapore, Malaysia, 26 min.

In a Musty, Misty Thicket Down in a mysterious, musty thicket on a deserted island, Pik Mama and Missy are spending a hick day in the forest. Weird and uncanny things are going on. 2012, Finland, 13 min.

Incêndio 'There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Miguel Seabra Lopes, Karen Akerman, 2011, Portugal, 23 min.

Inquire Within In this work, Rosenblatt bombards viewers - in their most vulnerable state - with paradoxes that make them doubt essential moral issues. Jay Rosenblatt, 2012, USA, 4 min.

Into Oblivion Meticulous reconstruction of Stalin’s plan for a railway line that still seems illogical, and which would go on to cause countless deaths. Simon Spidla, 2011, Czech Republic, 52 min.

Isla Alta Aggression, as a result of the increasing tension between rich and poor in the countryside of Paraguay, forms the basis for the mysterious High Island. Federico Adorno, 2011, Paraguay, 15 min.

Jardin du sel Enchanting golden glow across the salt fields with the sun low on the horizon. Carefully shot 16mm film by influential French experimental filmmaker. Rose Lowder, 2012, France, 16 min.

Joule The absurdity and contradictoriness of daily life captured in irresistible images. Nothing human is alien to us, but what is human? Nadia Ranocchi, David Zamagni, 2010, Italy, Austria, 23 min.

Kaspar Film Kaspar Hauser has inspired generations of artists and scientists. Kaspar Film portrays his world using beautiful black-and-white and original texts. Florence Pezon, 2011, France, 55 min.

Ken and Kazu Two young drug dealers in a car have a quarrel. We’ve seen that before. But not quite like this. Shoji Hiroshi, 2011, Japan, 23 min.

Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys Meticulous reconstruction of an everyday event in China that culminates in a public execution. Jens Assur, 2011, Sweden, Thailand, 25 min.

Kreis Wr.Neustadt Hilarious overview of architectural failures. A road movie that provides new insights, but goes nowhere. Johann Lurf, 2011, Austria, 5 min.

Kyojima 3rd St., Sumida City Perhaps the most over-used description for films with beautiful young people: the coming-of-age film. The girl steals. 2010, Japan, 30 min.

Lake, The We find ourselves escaping into an illusion, which we are not able to free ourselves from. An illusion to avoid feeling that reality was a dark, bitter, salty... Aki Nakazawa, Jan Verbeek, 2011, Japan, Germany, 3 min.

Land of Neon Tokyo after the earthquake and radioactive contamination. The vague weirdness and fear that now permeate daily life are invisible but palpable in the land of... Aki Nakazawa, 2011, Japan, Germany, 5 min.

Landfill 16 The original images used a complex process to constitute an abstract painting with pulsing patterns. Primal screams from the wilderness fall silent. Jennifer Reeves, 2011, USA, 9 min.

Last Fragments of Winter A Malaysian film student travels to Japan to study and is amazed by many things. About a girl in the snow, for instance. Edmund Yeo, 2011, Malaysia, Japan, 24 min.

Late and Deep In an isolated house in a remote winter forest at night, two human beings undergo an experience of convulsion. A purely visual film. Devin Horan, 2011, Norway, USA, 17 min.

Let England Shake Short films inspired by and created to accompany all 12 songs on PJ Harvey's album Let England Shake (2011). An attempt to reveal a little more about... Seamus Murphy, 2011, United Kingdom, 53 min.

Liberty Kids Fun, colourful portrait of primary school children in Dublin. The result of a film workshop in the class concerned. Moira Tierney, 2006, Ireland, 5 min.

Lighthouse Light in all its forms plays a remarkable role in this film; it seems to influence the course of events. Wouter Venema, 2012, Netherlands, 18 min.

Line Describing Your Mom 'This is the new choreography of devotion', proclaims the director. 'This is the light that never goes out. This is the line describing your mom.' Michael Robinson, 2011, USA, 6 min.

Little Prayer (H-E-L-P), A Images of Houdini bound in chains flicker and spin amid laceration marks in the emulsion from the hand-processing. Louise Bourque, 2011, Canada, 8 min.

Living Room, The Experimental fiction about a large oak tree entering a Dutch living room. The viewer is confronted with the impact on both the tree and the home. Roderick Hietbrink, 2011, Netherlands, 9 min.

