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Independent feature films from across the world. Films showing will vie for UK Feature, International Feature, Audience Feature and Debut Feature Awards.
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Gardens Of The Night and The Project
Acolytes
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Jon Hewitt; Writer: Shayne Armstrong, Shane Krause, Jon Hewitt; Stars: Danny Baldwin, Holly Baldwin, Harley Bennick, Michael Dorman, Sue Dwyer, Joel Edgerton, Sebastian Gregory, Isabella Heathcote, Todd Levi, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Belinda McClory), Official Site
Teenagers blackmail a serial killer.
Adrift In Tokyo (Tenten, Ten-Ten)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Satoshi Miki; Writer: Yoshinaga Fujita, Satoshi Miki; Stars: Jô Odagiri, Tomokazu Miura, Kyôko Koizumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kumiko Aso, Eri Fuse, Kami Hiraiwa, Reona Hirota, Yoshizumi Ishihara, Mitsuko Ishii, Ryo Iwamatsu), Official Site
A student pays off a debt... by taking a walk with the man he owes.
Año Uña (Year Of The Nail)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2007; Director: Jonás Cuarón; Writer: Jonás Cuarón; Stars: Eireann Harper, Diego Cataño, Michele Alban, Cristina Orozco, Mariana Elizondo, Pia Elizondo, Emilia Garcia)
Personal photograph album becomes the basis for an unconventionally told romance.
The Auteur
(Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: James Westby; Writer: James Westby; Stars: Melik Malkasian, Cara Seymour, Holie Barker, Scott Bellomo, John Breen, Sarah Burch, T.J. Civis, Bryan Coffee, Michael Fetters, Katherine Flynn, Loren Hoskins), Official Site
With a body of work that includes Five Easy Nieces and My Left Nut, Italian auteur Arturo Domingo is the foremost artist among pornographic filmmakers. In this hilarious spoof, Domingo hopes to revive his sagging career by reuniting with his former lead actor and making his greatest triumph yet. Based on his own 2002 short.
The Birthday
(Country: Spain; Year: 2008; Director: Eugenio Mira; Writer: Mikel Alvarigno, Eugenio Mira; Stars: Corey Feldman, Erica Prior, Jack Taylor)
A soft-spoken, put-upon schmuck tries to impress his girlfriend at a lavish family function that slowly becomes more untethered from reality.
Choke and Fine, Totally Fine
Blackspot
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2008; Director: Ben Hawker; Writer: Ben Hawker, Luke Hawker, Simon Price; Stars: Hamish Brown, Joe Dunckley, Luke Hawker, Camille Keenan, Simon Smith), Official Site
Friendship turns sour after two pals are stranded when their car breaks down.
The Blue Tower
(Country: UK; Year: 2005; Director: Smita Bhide; Writer: Smita Bhide; Stars: Abhin Galeya, Indira Joshi, Alice O'Connell, Amit Shah, Manjinder Virk)
An Indian man trapped in an unhappy marriage embarks on an affair with the woman nursing his mum.
Bonne Année
(Country: Costa Rica; Year: 2008; Director: Alexander Berberich; Writer: Alexander Berberich; Stars: Benjamin Banks, Thibaut Landier, Karen Young, Dyanna Lauren), Official Site, Trailer
The events leading up to a hit gone bad.
Choke
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Clark Gregg; Writer: Clark Gregg, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk; Stars: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald, Brad Henk), Official Site
A sex-addicted med school dropout pays his mum's hopital bills by running a restaurant scam... but with her memory fading fast, will he ever find out the truth about his dad?
Clubbed
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Neil Thompson; Writer: Geoff Thompson; Stars: Mel Raido, Shaun Parkes, Scot Williams, Maxine Peake, Samuel Anderson, James Cartwright, Charlie Clark, Dominic Coleman, Hayley Evetts, Paddy Fletcher, Ronnie Fox), Official Site, Trailer
A lonely factory worker drifts into the underworld after taking a job as a bouncer.
