Casitas

Director: Juan Carlos Mostaza

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  6 min

As if they were pawns in a game, Casitas (Little Houses) tells the ironic and humorous  story of a young couple and their chaotic adventure to buy their first home.

Die Seilbahn

Director: Claudius Gentinetta/ Frank Braun

Year:  2008

Country: Switzerland

Length:  7 min

While travelling by cable car to a place somewhere in the mountains, an old man treats himself to some snuff. Et voilà! With every sneeze the cable car cabin is falling more and more apart. The man, however, is far from accepting his fate just like that.

Division Denim

Director: Barry Levy

Year:  2009

Country: Canadá/USA

Length:  3 min

Imagine a poor, downtrodden kid in a third world country making the cheap clothes we can’t seem to do without in our buy more – care less society. Now imagine that he crashes the shooting location for that clothing’s latest rockin’ celebrity commercial. Does he ask for an autograph? Bow down before us? Or blow off a little steam kick-ass ninja style? The animated short film Division Denim answers all those questions and more, and holds nothing back in the process. Written, Produced, and Directed by award winning indie filmmaker Barry Levy, and stylishly animated by the notorious Monkey Paw Media.

El Misterio del Pez

Director: Giovanni Maccelli

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  10 min

Once upon a time, there was an old man that went fishing every day and every day he caught the same fish.       

El Príncipe de las Basuras

Director: Francisco Antonio Peinado

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  9 min

“El príncipe de las basuras” is the story of a boy who lives in a parallel world, his world, where all is ruins and rubbish. Between the decay and trash he distinguishes a light that flies freely through an obscure and polluted sky. In his journey, he meets the lowest, cruellest and evilest beings one could have ever imagined - men - who will not rest until they destroy him.

Hasta las Huevas

Director: Irene Iborra/ Eduard Puertas

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  7 min

Is there anything worse that being a salmon from an overcrowded fish farm? Yes, being a tired salmon that instead of being eaten ends up rotting in a fish tank. This is from the salmon’s viewpoint, although from a human perspective the issue does not improve much either

No Penguin’s Land

Director: Marcell Barelli

Year:  2008

Country:  Switzerland

Length:  9 min

Future: Antarctica has melted! A penguin enters Switzerland's customs.  He wants to visit the snowy mountains. But at the customs there's a problem...

The Werepig

Director: Sam Orti

Year:  2008

Country: Spain

Length: 17 min

Two American tourists who want to go to Benidorm accidentally head for Galicia. Their lack of manners and hygiene get them kicked out, as luck would have it, into deserts of Castilla. Just when they lose heart, they are taken in by an affectionate elderly couple.

Vae Soli (Woe to the One Who is Alone)

Director: Neva Ivanec/Filip Rozic

Year:  2008

Country: Croatia

Length:  2 min

A story about mine fields told through memories of a man sitting on a destroyed planet which was once the home of beautiful butterflies.

Anbafey

Director: Dominique Duport

Year:  2008

Country:  France

Length:  6 min

A man threw a small soda can in the middle of the forest in Guadalupe. One ungry leaf will hunt him down.

Asämara

Director: Jon Garaño/ Raúl López

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  9 min

“Ordered to work, ordered to fend for themselves in life.” This is the reality that, in spite of their extreme youth, millions of African children must face today. In the city or rural areas their struggle is the same: survival.

Clouds

Director: Phil Messerer

Year:  2008

Country:  USA

Length:  5 min

On September 11th 2001, Phil Messerer shot the Twin Towers as they burned after the worst terror attack in U.S. history.   He then spent several years in search of the most beautiful natural cloud formations to contrast the horrific image.  Clouds is the end result; a lyrical five minute silent montage set to a piano performance by the filmmaker's father. 

Con la Conciencia Tranquila

Director: David Izquierdo

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  11 min

Someone tells a man that transports a recycling container that he should do.

Consejos

Director: Pendejo/  Gorrotxatepek

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length: 1 min

The Government and other institutions offer advice on how to curb global warming.

Eisblume

Director: Katharina Wyss

Year:  2008

Country:  Germany

Length:  1 min

A small girl is marveling at frost patterns on a window of a chalet. Crystals, reminding of flowers, landscapes. Just like in a caleidoscope, coloured spots appear and disappear. Far away the sound of laughing children can be heard. The girl’s breath steams up the window, a small drop runs down, melting the frost pattern. The someone calls the girls name – the magical moment is over. She takes a last glance at the frost patterns and starts running back to the other children, who are cheerfully playing in the snow, surrounded by a breathtaking alpine scenery.

(En)terrados

Director: Àlex Lora

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  11 min

In a city… the year 2010… It is no longer possible to find a flat in the metropolis. Three characters look for an alternative way to find a place to stay… a close, perverse utopia, a stressful search; an impossible interaction to encounter a poetic escape.