Loss A rather beautiful meditation on image recording featuring the Ronnettes, a sprinkling of pathos and some magnificently sculptural objects. David Ferrando-Giraut, 2011, United Kingdom, 17 min.

luogo a venire, Un Time and expectations are twisted in A Place to Come. We hear and see various images of the same moment in a misty landscape. Flatform, 2011, Italy, 7 min.

magische tol, De Charming short for children about an old-fashioned top and the magic images that come alive when it spins. Joost van Veen, 2007, Netherlands, 2 min.

Mama This can happen to a woman in Rwanda: she has to tolerate her husband’s killer in her immediate surroundings. Reconciliation is too much to ask. Jean Bosco Nshimiyimana, 2012, Rwanda, 19 min.

marais sauvage, Le Tender ties between a man and a child; a brief illusion. True friendship makes reality momentarily disappear. Martin Drouot, 2012, France, 25 min.

marin masqué, Le The ultimate French dialogue-driven film. Chatterboxes Laetitia and Sophie take you back to their childhoods, which they have only just left. Sophie Letourneur, 2011, France, 36 min.

Meteor A voyage from the children's room to outer space, using elements of feature films, fairy tale moments gone astray and vintage science fiction motifs. Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller, 2011, Germany, 15 min.

Mila Caos Gorgeous young man transforms into an exuberant star at the weekends; his mother is indifferent. Screened at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes. Simon Paetau, 2011, Cuba, Germany, 18 min.

Miracle A spiralling organism reforms itself from primary structures and chaotic noise to harmonic kaleidoscopic formations. A miracle of synthetic life. 2012, Finland, 8 min.

Modern No.2 What looks like computer animation proves to be purely handmade and provides a fascinating expression of the rapidly changing world around us. Mirai Mizue, 2011, Japan, 4 min.

Mourir auprès de toi Spike Jonze’s tragicomic animation is a love story set in a bookstore, using 3,000 pieces of felt hand-cut by Olympia Le-Tan. Screened before The... Spike Jonze, Simon Cahn, 2011, France, 6 min.

Moving Stories An off-screen dialogue between a young couple ready to embark on a romantic adventure. What happens next? Airplanes are the true actors in this film. Nicolas Provost, 2011, Belgium, 7 min.

Moxie A pyromaniac bear misses his mother. Thrilling animation from the director of 2009’s Tiger Shorts nominee, The Black Dog’s Progress. Screened before... Stephen Irwin, 2011, United Kingdom, 6 min.

My Big-Assed Mother If anyone is cut out to play Charles Bukowski, it is director Abel Ferrara. In this film, he plays the writer with great flair. Screened before Black &... Tekla Taidelli, 2012, USA, Italy, 10 min.

My Name Is Feker Carefully told short story about prostitution somewhere in Ethiopia. Because it can happen to any girl there. Orlando von Einsiedel, 2011, Ethiopia, 12 min.

Natural Beauty By applying 365 layers of make-up on the face of supermodel Hannelore Knuts, the two filmmakers make a statement about beauty. Lernert & Sander, 2011, Netherlands, 3 min.

Never a Foot Too Far, Even A piece of film of a figure on a wooded path constitutes the start of an exuberant evocation of movement and sound in layered 16mm double projection. Daïchi Saïto, 2012, Canada, 13 min.

Ninifuni Short film half a feature film in length, with the appeal of a full-length film. The tragic life of a burglar. Includes girls dancing. Tetsuya Mariko, 2011, Japan, 42 min.

Nouakchott Rocks Nouakchott, Mauritania: people busy with their daily affairs, a Berber tent and a factory producing hand-made concrete blocks for the steadily growing city. Moira Tierney, 2010, Mauritania, Ireland, 19 min.

O nosso homem A heartening return to Pedro Costa’s painterly cinema of hope and hopelessness - we go rabbit hunting with Ventura, thinking of Cape Verde. Pedro Costa, 2011, Portugal, 24 min.

OWS Newsreel No. 5 One of five short observations by director Jem Cohen about Occupy Wall Street. Jem Cohen, 2011, USA, 7 min.

Palácios de Pena 'Big baby sleep over at my new palace!!! Bring boots and your black hoodies, and pls pls pls pls don’t tell Ana about this, K?' Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2011, Portugal, 55 min.

Parallel Worlds Simple diagrams and a number of film fragments demonstrate the existence of parallel worlds, and prove that it is possible to place oneself therein. Harald Thys, Jos de Gruyter, 2010, Belgium, 26 min.

Parole à la femme A radio broadcast in Togo devoted to women, with a cereal retailer and a diet adviser talking about their work and lives. Eléonore de Montesquiou, 2010, Estonia, Germany, 8 min.