The Fourth Man and Flick
Crazy
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Rick Bieber; Writer: Rick Bieber, Jason Ehlers, Brent Boyd; Stars: Waylon Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison, Scott Michael Campbell, David Conrad, John Fleck, Timothy Omundson, Brent Briscoe, Beau Baxter, Raymond O'Connor, Eden Rountree), Official Site
Story of a guitar player, inspired by the life of Hank Garland.
Cut The Parts In Grey (Tagliare le Parti in Grigio)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2007; Director: Vittorio Rifranti; Stars: Micol Martinez, Isabella Tabarini, Fabrizio Rizzolo)
Nadia, Paola and Massimo are the victims of a serious road accident: before leaving the hospital they realize the pain they shared has linked them indelibly, it will be impossible to live as they used to do before and it won’t be longer possible to love their former lives. Discovering by chance body-art, they'll look at themselves and their pain in a completely different way...
The Daisy Chain
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2008; Director: Aisling Walsh; Writer: Lauren Mackenzie; Stars: Samantha Morton, Steven Mackintosh, David Bradley, Eva Birthistle, Flora Montgomery, Barry Barnes, Mhairi Anderson, Valerie O'Connor, Yvonne Scanlon, Patrick Moy, Samuel Jones), Official Site
A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village and take in an orphan, only to find themselves subject to a strange string of occurrences.
Dummy
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Matthew Thompson; Writer: Paula Barnes, Michael Müller; Stars: Aaron Johnson, Thomas Grant, Therese Bradley, Emma Catherwood), Official Site
A coming of age drama about two young brothers whose mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves.
The Ears
(Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Hiromu Nakamura; Stars: Tomachika Izumi,Tamaki Kaiho), Official Site
Little Ashes and No Through Road
Electric Apricot: Quest For Festeroo
(Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Les Claypool; Writer: Les Claypool; Stars: Dian Bachar, Arj Barker, Lawrence Brooke, Les Claypool, Oz Fritz, Adam Gates, Mike Gordon, Seth Green, Warren Haynes, Fred Heim, Sirena Irwin), Official Site
Mockumentary of jam bands.
Estômago
(Country: Brazil, Italy; Year: 2007; Director: Marcos Jorge; Writer: Cláudia da Natividade, Fabrizio Donvito, Marcos Jorge, Lusa Silvestre; Stars: João Miguel, Fabiula Nascimento, Babu Santana, Carlo Briani, Zeca Cenovicz, Paulo Miklos, Jean Pierre Noher, Andrea Fumagalli, Betina Belli, Luiz Brambila)
The world is made of those who eat and those who get eaten.
Fine, Totally Fine (Zenzen Daijobu)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Yosuke Fujita; Writer: Yosuke Fujita; Stars: Yosiyosi Arakawa, Yoshino Kimura, Yoshinori Okada, Miyuki Torii), Official Site
A gentle, witty character study that takes in a panorama of small-town eccentrics.
Flick
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: David Howard; Writer: David Howard; Stars: Hugh O’Conor, Liz Smith, Faye Dunaway, Michelle Ryan, Mark Benton, Julia Foster, Terence Rigby, Hayley Angel Wardle), Official Site
Ghoulish grindhouse flick about a Memphis cop who is called in to help solve a string of Welsh murders.
The Fourth Man (Cetvrti Covek, The 4th Man)
(Country: Serbia; Year: 2007; Director: Dejan Zecevic; Writer: Boban Jeftic, Dejan Zecevic; Stars: Nikola Kojo, Marija Karan, Dragan Petrovic, Bogdan Diklic, Dragan Nikolic, Jovana Jankovic, Miodrag Krstovic, Dijana Marojevic, Radoslav Milenkovic, Rale Milenkovic, Boris Milivojevic)
After awaking from a coma, an amnesiac man investigates who shot him at point blank range.
