Title: THE VICIOUS KIND

Director: Lee Toland Kreeger

Country: USA

Type / length: Drama / 90 min

Description: The relationship between two brothers, a father trying to connect with his sons and the young woman who gets between the three of them. The story begins when Caleb Sinclaire reluctantly picks up his brother Peter at college and brings him and his new girlfriend Emma home for the Thanksgiving holiday. Caleb, who recently broke up with his long-time girlfriend and is wary of relationships, warns Peter that Emma will end up hurting him, but he can't stop himself from being drawn to her. As Caleb's infatuation with Emma grows, he must decide whether to act on his feelings or protect his brother's first love.

Title:  BEYOND THE POLE

Director: David Williams

Country: UK, Greeland

Type / length: Comedy / 87 min

Description: Brian and Mark are setting out on the first Carbon Neutral, Vegetarian, and Organic expedition ever to attempt the North Pole.  As a world first they have high hopes of getting into the Guinness Book of Records and, if all goes well, of saving the planet from Global Warming.

Unfortunately they have never done anything like this before. And they hadn’t reckoned on the polar bears, the cocky gay Norwegians, or on Mark’s rapidly loosening grip on reality.

No one said saving the planet was easy, but does it have to be this hard?

Title: BLUE GOLD

Director: Sam Bozo

Country:  Brazil, Canada

Type / length: Documentary / 90 min

Description: Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive?

Title: ANNA BEGINS

Director: Ben O’Coner

Country: UK

Type / length: Drama / 78 min

Description: Anna has nursed her husband through his cancer. Now he is gone she finds herself alone in their home surrounded by the stark landscape of Exmoor in Devon. Frazer  a neighbour who lives with his wife three fields away, begins to visit Ana. Something more than is said begins. They spend time together, most mornings sitting eating breakfast on Annas patio wrapped in thick winter coats, scarves and hats. Hot cups of tea and toast. Ana needs to understand her loss and her feelings of guilt. She talks with Frazer. Frazer is there, a solid presence...

Title: MATCHSTICK TRAVELLER

Director: Mareike Wegener

Country: Germany, USA

Type / length: Documentary /54 min

Description:  On June 19th, 1995, New York born artist Al Hansen died in his studio in Cologne. It wasn't unusual for Hansen to disappear, and his body lay there until some time later. He was found under his desk, smothered in what many consider trash but what he called working materials. He was 67 years old, and working on a collage made out of matchsticks. "The Matchstick Traveller" portrays an artist who was everything at once: beat poet, pop artist, performer, Fluxus artist, author, porn editor, actor, composer, punk band manager - an axis for all post war movements, and still an outcast. The film looks back at his chaotic life, and examines the notion of failure.

Title: HEART OF NO PLACE

Director: Rika Ohara

Country: Germany, USA

Type / length: Art film / 85 min

Description: The year is 1999. The place: a city in the Northern Hemisphere. Rock widow Y. surfs the Web looking for shadows of her dead husband, the (Former) Artist Known as John. Through an encounter with Andrea, a young journalist with wild ideas about art and technology, and with Daniel Mohn, the head of Monosoft, she begins to find her way through the post-Cold War wasteland, where maps are redrawn with sugar and glass.

Title: EXHALING MUSIC

Director:

Country: Norway

Type / length: Documentary / 57min

Description: Getting to conduct one of the worlds greatest symphony orchestras is a dream shared by a lot of people. Turned in to reality, some dreams can become nerve wrecking nightmares very quickly.

In this documentary we follow the shy and self-taught composer Fred Jonny Berg. He has never conducted an orchestra before. But suddenly he is forced in to a situation where he has to conduct the renowned Philharmonic Orchestra of London. It is the longest day of Fred Jonny Berg's life..

Title: WOMEN IN RED STOCKINGS

Director: Halla Kristín Einarsdóttir

Country: Iceland

Type / length: Documentary / 60 min

Description:   In 1970 the Red Stockings in Iceland made quite an entrance. During the next ten tears they continued to fight for awareness, equality and change in a multitude of ways, often controversial but never boring. Those were the times of the Cold War, hippies, extreme political fractions and ideas. As the movement flowed and ebbed with a variety of different characters lending a hand in the matter, the walls of repression slowly but surely began to crack.

In this film sixteen Icelandic Red Stockings tell us the story of one of the most colorful and opposed movements the island has seen. Using interviews, old footage, animation, graphics, plays and music it is a rare insight into a raucous period told by the ones that were there.

Title: RAT THING

Director: Keven Kersney

Country: USA

Type / length: Comedy / 99 min

Description: Two down and out friends living in Venice, California, struggle in social and economic deprivation. They reach the point where they can't go on. Escalating pressures force them to hatch a wild, get-rich-quick scheme in a last ditch attempt to solve "all of their problems". The far-fetched scheme involves one of them being bitten by a rat in a major supermarket with the fantastical hopes of winning an outrageously huge settlement.