Paulina, Franz & Maria The filmmaker brings us closer to the lives of three loved ones. A transcendent film. Ute Aurand, 2011, Germany, 13 min.

Piattaforma luna This documentary about the experiences of the crew of a deep sea platform has the atmosphere of an exciting science fiction film. Yuri Ancarani, 2011, Italy, 25 min.

Pilgrimage A man and a camera, a walk at night. Marc Pelletier, 2012, Canada, 9 min.

Pipeline The camera in a transparent pipe system sends the viewer on a journey through an unknown universe of unexpected speed and noise. Liv Strand, 2007, Sweden, 6 min.

Polvo The grim story of Mexico City: a metropolis that can eat you alive. An exciting essay about the huge city with an exceptional soundtrack. Angela Reginato, 2012, USA, Mexico, 27 min.

Praça Walt Disney Everything looks different if we view the city with a soundtrack of music from Walt Disney films. Festive, crazy portrait of Recife. Renata Pinheiro, Sergio Oliveira, 2011, Brazil, 21 min.

Printed Matter Geopolitics and the private life of a press photographer blend together on a single roll of film. The contact prints and photographic negatives combine to... Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, 2011, Netherlands, Belgium, 29 min.

Radioactive City In this experimental documentary, Sandler ventilates his cares and doubts about recent events in Los Angeles in a committed way. Richard Sandler, 2012, USA, 22 min.

Radiotehnika A nostalgic tale about the once so blossoming Soviet industry in Estonia. Complete with a beautiful soundtrack. Eléonore de Montesquiou, 2012, Latvia, 19 min.

Ransom Notes Exploration of the filmmaker’s experience of the hijacking of her city during the Toronto G20 Summit. A re-appropriation of language and meaning through the... Kelly Egan, 2011, Canada, 5 min.

Reflect Intimate recordings in the personal surroundings of the maker. By re-ordering individual shots, hidden meanings emerge. Hsu Tsen-Chu, 2010, USA, Taiwan, 4 min.

Relocation Once part of a larger Armenia, Mount Ararat is located in Turkey since the 1920 genocide. Armenians can only gaze at it with longing. Pieter Geenen, 2011, Belgium, 23 min.

Remember A camera at an anti-fascist demonstration in Moscow. Immigrants, human rights activists and journalists are systematically targeted by right-wing groups. Eléonore de Montesquiou, 2012, Russia, 10 min.

Remote In the collage video Remote, dream logic invokes a presence that drifts through physical and temporal barriers. Jesse McLean, 2012, USA, 12 min.

Republic of God A satirical portrayal of the relationship between ruler and subject in a day of political turmoil set in a fictitious nation. 2011, Canada, 11 min.

Resident of the City, A Powerful documentary about big city life as a stray dog. Survival instinct and territorialism; dogs are just like humans. Screened before The Three... Adham El Sherif, 2011, Egypt, 15 min.

Resonance Force fields of light and dark. Gloriously filmed in Super-8 and blown up to 16mm. Karen Johannesen, 2010, USA, 3 min.

Return, The Dorsky - honoured with a retrospective at IFFR 2011 - has incorporated images of Rotterdam in his new film. 'Like a memory already gone, this place of life.' Nathaniel Dorsky, 2011, USA, 27 min.

Rigid Regime Nissinen's videos are characterized by absurdity, humour and deliberate clumsiness. An armless man arrives by helicopter to inspire the local community. Erkka Nissinen, 2012, Hong Kong, China, 14 min.

Rise Again Asylum seekers step outside of their prescribed roles as refugees and engage in puzzling social activities in the woods at the edge of town. Katarina Zdjelar, 2011, Netherlands, United Kingdom, 11 min.

River Rites Exquisite scene, originally shot in Surinam for his Tiger film Let Each One Go Where He May (2009), proves to be a powerful short film in its own right. Ben Russell, 2011, USA, Suriname, 12 min.

Romance A dazzling animated visual transcription of a Rachmaninoff scherzo set as a grand romantic saga. By the Swiss maestro Georges Schwizgebel. Screened before... Georges Schwizgebel, 2011, Switzerland, Canada, 7 min.

Ruled by Dead People Delacrew DJ collective’s experimental music video brings a derelict building to life using colour, energetic animation and a great deal of movement. Delacrew, 2006, Spain, 2 min.

Sacha l'ours Playful, beautifully designed adaptation of the fairy tale Goldilocks and the three bears. Except this time, the bear comes to visit her.... Henri Desaunay, 2012, France, 11 min.

Sack Barrow A new 16mm, time-abolishing, alchemical, factory floor film from Tiger Award for Shorts winner, Ben Rivers. Ben Rivers, 2011, United Kingdom, 21 min.