Bonne Année and Zebra Crossing
Fugitive Pieces
(Country: Canada, Greece; Year: 2007; Director: Jeremy Podeswa; Writer: Anne Michaels, Jeremy Podeswa; Stars: Stephen Dillane, Rade Serbedzija, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer, Robbie Kay, Ed Stoppard, Rachelle Lefevre, Nina Dobrev, Themis Bazaka, Diego Matamoros, Sarah Orenstein)
The life of a boy who flees Poland in the Second World War.
Gardens Of The Night
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2007; Director: Damian Harris; Writer: Damian Harris; Stars: Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold, Kevin Zegers, Jermaine Scooter Smith, Harold Perrineau, Jeremy Sisto, Raynold Gideon, Cornelia Guest, Natalie May), Official Site
A harrowing account of child abduction and survival.
Goliath
(Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: David Zellner; Writer: David Zellner; Stars: David Zellner, Caroline O'Connor, Nathan Zellner), Official Site
Faced with a demotion, a pending divorce, and less-than-friendly neighbours, a man pins his hopes for salvation on finding his missing cat, Goliath.
Haber
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Daniel Ragussis; Writer: Daniel Ragussis; Stars: Christian Berkel, Juliane Köhler, Wolf Kahler, Mark Margolis, Maury Cooper, Carmen LoPorto, Ted Pejovich, Gerrit Vooren, John Summerour, Hal Smith-Reynolds)
How the father of modern agriculture became the father of chemical warfare.
Hush
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Mark Tonderai; Writer: Mark Tonderai; Stars: William Ash, Christine Bottomley, Guy Burnet, Clive Cope, Robbie Gee, Allan Gentleman, Claire Keelan, Stuart McQuarrie, Rupert Procter, Sheila Reid, Jon Rumney)
Cat and mouse thriller sees a young couple fall foul of a trucker on the motorway.
Año Uña and Turtles Are Suprisingly Fast Swimmers
It's Hard To Be Nice (Tesko je biti fin)
(Country: UK, Slovenia, Serbia, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Year: 2007; Director: Srdjan Vuletic; Writer: Miroslav Mandic, Srdjan Vuletic; Stars: Sasa Petrovic, Daria Lorenci, Damir Savic, Danijal Savic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Senad Basic, Jasna Zalica, Norman Mahmutovic, Aleksandar Seksan, Izudin Bajrovic, Sanja Buric)
A taxi driver tries to do the best for his family in the wake of the Balkan conflict.
Left Ear
(Country: Australia; Year: 2007; Director: Andrew Wholley; Stars: Clare Mackey, Lech Mackiewicz,), Official Site
A confronting drama that tells the story of a lonely Polish immigrant in Australia who videos his life in an attempt to capture his dreams.
Little Ashes
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Paul Morrison; Writer: Philippa Goslett; Stars: Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson, Marina Gatell, Matthew McNulty, Arly Jover, Esther Nubiola, Simón Andreu, Sue Flack, Christian Rodrigo, Vicky Peña, Pep Sais), Official Site
Biopic about Salvador Dali, filmmaker Luis Bunuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca.
L... Like Love (L... kot ljubezen)
(Country: Slovenia; Year: 2007; Director: Janja Glogovac; Writer: Janja Glogovac, Jelena Vukotic; Stars: Sebastian Cavazza, Uliks Fehmiu, Marko Glogovac, Srdjan Grahovac, Davor Janjic, Mikulás Kren, Matjaz Latin, Marko Mandic, Andrej Martincevic, Ksenija Misic, Labina Mitevska), Official Site
Mao Tse Tung (Mao Ce Dun)
(Country: Albania; Year: 2007; Director: Besnik Bisha; Writer: Besnik Mustafaj; Stars: Fadil Hasa, Miola Sitaj, Ola Sadiku, Marko Bitraku, Vangjel Toçe, Zehrudin Dokle)
Stylish, thought provoking and darkly humorous, this groundbraking feature unforlds the reality in a communist country in the 1970s through the eyes and wise ways of an ordinary gipsy.
