Official Selections

Synopsis: Ringo is an experimental musical western starring John Wayne and Roy Rogers. Found footage gleaned from over 20 public domain films was edited, composited, and set to Don Robertson's classic 1964 story-song to spawn this rapid-fire saga of male bonding with a vengeance.

Synopsis: A silent drama about a young man who is left out of his mother's will. An orphanage receives the money instead. When the man goes to visit the site he finds it in disrepair and finds out the manager is planning to misuse the money. Created for the 2006 Fischgaard Short Film Project in Aberdeen, SD and won Best Film and the "Fiskerlivet's Farer" Audience award.

Synopsis: Two strangers arrive in a small town. What they find on the local menu is more than they expect.

Synopsis: This 25-minute, anti-abortion drama focuses on the reasoning commonly used to support abortion. Follow the emotion-wrought journey of one couple as they grapple with a monumental decision in their life... do they want to be parents? This film pushes the issue to the limits of what abortion really is.

Synopsis: A man becomes obsessed with a hitchhiker who keeps showing up along a lonely rural highway. He wonders if it's just some poor soul or a serial killer out to get him. His condescending attitude toward the hitchhiker soon becomes one of fear and apprehension leading up to the film's surprise ending.

Synopsis: The mesmerizing ballet of a discarded food wrapper leads a New York subway rat into an adventure of love and loss.

Synopsis: A short cartoon portraying the life of a homeless guy.

Synopsis: You think the title isn't description enough?
The wrong man is killed by the mob and it is up to Lewis Main and his sidekick to bring in the real T. Monroe.

Synopsis: Pulse if a fantasy romance with darkly comic elements. Liam is a lost and lonely man who becomes addicted to giving himself electric shocks as they provide a means of comtact with his dead wife Carla. Janine is a well-wishing neighbour who is Liam's last chance of rejoining the real world - can she save him?

Synopsis: Just how badly do you want that pop? Come to think of it, why do robots need pop in the first place??? And do they really need breaks? This movie answers none of these questions (I'm making comedies, not documentaries!)?

Synopsis: A final gift.

Synopsis: A look into the life of an everyday working man.

Synopsis: What happens after the break-up?

Synopsis: A young man searches for the answers to his questions that were left burning in his mind after a shocking experience. His memory takes him back to witness the scene of martyrdom all over again. He yearns to know what gives a man peace and courage to face death in such a way.

Synopsis: In the fall of 1804 Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and the Corps of Discovery halted the progress of their expedition several hundred miles up the Missouri River and made preparations to winter in a Mandan Indian village... or did they? What if Lewis and Clark never got any farther than St. Louis?

Synopsis: The name says it all. This is why bees aren't allowed to do stand-up...

Synopsis: Is it The Empire Strikes Back or The Phantom Menace??? You be the judge (hey, as long as it isn't Speed 2, who cares)...

Synopsis: Let's face it -- one "Bee" sequel just ain't enough! Some more silliness from our humor-challenged friends in the black and yellow...

Synopsis: Yep, it's true; this is it, the end of the line, one last gasp before oblivion, one final... ahh, we all know I'll probably make another one, so just watch this one and enjoy it!

Synopsis: This is why your mother nags you about saying "please" and "thank you"...

Synopsis: Cris Siqueira, Brazilian native, talks of life, death and life after death.

Synopsis: Mae Meier, an Icelandic-American living in North Dakota, has Alzheimer's. Her family visits her in the Borg Home.

Synopsis: "The Art of Effort" is portrait of art and music therapy for Arab-Israeli children with disabilities. Because such disabilities ramain taboo within Bedouin culture, the parents of these children insisted on anonymity. Though these children are surrounded by cultural and political differences, their education and treatment is possible due to fledgling cooperative efforts between Bedouin and Jewish communities in the Negev.