Sangre de Cristo Visions, Comanche chiefs, counterculture refugees and conquistadors are intertwined in this compelling archaeology of the Southern Colorado mountains. Marcy Saude, 2011, USA, 26 min.

Sans-titre Re-enactment of the occupation of an Algerian villa by terrorists in the 1990s. What were the terrorists doing in that house? And which version of the story is... Neil Beloufa, 2010, France, 15 min.

Schip A landscape image of a ship floating down the Mekong river. 2010, Thailand, 2 min.

Sea Series #10 Reflection on the Fukushima disaster made using aged film material, shot on the other side of the Pacific in glorious CinemaScope. John Price, 2011, Canada, 10 min.

Search, The Sensitive portrait of a man and his horse in the mountains. About animals’ emotional importance to humans, with a beautiful dream scene. Screened before He... Resit Baskin, 2012, Turkey, 16 min.

Shayne's Rectangle A horse farm and a casual poolside dissection are the nodes between which a series of patiently taken sharp turns manoeuvres through moods both intimate and... Dani Leventhal, 2011, USA, 5 min.

Shelter A subtle film about love. A tired couple lean against each other at the back of the bus. An observation. Screened before Parts of the Heart. Ismail Basbeth, 2011, Indonesia, 16 min.

Silêncio de dois sons Mysterious, dreamy fiction about a mother who tells a secret story to her daughter, while two babies are asleep. The house is a character as well. Screened... Rita Figueiredo, 2011, Portugal, 14 min.

Snow Canon Teenage girl and her babysitter engage in intriguing game of rejection and seduction. Great camera work and ditto acting in film by Tiger Award winner Diop. Mati Diop, 2011, France, 33 min.

songe de poliphile, Le A trip to the core of the unconscious, inspired by both the ideas of India as a 'dreamlike world' (Jung) and 'the unconscious of the West' (Kakar). Camille Henrot, 2011, France, 11 min.

Sound of Life Joyful, poetic animation magically combines two animation techniques. Get carried away. Hirayama Shiho, 2011, Japan, 5 min.

Space Is the Place Animated spatial games with sheets of paper in the corner of a room. How do you manage to perch an angle like that on a flat surface? Eriko Sonoda, 2011, Japan, 6 min.

Square Dance Hypnotist Disorienting repetition of a section of square dance visualises alienation and the urge to flee and drives the audience crazy. Allan Brown, 2012, Canada, 17 min.

Standards Upbeat documentary about a jazz quintet playing to businessmen. Provides a great look behind the scenes; they stay true to themselves. Screened before... Maxime Pistorio, Julie Jaroszewski, 2010, Belgium, 17 min.

Starlings (at Nightfall) A single, static, eight-minute-long shot documents the spiralling flight of thousands of starlings around a power transmission tower at dusk. 2010, Canada, 8 min.

Superimposed Sad Recent comic work by British all-round artist Chris Newman, in which he philosophises about his alleged sorrow. Chris Newman, 2009, Germany, 3 min.

Surface Noise Convincing symphonic adaptation of damaged film material shows revolutionary themes, including political conflicts, demonstrations and rebellions. Paul Rowley, David Philips, Tim Blue, 2010, USA, 7 min.

Survival Guide for Radioactive Village A collection of bizarre action videos. A number of Malaysia’s best filmmakers wittily tackle a polluting factory. Liew Seng Tat, Tan Chui Mui, Woo Ming Jin, Yeo Joon-han, 2011, Malaysia, 40 min.

Tamino Eveline Ketterings impresses with an exuberant version of Mozart in a modest staging against a magic set. Screened before Nana. Eveline Ketterings, 2012, Netherlands, Poland, 5 min.

Tampopo Head and the Name of the Dogs This fairytale-like short film explores the melancholic tendency of people to project their emotions onto dogs. Toshie Takeuchi, 2011, Netherlands, 18 min.

Tape Generations A simple, brilliantly executed idea gives this performance by countless rolls of sellotape the flair of a Busby Berkeley choreography. Johan Rijpma, 2011, Netherlands, 3 min.

Taste Test A girl with no front teeth and a fairground skeleton sway to a sad ballad. There are doubts about both their charms. Andrew Lampert, 2011, USA, 3 min.

Thicker Than Paint Thinner Sober reconstruction of Hossein’s motives for killing a large number of people for the sake of the Iranian Revolution. Exceptionally intriguing portrait. Babak Afrassiabi, 2011, Netherlands, 29 min.