Clubbed and Hush
The Milky Way (A Via Láctea)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2007; Director: Lina Chamie; Writer: Aleksei Abib, Lina Chamie; Stars: Marco Ricca, Alice Braga, Fernando Alves Pinto), Official Site
The love of a professor and an actress set against the background of Rio.
Nightwatching
(Country: Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, UK; Year: 2007; Director: Peter Greenaway; Writer: Peter Greenaway; Stars: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Toby Jones, Jonathan Holmes, Michael Teigen, Kevin McNulty, Agata Buzek, Nathalie Press, Fiona O'Shaughnessy), Official Site
Rembrandt biopic, focussing on the furore he caused with The Night Watch.
Now, I… (Iman, Boku Wa)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Yasutomo Chikuma; Stars: Yasutomo Chikuma, Yoshiharu Fujisawa, Masato Shiga)
No Through Road
(Country: Australia; Year: 2008; Director: Sam Barrett; Writer: Sam Barrett, Robbie Studsor; Stars: James Helm, Megan Palinkas, George Shevtsov, Richie Flanagan, Sam Barrett, Keagan Kang, Maynard Inkster, Tim Auty, Rae Barrett, Penelope Andrews, Eddie Stowers, Caleb Helm, Ivan Davidov, Ryan Thomson), Official Site
A violent nightmare begins when a man finds a terrified woman hiding in his wardrobe.
Obituary For Escobar (Citulja za Eskobara)
(Country: Serbia; Year: 2008; Director: Milorad Milinkovic; Writer: Milorad Milinkovic; Stars: Vojin Cetkovic, Tamara Garbajs, Zijah Sokolovic, Jelisaveta Sablic, Boris Komnenic, Marko Zivic, Nenad Jezdic, Tamara Krcunovic, Rene Bitorajac, Mladen Nelevic, Ljubinka Klaric)
Dummy and Senseless
One Day Removals
(Country: UK; Director: Mark Stirton; Stars: Patrick Wright, Scott Ironside), Official Site
Six corpses. Two removal men. One bad day.
Production Office
(Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Deborah Marks, Steve Solomos; Writer: Deborah Marks, Steve Solomos; Stars: a McDonald, Brandon McGibbon, Maury Chaykin )
Misadventures in a film production office on an all-night shoot.
The Project
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Ryan Piotrowicz; Writer: Ryan Piotrowicz; Stars: ichael Stahl-David, Jamie Proctor, Nicholas Webber, TJ Allen, Bilal Bishop, Michael Ciesla), Official Site
Fictional tale of naïve filmmakers trying to make a documentary about inner-city New York.
PVC-1
(Country: Colombia; Year: 2007; Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos; Writer: Dwight Istanbulian, Spiros Stathoulopoulos; Stars: Daniel Páez, Hugo Pereira, Alberto Sornoza, Merida Urquia)
Based on the true story of a human time-bomb.
The Rind (La Cáscara)
(Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay; Year: 2007; Director: Carlos Ameglio; Writer: Carlos Ameglio; Stars: Juan Alari, Carlos Ameglio, Filomena Gentile, Soledad Gilmet, Horacio Marassi, Augusto Mazzarelli, Virginia Ramos, Walter Reyno, Paola Venditto, Martin Voss,), Official Site
After an executive working on a cure for the common cold dies, his colleague tries to take up the gauntlet.
The Milky Way and Who Is KK Downey?
Senseless
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Simon Hynd; Writer: Simon Hynd, based on the book by Stona Fitch; Stars: Jason Behr, Emma Catherwood, Joe Ferrara, Lucy Liemann, Tam Dean Burn, Toby Marlow, Sean O'Kane, Jasper Marlow, Rusekero Mhango), Official Site, Trailer
A businessman is abducted and deprived of his senses one by one as his torment is broadcast live over the internet.