Eyja (Isla)

Director: Dogg Mosesdottir

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  12 min

Somwhere under a glacier on the westcoast of Iceland is an abandoned house. In ocations a spirit appears there, A young girl who was once called Eyja (Island). A long time ago the girl witnessed a terrible accident that left her isolated forever after within the sea.

Iron Will

Director: Vivien Mason

Year:  2008

Country:  Australia

Length:  6 min

Peak oil means turmoil. Except for one man. Enter Iron Will the survivalist from suburbia. Ready for truth. Inconvenienced by dirt.

Maquillaje

Director: Carlos Gabriel Vergara

Year:  2008

Country:  Colombia

Length:  7 min

Adán is tired of looking for work and he clings to God for a signal that can calm the thirst and hunger that torments him. Adán’s desire becomes reality but this apparent miracle deprives him of freedom. What happens to Adán in a few hours reflects how often we mistake signals and then wait for small and large problems to have a miracle solution without analyzing the situation profoundly. The story of Adán is about the causes and effects of environmental imbalance, which are more common in the world everyday. This film shows that his personal suffering, like environmental imbalances, are not simply resolved by half measures as they only “cover up” reality

Na Distancia

Director: Victor Hugo Seoane

Year: 2009

Country:  Spain

Length:  27 min

The main character of this story is a man without a name who is swept away by the desire for social growth and abandons his house, culture and life-style to submerge himself in big city life. He enters into a confusion that originates from the loss of all that one has once known. But with the intervention of Irene, a woman who offers him the opportunity to start again, to erase all memory, and from the void, based in his emotional instinct, he is able to recuperate his Self and understand from what place his life makes sense.

Nosotros

Director: José Luis Valdivia

Year:  2009

Country:  Spain

Length:  17 min

In a world devastated by climate change, a man and woman of different ethnic backgrounds wander through a desert land that is populated by savage tribes from the past. They are rational beings from a society that was destroyed due to the consequences of its wrong decisions. In this journey, the characters search for the most prized treasure: WATER. In his interior, man tries to find consolation and answers to the decline of civilization…

Only One

Director: Conor Arnodo

Year:  2008

Country:  USA

Length:  3 min

A boy is bored. He sits on a curb, waiting for something to do. Along comes a plastic bag, on it's way to messing up the environment. But does the bag know this? The boy follows the bag to its fateful death, at a dumpsite. But when he gets there, he finds so many others...what was so special about his bag? He falls asleep and has a strange dream.

On the Line

Director: Jon Garaño

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  12 min

An ordinary Saturday in the Southern California. Adam, a lower middle-class North American man, sees off his wife and children to carry out his weekly task. A job implying sacrifices, but he accomplishes it with the solid conviction of his ideals.

Poder

Director: Emilio Santín

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  15 min

Carlos Cortés is a 14-year-old boy with Down's syndrome. His possible intellectual deficit makes up for an extraordinary will. At the beginning of each school term, Carlos sets goals that he always reaches. He is about to start the third year of ESO and his aim this year is to be the boyfriend of Anna, his classmate who also has Down's syndrome.

The Big Ask

Director: Nic Balthazar

Year:  2008

Country:  Belgium

Length:  4 min

A little girl is playing on the beach with her parents, but she worries. Why is it that she can see the real danger of global warming, and the politician standing by the water doesn’t seem to have a clue? So she sets out to explain. In the end more than 6.000 people will help her to do so.

The End

Director: Eduardo Chapero

Year:  2009

Country:  Spain

Length:  27 min

A middle class american family must fight for survival in a nation being torn apart by the lack of water.

Unfair (Bill Madden)

Director: Andrew David Watson

Year:  2008

Country:  USA

Length: 4 min

In “Unfair”, the sequel to the short film/music video “Gone”, singer-songwriter/activist Bill Madden and director Andrew David Watson once again collaborate, only this time with a tongue-in-cheek, dark comedic spin.Be prepared to laugh, smile and cheer as the Bicycle Boy is pitted against the sinister, greed driven forces of the Petroleum Protection Agency (PPA) in a hide-and-seek battle to free the world from its dependence on Big Oil.

Wildman

Director: Jodie Baltazar

Year:  2008

Country:  USA

Length:  13 min

A gang of children lives deep in the woods, intent on uncovering the secret of the Wildman. When a new boy among them draws the lot of having to find the beast, he must rely on plants that have come to life and a mysterious strand of hair to guide him.

XXI

Director: Julio Gude

Year:  2008

Country:  Spain

Length:  7 min

At the end of the 21st Century, prisons are the last refuges on Earth that keep their citizens safe from a completely chaotic exterior world. But everything will change when one of these citizens makes the most important decision of his life, to leave.

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