Traces of Other An ordinary scene - a coffee break - brought to life using a simple, but very labour-intensive form of hand-drawn animation. Nagaoka Daisuke, 2010, Japan, 6 min.

Twenty Dollars Twenty Hong Kong dollars. You wouldn’t risk your life for 2 euros, but the junky had other things on his mind and thought the girl was defenceless. Lam See Chit, 2011, Hong Kong, 15 min.

Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain Hypnagogic pinhole film i.e. shot using a simple camera without a lens by the founder of the Handmade Film Institute. Robert Schaller, 2011, USA, 7 min.

Very Nice, Very Nice Classic avant-garde edit by Arthur Lipsett in which he combined sound clips with street recordings and footage of people. Arthur Lipsett, 1961, Canada, 6 min.

Vexed Vexed by Telcosystems is an overwhelming voyage of discovery through a universe of churning, dazzling clouds of pixels. Telcosystems, 2012, Netherlands, 29 min.

Viento sur Poetic film by the maker of festival hit Paraguayan Hammock. The director visualises a memory that changed the lives of two fishermen brothers. Paz Encina, 2012, Paraguay, 23 min.

Villatalla Field recordings and 16mm film shots over the course of one month in a remote mountain village in Liguria: two different dimensions of encountering the world. Jeannette Muñoz, 2011, Switzerland, 22 min.

War Is Over The Great War still isn’t over. Last part of a trilogy on memories of the First World War (1914-1918). Roy Villevoye, Jan Dietvorst, 2011, Netherlands, 29 min.

Wee Requiem Home video footage is seamlessly married CGI, where we observe a wee requiem for the passing of a fallen nuisance, a pest, who is now recast as a beloved... Jenn E Norton, 2010, Canada, 7 min.

Well A dive into the symbolic underwater world of our subconscious where thoughts glide by. Experimental short film by Juha Mäki-Jussila. Juha Mäki-Jussila, 2012, Finland, 5 min.

Well Then There Now The framework for this conceptual film - devised by John Zorn - forced Klahr to abandon his customary methods. The animator managed to benefit from the... Lewis Klahr, 2011, USA, 19 min.

Woodcarver Colourful protest video about an incident whereby a cop shot a man dead. Image and sound augment one another perfectly. Ehren BEARwitness Thomas, 2011, Canada, 6 min.

WORMyWOOD #1: Fri 27 Special programme presented by If I Can't Dance, structured around the world premiere of Wendelien van Oldenborgh's latest work, Bete & Deise. Preceded... 0 min.

WORMyWOOD #2: Sat 28 Variety evening starting with two 16mm solo performances: the poetic Quelques minutes de soleil après minuit by Xavier Quérel (Metamkine) and the... 0 min.

WORMyWOOD #3: Sun 29 Two sound artists from the Soundtrackcity project. Francisco López created deep 'sonic universes' in the dark and Lee Patterson opens up an auditive world by... 0 min.

WORMyWOOD #4: Mon 30 Awards ceremony for the Tiger Awards for Short Films as the finale of the short film weekend and also the opening of the topical Signals: Power Cut Middle... 0 min.

WORMyWOOD #5: Tue 31 Two one-off performances. Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), Roel Meelkop and Marco Douma present Pierdrie, a visual and auditory experience in... 0 min.

WORMyWOOD #6: Wed 1 Dronywood triple bill night with Nunatak, a spiritual and icy Nordic performance. Aestuarium makes beautiful, spectral, minimalist music, inspired by... 0 min.

WORMyWOOD #7: Thu 2 Home-made dim sum. A varied evening programme, in which the Chinese zeal for imitation is zealously imitated. With I Did It My Wei Wei (Chinese hotchpotch) and... 0 min.

WORMyWOOD #8: Fri 3 Dance night. Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal Moss is a house & techno veteran from Chicago, producer, DJ and promoter. He is linked to Ron Hardy (Music Box), the... 0 min.

Yo de aquí te estoy mirando Atmospheric, mysterious drama in which two lovers’ important conversation in the woods doesn’t go the way you expect it to. Felipe Gálvez Haberle, 2011, Chile, 18 min.

Zamach Zamach (Assassination) is the final part of Yael Bartana's trilogy And Europe Will Be Stunned, which deals with the return of 3 million Jews to... Yael Bartana, 2011, Poland, Netherlands, Israel, 35 min.

Zima Remarkable graduation film shows a family anticipating the arrival of someone they love and have missed. The world in all its vulnerable beauty. Katarina Stankovic, 2012, Germany, 49 min.