Tender Throbbing Twilight (Tasogare)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Shinji Imaoka; Writer: Akira Taniguchi; Stars: Masaru Taga, Yasuko Namikibashi, Kyoko Hayami, Kenji Yoshioka, Kanako Kotani, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Kunîchi Takami, Yasuko Minamibashi)
Softcore porn director does an elegant story about 60something eroticism.
This World Of Ours
(Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Ryo Nakajima; Stars: Yoshihiko Taniguchi, Arisa Hata, Satoshi Okutsu), Official Site
A raw and anarchic portrait of a generation sick of the world they live in, a generation without hope or future living by their own rules.
The Tour (Turneja)
(Country: Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Year: 2008; Director: Goran Markovic; Writer: Goran Markovic; Stars: Tihomir Stanic, Jelena Djokic, Dragan Nikolic, Mira Furlan, Josif Tatic, Gordan Kicic, Slavko Stimac, Vojislav Brajovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Svetozar Cvetkovic), Official Site
A group of touring actors find themselves caught up in war.
Turtles Are Suprisingly Fast Swimmers (Kame wa igai to hayaku oyogu, Turtles Swim Faster Than Expected)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2005; Director: Satoshi Miki; Writer: Satoshi Miki; Stars: Juri Ueno, Yû Aoi, Ryo Iwamatsu, Eri Fuse, Jun Kaname, Masatô Ibu, Vincent Giry, Yasuhito Hida, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Yutaka Matsushige, Kenji Mizuhashi), Official Site
A young woman in small-town Japan leads a dull and solitary life, until she stumbles into a local spy ring.
Goliath and The Daisy Chain
Under The Snow (Nevando voy)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2008; Director: Candela Figueira, Maitena Muruzabal; Writer: Candela Figueira, Maitena Muruzabal; Stars: Asun Aguinaco, José María Asín, Maritxu Beasain, Maiken Beitia, Manu Belando, Patxi Beriain, Laura De Pedro, Miguel Goikoetxeandia, Ariane Irure, Uxue Jaime Fernández)
Following the unusual connection made between four workers at different stages of their lives, Under the Snow captures factory life in a way rarely seen: personal, flirtatious, introspective.
The Virgin Wildsides Vol. 2
(Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Tetsuaki Matsue; Writer: Tetsuaki Matsue)
A fanboy is brought face to face with this pop idol obssession.
Watch Out
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Steve Balderson; Writer: Steve Balderson, Joseph Suglia; Stars: Matt Riddlehoover, Amy Kelly, Peter Stickles, Jeff Dylan Graham, Jillian Lauren, Miriam Climenhaga, Starina Johnson, Lady Monster, Frank Krainz, Betti O, Cameron DeVictor), Official Site
Story about a man who falls in love with himself, literally. He is attracted to his own body and carries out an erotic relationship with a blow-up doll that resembles him.
Wellness
(Country: USA; Year: 2008; Director: Jake Mahaffy; Writer: Jake Mahaffy; Stars: Paul Mahaffy, Jeff Clark), Official Site
Thomas, a salesman more like a modern day Willy Loman stakes the last of his cash on a wonder-drug in a savage deconstruction of the American Dream.
Who Is KK Downey?
(Country: Canada; Year: 2008; Director: Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely; Writer: Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely, Matt Silver; Stars: Darren Curtis, Kristin Adams, Matt Silver, Pat Kiely, Dan Haber, Abdul Ayoola, Dan Beirne, Claire Brosseau, Pilar Cazares, Jared Curtis, John Elliott), Official Site
Dark comedy about a loser who offers to pretend he is a trans-gender whore who has written a memoir in order to find fame for he and his friend.
Tender Throbbing Twilight and L... Like Love
Zebra Crossing (Zebra Crossings)
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: Samuel Holland; Writer: Samuel Holland; Stars: Lee Turnbull, Greg Wakeman, Aaron White)
A young man growing up in south London tries to escape from a life of crime and violence.
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